Happy #FathersDay to all the dads out there—especially the one and only @BarackObama! Our daughters couldn’t have asked for a better role model. We’re so lucky to have you in our lives. 💗 pic.twitter.com/SoyOA2ujpa
It’s almost #FathersDay, so I’m thinking a lot about my dad and reflecting on some of the memories we shared growing up. I’d love to hear about the fathers in your life—what qualities you value in them, what makes them unique, and what the best advice they’ve given you has been. pic.twitter.com/ImkYRPS5oU
Happy Father’s Day to caring fathers wherever they are.
And happy Father’s Day to AG Garland. We need strong protections and enforcement of the law, imo we’re
fading without it.
We need Fraudit to be shut down before it becomes an out-of-control wildfire.
Good morning, df. I miss seeing you here. I asked the others last week if I had missed your reason for not visiting us very much anymore. Hope you and yours are okay.
Just busy:) No other reason really. Lots going on at my house this summer…painting and new AC and palm tree trimming…and still doing my summer tutoring:) My husband is in faraway lands for work, so I’m the only one doing the logistics of all this… I’m still here!
The Child Tax Credit is money every month that will help working parents put food on that table, make rent, afford school supplies or pay for summertime activities for kids who are out of school. This is a tax cut that will make it just a little easier to balance work and family https://t.co/fkDKJjI6HK
Good morning TOD family. It is a beautiful Monday. Hope all had a lovely weekend. It was a bonus weekend for us. We celebrated our 50th on Saturday, Father’s Day on Sunday, then had 2 friends who had parties for their 80th birthday’s. So great to be able to socialize again. We knew all who gathered had their shots.
I know there are several here who are celebrating their 50th. We are all blessed to have these celebration. We are still here fighting for our country.
“He is just deeply troubled for the country about what we watched President Trump do,” Ms. Cheney said of her father. “He’s a student of history. He’s a student of the presidency. He knows the gravity of those jobs, and certainly he’s been appalled." https://t.co/gycB2mf4rI
Morning everyone, Solstice happened early this morning, Sun in Cancer, officially summer now.. feels like it!!
Astrological energetics for 4th of July are tough, bodes for possible conflict and outbreaks of violence.. everyone prepare to be extra careful.. please..
I don't care. You weren't concerned with Trillion dollar tax breaks, I'm not concerned with the deficit now. Typically Republican, only concerned with the debt when ordinary citizens are getting minor benefits in comparison with what the rich get.
BREAKING: Supreme Court sides with former college athletes over NCAA rules limiting education-related benefits. The high court ruled unanimously that NCAA limits on computers, graduate scholarships, tutoring, study abroad and internships can’t be enforced. https://t.co/x2rXBqnleP
NEWS: Sen. @ossoff just introduced legislation to boost American manufacturing and production of solar panel technology to create jobs, level the playing field with China, and help rapidly transition to a clean energy economy. https://t.co/3JAKEqetnK
A statistic so powerful the @VP has to say it twice — the American Rescue Plan will lift half of the children in poverty out of poverty pic.twitter.com/zTi5SiHuv4
That story about the Cheneys reminded me of a comment an evangelical right wing friend posted last night on a post I did about Selma. Her comment was about how she and I were protected growing up in a very small rural community in northeast TN. She said it was a sad time but these men and women were very courageous. ……..There’s been a lot of positive changes………Hopefully time will prove that changes continued throughout time. Equality is for all human beings no matter what race…….and this is the ‘topper’—She hopes that our legacy proves we have changed. But……..how does she vote?! STRAIGHT GOP! She would NEVER vote for a Democrat. What hypocrites they are, whether it is the Cheney family or my childhood friend. None of them ever put two and two together and see their own hypocrisy. They can talk a good game, but their words means nothing.
Typical hypocrisy we see from evangelicals. Claim to be Christians with their mouths but reject the whole premise of being Christ-like with their beliefs & actions. 🙄
That is so freaking useless. It’s basically an exercise bike that you could die using. Machines break down. Then what? How do you get off the thing at your floor? Does it not rain or snow wherever this is? So much for bringing anything with you. Do you put a pulley system beside it for your groceries? You could put a lift in the space this thing takes up, so this is pretty much a fuck you to the disabled. Vigorous and sweaty hard pass.
Thrilled to announce that Detroit will be our latest partner city for the Pass the Love campaign with @PHAnews! We’ll be distributing healthy meal kits there soon, and with your help, we can reach even more families in need. I hope you’ll donate at https://t.co/s0WCBvE8HK. pic.twitter.com/tFXJbZRoir
We have a helicopter on Mars! It’s just wild to think about that.
Another successful flight for Ingenuity! The#MarsHelicopter completed its 8th flight on Monday. It flew for 77.4 seconds and traveled 160 meters to a new landing spot about 133.5 meters from @NASAPersevere, capturing its own shadow in this image. pic.twitter.com/cDY3etLjTf
Beto O’Rourke to Joy Reid:
The first For the People Act vote today in the Senate, is a chance for voters to push their senators on voting rights.
BETO:
“You’re absolutely right. They are trying to distract us while they steal elections and the very democracy that we should be fighting so hard to protect and expand.
Texas is already the toughest state in the country in which to vote.
Hundreds of polling place closures, racial gerrymandering, the worst voter I.D. law on the books. And on top of that they want to make it harder for those big cities to vote, harder for Black voters to cast a ballot, harder for the disabled.
And there’s a provision Joy, in the S.B.7 Elections Bill that the governor supports,
that would allow Texas to overturn elections based on the allegation of fraud. And you saw how hard the former president Rudy Giuliani, tried to overturn elections in Pennsylvania, and Georgia, and Michigan. And they’re still maybe recounting the votes in Arizona.
Texas could very well have a law, a statute, that would allow this state to overturn them in a future election.
So we have got to stay focused on this. And we have got to fight back. And that fight now has to be in the United States Senate, where we need the For the People Act to become law. Because it protects us against these forms of voter suppression.
And it expands access to the ballot box for eligible voters by the tens of millions, through automatic voter registration, same-day voter registration, making Election Day a national holiday. All of these very popular across this country among Democrats and Republicans as well.
This is the thing to do if you want to save democracy in Texas.”
The economy has created more jobs under the Biden Administration’s first four months than any other administration in history – more than 500,000 jobs a month on average.
Fmr Senator Al Franken:
“Look these guys, Mitch McConnell is cynical. Mitch McConnell is in this, and the Republican Party right now doesn’t stand for anything, I think other than maybe for low tax cuts for their donors or you know, low tax rates. And then that’s it. And power and judges.”
Kimberle Crenshaw, co-founder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum,
coined the term critical race theory.
(Joy Reid: “Ah, so it’s your fault Madam.”)
Kimberle Crenshaw:
“Well you know what? Here’s the thing, Joy. Critical race theory is not so much a thing.
It’s a way of looking at a thing. It’s a way of looking at race. It’s a way of looking at why after so many decades, centuries actually since the emancipation, we have patterns of inequality that are enduring. They’re stubborn.
And the point of critical race theory originally, was to think and talk about how law contributed to the subordinate status of African-Americans, of indigenous people, and of an entire group of people who were coming to our shores from Asia.
And the point was quite frankly, to understand the problem in order to intervene in it. To understand why the greatest hopes for our Republic were not being realized, even though these hopes were encoded in law.
So critical race theory just inherits the beliefs and the hopes of Frederick Douglass, of Martin Luther King, Who basically want the law to do for the freed people what the law did for enslavers. And we picked that up in the `70s and ‘80s after the civil rights movement to say, OK so now we’ve had this big civil rights movement, we have all these laws on the books. But things really aren’t looking as different as they should, if we are really the society that we say we are. So we put about the task of understanding how law wasn’t just the neutral referee. Law wasn’t always on our side. In fact, law was less on our side than for on our side.
And we wanted to tell these stories in order to do better with the promises that are embedded in the Constitution. That’s what’s in critical race theory.”
Happy Election Day! Polls are open 6 a.m. – 9 p.m. Rank up to five candidates for Mayor, Public Advocate, Comptroller, Borough President, and City Council. Find your poll site: https://t.co/1nmP8G4Rva#VoteNYCpic.twitter.com/wh3aObkR2R
Today is Primary Election Day in New York City, and voters are making history when they fill out their ballots. The top contest is the Democratic party's race for mayor. The winner will become the overwhelming favorite to be elected in November.@EdOKeefe is covering this. pic.twitter.com/cI7IHYfvb0
Joni Mitchell's 'Blue' turns 50 today. Here, we look back at 50 of the iconic artist's defining songs, from "River" to "Big Yellow Taxi" and beyond. https://t.co/UKEk9yAO6T
GOPQ is telling you they expect: No rules and regs, no logic, and no consequences for Fraudit.
We’re bringing the inevitable onto ourselves if we don’t act now.
Also zero information about what the Fraudit crew is doing in the woods in BIgfork, Montana.
–Maybe they are using the ballots and/or copies for toilet paper?
Morning scoop from me: VP Kamala Harris to deliver major global speech on gender equity a generation after Hillary Clinton told world leaders in a defining moment that “women’s rights are human rights.” https://t.co/TCQTCx3tEg
Major Ocean-Observing Satellite Starts Providing Science Data
“Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, the latest spacecraft to monitor sea surface height, releases its first science measurements to users.
After six months of check-out and calibration in orbit, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite will make its first two data streams available to the public on June 22. It launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Nov. 21, 2020, and is a U.S.-European collaboration to measure sea surface height and other key ocean features, such as ocean surface wind speed and wave height.
One of the sea surface height data streams that will be released is accurate to 2.3 inches (5.8 centimeters)
and will be available within hours of when the instruments aboard Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich collect it.
A second stream of data, accurate to 1.4 inches (3.5 centimeters), will be released two days after collection.
The difference in when the products become available balances accuracy with delivery timeliness for tasks like forecasting the weather and helping to monitor the formation of hurricanes. More datasets, which will be accurate to about 1.2 inches (2.9 centimeters), are slated for distribution later this year and are intended for research activities and climate science including tracking global mean sea level rise.”
The ocean absorbs more than 90% of the heat trapped in the Earth system
by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, which causes seawater to expand and sea level to rise. Monitoring ocean height is important because it helps forecasters predict things, including ocean currents and potential hurricane strength…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Maryland. “In a changing climate, it’s a great achievement that these data are ready for release….
“The altimetry data are now being processed at EUMESAT headquarters in Darmstadt, from where the satellite is also being controlled, and released to ocean and weather forecasting data users around the world for their operational usage,” Saldana said.
Scientists also anticipate using the data to gauge how fast sea levels are rising because of climate change.
The expansion of warm seawater accounts for about one-third of modern-day sea level rise,
while meltwater from glaciers and ice sheets accounts for the rest.
The rate at which the oceans are rising has accelerated over the past two decades,
and researchers expect it to speed up more in the years to come.
Sea level rise will change coastlines and increase flooding from tides and storms.
To better understand how rising seas will impact humanity, researchers need long climate records – something Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich will help provide.”
Trump had asked advisers and lawyers in early 2019 about what the FCC, the courts systems, and—most confusingly to some Trump lieutenants—the Department of Justice could do to probe or mitigate SNL, Jimmy Kimmel, and other late-night comedy hosts.https://t.co/ZWRMM8axJW
Ari Berman to Chris Hayes:
“The entire point of voter suppression is to make it harder for your opponents to be able to vote.
And so there’s just 2 standards here:
There’s the game being played by Republicans in the states,
they do whatever they can to undermine democracy.
Then there’s a game being played by Democrats in Washington,
where they fail to protect American democracy because of these arcane rules that nobody actually cares about.
And in a hundred years, nobody is going to care about the filibuster if the right to vote is undermined for decades.”
the democrats are not playing a game…but when you do not have 51 votes to overturn the filibuster…what do you do…
that was harsh of Ari Berman to paint all Dems with the same brush….this is a nuanced struggle
and for the record…the voting rights of blk folks have always been in peril…even with the constitutional amendments of Reconstruction and the 1965 VRA….WE..STILL..HAD..TO FIGHT…..
the laws passed in GA are like the laws that were passed to bring an end to Reconstruction…
The governor of Illinois has signed into law a measure that makes mail voting a permanent option, allows jail inmates awaiting trial to cast ballots, and makes Election Day a state holiday.https://t.co/92CkJPKenC
"The right to vote is hollow if it does not include the right to have your vote counted and, if your candidate receives the highest number of votes, to have her assume the office to which she was elected. Republicans are taking aim at this vulnerability."https://t.co/r9uEXlvwPC
SEN. WARNOCK: "I rise today in a defining moment in American history. Where I believe that what we do—or fail to do—will have far-reaching implications on the health and vitality of the world’s great democracy." #ForThePeopleAct
WARNOCK: "When I spoke here in March, 250 voter suppression proposals had been introduced in 43 states. Now it is 389 proposals in 48 states. A violent assault on this capitol now metastasizing in voter suppression proposals across the United States of America." #ForThePeopleAct
SEN. WARNOCK: "This is a defining moment that calls upon us to speak, to debate, to act. After all, Congress represents the people. It is the job of Congress prescribed in Article 1 Section 4 to ensure that the people are not squeezed out of democracy." 1/2
"This is not our house. this is the house of the people. We are stewards of that trust…That’s why I'm urging my colleagues to begin debating on the voting rights bill before us. The debate is happening out there, how is it not happening in it?" 2/2 #ForThePeopleAct
Yep, I remember articles were coming out saying their retainers shift people’s teeth too fast and it caused the teeth to die, crack, etc. 🙃https://t.co/lMxbujeLUE
🚨BREAKING: @TXLULAC and @votolatino file new lawsuit against Texas over voter suppression law #SB1111. Proud that my legal team is representing these important organizations fighting for voting rights in Texas!https://t.co/UOG70aRN4x
I saw on a news feed Biden wasn’t going to make the 70% shots in arms goal. I hate the MSM they want the sane, competent president to fail which means we all fail.
Whew. This is so beautiful. I'm carrying it with me this week. "Good job" is all so many young people want to hear from their Moms and Grandmoms. The love on display here lifts my heart. #ShaCarriRichardsonhttps://t.co/0aZj1ae0yA
If you haven’t seen it yet, @itskerrii’s race at the Olympic Trials is something to behold—but her grace and grit in this interview might be even more special. We are all so proud of you, Sha’Carri! Can't wait to see what you do in Tokyo! 👏🏾pic.twitter.com/QPbAQLzF7d
President Obama calls out Republicans for restricting voting rights.
The Senate is preparing to take action on a bill that would strengthen our democracy, but Republican Senators are afraid to even debate it. This week, @EricHolder and I had a chance to talk with folks across the country about what’s at stake – and how we can make a difference. pic.twitter.com/ZxicbLJaPY
We have 80,000 vaccination sites. It's free. Uber/Lyft will give you a free ride. Over 90% of Americans live within 5 miles of a site. https://t.co/b59S5G9fVQ
The Obama Diary 
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads here.
Thank you, Nerdy.
Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers and father-figures! 😘❤️
🕺🏾😎👍🏾
Good West Coast Father’s Day morning Nerdy & TOD family 🙋🏾♀️🕺🏾💃🏾😎
🚀👩🏾🚀🤘🏾
Happy Father’s Day to all the Daddies, and to all the single moms who do the work of being both Mom and Dad!!
Found a few links I feel good about sharing.. fingers crossed it works!
Thank you NW, thank you TODObots all!!
https://mobile.twitter.com/writerjoshjames
https://celticnationsmagazine.com/the-sand-art-of-manu/
http://www.stonekettle.com/2015/07/the-republican-tell-tale-heart.html
Plenty of food for thought, to balance out the current tsunami of madness!
Big big hugs all around!
Wishing everyone a Father’s Day filled with good memories, or if you’re lucky, making new ones today.
Happy Father’s Day to caring fathers wherever they are.
And happy Father’s Day to AG Garland. We need strong protections and enforcement of the law, imo we’re
fading without it.
We need Fraudit to be shut down before it becomes an out-of-control wildfire.
A perfect trifecta.
I think that is what they call a “Three some” 🙂
😳😬
What? They are just looking for nuts as is their wont.
They’re entitled to their privacy when “looking for nuts” ya perv.
Haha! So adorable! 😄
LOL!
Morning everyone. Happy Monday.
Good Morning to you too….
Good morning, df. I miss seeing you here. I asked the others last week if I had missed your reason for not visiting us very much anymore. Hope you and yours are okay.
Just busy:) No other reason really. Lots going on at my house this summer…painting and new AC and palm tree trimming…and still doing my summer tutoring:) My husband is in faraway lands for work, so I’m the only one doing the logistics of all this… I’m still here!
Good morning TOD family. It is a beautiful Monday. Hope all had a lovely weekend. It was a bonus weekend for us. We celebrated our 50th on Saturday, Father’s Day on Sunday, then had 2 friends who had parties for their 80th birthday’s. So great to be able to socialize again. We knew all who gathered had their shots.
I know there are several here who are celebrating their 50th. We are all blessed to have these celebration. We are still here fighting for our country.
Have a great day everyone!
HUGE Congrats! And much love! 😘💞💖💖
don’t just stand there kid, stop the goal.
the cheney’s can go dick themselves.
EXACTLY 💯. He paved the way for a dictatorship in the GOP.
Morning everyone, Solstice happened early this morning, Sun in Cancer, officially summer now.. feels like it!!
Astrological energetics for 4th of July are tough, bodes for possible conflict and outbreaks of violence.. everyone prepare to be extra careful.. please..
Big hugs all around
bbl
I’m just a messenger. A peeping one? yeah sure.
That was for dudette above.
the true colors of nevertrumpers showing.
Companies urge the Senate to pass the For the People Act 👏🏾
LOL! Impeccable timing! 😆
Look at My Senator puttin’ in work!
This is huge!
That story about the Cheneys reminded me of a comment an evangelical right wing friend posted last night on a post I did about Selma. Her comment was about how she and I were protected growing up in a very small rural community in northeast TN. She said it was a sad time but these men and women were very courageous. ……..There’s been a lot of positive changes………Hopefully time will prove that changes continued throughout time. Equality is for all human beings no matter what race…….and this is the ‘topper’—She hopes that our legacy proves we have changed. But……..how does she vote?! STRAIGHT GOP! She would NEVER vote for a Democrat. What hypocrites they are, whether it is the Cheney family or my childhood friend. None of them ever put two and two together and see their own hypocrisy. They can talk a good game, but their words means nothing.
Typical hypocrisy we see from evangelicals. Claim to be Christians with their mouths but reject the whole premise of being Christ-like with their beliefs & actions. 🙄
fuck that shit.
That is so freaking useless. It’s basically an exercise bike that you could die using. Machines break down. Then what? How do you get off the thing at your floor? Does it not rain or snow wherever this is? So much for bringing anything with you. Do you put a pulley system beside it for your groceries? You could put a lift in the space this thing takes up, so this is pretty much a fuck you to the disabled. Vigorous and sweaty hard pass.
As I said ….
[nodding in agreement]
Good Morning Family! Behold the awesomeness that is “Flower Guy!”😆
We have a helicopter on Mars! It’s just wild to think about that.
Beto O’Rourke to Joy Reid:
The first For the People Act vote today in the Senate, is a chance for voters to push their senators on voting rights.
BETO:
“You’re absolutely right. They are trying to distract us while they steal elections and the very democracy that we should be fighting so hard to protect and expand.
Texas is already the toughest state in the country in which to vote.
Hundreds of polling place closures, racial gerrymandering, the worst voter I.D. law on the books. And on top of that they want to make it harder for those big cities to vote, harder for Black voters to cast a ballot, harder for the disabled.
And there’s a provision Joy, in the S.B.7 Elections Bill that the governor supports,
that would allow Texas to overturn elections based on the allegation of fraud. And you saw how hard the former president Rudy Giuliani, tried to overturn elections in Pennsylvania, and Georgia, and Michigan. And they’re still maybe recounting the votes in Arizona.
Texas could very well have a law, a statute, that would allow this state to overturn them in a future election.
So we have got to stay focused on this. And we have got to fight back. And that fight now has to be in the United States Senate, where we need the For the People Act to become law. Because it protects us against these forms of voter suppression.
And it expands access to the ballot box for eligible voters by the tens of millions, through automatic voter registration, same-day voter registration, making Election Day a national holiday. All of these very popular across this country among Democrats and Republicans as well.
This is the thing to do if you want to save democracy in Texas.”
See full interview:
(https://www.mblip.com/beto-orourke-for-the-people-act-is-how-we-get-our-democracy-back/)
Jobs
Fmr Senator Al Franken:
“Look these guys, Mitch McConnell is cynical. Mitch McConnell is in this, and the Republican Party right now doesn’t stand for anything, I think other than maybe for low tax cuts for their donors or you know, low tax rates. And then that’s it. And power and judges.”
Shots in arms
Money in pockets
Senate hearing on DC statehood today
Kimberle Crenshaw, co-founder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum,
coined the term critical race theory.
(Joy Reid: “Ah, so it’s your fault Madam.”)
Kimberle Crenshaw:
“Well you know what? Here’s the thing, Joy. Critical race theory is not so much a thing.
It’s a way of looking at a thing. It’s a way of looking at race. It’s a way of looking at why after so many decades, centuries actually since the emancipation, we have patterns of inequality that are enduring. They’re stubborn.
And the point of critical race theory originally, was to think and talk about how law contributed to the subordinate status of African-Americans, of indigenous people, and of an entire group of people who were coming to our shores from Asia.
And the point was quite frankly, to understand the problem in order to intervene in it. To understand why the greatest hopes for our Republic were not being realized, even though these hopes were encoded in law.
So critical race theory just inherits the beliefs and the hopes of Frederick Douglass, of Martin Luther King, Who basically want the law to do for the freed people what the law did for enslavers. And we picked that up in the `70s and ‘80s after the civil rights movement to say, OK so now we’ve had this big civil rights movement, we have all these laws on the books. But things really aren’t looking as different as they should, if we are really the society that we say we are. So we put about the task of understanding how law wasn’t just the neutral referee. Law wasn’t always on our side. In fact, law was less on our side than for on our side.
And we wanted to tell these stories in order to do better with the promises that are embedded in the Constitution. That’s what’s in critical race theory.”
It’s election day in New York City!
the field is too crowded
Yep. Just like the presidential race was.
“Viet Thanh Nguyen on Roots of Anti-Asian Hate from U.S. Colonialism to Anti-China Political Rhetoric”
(https://www.democracynow.org/2021/3/22/anti_asian_hate_atlanta_killings)
“Masha Gessen on “Surviving Autocracy”:
Fight Politics of the Past with Potent Politics of the Future”
(https://www.democracynow.org/2021/6/16/masha_gessen_on_surviving_autocracy_fight)
“NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Released from Prison as Family Pushes Biden to Pardon Her”
(https://www.democracynow.org/2021/6/15/reality_winner_released_from_prison)
Anybody up for some Joni Mitchell
GOPQ is telling you they expect: No rules and regs, no logic, and no consequences for Fraudit.
We’re bringing the inevitable onto ourselves if we don’t act now.
Also zero information about what the Fraudit crew is doing in the woods in BIgfork, Montana.
–Maybe they are using the ballots and/or copies for toilet paper?
My Senators rock!
MVP back in the global spotlight next week
Major Ocean-Observing Satellite Starts Providing Science Data
“Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, the latest spacecraft to monitor sea surface height, releases its first science measurements to users.
After six months of check-out and calibration in orbit, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite will make its first two data streams available to the public on June 22. It launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Nov. 21, 2020, and is a U.S.-European collaboration to measure sea surface height and other key ocean features, such as ocean surface wind speed and wave height.
One of the sea surface height data streams that will be released is accurate to 2.3 inches (5.8 centimeters)
and will be available within hours of when the instruments aboard Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich collect it.
A second stream of data, accurate to 1.4 inches (3.5 centimeters), will be released two days after collection.
The difference in when the products become available balances accuracy with delivery timeliness for tasks like forecasting the weather and helping to monitor the formation of hurricanes. More datasets, which will be accurate to about 1.2 inches (2.9 centimeters), are slated for distribution later this year and are intended for research activities and climate science including tracking global mean sea level rise.”
((https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/major-ocean-observing-satellite-starts-providing-science-data)
‘
The ocean absorbs more than 90% of the heat trapped in the Earth system
by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, which causes seawater to expand and sea level to rise. Monitoring ocean height is important because it helps forecasters predict things, including ocean currents and potential hurricane strength…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Maryland. “In a changing climate, it’s a great achievement that these data are ready for release….
“The altimetry data are now being processed at EUMESAT headquarters in Darmstadt, from where the satellite is also being controlled, and released to ocean and weather forecasting data users around the world for their operational usage,” Saldana said.
Scientists also anticipate using the data to gauge how fast sea levels are rising because of climate change.
The expansion of warm seawater accounts for about one-third of modern-day sea level rise,
while meltwater from glaciers and ice sheets accounts for the rest.
The rate at which the oceans are rising has accelerated over the past two decades,
and researchers expect it to speed up more in the years to come.
Sea level rise will change coastlines and increase flooding from tides and storms.
To better understand how rising seas will impact humanity, researchers need long climate records – something Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich will help provide.”
Stupid 🙄
Ari Berman to Chris Hayes:
“The entire point of voter suppression is to make it harder for your opponents to be able to vote.
And so there’s just 2 standards here:
There’s the game being played by Republicans in the states,
they do whatever they can to undermine democracy.
Then there’s a game being played by Democrats in Washington,
where they fail to protect American democracy because of these arcane rules that nobody actually cares about.
And in a hundred years, nobody is going to care about the filibuster if the right to vote is undermined for decades.”
O.U.C.H.
Exactly right. We all need to be outraged and bring that outrage to your reps.
the democrats are not playing a game…but when you do not have 51 votes to overturn the filibuster…what do you do…
that was harsh of Ari Berman to paint all Dems with the same brush….this is a nuanced struggle
and for the record…the voting rights of blk folks have always been in peril…even with the constitutional amendments of Reconstruction and the 1965 VRA….WE..STILL..HAD..TO FIGHT…..
the laws passed in GA are like the laws that were passed to bring an end to Reconstruction…
Way to go Illinois! 👏🏾
thx Governor…bravo.
Unable to post:
Article by Benjy Sarlin: “How a single new Alzheimer’s drug could blow up the federal budget”
Hayes to Sarlin:
“Spending on the one drug alone would exceed $57 billion, surpassing spending on all other part B covered drugs combined.
thx jer44
Naomi 🔥
Important story
Mail Order Dentistry did not seem like a good idea. Same with eye glasses. There are some services that need to be done in person by a professional.
I saw on a news feed Biden wasn’t going to make the 70% shots in arms goal. I hate the MSM they want the sane, competent president to fail which means we all fail.
😍😍😍
Queen recognizes Queen
President Obama calls out Republicans for restricting voting rights.
Get poked America!
Thursday!
New post.