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Oil pipeline cancelled

dimanche 15 novembre 2020 à 01:00

Governor Whitmer of Michigan has cancelled permission to operate the Line 5 planet-roaster oil pipeline.

That is a good thing for Planet Earth. Unfortunately, the action was based only on preventing the (important) danger of an oil spill into Lake Michigan and not on the (far more important) certainty that burning the oil pushes us closer to global disaster.

From fighting a wildfire, to a hospital, to deportation

dimanche 15 novembre 2020 à 01:00

Prisoner Bounchan Keola went from fighting a wildfire, to a hospital, to deportation prison in two weeks.

People who were brought to the US as children and raised here should have US citizenship, and exile should not be used as a punishment no matter what the crime.

Tucson to put climate justice at centre of plans

dimanche 15 novembre 2020 à 01:00

*Scorching Tucson bucks US trend to put climate justice at centre of plans.*

"Investing in long-neglected urban communities" sounds gentrification to me. That won't reduce urban sprawl, it will only shuffle poorer people further out. To reduce sprawl means increasing population density. Can they build denser housing in those neighborhoods and run more buses to them?

(satire) Obama's personal health insurance policy

dimanche 15 novembre 2020 à 01:00

(satire) *Supreme Court Strikes Down Obama’s Personal Health Insurance Policy.*

Libreboot laptops

dimanche 15 novembre 2020 à 01:00

MiniFree is once again selling Libreboot laptops; see retrofreedom.com.