Brian Todd
@briantoad
Professor of Conservation Biology at UC Davis. Head-starting desert tortoises and other conservation work on reptiles and amphibians.
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http://toddlab.ucdavis.edu 27-06-2014 20:10:21
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I donโt understand people who keep the window shade down on a plane. Weโre 35 thousand feet in the sky. You donโt want to check out the view? Weโre above the freaking clouds, for Godโs sake. Humans could only dream of a view like this for millennia. And you have the shade down.
When Roe was overturned and women bled out in ERs, we heard โstatesโ rights. When guns became the #1 killer of kids, still โstatesโ rights.โ But one protest against injustice? Suddenly thereโs federal boots on the ground. They donโt panic when people die, only when they speak.
When the American empire finally collapses, historians wonโt be stunned by the greed of the elite; Theyโll be stunned by the loyalty of the poor. The working class didnโt just vote against their own interests. They worshipped the billionaires robbing them. They slashed their
โOur worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life,โ wrote five former NWS directors from both Democratic and Republican administrations in an open letter on May 2nd. In Houston, 44% of NWS positions are vacant.
