CRANKY OLD FART’S
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#370 [archive]
• The Republican Party is waging a “coordinated national effort to undermine American elections,” says leading official
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For at least years, it’s been obvious that Republicans are opposed to fair and open elections, people voting, and democracy in general, but this is the first mainstream coverage I’ve seen that states that plainly.• Celebrating fifty years of Section 504, the pre-ADA law that said the disabled have rights
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Excerpt: The Rehabilitation Act was signed into law by President Richard Nixon, after he vetoed it twice. But four years later, following President Jimmy Carter’s Inauguration, the federal government still had not issued regulations spelling out the details of Section 504. Thus, the law could not be enforced.
This delay infuriated disability rights activists so much that on April 5, 1977, protests were held around the country demanding that the regulations be released.
In San Francisco, protesters showed up at the regional office of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and they vowed not to leave until the demand was met. Various protesters ended up continuously occupying that office until satisfactory regulations were issued twenty-six days later. …
• There’s petroleum hidden in your jeans
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Excerpt: … “Today’s denim has very little in common with what people were making a couple of hundred years ago,” said Stefano Aldighieri, a California-based denim consultant who has worked with Levi’s and other denim brands. That rough-and-tumble, stiff cotton denim favored by railroad workers is long gone.
Today, a typical pair of jeans contains polyester thread, poly-cotton interior pockets, polyester zipper tape, plastic interfacing inside the waistband, polyester tags and labels, and, depending on the design, polyester and elastane added for stretch. Almost all of these synthetics are derived from petroleum.
“Even when things are marked cotton, and we think we’re shopping for cotton products, we are still participating in a petrochemical economy,” said Paul Dillinger, Levi’s vice president of Global Product Innovation. He said that in a small pair of women’s jeans marked as 100% cotton, up to 10% comprises other materials. That’s because the Federal Trade Commission only requires manufacturers to list materials that comprise 5% or more of the product’s weight.
• Journalists are both-sidesing the Republicans’ evidence-lacking impeachment stunt
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• Quilts in the window, as guideposts to freedom for slaves
[Original link] • Elizabeth Warren helpfully identifies Medicare trustee nominee’s glaring conflict of interest for him
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• The capitalists will let you drown
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Excerpt: … But what is so infuriating isn’t just climate change, and it’s not even the refusal to systemically address the climate crisis — which is now very much a present, not future, emergency. It’s that instead of expending resources to strengthen our infrastructure, build sustainability, and better our lives we’ve been spending endlessly on violence.
The federal government spends a trillion dollars on war every year. Cities spend a third of their budgets on policing. And working class people are left to face the consequences.
We are the ones left to face the floods and the fires, while billionaires escape to compounds and jet to second homes, then make charity appeals where they ask us to fundraise for the victims of these disasters. …• A man who went 50 years without a conversation • The Police Problem
This is my ongoing collection of police brutality, beatings, and general corruption — the ‘greatest hits’ of America’s brutes with badges.• Amusing, Interesting, Outrageous, or Profound
And this is my Lemmy page, for anything that’s amusing, interesting, outrageous, or profound (in my opinion).
📸 IMAGES 📸• Delivering a package on 9/11/2001 • Some things never change. • The very first words I’d said to him were “I’m in a lot of pain,” but somehow he hadn’t been able to hear me
♫♬ MUSIC ♫• Comfortably Numb — Luther Wright and the Wrongs • Going the Distance — Rocky • Jungle — Cat Empire • On the Radio — Al Stewart • Subterranean Homesick Blues — Salt Creek
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👁 VIDEO 👁• Gay sex isn’t this gay. • Making Dazed and Confused • Trippy, mon… Come into the cigarette box with me…
☠ OBITUARIES ☠• Pat Arrowsmith
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9/30/2023
offers a kindness, along with anything off the internet that’s made me
smile or snarl. All opinions fresh from my ass. Top illustration by Jeff Meyer. Click any image to enlarge. Comments & conversations invited.
Joey Jo Jo emeritus, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra
special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and
proved that the world isn’t always shitty.
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