shavuah tov!

Fossil Fuel Subsides

What does subsides mean?

1. : to sink or fall to the bottom : settle. 2. : to become quiet or less : abate. as the fever subsides.

What does subsides mean in government?

A subsidy is a benefit given to an individual, business, or institution, usually by the government. It can be direct (such as cash payments) or indirect (such as tax breaks).

Flogging a dead horse?

#Auspol

https://www.europesays.com/1706836/ Elon Musk’s curious fixation with Britain #GreatBritain #UnitedKingdom

https://www.europesays.com/1706840/ Entertainment News Live Today December 22, 2024: Justin Baldoni ousted by talent agency after Blake Lively’s sexual harassment lawsuit: WME still represents… #america #BollywoodNews #Entertainment #EntertainmentNews #EntertainmentNewsLive #health #HollywoodNews #LatestEntertainmentNews #MusicNews #sports #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA

https://www.europesays.com/1706838/ Donald Trump Appoints Mark Burnett as Special Envoy to United Kingdom #DonaldTrump #GreatBritain #MarkBurnett #UnitedKingdom

#Caturday is coming to a close. Good night and pleasant dreams to all!

#Pax #CatsOfMastodon #Cat #Cats #CatsOfFediverse #Catstodon #Animals #FediCats #MastoCats #Katzen #Gatos #Chat #Cute #Pets #AdoptDontShop

In the 40's and 50's polio was the most feared disease in the world, for good reason. Look at that horrifying upward spike, from '42 to '52. And then: a downward spike to nothing.

Pre-internet, pre-global-comms, news of Salk's polio vaccine made it around the world in minutes.

In North America Polio went from being terrifying, paralyzing illness, indiscriminately striking rich and poor alike, to being effectively gone in a decade.

Vaccines are a miracle.

https://ourworldindata.org/polio

Watch charlottemunster with me on Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/charlottemunster

A very moody passing place near Whitelee

#Scotland #PassingPlace

❝ Sin la necesidad de una convocatoria oficial en el BOE ni la publicación de un anuncio colorido en las redes antisociales.… el macroscópico Carmelo Sanjuán me alertaba de la victoria sin paliativos de la manipulación informativa con un término nítido y brillante: el trumpantojo… técnica de falseamiento constante de la realidad, millones de ciudadanos estadounidenses validaron la legitimidad de la mentira como medio para ocupar el poder…

https://www.diariodesevilla.es/blogs/sindromes-expresivos/palabra-ano-2024_0_2003004702.html

https://www.europesays.com/1706834/ France’s Macron backs Ethiopia’s debt restructuring efforts #DebtRestructuring #EmmanuelMacron #ethiopia #france #InternationalMonetaryFund #SwiftResolution

⚡️🇺🇦CMU supported resolution “Weapons of Victory” (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3940629-cmu-supported-resolution-weapons-of-victory.html #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine

Happy #caturday

"TeNnEsSeE DoEsN't bElOnG iN tHe pLayOfFs" - or do they get a different treatment than Indiana?

https://www.europesays.com/1706832/ François Bayrou déjà sous la menace d’une censure par la gauche #france #Nouvelles

⚠️🇺🇦Russian invaders fired 42 times on border of Sumy region during day (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3940758-russians-fired-42-times-on-border-of-sumy-region-during-day.html #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine

⛔️🇺🇦Shelling in Donetsk region: Russian terrorists killed man, wounded woman in Pokrovsk and its area (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3940754-shelling-in-donetsk-region-russians-killed-man-wounded-woman-in-pokrovsk-and-its-area.html #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine

https://www.europesays.com/?p=1706830 Germany’s divided stance on Israel: Navigating history and demographics #germany #GermanyAndIsrael #Holocaust #Israel

https://www.europesays.com/1706828/ Boris Herrmann kentert, Spitzentrio jagt Rekord #BorisHerrmann #CharlieDalin #deutschland #germany #JustineMettraux #MaliziaSeaexplorer #Nachrichten #SebastienSimon #VendéeGlobe #VendéeGlobe2024 #YoannRichomme

🇵🇱🇺🇦Poland gives Ukraine 3 helicopters for pilot training (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3940750-poland-gives-ukraine-3-helicopters-for-pilot-training.html #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #Poland #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine

‼️🇺🇦AFU set up metal “Christmas tree” near Donetsk stele (VIDEO and more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3940747-afu-set-up-metal-christmas-tree-near-donetsk-stele.html #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine

https://www.europesays.com/1706826/ Tilman Fertitta Nominated as Ambassador to Italy #BillionDollarBuyer #CNBC #italy #television #TilmanFertitta

‼️🇺🇦President Zelensky commends rescuers, police officers for helping Ukrainians (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3940736-zelensky-commends-rescuers-police-officers-for-helping-ukrainians.html #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine

Hot centaurs describing themselves as JRHNBR

⚠️🇺🇦Civilian injured as Russian invaders shell Bilozerka in Kherson region (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3940735-man-injured-as-russian-forces-shell-bilozerka-in-kherson-region.html #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine

https://www.europesays.com/1706824/ proprietario degli Houston Rockets, ha origini siciliane #DonaldTrump #Italia #italy #notizie #StatiUniti #TilmanFertitta

Y’all, the restaurant I’m in just switched from the David Bowie/Bing Crosby duet of “Little Drummer Boy” mid pa rum pum pum pum to go to some country Christmas station. Their Yelp review shall suffer. #Christmas

🇵🇱🇺🇦New Nyzhankovychi-Malhowice checkpoint to ease border traffic - Ukrainian ambassador (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-economy/3940730-new-nyzhankovychimalhowice-checkpoint-to-ease-border-traffic-ukrainian-ambassador.html #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #Poland #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine

#Alabama profits off #prisoners who work at McDonald’s but deems them too dangerous for #parole

"No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a sprawling labor system that dates back more than 150 years — including the brutal #ConvictLeasing era that replaced #slavery — it has constructed a template for the #commercialization of #MassIncarceration."

By ROBIN MCDOWELL and MARGIE MASON
Updated 5:10 PM EST, December 20, 2024

DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A storm was looming when the inmate serving 20 years for armed robbery was assigned to transport fellow prisoners to their jobs at private manufacturers supplying goods to companies like Home Depot and Wayfair. It didn’t matter that Jake Jones once had escaped or that he had failed two drug and alcohol tests while in lockup — he was unsupervised and technically in charge.

By the time Jones was driving back to the work release center with six other incarcerated workers, it was pelting rain. Jones had a reputation for driving fast and some of his passengers said he was racing along the country road, jamming to music in his earbuds. Suddenly, the transport van hit a dip and swerved on the wet pavement, slamming into a tree."

Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-alabama-3b2c7e414c681ba545dc1d0ad30bfaf5

#USPol #HumanRights #Prisoners #ForProfitPrisons #USPenalSystem

https://www.europesays.com/1706822/ Spain Soccer La Liga | Pro Sports #free #ProfessionalSports #Soccer #spain #sports #xlaligax

https://www.europesays.com/1706820/ El mapa de los municipios ganadores y perdedores de población en el siglo XXI en España #España #ganadores #municipios #noticias #perdedores #Población #siglo #spain #XXI

What Trump's role in spending fight tells us about the next four years | AP News

https://apnews.com/article/trump-budget-debt-ceiling-shutdown-musk-johnson-e0258d31a9018c7af09afc11a8634707

Wonkette continues to outpace Big Journalism in covering the danger that South Africa born Elon Musk represents to democracy everywhere, not just in the United States.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/elon-musk-boosting-german-fascists

Best line: "Musk’s politics have never been particularly mysterious, unless you are a political reporter for The New York Times."

A little while ago I looked outside and lo and behold, a Grey Partridge in my little city garden! For awhile it was digging and scratching and picking, apparently going after the native grasses I planted (and didn't mow in the fall) under the snow. Good wildlife gardening practices brings in the creatures! It is still there, having settled down for a siesta in the snow.

#greypartridge #wildlifegardening #winterbirds #backyardbirds #nativeplants #yxe

Rickey Henderson, baseball’s “Man of Steal,” has died. https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/sports/mlb/rickey-henderson-obituary-death/3742487/

Lara Trump, the president-elect’s daughter-in-law, says she is withdrawing her name from the short list of those under consideration by Florida’s governor to be appointed to fill the US Senate seat Marco Rubio is to vacate.

Exploded in a burst of joyful, painful, grateful tears at the end of this book.

Never done that.

One might not expect 12th Century Yemen/Indian ocean to be the sort of liberatory setting where gender norms, classism, & misogyny are specifically tackled with such effectiveness & beauty.

But, and I say this as someone who has had trans patients having been harassed by Chaiya Raichik:

What an incredible journey & ending I did not see coming (though I really should have).

A lovely fantasy fiction tale historically placed by an author whose career as a Historian of the Middle East was derailed by the 2008 Great Recession.

#AdventuresOfAminaAlSirafi
#bookstodon
#lgbtqia #transgender