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Trump has a long history of racism and a long history of floating eugenic theories, repeatedly insisting that he must be a genius because of his supposedly good genes. Trump is a stupid man who believes whiteness makes him smarter, and Obama’s actual intelligence upends everything Trump thinks he knows about the world. This induced an obsession that happened to dovetail with the racist anger of a large proportion of white Americans.
 
 

That’s the simplest explanation, but it also happens to be the one that fits the evidence. The insistence that it must be something else — some other explanation that has no real evidence behind it, but is more comforting than believing that the country is being run by a white supremacist — verges on denial. You’d think that after Trump lost his temper and defended swastika-waving white supremacists as “fine people,” we could all accept our grim reality for what it is and start dealing with it honestly. And yet.

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— Yes, it’s really this simple: Donald Trump is a cranky, obsessive racist (via wilwheaton)

sodiumforsaltytimes:

Aries: why do you recognise other people’s pain but not your own pain?

Taurus: why do you always ruin your own happiness by thinking it won’t last?

Gemini: why do you talk so much or not at all?

Cancer: why do you worry so much about what others think about you?

Leo: why does your sparkle fade when others criticise you?

Virgo: why do you always hold on so tight that your hands hurt from grasping?

Libra: why don’t you ever think about yourself?

Scorpio: why do you always try to make it seem like you’re totally okay even when you’re not?

Sagittarius: why can’t you make a home within your own skin?

Capricorn: why do you always feel like you need to be the best in everything?

Aquarius: why are you so afraid of normality, routine, and stability?

Pisces: why do you always think everything is your fault?

Neo-Nazis Get Green Light To March Outside Swedish Synagogue On Yom Kippur

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“Aside from out of fear for our own security, it evokes uncomfortable associations for us Jews,” leaders of the Gothenburg Jewish community said.

jewish-mccoy:

Hey so this shouldn’t be fucking happening

right to assembly my ass. this is intimidation. it ain’t gonna be a peaceful demonstration either because neo nazis are a violent terrorist organization 

all neo nazis need to be booted out of society. no “freedom of speech” or “right to assemble” bullshit. get the fuck out. I don’t care about their rights, they gave up those rights when they decided they wanted to organize to harass, bully, and ultimately murder Jews and Roma people.

inaneenglish:

trap-househomicide:

brunhiddensmusings:

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alithographicaart:

ucresearch:

Why we need GMOs to survive climate change

Genetically modified organisms get a bad rap for many reasons, but we’ve actually been genetically altering what we eat since the dawn of human history.

“For 10,000 years, we have altered the genetic makeup of our crops,”explains UC Davis plant pathology professor Pamela Ronald.

“Today virtually everything we eat is produced from seeds that we have genetically altered in one way or another.” (You can read more about Ronald’s thoughts on genetically engineered food here.)

Right now her focus is on rice. It’s one of our basic crops and without it, we would struggle to feed much of the world.

With climate change, we’re seeing an increase in flooding in places like India and Bangladesh, which makes it harder to grow this important food staple.

So Ronald and her lab have developed a flood-tolerant strain of rice. It’s known as Sub1a or “scuba rice” and millions of farmers in South Asia are now growing it in their fields. 

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Today is National Food Day, a day dedicated to hunger awareness. But as we focus on food insecurity, we need to talk more about how global warming will make the problem worse.

As our climate continues to heat up, it has huge impacts on what foods we are able to grow. Will our crops be able to survive droughts and floods? The University of California leads six labs that are working to develop other climate-resilient crops including chickpea, cowpea and millet.

Find out what other scientists are doing to improve our food.

Your daily reminder that GMOs are not evil - profit-mongering corporations are.

This is literaly what happens in nature. this gene ‘might’ have been able to transfer eventualy over time. so instead of waiting we just give the genes a little nudge,

see also the rice and bananas that were given a gene to produce vitamin A so that thousands of kids dont go blind due to vitamin A deficiencies

@chazemspren

ALL OF THIS!!! When you discuss GMOs please be mindful to not conflate the science, which is good and vital, with the awful business practices of companies like Monsanto.