Fall Equinox Shameless Self-Promotion Fundraisin' Post
And a whole bunch of links to resources on climate change, fascism, politics, and the arts. We live in interesting times.
Outside, a few the leaves of the sprawling valley oaks among whom I live are turning brown. It’s not cooler. It’s just that the days are growing shorter, and the trees know their own cycles well. Squirrels are scampering, and the Anna’s hummingbirds, long past their reproductive season, are fattening up for the colder days with the nectars of fall blooms and the feeder on the deck just outside my office. Stressed-out Mother Nature is doing her best, as are many, many great writers on Substack.
So first, before I give you links to some resources that may help in these very trying times, I want to list the best of the best and hope that you will follow them and subscribe to them. They are holding up American culture, and without them, I don’t know where we’d be:
Robert Reich …
Paul Krugman …
Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse) …
John Pavlovitz …
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar …
E. Jean Carroll …
Malcolm Nance: Special Intelligence …
Dean Obeidallah
Steady (Dan Rather) …
Pete Buttigieg …
Alexander Vindman …
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And now, here are some resources for you to tape as we move into the fall.
Climate Change
First up … Because NASA, NOAA, the National Weather Service and other members of the United States’ formerly fantastic climate suite have faced budget cuts, summary firings, and pressure from the government to remove all mention of climate change and to contribute no data that tells the confirms its existence and the threat it is. Overseas, things are better, and the condition of the AMOC—the Atlantic Meridional Ocean Circulation system that keeps the world cool—is dreadfully threatening now. If it shuts down, Europe goes into a deep freeze, and the climate in the rest of the world becomes utterly chaotic and completely unpredictable. Here’s our backgrounder, updated with the latest research. Note: Research in the last two weeks confirms the findings in this article and urges immediate reductions in greenhouse gases to slow the rate of ocean warming—which is what will cause the current to collapse.
Atlantic ocean currents are near collapse. That could bury Europe in glaciers.
EDITOR’S NOTE: A couple of years ago, I published this article for PolitiSage subscribers on the slowdown of AMOC—the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. This is the worldwide current and series of gyres that keep the world from turning into Snowball Earth. The collapse of the AMOC h…
A Very Threatening Loss of Vaccines Is Imminent
For months before Trump traded public safety for the loyal votes of RFK, Jr., we warned that he must be allowed NO authority over Americans’ health. After he came aboard in a position to control the CDC, the National Institutes of Health, the Departments of Health and Human Services, and, by fiat, policies regarding vaccines and a host of other health concerns, he fulfilled everybody’s worst nightmares. Here is a trio of articles we have written on him—a primer on vaccines before he took office, a poignant appeal from Roald Dahl, whose daughter died because there was no measles vaccine yet, and a deep-dive rant on why this man must be expelled from public life right now (just like the Kennedy clan is demanding of him). Don’t stop pushing on this. His policies will kill a lot of people.
RFK for Secretary of Health? One Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words
In the image above, BOTH boys have smallpox. The boy on the right was vaccinated; the boy on the left was not vaccinated. Vaccines don’t prevent bacterial and viral infections—but fatefully, a vaccinated person who contracts a disease spreads many fewer of the disease spores, has a staggeringly better chance of surviving it, has less damage from it (as …
RFK just fired the entire Vaccine Advisory Council. Listen to Roald Dahl, who lost his daughter to measles.
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And then …
And then …
And then … Well, I got really angry and fed up. He’s practicing medicine without a license, and Trump, the only one to profit from this debacle, doesn’t care how many die.
Get this stupid, arrogant, narcissistic MANIAC the hell out of here!!!!
We at PolitiSage have been writing about this man since LONG before he went up for confirmation. We are facing a medical reality in which smallpox—which it took us 180 YEARS to eradicate—is reemerging from isolated pockets of human populations and from melting permafrost. He wants to get rid of all…
On Understanding Fascism
Here’s a post that accessing a number of our backgrounders on fascism. Parts I-III.
Misogyny, Terrorism and the Manosphere
Note: Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys and integral to the January 6th attack on the Capitol, was pardoned by Trump and is now suing the government for $100,000,000 because a jury sent him to jail, as it should havev. See the first article above which charts the January 6th attackers. Three of the five major groups are heavily misogynist and lobby for the removal of women’s rightss.
And finally some joy …
The Gift that is the International Criminal Court
And … Mind Candy
P.S. Dr. Cig, discussed below (bless her heart) died last year at the age of 110. Mind like a steel trap!
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