Saints fan (obviously); #oilspill and #fracking watchdog, technophile, communicator, filmmaker, writer, dolphin hugger. Opinions I share here are mine alone.
Nov 29 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Give it a rest Rogan. Time to move on… Biden won. You can’t overthrow or negate the will of 81,283,501 Americans, 51% of the vote or the Biden majority in the Electoral College w/306 electoral votes, while Trump received 232. Elon continuing to platform/monetize election denial.
1/ Furthermore, In more than 60 cases, judges “looked at the allegations that Trump was making and determined they were without any merit. Sources 🧵: 1)Washington Post, washingtonpost.com/politics/judge…
Nov 8 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
IEA Sees Latin America Playing A Key Role In The Global #EnergyTransition 🧵 oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-…1/ Latin America to play an essential role in the global transition to a more secure and sustainable #energy system | IEA iea.org/news/latin-ame…
Oct 28 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The Futurist Summit: Regulating the #AI Age w/ Sen. Schumer | Washington Post Live 🧵
White House, Schumer agree: Congress needs to act on AI, too. | Washington Post washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/…
Oct 26 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
REPORT: #HouseSpeaker Johnson’s Anti-#LGBTQ Activism Goes Back Decades. accountable.us/report-speaker…
1 of 3: Speaker #MikeJohnson, Who Has A Long History Of Anti-#LGBTQ Activism, Called Opposing Counsel A Derogatory Anti-LGBTQ Term In A Courtroom While Defending A Ballot Initiative To Ban Same-Sex Marriage In The #Louisiana Constitution. #NOLA accountable.us/wp-content/upl…
Oct 13 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
#DeSantis astroturfed #MomsforLiberty Group and it’s school board takeover strategy and orchestrated politicizing of public education school board races is meeting pushback across the country. #education 🧵 dailykos.com/stories/2023/1…1/ #DeSantis astroturfed #MomsforLiberty meets its match: Parents in this swing suburban district are fighting back. Republicans hope to use #education wars to turn purple suburbia red. In one #Pennsylvania district, that backfired. salon.com/2023/10/10/mom…
#X repositioning to appeal to male Gen Y: Gen Y, or Millennials aged 25-40 years. X has one of the highest differences in users by gender.
The platform is male-dominated with 68.1% of all Twitter users being male. Just 31.9% of Twitter users are female. 🧵 searchlogistics.com/learn/statisti…
The current global average gender split of ALL social media users is 54% men versus 46% women. However, in the US, women are the leading user base; 76% of all female internet users have social network accounts compared with 72% of all men. backlinko.com/social-media-u…
Oct 3 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Texas #fracking billionaire brothers fuel rightwing media with millions of dollars. Farris and Dan Wilks’ deep pockets fund #climate #denialism education, conservative politicians and pro-#fossilfuel projects. 🧵 theguardian.com/us-news/2023/s…1/ #Heritagefoundation replaced James with former leader of the Texas Public Policy Foundation Kevin Roberts, whose goals align more closely with supporters of #Trump sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heri…
Aug 24 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Emperor #Penguins Could Go #Extinct By 2100 Due To #ClimateChange, Study Says forbes.com/sites/tylerrou…1/ Link to actual study: Record low 2022 #Antarctic sea #ice led to catastrophic breeding failure of emperor #penguins. nature.com/articles/s4324…
Jul 20 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Sen. JD Vance & Marjorie Taylor Greene are trying to ban #gender-affirming care at federal level
Vance introduced a Senate companion bill to Greene's extreme anti-#trans bill lgbtqnation.com/2023/07/sen-jd…1/ #Gender-affirming care for trans minors almost never includes surgery and for younger children it’s mostly just letting them dress how they want and play with the toys they want to play with and referring to them with the right pronouns. lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/incomp…
Jul 18 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Some public pensions could have seen their portfolios be worth over $20 billion more — and cut their carbon footprints — had they divested from fossil fuels 10 years ago, according to a recent report. #climate #ESG theweathernetwork.com/en/news/climat…1/ #Fossilfuel company #netzero plans "largely meaningless," finds report #climate theweathernetwork.com/en/news/climat…
Jul 15 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
#Venezuela’s #Oil Industry Is Fueling An #Environmental Disaster oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-O…
According to a report by The Observatory of Political Ecology of Venezuela, there were 86 oil spills during 2022 compared to 77 a year earlier. The lack of reporting by PDVSA hides the true volume of #oilspills. ecopoliticavenezuela.org/2023/01/04/rep…
Transgender health: Comparing model bills to real proposals; Many bills have preambles asserting that the risks of #gender-affirming care outweigh its benefits, which has been rebutted by major #medical organizations. courthousenews.com/transgender-he…1) The AP obtained the texts of more than 130 bills in 40 state legislatures from Plural, a public policy software company, and analyzed them for similarities to model bills touted by the conservative groups Do No Harm and the Family Research Council.
May 28 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
Actually, it’s his Astroturfed “Moms for Liberty” that is rolling this out nationally at his direction. > #DeSantis inspires push to make book bans in Republican-controlled states easier livenowfox.com/news/desantis-…1) Unmasking “Moms for Liberty” - a nonprofit claiming to advocate for “parental rights,” appears to be using parents as pawns to advance a far-right agenda. mediamatters.org/critical-race-…
May 28 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#Debtceiling deal includes permitting reforms. People familiar w/the provisions, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the language includes review timelines + a lead agency charged with shepherding a project’s #environmental review. eenews.net/articles/debt-…1) The bipartisan agreement includes language to ease transmission deployment and address storage for renewable energy development, but the particulars remain under wraps.
May 28 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
#DeSantis#campaign will receive $500K raised by super PAC, a source says. Campaign finance experts call it “unprecedented” winknews.com/2023/05/27/des…1) Saurav Ghosh, dir of federal campaign finance reform at the Campaign Legal Center, said while the right conditions of contribution limits have been applied by #DeSantis PAC in soliciting the donations, their actions 2 raise $ blurs the line that separates super PAC + campaign.
May 17 • 13 tweets • 9 min read
Since ‘21 lawmakers proposed nearly 900 anti-#LGBTQ+ bills, nearly 500 of which were introduced this year in 49 state legislatures+Congress. Many bills target rights of #transgender people by curtailing “basic healthcare, education, legal recognition & the right to publicly exist
1) Many of the anti-trans bills target the rights of #transgender people by curtailing “basic #healthcare, education, #legal recognition, and the right to publicly exist” #LGBTQthecrimereport.org/2023/05/16/a-s…
May 12 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
DeSantis set to relaunch migrant flight program with 3 new vendors
The program, which could start as soon as contracts are finalized, will involve an undetermined number of migrants and could last until June 30, 2025. #immigrationtampabay.com/news/florida-p…1) Picked were #ARS Global Emergency Management, #GardaWorld Federal Services & the co that carried out last year's migrant flights 2 Martha's Vineyard: #Vertol Systems Co. Inc. That's according to a "notice of intent to award" notice published on Monday. vendor.myfloridamarketplace.com/search/bids/de…
1) By legislating a ban on Gain of Function Research (GOFR) in Florida, what are you advocating and promoting with regard to #biomedical research really DeSantis? #science
2) Are you legislating that only medical research in the state of Florida will be farther removed alternatives such as single-protein or replication-incompetent virus in vitro studies, in silico modeling,…
