Last month, an activist group outed a longtime Florida Atlantic University professor as a recipient of funding from the billionaire, conservative Koch brothers and, more troubling, as a former member of the League of the South Institute, the “educational” arm of an outright white nationalist group. As New Times noted weeks ago, Marshall DeRosa has written articles soft-peddling the morality of Confederate slavery as recently as August 2017.
Now FAU students have begun to protest and post anti-DeRosa flyers around campus, while others have shown up at events featuring DeRosa to confront him about his views about the slave-owning Confederacy.
This past Monday, FAU held a regular faculty meeting that DeRosa attended. During an open Q&A session at the end of the meeting, a group of students asked him to explain his views on slavery and the Confederacy.
Videos of the meeting show DeRosa ended up in a shouting match with an FAU graduate student and member of the Black Lives Matter Alliance of Broward County.
“I want the faculty here to know that we employ someone with ties to white supremacist groups,” the student said to the room. “And if we do this, how can we say we are ethically, […]
West Greenland Ice Sheet
The West Greenland Ice Sheet has melted at a dramatically higher rate over the last 20 years than any other time in at least 450 years. (Emphasis added)
Researchers from Dartmouth College and Boise State University are studying the importance of long-term warming trends to account for the recent upswing in melting rates in recent years. Their findings indicate that greenhouse gas emissions as the likely cause for the additional warming. The study also revealed that the loss of ice from Greenland is one of the largest contributors to global sea level rise.
“We see that west Greenland melt really started accelerating about 20 years ago,” Erich Osterberg, an assistant professor of earth sciences at Dartmouth and the lead scientist on the project, said in a statement. “Our study shows that the rapid rise in west Greenland melt is a combination of specific weather patterns and an additional long-term warming trend over the last century.”
While glaciers calving into the ocean cause much of the ice loss in Greenland, the researchers […]
Caleb Torres, a George Washington University student, regularly skipped meals his freshman year because he didn’t have enough money to buy food.
Credit: Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post
Caleb Torres lost seven pounds his freshman year of college — and not because he didn’t like the food in the dining hall. A first-generation college student, barely covering tuition, Torres ran out of grocery money halfway through the year and began skipping meals as a result.
He’d stretch a can of SpaghettiOs over an entire day. Or he’d scout George Washington University campus for events that promised free lunch or snacks. Torres told no one what he was going through, least of all his single mom.
“She had enough things to worry about,” he said.
Now a senior and living off-campus, in a housing situation that supplies most of his meals, Torres is finally talking about his experience with the hunger problem on America’s college campuses: a quiet, insidious epidemic that researchers say threatens millions of students every year.
According to a first-of-its-kind survey released Tuesday […]
Credit: AP/Eric Gay
The ongoing Capitol Hill brawl over health care and budget cuts is getting Biblical.
In recent months, GOP lawmakers have taken to quoting Christian scripture to defend conservative fiscal policy and their effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The first example came from Rep. Roger Marshall (R-KS), who argued in early March that Jesus would support his criticism of Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, an aspect of health care reform that extended insurance coverage to additional low-income Americans.
“Just like Jesus said, ‘The poor will always be with us,’” Marshall told Stat News, quoting the Bible. “There is a group of people that just don’t want health care and aren’t going to take care of themselves.”
He added that “morally, spiritually, socially,” some poor and homeless people “just don’t want health care.”
Marshall’s comments triggered a flurry of criticism from several sources, including more progressive faith writers who chided him for rebuking the traditional Christian instruction to help the poor […]
Christofascist Pastor Chuck Baldwin
Chuck Baldwin, a right-wing pastor and radio host who was the 2008 Presidential nominee of the Christian Reconstructionist Constitution Party, appeared on Sheila Zilinsky’s podcast over the weekend, where he declared that any Christian who does not own the equivalent of an AR-15 assault rifle has “denied the Christian faith” and is “worse than a heathen.”
Citing a passage from 1 Timothy, Baldwin asserted that every adult has “a duty to provide for your family, but you cannot provide protection for your family without being equipped to do so.”
“Therefore, you must have the means of self-defense,” Baldwin said. “And in our society today, that means a firearm in the similitude of an AR-15. Without that, you are not in a position, you are not even able to protect not just your family and your house, but your neighbors, your community around you; that we, as a community of people—that’s the militia—are given the God-given responsibility to protect our communities. That is a biblical requirement.”
Baldwin called on pastors to […]
Remote Viewing the Year 2060
