Mary

A better world is possible.

[TheNewPhysics @CharlesMullins2]

🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST DISCOVERED THAT MICROPLASTICS IN THE ATMOSPHERE ARE ACTUALLY HEATING THE PLANET.

New research published in Nature Climate Change shows that tiny colored plastic particles floating in the air absorb sunlight instead of reflecting it turning what was thought to be a minor or even cooling factor into a warming one.

As plastic waste breaks down on land and in oceans, winds carry the resulting microplastics and nanoplastics high into the atmosphere. There, most particles are either already dark or become darker as they age. This allows them to trap heat.

Laboratory experiments and atmospheric modeling found that airborne plastic pollution currently has about 16.2% of the heat-trapping impact of black carbon globally. In heavily polluted regions like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the effect can be 4.7 times stronger than black carbon.

Why this matters:
• Microplastics are no longer just an ocean and wildlife problem they are now a recognized atmospheric climate factor
• The effect is still relatively small on a global scale, but becomes significant in areas with high plastic concentrations
• Extreme weather events like typhoons can dramatically increase atmospheric plastic levels (one 2023 super typhoon caused a 51% spike)
• Climate models may need updating to properly account for this newly measured warming source

The deeper implication:
We are only beginning to understand the full climate footprint of plastic. What started as a waste and pollution crisis is now revealing itself as a multi-layered environmental problem that reaches from the deepest ocean trenches to the upper atmosphere.

Every piece of plastic that enters the environment eventually fragments and can end up influencing the very climate system we’re trying to stabilize.

This is another reminder that our materials choices have consequences far beyond what we originally designed them for.

How seriously should we take this new atmospheric warming effect from microplastics compared to other known climate drivers?

Follow for more frontier climate science and emerging environmental research.

[Mary @Ms_MaryJo]

This is very thought provoking.

[Dad Saves America @DadSavesAmerica]

New York City elects a Muslim socialist immigrant as mayor. British police give preferential treatment to non-white criminals while arresting white victims as they bleed out on the street. Europe held back Muslim invaders for hundreds of years, but now its major cities are upwards of 10% Muslim.
https://t.co/78KWPO34ZD

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

Everybody thought that Lia Thomas alerted everyone to the mania. Public opinion for allowing men who claim to be women to compete against women tanked. Polling arriving soon after the 2024 Trump victory showed it was and 80/20 issue, and that 2 out of 3 Democrats opposed it. There is no constituency for this anywhere in America. Everyone assumed that this bizarre episode in American life had reached its conclusion.

But lo, 1.5 years into the Trump Administration, high school aged boys are dominating women in sports in California, New York, and elsewhere. A literal sexual assault gets filmed and broadcast on social media. Schools across Blue America continue to defy Trump Administration mandates in order to keep inflicting boys into girl's private spaces and sports, risking billions in federal funding. The entire machinery of Democrat rule at every level of government moves in lockstep to keep overriding the will of the people. The Supreme Court is expected to rule that some states are permitted to require being female as a condition of competing in women's sports -- it will do not affect Blue state policy in any way.

We see here both the power that administrative elites have to defy the popular will, and their ironclad commitment to doing so: to continue to inflict absurdities and cruelties onto girls while proudly boasting of their virtue and goodness.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

NOVEMBER 30, 2010:

Four weeks after losing the election as AG of CA, Kamala Harris wins due to mail-in surge from LA

Harris won by less than 1%

[Mary @Ms_MaryJo]

@ggreenwald Democrats just want democrats to win by any means necessary. We've seen this time and again. Remember how they pushed Bernie out so Biden could win. Remember all the shenanigans against him so Hillary could be crowned.

[Timur Kuran @timurkuran]

Gay rights protected a stigmatized minority without disrupting everyone else’s life. Trans rights aim to make everyone reject biology, indulge delusion, accept child sexualization, and treat sex as a spectrum requiring pronouns. Gay rights is losing appeal because its champions are seen, rightly or wrongly, as trans enablers.

[Mary @Ms_MaryJo]

The backlash to TQ+ has begun. Support has fallen across the board with highest among conservatives.

[Carroll Doherty @CarrollDoherty]

Big change in the GOP: New @Gallup survey finds that % of Republicans saying gay and lesbian relations are morally acceptable has fallen 21 pts - from 56% to 35% - since 2022.
https://t.co/iieZ6vaYOA

[Edie Wyatt @msediewyatt]

One thing I want to highlight about this video is that if we KEEP the debate in politicised culture, of toxic masculinity, toxic femininity, even excessive focus on racism and antisemitism, we can miss what is going very wrong with the mechanisms of the liberal democratic state. The attempt to replace human conscience with equity bureaucracies is dangerous to the human life of all citizens. Because if the state is beginning to punish women for recognising men past a trans identity, that mechanism of state to replace conscience with language rules, rules that are defined by the state, this means the state itself is becoming dangerous to its own citizens and it is developing ways to develop the rules for this process outside of democratic accountability.

[Prof. Gary Francione @garylfrancione]

Please make no mistake about this: trans ideology, which maintains that an unverifiable/unfalsifiable notion called "gender identity" can trump/supplant biological sex, is nothing less than an explicit call to abolish women as a sex class. This is madness and it is morally wrong.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

America routinely taking days/weeks to count ballots now is f’n hilarious. They might as well announce results in Hamburglar costumes

[Mary @Ms_MaryJo]

@overton_news Their media made it look like enthusiasm and they believed the their own bs while people on the other side of the tv were gagging. Same story told in Shattered.

[Brett Pike @ClassicLearner]

If you want to conquer a nation separate its people from their roots. Thomas Jefferson did more for human liberty than arguably anyone in human history…yet schools are teaching young people he was “an oppressor.” It isn’t an accident.

[Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins]

The Great American Cotton Plan is putting our farmers first and Making America Healthy Again:

💰 Supporting American farmers & 125,000 jobs
📈 Boosting U.S. production & reclaiming our #1 exporter spot
🏭 Rebuilding domestic textile mills and manufacturing jobs
🌿 Improving our health by choosing natural fibers over harmful synthetics and microplastics

American grown. Globally worn.

Plant, not plastic. America, not Brazil.

Thank you @RCamposDuffy, @CharlesHurt, @GriffJenkins, and the entire @foxandfriends team. So grateful for the chance to talk American cotton and MAHA this morning!

[Mary @Ms_MaryJo]

I'm so glad to hear this! Cotton is so much more comfortable to wear especially in the summer & becoming near impossible to find anything without polyester in it.

[Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins]

The MAHA movement doesn't stop with what we EAT — It's also about what we WEAR.

For decades, America offshored textile jobs and allowed foreign synthetic, plastic-based materials to take over the clothing market.

Together with @SecKennedy, the Great American Cotton Plan puts American-grown cotton FIRST again: supporting our farmers, strengthening U.S. manufacturing, and giving families a natural choice.

[Chico Muya @chico_ray]

The Left is insane.

While millions of women around the world are forced to wear the hijab, people like AOC are promoting it in the West—claiming she's "just respecting the religion".
In truth, the hijab is a tool of female oppression. A piece of clothing that represents a womens lesser status in the Muslim world. One she has no choice, but to wear, unless she wants to be beaten, imprisoned or even killed.

I'm sure right after "respecting Islam", by wearing one of the most blatantly misogynistic pieces of clothing on earth, AOC went to a "my body, my choice" protest.

Pathetic.

[John Papola @JohnPapola]

Ask yourself these question:

Why does the political movement who claims to obsess abound what they think is the legacy of slavery and patriarchal sexual exploitation...

Ignore the fact that England and America were basically the singular force in human history to fight and largely end slavery (in the West)...

AND they ignore the fact that Islamic world's practice of slavery DWARFs the West, was sexualized and brutal, and continues to this day...

AND ultimately they ALIGN with this rapist slavocracy?

How can this possibly be seen as charitably?

I don't see how. I don't see how this alliance isn't a plainly stated ENEMY within and without.

If there's a true paradox of tolerance in the West, it's tolerating the presence of ANY of this.

[Mary @Ms_MaryJo]

100%

[Prof. Gary Francione @garylfrancione]

People need to understand that trans ideology is not a matter of anything as trivial as a "cultural war." On the contrary, it is a very real effort to destroy women as a sex class and to establish that a woman is nothing more than a collection of regressive stereotypes. The consequences of this will be profound and profoundly bad for women, and for anyone who cares about equality. It will make equality impossible because the very concept of the "interests of women" will necessarily include the interests of men.

[Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry. @naomirwolf]

Disgusting spectacle. This is not tolerance. It’s dominance.

[Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill]

Democrats: "Sexist Republicans are turning America into the Handmaid's Tale!"

Also Democrats:

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

Nothing says "I'm a champion for women's rights" like wearing the biggest symbol of female oppression around the world!