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California Is Considering Ending Criminal Court Fees and Wiping Out Billions in Debt

Three years ago, during Brandon Greene’s first week working as a lawyer in a new clinic affiliated with the East Bay Community Law Center, he was handed a stack of cases to review. Each involved a client who was struggling to pay down the fines and fees that easily accumulate in California’s criminal justice system. It was his job to help. […]

The complex fate of Antarctic species in the face of a changing climate

Researchers have presented support for the theory that marine invertebrates with larger body size are generally more sensitive to reductions in oxygen than smaller animals, and so will be more sensitive to future global climate change. However, evolutionary innovation can to some extent offset any respiratory disadvantages of large body size.

A Scientist Took Climate Change Deniers to Court and Wrested an Apology From Them

This story was originally published by National Observer and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.  In 2011, renowned scientist Michael E. Mann sued a Canadian think tank that published an interview suggesting his work on climate change was fraud. Eight years later, the Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre for Public Policy—which often promotes climate change denial—apologized […]

Saudi Arabia May Execute Teenager for His Protests — Including When He Was 10

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has overseen an escalation in violent crackdowns on political protest. It's getting even worse.

The post Saudi Arabia May Execute Teenager for His Protests — Including When He Was 10 appeared first on The Intercept.

Electronic Waste Is Becoming a Global Environmental Problem | @Time@twitter.com
Do you own one of the 1.6 billion unused phones shoved into a drawer? These forgotten mobile phones are packed with valuable materials. So dig them out and start #recycling! https://bit.ly/2IezCQ9

Black Hat drama this week shows the risks in creating a machine/process w/ the power to censor a group for personal views. Always starts w/ dangerous/unsympathetic views, inevitably expands to censor other groups based on shakier grounds. #slipperyslope

do yourself a favor and avoid #spam by blacklisting this domain:
womenarestupid.site

some asshat is creating throwaway accounts and messaging random people with the same crap over and over

#mastoadmin #fediadmin (? what's the tag for admins who aren't running mastodon??)

I see the racist, misogynist "we just want to point out how easy it is to spam on Mastodon" concern trolls are back in action. (If they link to a site called "women are stupid", that's them.)

Remember: don't engage them. Report them, pass the report through to the remote instance if need be, block them, and move on.

Opinion: The Green New Deal and transformational changes | Ensia https://prismo.xyz/posts/67857bbb-73f4-45d6-9958-f2ac402af11a

Todd Weaver (CEO of Purism) interviewed on Digital Trends Live.

They talked about hardware kill switches, the Librem 5 smartphone, releasing hardware schematics, and ethical online services.

https://puri.sm/posts/todd-weaver-on-digital-trends-live/

Ayanna Pressley Wants to Ditch an Old Anti-Abortion Law. House Democrats Aren’t Listening.

The Democratic majority in the US House appears likely to pass a spending bill which will include the Hyde Amendment, a measure that blocks federal funds from being spent on abortions, despite clear opposition from the the party’s base and from 2020 candidates. On Tuesday, Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s (D-Mass.) proposal to strip the Hyde Amendment from an […]

Mike Pompeo Said Congress Doesn’t Need to Approve War With Iran. 2020 Democrats Aren’t Having It.

“If the administration wants to go to war against Iran, then the Constitution requires them to come to Congress to ask for an authorization for the use of military force.”

The post Mike Pompeo Said Congress Doesn’t Need to Approve War With Iran. 2020 Democrats Aren’t Having It. appeared first on The Intercept.

Power to the people: how Spanish #cities took control of #energy | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/14/power-to-the-people-how-spanish-cities-took-control-of-energy

#Spain #RenewableEnergy #Renewables #SolarEnergy #WindEnergy

America Needs a Lot More Labor Unions

Unionize! You have nothing to gain but your bosses’ obscene rents! “Deluded” is meaner than I’d be, but if you work at a place like Facebook, Amazon, Apple, etc — unions let workers grab a share of corporate rents. There’s more of that cash up for grabs in big tech companies than media companies. Go […]

Well damn... #Vim Users... https://thehackernews.com/2019/06/linux-vim-vulnerability.html

If you are being harassed on Librem Social, or witness online harassment, block and flag the offending user, and a moderator will take action. We do not tolerate harassment.

https://librem.one/stay-safe/

In Court, Facebook Blames Users for Destroying Their Own Right To Privacy

"The whole premise of Facebook is to render not private" your activity, said a lawyer for the company, fighting off class action lawsuits over data collection by Cambridge Analytics.

The post In Court, Facebook Blames Users for Destroying Their Own Right To Privacy appeared first on The Intercept.

The Trump Administration’s War on Federal Workers

Claiming over 650,000 members in the United States and overseas, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) stands as the nation’s largest federal and D.C. government employee labor union. The union represents employees who provide care and support for veterans, the elderly and disabled, and people in need of housing through the Social Security Administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, along with other federal agencies.