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phys.org/news/2025-03-lyft-dri

(yup. more #woke #science, not giving the benefit of doubt to #lawenforcement, right?)

…group analyzed data for <200K #Lyft drivers in Florida 2017-20.

…compared pullover rates and fine amounts between white drivers and minorities…using…techniques…factoring out vehicle color, make and model and geography…

…minority drivers were ~30% more likely to get ticketed under similar circumstances than #white#minority drivers received fines 23%-34% higher than white drivers.

Phys.org · Lyft drivers study reveals racial profiling by law enforcementBy Bob Yirka

#space #minority #uspol

NASA in the not too far past published two comic books on their website featuring "Callie Rodriguez, the first woman to explore the Moon". Fictional, but leaning into the Artemis Project.

Just so happens that Callie is (a) a woman and (b) a person of colour.

Just so happens, too, that the Callie comics were deleted from NASA's website ... you know, that purge DEI nonsense.

Also happens, that Iceland Space Agency saved Callie on their website.

icelandspaceagency.is

Iceland Space Agency Iceland Space Agency - Geimvísindastofnun ÍslandsThe mission of Geimvísindastofnun Íslands / Iceland Space Agency is to facilitate research, testing, training, and operational logistics between Iceland, foreign organizations, academia, researchers, and domestic enterprise as they relate to and are interested in the fields of space/earth science, e

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

Whoever has an opinion of his own, and honestly expresses it, will be guilty of heresy. Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1874-05-03), “Heretics and Heresies,” Free Religious Society, Kingsbury Hall, Chicago

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

Trump moves to gut more agencies, targeting Voice of America, libraries, clean energy and National Monuments

Trump has signed an executive order seeking to eliminate several additional federal agencies, including one that oversees the federally funded media outlet
⭐️Voice of America (VOA),
🔥testing the limits of his authoritative power as he seeks to shrink the size and scope of the federal bureaucracy.

One order signed Friday night calls for the agencies
— some of which are focused on #minority business enterprises, #museum and #library services and #homelessness prevention
— to “be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.”

It also instructs the heads of agencies to “reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law,”
and submit a report to the Office of Management and Budget director #Russell #Vought confirming full compliance within seven days.

A second executive order revoked 19 executive actions signed by President Joe Biden that promoted #clean #energy and environmental goals.

The order terminates proclamations of #national #monuments created by Biden
and ends the use of the Defense Production Act to expand the U.S. manufacturing of clean energy technology
(including mandates for electric heat pumps and #solar #panels),
among other Biden-era policies
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Trump guts several agencies, targeting Voice of America, librariesBy Brianna Tucker
Continued thread

#LeeZeldin’s move effectively ends 3 decades of work at the #EPA to try to ease the #pollution that burdens #poor & #minority communities, which are frequently located near #highways, #PowerPlants, #industrial plants & other polluting facilities. Studies have shown that people who live in those #communities have higher rates of #asthma, #HeartDisease & other #health problems, compared w/the national average.

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@Linknation @kevinrns @pschanen

Don't be that #asshole.

You understand your #computer. This makes you a member of a #minority. Unless you are going to #volunteer to be someone's #techSupport, do not tell them to do things with their #computers that they do not understand.

My opinion is informed by the thirty or so years I've had #Linux on my personal boxen. I help #boomers run blogs. These are not stupid people, but they struggle with #password #managers. There no way they can operate a Linux system without a fucktonne of support.

At the direction of #Trump, the #HHS & its agencies are purging websites of info & data on a broad array of topics—from #adolescent #health to #LGBTQ+ rights to #HIV, even #flu shots.

Several pages from the #CDC w/references to LGBTQ+ health are no longer available. A page from the HHS Office for #CivilRights outlining LGBTQ+ rights in #healthcare was also gone Fri. The site of the #NIH's Office for #Sexual & #Gender #Minority #Research Office disappeared.

#whitewashing
npr.org/sections/shots-health-

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@GottaLaff @Ardubal

#USpol

Last week, I saw a cartoon drawing with an infant Trump in a stroller, his mother or nanny crossing the street, a car accelerating towards it...

With the announced 500 bn. $ #AI plan, #Stargate, #Skynet is already here.

A #Terminator is sorely needed.
No psychic #Precogs from #Minority report are necessary for divination.

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