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France’s record-breaking heatwave made ‘at least five times’ more likely by climate change https://prismo.xyz/posts/1420c540-a16a-4ea2-ac34-8d2850981e77

In Bolsonaro’s Brazil, a Showdown Over Amazon Rainforest https://prismo.xyz/posts/ee292a83-766a-452b-adb4-7ac0caa020f2

Drinking Matcha tea can reduce anxiety

Using the 'elevated plus maze' test with mice, researchers have shown that Matcha green tea can reduce anxiety. Their experiments revealed that Matcha's anxiolytic effects are due to the activation of dopamine D1 receptors and certain serotonin receptors. The researchers suggest that adding a little Matcha tea to your diet may improve your health.

New antibacterial fillings may combat recurring tooth decay

A new study finds potent antibacterial capabilities in novel dental restoratives, or filling materials.

Jewish Youth Say “Never Again” As They Protest Trump’s Concentration Camps

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY—Planes on their way to the airport fly low over a crowd of young protesters chanting “Racist ICE has got to go!” More than 100 Jewish and immigrant activists have gathered outside the Elizabeth Contract Detention Center in New Jersey, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement holds approximately 300 detainees.

Rabbi Salem Pearce leads the protesters in the Mourner’s Kaddish, a Jewish prayer of mourning, for six immigrant children who have died in U.S. government custody.

“There are more who are not named,” she says. “There will be more.”

Periodically, the sound of a shofar horn rises above the chanting. The bugle-like instrument, traditionally made of a ram’s horn, is blown on Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year), and Yom Kippur, the day of atonement that follows. By sounding it at the protest, “it’s like we’re collectively repenting for the sins of America,” explains Julia Davidovitz, a 26-year-old preschool teacher from Boston and the descendent of Jewish refugees. Her grandfather was incarcerated by the Nazis in the Minsk Ghetto, where he lost his parents and two sisters.

Down the road, a group of activists with a banner that reads “Never Again Means Close the Camps” links arms across the gate to the employee parking lot, briefly blocking employees from leaving as they demand the facility be shut down. Later in the evening, 36 protesters are arrested. 

The protest marked the beginning of two weeks of action organized by an unofficial coalition of Jewish and immigrant activists demanding an end to the detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants in the United States. Their message: that “Never Again”—an expression used in remembrance of the Holocaust—means never again for anyone.

Many of the protesters say they’re doing what they wish non-Jewish Germans and other Europeans had done in the years leading up to the Holocaust: Speak up before it’s too late. “We don't want to see what happens next, in terms of where this could go,” says Michaela Caplan, 23, a recent college graduate who was arrested in Elizabeth. Her grandmother was an Auschwitz survivor.

“We’re not just talking about what’s going on at the border,” adds Caplan. “This is happening in everyone’s backyard, in their own communities, that people are being terrorized. There are 11 million undocumented people in this country living in fear.”

Though they gathered outside of ICE detention centers, the activists are protesting the entire U.S. immigration and deportation regime. That regime has long included detention centers, but critics say it has escalated in cruelty since Donald Trump took office. Trump made immigration a signature issue on the campaign trail, often using racist terms to refer to undocumented immigrants, particularly those from Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. His administration has made it more difficult to cross the border and increased arrests and deportations of immigrants already in the country. ICE arrests increased 30 percent from 2016 to 2017, and 11 percent from 2017 to 2018.

After the demonstration in Elizabeth, activists organized similar actions in Boston, Providence, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Chicago.

The protests mark an inflection point in an ongoing debate over American Jewish collective identity. On June 17, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez set off a political firestorm when she said on Instagram “the United States is running concentration camps on our southern border.” Her comments were quickly denounced by Republican lawmakers as well as several prominent Jewish institutions. Leaders of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, which claims to represent “New York’s diverse Jewish community,” wrote in an open letter, “the regrettable use of Holocaust terminology to describe these contemporary concerns diminishes the evil intent of the Nazis to eradicate the Jewish people.” The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum put out a statement “unequivocally reject[ing] efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events.”

But Irene Lehrer Sandalow, a board member of the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs who attended the Chicago protest, sees direct parallels to history: “I’m here because I’m a grandchild of a Holocaust survivor and I’m an immigrant myself, from Belgium. We grew up talking about how we never want to see this happening again, and it’s happening right now. I see children this age”—she gestures to her young son—"in camps.”

Miles Meth, a 25-year-old union organizer and the grandchild of two Holocaust survivors, says the words “Never Again” were a refrain in his youth. He doesn’t believe the collective trauma of the Holocaust should be off-limits for historical comparison.

“One of the facets of anti-Semitism is that it separates Jews from other people,” he says. “It’s important to recognize when we have the opportunity to be in solidarity with other people.”

Meth helped coordinate the Boston action along with other Jewish activists and members of Movimiento Cosecha, a direct action organization dedicated to protecting the rights of undocumented immigrants in the United States.

Sarah Gratz, 21, who was among those arrested in Elizabeth, believes the backlash over the use of “Holocaust” is a distraction. “Have we not learned anything?” she says. “It’s not about the words. It’s about seeing that the conditions of these people are due to the same hateful, racist and ignorant ideologies that caused these same things to happen to our grandparents and great-grandparents.”

Two days after the arrests in Elizabeth, protesters gathered in Boston at the New England Holocaust Memorial and marched three miles through rush-hour traffic. The crowd swelled to more than a thousand as it moved through the streets, ending outside the Suffolk County House of Correction, where detainees flashed signs in the windows reading “help” and “we love you.” 18 protesters were arrested.

Journalist Britni de la Cretaz brought her 5 year-old daughter to the Boston march to teach her about political action and help foster a sense of community. “She would talk to the people marching with us, and say, ‘I’m Jewish,’” says de la Cretaz. “And they would say, ‘So am I.’ On the way home, she said, ‘You’re right, mom, this is what Jews do.’” 

“My Judaism above all is about liberation,” de la Cretaz says.

Annie Attie contributed reporting from Chicago.

Blue light at night increases the consumption of sweets in rats

A new study demonstrates that just one hour of exposure to blue light at night -- the kind of light produced by the screens of our many devices -- raises blood sugar levels and increases sugar consumption in male rats.

ICE Just Quietly Opened Three New Detention Centers, Flouting Congress’ Limits

When members of Congress reached a bipartisan deal to end the government shutdown in February, they gave Immigration and Customs Enforcement a simple instruction: Stop detaining so many people. Instead, ICE pushed its detention population to an all-time high of 54,000 people, up from about 34,000 on an average day in 2016 and well above […]

Antillectual release video for “If You’re Not Outraged”

Dutch punk band Antillectual have released a video for their new single, “If You’re Not Outraged.” You can check it out below. Antillectual’s last release was a cover of The Police’s “Truth Hits Everybody” in March 2019.

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Breaching a 'carbon threshold' could lead to mass extinction

Carbon dioxide emissions may trigger a reflex in the carbon cycle, with devastating consequences, study finds.

Amy Mcgrath Nearly Pulled off One of the Biggest Upsets in 2018. Now She’s Taking on Mitch Mcconnell.

Kentucky Democrat Amy McGrath, the former Marine fighter pilot who entered the national spotlight last year after she narrowly lost to Republican Rep. Andy Barr in the state’s 6th Congressional District, is back. And this time she’s taking on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.  In a three-minute announcement video released Tuesday morning, McGrath sharply criticizes […]

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#Glacial #melting in #Antarctica may become irreversible | World news | The Guardian

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You Can’t Get Good Help These Days

Can you believe a FORMER BARTENDER has deigned to criticize our brave concentration camp guards?

A New Wave of Environmentalists Want to Give Nature Legal Rights

In the summer of 2014, officials in Toledo, Ohio, announced that the city’s tap water was no longer safe to drink. A toxic algae bloom caused by fertilizer runoff had poisoned Lake Erie, the primary water source for the area’s half-million residents, sickening more than 100 people. Stores emptied of bottled water within hours. For […]

omg these 1941 London military bunker sketches are so very proto-James Bond

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Gotta hear both sides: useless centrists AND right-wing nutjobs!

Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders Are Going to Introduce a Climate Emergency Resolution in Congress

On Tuesday, Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in the House, along with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the Senate, will introduce a resolution asserting there is a climate emergency and demanding a wide-reaching mobilization to prepare for the consequences of climate change. They want to “restore the climate for future generations.” “The global […]