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Great Barrier Reef outlook now 'very poor', Australian government review says

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/30/great-barrier-reef-outlook-now-very-poor-australian-government-review-says?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Librem_Social #climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction

#Amazon #fires show world heading for point of no return, says #UN | World news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/30/amazon-fires-biodiversity-united-nations

#Nature #Deforestation #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Biodiversity #Brazil #SouthAmerica

There’s No Gay Gene. In Fact, There’s No Anything Gene.

The nation’s press is trying to atone today for the sins of its past: A few years ago a research team conducted a small study that located a few epigenetic markers that seemed to be associated with being gay. Not a single working geneticist—and I say this advisedly—not a single one suggested this was the […]

From Victories to Union Militancy, 5 Reasons for Workers to Celebrate This Labor Day

Labor Day often gets short shrift as a worker’s holiday. Marked primarily by sales on patio furniture and mattresses, the day also has a more muddled history than May Day, which stands for internationalism and solidarity among the working class. Labor Day, by contrast, was declared a federal holiday in 1894 by President Grover Cleveland, fresh off his administration’s violent suppression of the Pullman railroad strike.

Senate Democrats’ Campaign Arm Is Pressuring Consultants Not to Work With Leading Progressive Candidate in Colorado

Andrew Romanoff said the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee pressured a number of firms not to work with his Senate campaign.

The post Senate Democrats’ Campaign Arm Is Pressuring Consultants Not to Work With Leading Progressive Candidate in Colorado appeared first on The Intercept.

Trump Administration’s Court-Packing Scheme Fills Immigration Appeals Board With Hardliners

In his first six years as an immigration judge in New York and Atlanta, from 1993 to 1999, William Cassidy rejected more asylum-seekers than any judge in the nation. A few years ago, Earle Wilson overtook Cassidy as the harshest asylum judge on the Atlanta court, which has long been considered one of the toughest immigration […]

30,000 Blue Tarps, 2.4 Million Downed Trees, Billions Short: 5 Ways Puerto Rico Is Still Struggling to Recover From Maria

Tropical Storm Dorian skirted Puerto Rico’s western corner yesterday, before heading north towards Florida, where it is expected to develop into a Category 3 hurricane. While the storm spared Puerto Rico of much damage, it raised attention to how the island is still in recovery mode—and ill-equipped for another natural disaster. Hurricane Irma struck Puerto […]

Users of a Major Online Trump Hub Expect They’ll Be Kicked off Reddit—and They Don’t Know Where to Go

For years, Reddit had hesitated to take action against one of its most prominent toxic communities: r/The_Donald, which in addition to being the site’s fan club for supporters of President Trump, has become a noxious hotbed of hate speech and bigotry. That finally changed on June 26 when Reddit “quarantined” r/The_Donald message board, making it […]

Food-waste study reveals trends behind discarded items

Americans throw out a lot more food than they expect they will, food waste that is likely driven in part by ambiguous date labels on packages, a new study has found.

How Ohio’s Chamber of Commerce Killed an Anti-Pollution Bill of Rights

Emails reveal that the Ohio Chamber of Commerce enlisted a key Republican lawmaker in a successful effort to nullify the Lake Erie Bill of Rights.

The post How Ohio’s Chamber of Commerce Killed an Anti-Pollution Bill of Rights appeared first on The Intercept.

From Philadelphia to Oregon, the Insurgency Is Making Waves in Municipal Elections

So far this year, Working Families Party-backed candidates were elected into more than 50 offices at the local and municipal levels in nine states.

The post From Philadelphia to Oregon, the Insurgency Is Making Waves in Municipal Elections appeared first on The Intercept.

Lucas' #etnaviv softpin work landed in #linux-next :
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=ae4530062620561d24683b1bd3438b8397693429

This paves the way for gc7000 mainline mesa GPU support: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/merge_requests/1559

Great news for the #librem5 !

miniDebConf19 in Vaumarcus (CH), registration is open! https://blog.odyx.org/2019/08/minidebconf19-vaumarcus-oct-25-27-2019-registration-is-open/

Are Microsoft incorporating their code into the kernel to ensure their survival and relevance?

If All Public Services in America Worked Like Healthcare

Good luck getting that fire put out!

Trump Is Willing to Do Whatever It Takes to Get the Border Wall Built

The United States Army Corps of Engineers has built 60 miles of border fencing since President Donald Trump took office. But Trump wants to accelerate that to 440 more miles completed by the 2020 election, and he’s willing to bypass legal procedures to make it happen. Under the president’s direction, Trump’s aides have hurriedly awarded […]

Trump Attacks Puerto Rico Ahead of the Storm—When the Island Is More Vulnerable Than Ever

Hurricane Dorian is set to make landfall today in Puerto Rico, with the potential of winds up to about 75 mph and heavy rains. The storm will strike only weeks before the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria, which tore the island apart in September 2017. Even though Zoé Laboy, the governor’s chief of staff, told […]