Why the COVID Deniers Won
#news #health #medicine #science #covid #deniers #conspiracynut
#Deniers
He's re-admitting 8,000 military staffers who were fired for refusing the COVID vaccine. They're talking of removing training about women bombers during WWII, bc DEI=bad. The stupid here is deep.
#disease #spreaders #welcome #science #deniers too #USA #armed #forces #ending #DEI #initiatives #military #army #navy #marines #AirForce #woke #equitable #inclusive #diversity #progress #COVID #vaccinations are #safe https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czj3v42m9x0o
On the #ballot tomorrow: Our #SacredEarth, & its future due to #climatechange & its #deniers. Species living on Earth, & their Sacred #habitats. Women & their #bodilyautonomy. Men & shared #familyplanning. Children & their right to a full & healthy life. https://bit.ly/4fhE26g
Elected politician in these regions failed to warn the population on time.
The AEMET already warned authorities since Tuesday 28 of October but Valencia right-wing (PP) "climate skeptics" governor, Carlos Mazón, didn't trigger the warnings until 8:30 PM.
The population was already trapped by that time.
Many business still demanded employees to keep doing their job!
"As Spain’s flood death toll rises, authorities under fire for Warning System failure"—DW News >
https://youtu.be/K3owGyK-Hzg?si=5ZKRVEx3_gApRkTd
#DANA #Valencia #Murcia #Spain #video #ClimateDisaster #FlashFlood #flooding #WarningSystem #failure #AEMET #rightwing #PP #CarlosMazón #MazónDimisión #ClimateChange #deniers #ClimateSkeptics #disaster #profit #business #news
#ClimateChange #Fascists #Floods #Spain #Deniers
207 DEAD SO FAR
This Region's Gvmnt are fascists who deny climate change and seek to dismantle public services
7:31AM The Weather Agency issues the red alert (they have no authority to order citizens to stop their activities)
1PM The President of the Regional Gvmnt releases a video: “The storm’s intensity will decrease in the course of the evening". They have erased this video
8PM The Regional Gvt FINALLY sends a warning message to the population
@KeithDJohnson I "feel" for the innocent people of #Florida but the people there who voted for #DeSantis & his #RubberStamps & the people there who voted for #DiaperDon before & support him yet again deserve the #vengenence of the gods who will (despite the #ClimateChange #deniers) probably will end up fleeing the state after the ocean water level rises a foot or more thereby inundating virtually all of the state south (and possibly north) of Orlando in water. 🤷♂️
My only hope is that the current hurricane sweeps #MarALago & DiaperDon far out to sea. 😎
Republicans are reprising efforts in the legal system to ⚠️challenge existing election law in three key battleground states that could help decide who wins in November.
#Michigan, #NorthCarolina and #Nevada are targets of the blitz,
led by the Republican National Committee
-- alongside state parties who are 👉questioning election integrity when it comes to
absentee ballots,
the use of digital voter cards and
whether noncitizens are being allowed to vote (they're not).
#Trump notoriously challenged his 2020 overall election loss
-- and the lawsuits filed this week also come as #election #deniers see their power solidified on the state level,
🆘 worrying legal observers who say that gives a glimpse into what potential chaos might loom in 2024.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4879631-republicans-sue-battleground-states/
Good look at a bad problem. The author is a friend from grad schol at the #University of #Colorado, where she was a faculty member when I was a grad student. She’s since gone on to bigger and better things, and I’ve gone on to … well, things.
Anyway. I’ve never been particularly worried about #Cylons, #Skynet, etc. Humans doing stupid human tricks, and using #AI to do them much faster, OTOH, yeah.
The internet community of anti-science #cranks is an example of #model #collapse happening at human speed. #Antivaxers, #creationists, #climate change #deniers et al. prey on people with legitimate questions about some particular aspect of the broad #consensus. Those people often go down an increasingly loony rabbit hole, and end up propagating the absurdity, sometimes adding their own bizarre spin which their new-found colleagues happily add to the ideology.
If this becomes part of the #academic ecosystem, with AI reviewers approving AI-generated #papers and no human checks on the process, the scholarly corpus will become hopelessly contaminated. I have no idea what to do about that.
Concerns around #election #certification are mounting
as county boards staffed with #election #deniers try to stall and prolong the process.
In Nevada, for example, the Washoe County Commissioners in July voted to certify the recount for June primary election races after Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar (D) took legal action.
✅The Nevada Supreme Court dismissed the case after the commission certified the vote,
🆘but didn’t rule definitively on the issue, leaving open the possibility that a similar incident could happen again.
@ProPublica - #Election #Deniers Secretly Pushed Rule That Would Make It Easier to Delay Certification of Georgia’s Election Results #GOP controlled State #Election Board is poised to adopt the rule, which would potentially allow county officials, including one who secretly backed the rule, to throw the election results of the swing state into chaos this fall. https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-election-board-vote-certification #democracy #election2024 #constitution #electoralcollege #voting
Nearly 70 #swingstate #officials poised to #obstruct #election #certification in 2024: Report
Glawe, creator of the #AmericanDoom #newsletter, penned his #findings in a recent #RollingStone #exclusive titled: “These #SwingState #ElectionOfficials Are #ProTrump #Election #Deniers.”
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/2024-election/swing-state-election-officials-trump/
@marcelias Folks who Live and #Vote in #Georgia #Election #Deniers Deliver for #Trump You will have to fight for your votes to count - we are with you. #democracy #justice #freedom #civilliberties #elections #election2024 #legalresearch #Werenotgoingback https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/georgia-election-deniers-deliver-for-trump/
If the thought of 50,000 #Putinist #Russophiles, #hysterical #homophobes, #armed #ammosexuals, #misogynists, #antisemites, #whitesupremacists, #ConspiracyTheorists, #racists, #reproductiverights #deniers and #Evangelical and #Catholic #Dominionists descending upon #Milwaukee has you upchucking your cheese curds, you are certainly not alone.
If Robert F. #Kennedy Jr. has a campaign theme
--beyond the appeal of his family name
--it’s his claim that Americans are the victims of massive, intertwining #conspiracies that he is uniquely qualified to unravel.
His paranoia politics is most pronounced, perhaps, on the matter of #vaccines, in which the independent candidate has long stoked skepticism and #disinformation.
But his conspiracism goes well beyond medicine
—and, as he gets deeper into his longshot 2024 bid, he appears to be making some attempt to draw #election #deniers to his following.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/rfk-jr-january-6-fundraising-email-election-conspiracy-theories
@TruthSandwich @grumble209 @forrestguid @potus
Anti-Biden people are all climate science deniers and I'm so fucking tired of #Deniers
I am just so damn sick and tired that these people still have so much social capital.
You cannot be an environmentalist as well as a climate science denier damnit!
The actress and environmentalist Tracy Ward objects to plans to build a 2,000-acre solar farm, part of which would lie on the estate of her ex-husband the Duke of Beaufort in Gloucestershire: “Be careful what the climate change fearmongering will lull us into accepting.”
How election deniers are hounding Georgia officials
Since Donald Trump’s loss in Georgia in 2020 a relentless pressure campaign has been directed at Georgia officials to investigate unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud
– and to implement policies based on those claims that will affect how elections are run in Georgia.
“We can address these matters publicly or privately – but make no mistake, they will be addressed,” Moncla told members of the board in the email that prompted Georgia election officials to ask the FBI to investigate him.
#Kevin #Moncla is among a small group of #election #deniers who have relentlessly hounded the Georgia SEB and other officials on a weekly and sometimes daily basis to investigate mostly unfounded allegations of widespread voter fraud.
He has been joined in his pursuit of conspiratorial election fraud claims by #Joe #Rossi, a teacher at a technical college in Macon, and #David #Cross, a self-described financial adviser who is second vice-chair of the Georgia GOP.
The trio have made a name for themselves in election denier circles, with their work being cited across a rightwing ecosystem of influential websites, social media accounts and even within prominent political circles.
Since November 2020, Moncla and his fellow election deniers have emailed the SEB to file complaints based on technical glitches, human errors and in many cases outright false claims of widespread election fraud in Georgia.
The complaints follow the #playbook of rightwing activists and citizens across the state who have been inundating local election offices with public records requests in attempts to prove conspiracies about widespread voter fraud.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/29/georgia-election-deniers-trump-2020-election?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Seven states, including Michigan, that were the focal points of Republican efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election have
👉more than 200 legislators labeled in a new report as being “#election #deniers.”
States United Action, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with a mission to protect elections, issued the report Thursday using data collected with the assistance of Penn State University’s McCourtney Institute for Democracy.
♦️It found 202 “election deniers” currently serving as state legislators in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.♦️
“In our decentralized election system, state legislators have immense power to shape voting procedures and election administration.
Election Deniers can
– and are trying to
– leverage this power to erode our democracy.
And they’re doing it outside the spotlight of national politics,” said Joanna Lydgate, CEO of States United Action.
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I really like this quote from @leahstokes describing NextEra, “It just shows you that these companies are not fundamentally allied with the climate movement, not fundamentally on the side of climate progress,” said Leah Stokes, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who has studied utility opposition to climate policy. “They are just monopolies who sit on the bridge like a troll and try to protect their own profits.”
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