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Bobby Kennedy recently ordered HHS staff to go on a fishing expedition for health threats from offshore wind farms.

What exactly the administration is looking to study remains unclear,
though Bloomberg reports that Kennedy’s team is reviewing the health impacts that electromagnetic frequencies generated by undersea cables might have on nearby fishermen.
(Never mind that Americans are exposed to electrical cables all the time.)
An HHS spokeswoman declined to provide …

RFK Jr.’s offshore wind fishing expedition
Opponents of the energy source invent problems to discredit a business they don’t like.

🌞 Tiny engine runs hotter than the sun to probe the frontiers of thermodynamics
#physics

Tiny engine runs hotter than the sun to probe the frontiers of thermodynamics
Scientists have created the world's hottest engine running at temperatures hotter than those reached in the sun's core. The team from King's College London and collaborators believe their platform could provide an unparalleled understanding of the laws of thermodynamics on a small scale, and provide the foundation for a new, efficient way to compute how proteins fold—the subject of last year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

"More worrying still... is the trend of wealthy donors funding far-right and racist movements that are the tip of the spear against net zero policies"
#Fascism
#ClimateEmergency
#Kleptocracy

"America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam"
#US #USA #America #Climate

Day 29: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
I've been sitting on Simpson for a while because there's some overlap in her writing with Robin Wall Kimmerer, and I've had a lot of different genres/styles/subjects/media I've wanted to post at least one author from. But I've now hit repeats on at least YA romance and manga, and Simpson's writing is actually quite different from Kimmerer's in a lot of ways. While Kimmerer is a biologist by training and literally braids that knowledge together with her knowledge of Potawatomi cosmology and ethics, Simpson is an Anishinaabe philosopher and anarchist, and her position as a scholar of Indigenous philosophy adds a different depth to her work: she talks in more depth about knowledge relationships and her connections with specific elders, and she has more citations to other Indigenous theorists, which is the one criticism I've ever seen of Kimmerer's work. Rather than being Indigenous and a scientist, she's Indigenous and a scholar of indigenous studies.
I've only read "Theory of Water" by Simpson, but it was excellent, and especially inspiring to read as an anarchist. Simpson's explicit politics are another difference from Kimmerer's work, which is more implicitly than explicitly political. This allows Simpson to draw extremely interesting connections to other anarchist theorists and movements. "Theory of Water" is probably a bit less accessible than "Braiding Sweetgrass," but it's richer from a theory perspective as a result.
In any case, Simpson is a magnificent writer, sharing personal insights and stories along with (and inseparable from) her theoretical ideas.
#30AuthorsNoMen

There’s a Dinosaur ‘Mummy Zone.’ Here’s What Scientists Found There. https://www.404media.co/theres-a-dinosaur-mummy-zone-heres-what-scientists-found-there/

"The study, which was released on Wednesday, found that 308 of the world’s #billionaires had a combined CO2 tally that, if they were a country, would make them the 15th most polluting country in the world"
What the world *really* can't afford is billionaires.
#ClimateEmergency

"At the last #Cop climate summit in Baku, there were 1,773 coal, oil and gas lobbyists, a larger contingent than all but three countries. The group said this led to a watering down of penalties for big emitters, backtracking on international commitments to transition away from fossil fuels, and domestic challenges to carbon taxes and legislation designed to reduce emissions"

#Spotify is running #ICE advertisements even on accounts that pay for not getting ads:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/spot…

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said on Sunday that
the United States has revoked the visa for British journalist
Sami Hamdi,
alleging that he has supported terrorism and worked to
"undermine American national security."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) confirmed that Hamdi has not been deported but remains in custody,
and lawyers for the advocacy group are "working to address this injusti…

DHS Revokes Visa for British Journalist Accused of Supporting Terrorism
British Journalist Sam Hamdi has been accused of supporting terrorism and remains in custody as the U.S. looks to deport him.