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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1877973

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One woman could barely get words out through her tears. Another ran to the restroom as soon as she was done, wordless, wretched sobs wracking her tiny body. A third threw up on the witness stand.

These are believed to be the first women in the country since 1973 to testify in court about the impacts of a state abortion ban on their pregnancies. They almost certainly won’t be the last.

Speaking to a packed Travis County courtroom Wednesday, three women detailed devastating pregnancy losses and said medically necessary care was delayed or denied due to their doctors’ confusion over Texas’ abortion laws.

https://archive.is/9S88t

One woman could barely get words out through her tears. Another ran to the restroom as soon as she was done, wordless, wretched sobs wracking her tiny body. A third threw up on the witness stand.

These are believed to be the first women in the country since 1973 to testify in court about the impacts of a state abortion ban on their pregnancies. They almost certainly won’t be the last.

Speaking to a packed Travis County courtroom Wednesday, three women detailed devastating pregnancy losses and said medically necessary care was delayed or denied due to their doctors’ confusion over Texas’ abortion laws.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1784215

https://archive.is/Kn2Sl

University of Houston researchers have unearthed an ancient Maya city hidden deep within the jungles of Campeche on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The more than 1,000-year-old city—now dubbed Yucatan Ocomtún, which means stone column in the Maya language—was uncovered by a team led by Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz, co-principal investigator with the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) at U of H.

https://archive.is/uGALK

A majority of workers at The Trevor Project, a widely-praised nonprofit dedicated to preventing suicide among LGBTQ youth, decided to come together this spring and unionize as Friends of Trevor United. About a month later, they celebrated when management at the nonprofit agreed to voluntarily recognize their union.

For Trevor staff, their union is the best way to support LGBTQ youth. ​“We all come to this work with so much passion for the mission to end suicide among LGBTQ young people,” says Turzillo. ​“We want to have the resources and the support to do our jobs well.”

https://archive.is/tFHd9

As a record-breaking heat wave bore down in June, extreme temperatures triggered a series of failures in West Texas’ gas supply infrastructure that led to more than 300 tons of greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere.

“It is sadly ironic that the fossil fuel industry is seeing its equipment threatened by a situation it helped create,” Adrian Shelley, Texas director of Public Citizen, said in the report.

https://archive.is/Kn2Sl

University of Houston researchers have unearthed an ancient Maya city hidden deep within the jungles of Campeche on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The more than 1,000-year-old city—now dubbed Yucatan Ocomtún, which means stone column in the Maya language—was uncovered by a team led by Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz, co-principal investigator with the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) at U of H.

https://archive.is/Kn2Sl

University of Houston researchers have unearthed an ancient Maya city hidden deep within the jungles of Campeche on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The more than 1,000-year-old city—now dubbed Yucatan Ocomtún, which means stone column in the Maya language—was uncovered by a team led by Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz, co-principal investigator with the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) at U of H.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1722281

https://archive.is/Z7kBF

An unrelenting stretch of blistering days amid an ongoing heat wave has put this summer on track to be one of Texas’ most extreme, weather data shows.

Although June was only Texas’ 16th warmest on record by average temperature, according to the state climatologist, a long period of very hot days between mid-June and mid-July has made this summer one of the most intense in terms of extended high temperatures.

https://archive.is/Z7kBF

An unrelenting stretch of blistering days amid an ongoing heat wave has put this summer on track to be one of Texas’ most extreme, weather data shows.

Although June was only Texas’ 16th warmest on record by average temperature, according to the state climatologist, a long period of very hot days between mid-June and mid-July has made this summer one of the most intense in terms of extended high temperatures.

https://archive.is/JY1aW

A committee charged with deciding which books should stay in the children’s section of the Helen Hall Library still isn’t fully formed, and some council members are questioning the need for the new committee while others worry its membership isn’t diverse enough.

Galveston County Library Alliance formed in early February in response to League City council members taking controversial action to restrict children from having easy access to certain books in the Helen Hall Library.

“The newly anointed Community Standards Review Committee will decide what we can or cannot read,” Katherine Swanson, spokeswoman for the alliance said in a recent press release.

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/news/t/213586

Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat, according to an email from a Department of Public Safety trooper who described the actions as “inhumane.”

https://archive.ph/fxPMZ

The fight in Atlanta over Cop City, a massive police training facility, has turned into ground zero for overlapping crises facing our country: the climate emergency, vast political and economic inequality, ever-militarizing police forces and systemic racism.

If we want a democracy healthy enough to solve these crises, it’s worth paying attention to what is happening in the South River Forest.

On May 31, in a disturbing move shortly before Atlanta’s City Council approved more funding for the facility, Georgia law enforcement arrested three members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, which provides activists with legal support and bail money.