LeRoy Westerling

šŸ™‚ #vaccinated #anti-fascist #atheist #scientist. Pro: #abortion, #vax, #democracy, #science, #šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆ,#šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡¦, #D&D, #šŸ‹ļø, #scifi #fantasy. 
#Cancer, #autoimmune, #neurological warrior.
Dad to 2 humans & a cat
Professor, climate & wildfire science & assessment 
https:// justmytoots.com/@LeRoyWesterling

LeRoy Westerling boosted:
2024-11-11

11 November 1921 | A Polish Jew, Adolf Zwerdling, was born in Przemyśl.

In Auschwitz from 8 August 1942.
No. 57393
He escaped from the camp on 24 October 1942. He was captured & perished in the camp on 17 December 1942.

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
2024-11-11

@sharonecathcart well then the economic impact will be felt all the more quickly

LeRoy Westerling boosted:
Qasim Rashid, Esq.QasimRashid
2024-07-05

The Supreme Court isn't waiting until Trump's potential reelection to enact Project 2025—they've already started by gutting federal regulations and legalizing insurrection.

My OpEd provides your quick summary of Project 2025. Hope you read & subscribe: qasimrashid.substack.com/p/pro

LeRoy Westerling boosted:
2024-07-05

šŸ‘€ State of Tennessee tells U.S. Navy veteran he's not an American citizen and cancels his driver's license newschannel5.com/news/newschan

LeRoy Westerling boosted:
2024-07-05

If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again.

anchoreditions.com/blog/doroth

A child looks at the open window of a railway train on the way to an internment camp
LeRoy Westerling boosted:
2024-07-05

Meanwhile, Biden has been doing public events basically nonstop since the debate, including live, extemporaneous interviews. You are not seeing coverage of those because they don't fit the narrative.

Here's an interview he gave to a local civic media group in Wisconsin for the Fourth:

civicmedia.us/shows/special-br

Fun fact: Biden has always been an old-school politician who prefers to shake hands, kiss babies, and favor the local reporters and news outlets, and this is part of why elite media has such a grudge against him -- the NYT hasn't gotten a single long sit-down interview with Biden since his election, and it makes them seethe that a local reporter in Wisconsin gets one before they do.

LeRoy Westerling boosted:
2024-07-05

"After the debate, it seems like every political pundit has called for Biden to drop out of the race. But the editorial board of the Philadelphia Inquirer called on Trump to drop out.
The editorial makes an important point. If the entire press establishment sees fit to call on Biden to drop out because of a bad debate, why haven't they applied this same logic to the convicted criminal who promises to destroy American democracy and rule as an authoritarian dictator?"
theframelab.org/unfit-for-offi

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David Rothschilddavmicrot@threads.net
2024-07-05

In 2020 Trump would give these deranged press conferences, and I watched as the Mainstream Media carefully picked out important information from the 90+ minutes rants, ignoring the crazy, to paint a picture of person in charge of the situation.

In 2024's debate Trump spewed a shocking mix of lies and anti-immigrant hate, and once again the Mainstream Media carefully ignored what would have been disqualifying for any previous presidential candidate.

LeRoy Westerling boosted:
2024-07-05

The MAGA clique have already told us: in order to be ā€œgreat,ā€ we must all go backwards (into the past).

The second revolution they are preparing is the reversal and annihilation of all the strides we’ve taken toward liberty, equality, and justice for all. A more perfect union.

It’s an assault on women, on minorities, on LGBTQ+ and on all the orgs and individuals that have worked to uplift these groups and call out the nation’s failures and broken promises.

newsweek.com/project-2025-prom

LeRoy Westerling boosted:
2024-07-05

Time and time again, Chief Justice John Roberts made clear that this SCOTUS term was a term of contingent planning, leaving open two paths depending what happens with the election.

I wrote all about it at Law Dork: lawdork.com/p/the-spinelessnes

What we are left with, in issue after issue, is a set up for a ā€œchoose your own right-wing adventureā€ Supreme Court. Here is how I see the paths Roberts is leaving open to him and the court:

If Joe Biden or another Democrat wins the 2024 presidential election, Roberts has set up the court to serve as a supercharged judiciary. Pushing back constantly against the democratically elected branches, the conservative court is positioning itself to strike down any regulation for virtually any reason.

If Trump wins, Roberts has set up the court to be pliant appeasers of Trump’s planned right-wing authoritarianism. Sure, there will be minor pushback, but if Trump v. Hawaii was what we got out of the court during a first-term Trump administration, imagine what this more extreme court would OK in a second term.
2024-07-05

@QasimRashid @Tbsa Facebook is all too ready for fascism.

2024-07-05

@LiamOMaraIV @Tbsa eating while black

2024-06-07

@br00t4c like most republican politicians, he pursues power without principles and believes the ends justify the means. But tell me again how he’s such a good christian man.

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U.S. Politics in Real Timeuspolitics
2024-06-07
2024-06-07

@Wolven @michcampbell the lesson is to never use adobe. I don’t keep it installed because the endless updates are annoying

LeRoy Westerling boosted:
Dr. Damien P. Williams, MagusWolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2024-06-07

Adobe is trying to claim right of access to all of your projects for them to use to train their "AI," regardless of things like NDA, meaning that they are willing to violate HIPAA laws, FERPA laws, and any number of binding civil structures:
appleinsider.com/articles/24/0

If you're in the US, you can contact the FTC here: ftc.gov/media/71268
and provide them with this contact information
Adobe
345 Park Avenue
San Jose, CA 95110-2704
Tel: 408-536-6000
Fax: 408-537-6000

I don't know the specifics of the process in the EU, but here might be a good place to start:
commission.europa.eu/law/law-t

LeRoy Westerling boosted:
The Vergeverge
2024-06-07

UN secretary-general labels humanity as ā€˜the meteor’ in fiery climate speech theverge.com/2024/6/5/24171972

2024-06-07

@realTuckFrumper it’s another weird cult

LeRoy Westerling boosted:
A L KatzAlan@lor.sh
2024-06-07

If Republicans could win elections on the strength of their ideas, they wouldn't have to cheat and rely on foreign governments to help them "win" elections.

Alas, that ain't the case.

So, it's cheating and relying on foreign governments.

How on earth did we normalize this?

LeRoy Westerling boosted:
onecaliberalTbsa@newsie.social
2024-06-07

If you are voting Republican you are voting for a rapist, period. I will use every opportunity to tie it around your soulless neck.

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