Right now, the National Guard is staging in the parking lot of the recently re-built Target across the street from the burned-out shell of the Minneapolis PD 3rd precinct building.
A pedestrian walked by with his hands up and the National Guard just waved
100 feet away:
On my way home, I counted at least four National Guard staging areas, in bank parking lots and grocery stores, including one a block and a half from my house in Northeast Minneapolis.
This is an occupied city.
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Honestly though, I’m at the “withholding time with grandkids” stage of pressuring them to go the 4 miles into town where vaccine appointments are ready and waiting but they still refuse. I’m not sure what to do. 💔
Their reasons for vaccine hesitancy:
- Afraid of possible side effects
- Don’t like “being forced”
- Afraid of what family & friends will think of them
- Peer pressure “75% of people around here won’t get it”
- “I might die of Covid but I also might die in a car crash tomorrow"
Literally one of the worst companies I've ever encountered: @PrimePay
All I need is my tax document from a company that fired me. I contact HR from previous job to change my email to my personal email so I can log in. But PrimePay's website is broken. (1/?)
I login with my old email address and saved password, nothing happens. (It redirects me back to the login page.) I login with my new email address and save password, nothing happens. I see they have a "new portal" so I try logging in to that, pass the captcha, nothing happens.
I click the "forgot your password" button, I get an email to verify my address (progress!!) click the link in the email, redirected back to the same login page, nothing happens. No way to change my password. (3/?)
The most important: The continuing long-term trend of catastrophic warming is what scientists are most concerned about. Not whether this year is a fraction of a degree above or below another year.
That trend is due to human activity.
If you break down the data by land vs ocean, you'll see another very important trend: Temperatures on land (where we all live) are warming faster than ocean temperatures.
Also, the data is much more clear: 2020 was the hottest year ever measured on our planet's continents.
For years, I've repeated these words: We are in a climate emergency.
Now, I’m ready to take the next step.
Real change comes by demanding justice and a world that works for everyone.
Because we need to see what we’re fighting for, not just what we’re fighting against.
My main goal with The Phoenix is to change the narrative of the climate movement.
We've got to shift climate storytelling away from inevitable apocalypse towards the possibility of a better world; towards catastrophic success not catastrophic failure.