Animal feeding operation (AFO) includes more than just factory farms, but most animal agriculture happens in factory farms in both the US and globally. At least in terms of number of farm animals

Concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) is usually the sanitized term for factory farm though it may exclude some places you’d might call factory farms because it’s a term primarily based around the number of farm animals per location

They also found associations with unprocessed red meats too

Unprocessed red meat intake of ≥1.00 serving per day, compared with <0.50 serving per day, was associated with a 16% higher risk of SCD [subjective cognitive decline] (RR 1.16; 95% CI 1.03–1.30; plinearity = 0.04).

They have a large data set, you can adjust for a lot more when your sample size is 133,000

No mention of obesity

They account for BMI as mentioned in what I quoted

The fight against horrible things often benefits from people doing the right thing for the dumbest of reasons

Great! Can we add that to the instance rule list on the sidebar?

It’s also worth noting that dem house leadership spoke against it explicitly too. For instance, Hakeem Jefferies, the Dem House Minority Leader, wrote against it before the vote too

The House Republican Child Predator Empowerment Act does not promote fairness and safety in sports.

It will unleash horrific child predators on girls and young women throughout America.

Unacceptable.

https://bsky.app/profile/hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social/post/3lfpl3s35v22s

The Dem House Whip, Whip Clark, made similar remarks on the house floor

While I am here, I will say to make sure to contact your senators on HR 28, regardless of party, so they know how strongly people feel about it and ensure it doesn’t get past the senate filibuster. It can make more of a difference than you might think

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

Article seems to suggest that the government might be trying to make these plans without ByteDance’s knowledge

It’s unclear whether ByteDance knows about the Chinese government’s plans and TikTok and Musk’s involvement in the discussions, the report said. Senior Chinese officials are debating contingency plans involving TikTok’s future in the U.S. as part of larger discussions about working with President-elect Donald Trump, the report added.

A TikTok spokesperson said in an email to CNBC, “We can’t be expected to comment on pure fiction.” X didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Some platforms might be redeemable and worth that fight, others I fear are beyond saving in their current form

There’s an algorithmic component here though that is going to make anything like that extremely uphill

Meta has to want to follow Musks as example explicitly. If he look at Musk, that’s a worrying trajectory. Elon Musk specifically boosts his own posts on Twitter over others even if you don’t follow him. He downranks anything with the word cisgender. He boosts accounts that pay him for checkmarks and has taken those checkmarks away from people who criticize him

He already was found guilty on 34 counts by a jury in May. This is about his sentencing

Maybe you are, but the media tends to only hold on to a few things at a time. He wants to make it his stupid things like “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico” take up that spot. Not his insane pick for departments, not his plans for cutting social security, etc.

Authoritarian leaders do this all the time. They’ll even use it to hide their actual expansionist plans. They’ll threaten all kinds of people that they have no real intention of doing anything to so that actual military movments are drowned out as just noise

We have to be much more strategic about when we raise hell otherwise you’ll appear to be the boy who cried wolf and won’t be taken seriously. We can’t be at defcon 1 at all times or it loses all meaning

If you focus on every single one as gospel you’ll be tripped up both ways. He is a walking contradiction of statements

In his first term he told North Korea there’d be “fire and fury like the world has never seen” and then the next minute was cosying up to him in a summit

He says anything and everything. He is certainly expansionist don’t get me wrong, but focusing on individual statements will lose you the picture of where he is serious and where he isn’t

Focus on who he appointments, what actions they take, what executive orders he signs, what he does with the military, etc.

None of this is new. Trump repeatedly brought up buying greenland during the first term when it was a suitable distraction from some other issue

Focus more on his actions, less on his words. If you focus only on his words you’ll miss the bigger picture and miss what he really intends to do

If you want something more hands on, work on local races this year. They are how we can fight back

Elections are run at the state level in the US. Even for federal offices

Many states have elections this year even despise it being an off year

There are special elections today in Virginia thay will determine who controls the state legislature. If dems remain control, they can block a lot of the Republicans governors attempts to disenfranchise

There are special elections in Minnesota on Jan 28th to determine control of one house of the state legislature

There is an election that will determine control of the Wisconsin state supreme court on April 1st. The more recent Progressive control has lead to Wisconsin getting fair maps as the gerrymandered maps were overturned. We are going to want to keep it that way and build further

There are special elections for various US house members like to replace Matt Gatez on April 1st. Should we win any suprise flips, it will be even harder for Republicans to get things through congresss with their already tight 3 seat majority

And so on

Here’s a frequently updated spreadsheet with various at home volunteering options

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jxO8g7q9VO3ZMAABcrvR7PMyX4Yl6dgIYhD3eRTKk1M/htmlview

EDIT: also on another note, consider running for election yourself. There are various small local positions around you that often go uncontested. Here’s one group that helps progressives run for local office https://runforsomething.net/

There have been no public forums yet where the candidates have met and taken questions from members of their party, but those meetings are slated to start in the new year. The official election for the next DNC chair will be held on Feb. 1.

This is actually incorrect. There was one hosted by the Young Democrats of America on December 7th with four candidates there answering questions. Is literally listed on the Wikipedia article for the DNC Chair election and the video is linked

Direct link to the video (and cut to the timestamp when it starts): https://youtu.be/Z1sip1hofdk?t=840

I’ve actually hardly heard democrats ever speak like they did in that setting (in a good way). Way more conviction behind what they are saying (as it goes along at least), generally more progressive, and overall more populist

Edit: This story is over a year old. Come on

I added [2023] to the title like 30 seconds to a minute after posting but it seems it was very slow to federate for some reason

What do they expect to accomplish over the next 30 days

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I think you misunderstand what I am referring to. I am referring to the second Johnson speaker vote which was in March and filed by MTG. They didn’t know the results of the election nor did they want to get unfairly blamed for republican dysfunction in said election as often happens

In what world would you even trust Johnson to keep his word

The rules that republicans agreed on let all house members, including dems, call for a motion to vacate the speaker. Only needed a singular representative to do so and given that there were plenty of republicans willing to get rid of him, so they had some leverage over him

And to clarify the House Dems in the original article are talking about his next speaker vote come the start of next year

Don’t post NYPost articles. They are often highly misleading, outright wrong, and generally right-wing garbage

I believe I read somewhere that they got some political concessions out of it and also wanted to actually get stuff done while a dem was the president. Now they have no incentive to help get unless they get something quite good back in return since republicans have a trifecta

They didn’t help on his initial vote in nor did they help McCarthy

That’s not what they are doing right now

I’m also going be real that this is also the least of my concerns for a platform. If they make some people change their handle that don’t need to, it really isn’t a massive deal in the grand scheme of things. Especially since when handles are changed on Bluesky, all the references to that handle also change because they have a constant ID for all accounts. Impersonations leading people to scams is a much larger issue

? Did you read what the article? The change here is pretty minor and just reserving the @name.bsk.social if they verify with a domain to something like @domain.tld

Now, users that verify their account by linking their domain name get to automatically keep the default @username.bsky.social username