‘Dangerous’: FCC puts DeSantis on notice over threats to prosecute Florida TV stations – Raw Story

The Federal Communications Commission aimed at Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) Tuesday for his administration’s threats to criminally prosecute Florida television stations if they refuse to stop running a political advertisement supportive of a ballot measure that would expand abortion access in the Sunshine State.

“The right of broadcasters to speak freely is rooted in the First Amendment,” FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement Tuesday. “Threats against broadcast stations for airing content that conflicts with the government’s views are dangerous and undermine the fundamental principle of free speech.”

The war of words erupted in response to a cease-and-desist letter the state Department of Health sent to television stations last week. The warning letter stems from a political ad featuring a woman who was diagnosed with brain cancer two years ago while pregnant with her second child, the Miami Herald reported.

If the advertisement was not taken down within 24 hours, the general counsel for the state agency, John Wilson, said TV stations could face criminal prosecution, adding that “creating, keeping, or maintaining a nuisance injurious to health is a second-degree misdemeanor” under state law, according to the Herald.

The FCC chair said in her statement directed at Florida officials that she had previously spoken out following the presidential debate in September by rejecting calls by Trump to revoke ABC’s license.

 

Source: ‘Dangerous’: FCC puts DeSantis on notice over threats to prosecute Florida TV stations – Raw Story

Día mundial del Correo – Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

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Fausto, el cartero de mi adolescencia y de mis primeros años juveniles, estacionaba su bicicleta al frente de la casa y tocaba su silbato. Mi madre, a esa hora de la mañana, recibía la correspondencia y separaba la que era para mí porque yo, en aquella época, mandaba y recibía cientos de cartas al año.

El hombre, educado como era, se retiraba en su bicicleta cargada de dos mochilas de cuero, repletas de correspondencia dirigida a la gente del rumbo, sobres que contenían estados de cuenta bancarios, cobranza, reportes financieros, suscripciones de revistas, lecciones, tarjetas postales, felicitaciones y cartas con noticias alegres y tristes, misivas de amor o de despedida, hojas con letras claras o ilegibles, expresiones felices o dolorosas, tinta con esperanzas o desesperanzas, incontables historias desconocidas que solo los destinatarios conocieron. También hubo cartas que nunca llegaron por tantos motivos.

Mi madre permanecía en la casa, mis hermanos iban a la escuela, mi padre realizaba sus actividades profesionales y laborales y yo, que era atleta y corría 10 kilómetros diarios, estudiaba, escribía y trabajaba. Los fines de semana convivíamos y paseábamos. Cuando yo regresaba al hogar, generalmente en la noche por la cantidad de actividades que realizaba durante la mañana y la tarde, encontraba la correspondencia acomodada y bien ordenada por mi madre, que leía con emoción después de cenar.

Recibir y abrir cada sobre, resultaba una sensación enriquecedora que mezclaba alegría, ilusiones, anhelos, fantasías, realidades, promesas e historias. En algunos sobres, las cartas eran acompañadas de tarjetas postales, fotografías, estampillas, billetes, monedas y tantos detalles. Algunas hojas de papel exhalaban los perfumes de quienes redactaban la correspondencia.

Cada remitente era especial. Todos eran importantes para mí. Recibía correspondencia del Consulado General de Francia en México, del alcalde de Gerona, en España, de la organización filosófica a la que pertenecía y de familiares y amistades con residencia en la geografía mexicana, Lyon, Grenoble, Cataluña, Italia, Suiza, Alemania, Suecia, Inglaterra, Canadá, Antillas Holandesas, Egipto, Guatemala, Niger, Brasil, Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, Argentina y Uruguay, entre otros lugares.

La ciencia y la tecnología han dejado atrás, en las hojas del ayer, en las páginas de la historia, las actividades epistolares y muchas de las tareas del Correo, lo cual es evidente en cualquier sociedad; además, la dinámica cotidiana, la pereza, la indiferencia, la superficialidad y la inmediatez de la hora contemporánea han contribuido a borrar el romanticismo epistolar, la capacidad de asombro, la ilusión de la espera, el anhelo de saber más de las otras personas, el amor y los detalles. Ahora, gracias a los avances de la modernidad, la gente puede transmitir en vivo desde cualquier lugar del mundo o tomarse una foto y enviar mensajes en cuestión de segundos; antes, nosotros, los de entonces, los de aquella época, esperábamos con emoción e impaciencia la siguiente carta.

Y claro, siempre han coexistido en las sociedades tanto delincuentes como hombres y mujeres que se dedican a pepenar vidas ajenas. No es de sorprender, en consecuencia, que si ahora son un peligro los hackers y las personas interesadas en acceder a las redes sociales, a los correos digitales y a los equipos de los demás, antes hubo quienes robaron correspondencia y abrieron cartas que no les pertenecieron.

Quienes conocimos el encanto, la magia y el romanticismo epistolar, añoramos algo que vivimos intensamente y que ya forma parte de la historia. Hoy, el cartero de mi rumbo, transformado en repartidor de sobres con estados de cuenta bancarios, cobranza, información financiera y otros datos, anda en una motocicleta a exceso de velocidad, con frecuencia sin respetar las áreas peatonales. No tiene cuidado ni respeto a los demás, arroja las cartas irresponsablemente y ni siquiera posee la capacidad de saludar. Es verdad que los tiempos son otros, y la gente también. Algo cambió. Llegaron la ciencia y la tecnología a nuestras existencias, pero lejos de que las utilicemos correctamente, les servimos como si se tratara de deidades intocables, porque las generaciones actuales, con algunas personas de antaño, así se sienten contentas, plenas y satisfechas.

Siento nostalgia por algo que ya no volverá. Mi consuelo es que lo viví intensamente y lo disfruté porque formó parte de los días y los años de mi existencia. Y lo agradezco mucho. Hoy, día mundial del Correo, es bello recordar ese período de mi vida, como puedo repasarlo durante cualquier fecha, porque lo que cada uno experimentamos aquí, en el mundo, ya es parte de nuestra biografía, integra la historia que alguna vez protagonizamos.

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Source: Día mundial del Correo – Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

Expert: Harris’ Home Care Plan Would Be a Game-Changer – Mother Jones

…Anybody who needs home care, those services are going to be provided by a direct care worker, and we are in a direct care worker crisis. Not because there’s not enough people, but because there’s not enough good direct care jobs. What this proposal does also include is ensuring that the folks that are providing these Medicare services are being paid a good wage.

Disability advocates and aging advocates, when we have the opportunity to implement a policy like this [which] would have to move through Congress, we would also ensure that it rides alongside investments that would ensure that every direct care worker, whether they’re paid by Medicaid or Medicare, are paid a family sustaining wage. We have to also address the direct care workforce, that’s the human infrastructure, the people that are actually providing the services, for this program to be successful.

Right now we think about those direct support professionals or home care workers, those folks when they age, don’t have access to home care right away, unless they qualify for Medicaid, which we know can have waiting lists. Vice President Harris’s proposal to add home care to Medicare also would guarantee that those direct care workers who have been historically low-paid would also have peace of mind if they need home care…

Source: Expert: Harris’ Home Care Plan Would Be a Game-Changer – Mother Jones

(31) Biden blasts Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene for ‘onslaught of lies’ after Hurricane Helene – YouTube

President Joe Biden is blasting his predecessor for spreading an “onslaught of lies” about how the federal government is handling the damage from Hurricane Helene as another hurricane, Milton, was on the verge of making landfall in Florida. Read more: https://bit.ly/4841UYg

Louisiana Has Criminalized Abortion Pills. This Doctor Fears More States Will Follow. – Mother Jones

When Dr. Veronica Gillispie-Bell, a board-certified OB-GYN based in New Orleans, walks into a hospital room to deliver a baby, one of the first things she does is ask the nurse on duty, “Do we have our hemorrhage meds?”

Postpartum hemorrhage, or severe bleeding after childbirth, is a leading—but preventable—cause of maternal death in the US and around the world. It occurs in an estimated 1 to 5 percent of pregnancies. For doctors like Gillispie-Bell, who has testified before Congress about the Black maternal mortality crisis, having medications on hand to treat patients immediately is critical to saving lives. Until last week, those drugs included misoprostol, which also happens to be one of the two pills used in medication abortion.

But obtaining access to the drug has suddenly become far more complicated. On October 1, Louisiana—which has a near-total ban on abortion—became the first state to officially begin classifying misoprostol and mifepristone, the other drug in the standard abortion pill regimen, as schedule IV controlled substances. The new law threatens anyone who possesses the medications without a prescription—except for pregnant women themselves—with up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine.

To say that this designation—the same one applied to opioids and other addictive drugs—is without scientific or medical merit is an understatement. More than 100 studies have found that mifepristone and misoprostol offer a safe and effective way to terminate a pregnancy. As I reported earlier this year, that includes a study showing that abortion pills are just as safe and effective when prescribed via telemedicine and mailed to patients as when prescribed and dispensed in person. In a letter to state Sen. Thomas Pressly, the Republican behind the new law, hundreds of doctors—including Gillispie-Bell—pointed out that mifepristone and misoprostol don’t have addictive potential or high rates of negative side effects, but do have important medical benefits, including managing miscarriages, preventing ulcers, and inducing labor.

Source: Louisiana Has Criminalized Abortion Pills. This Doctor Fears More States Will Follow. – Mother Jones

The Right’s Lies about Hurricane Helene Hit Like They Were Meant To – Mother Jones

…There were signs that the disinformation about Helene would be especially bad. Before the rain even stopped, people like Congresswoman Majorie Taylor Greene got to work tweeting about how “they” can control the weather. (She has since tripled down on the claim, by, for instance, tweeting an instantly-debunked image of patents supposedly created for weather modification.)

With the storm coming during a bitterly partisan election year, there’s obvious incentive for Donald Trump and prominent backers like Greene, Elon Musk, and the QAnon-peddling retired Army Lt. General Michael Flynn to spread lies about the current administration’s disaster response. FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell told reporters on Tuesday that misinformation around the storm has been “the worst I have ever seen…

Source: The Right’s Lies about Hurricane Helene Hit Like They Were Meant To – Mother Jones

 

False claims about Hurricane Milton’s origins spread online

False claims suggesting that Hurricane Milton was “engineered” and that the weather in Florida is being “manipulated” have been spreading on social media.

There is no technology that allows humans to create and control hurricanes.

But on platforms like X and TikTok, posts alleging – without evidence – that the US government is secretly controlling the weather have been viewed millions of times.

Many were published by accounts known for spreading conspiracy theories, as well as misinformation about Covid-19 or vaccines.

…“There is no possibility using current knowledge and technology to use geoengineering to modify hurricanes,” says Suzana Camargo from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.

Hurricanes are natural weather systems.

Typically they begin as what is known as a tropical wave – a low pressure area where thunderstorms and clouds develop.

As strong winds push this system away from Africa and towards the Americas, warm, moist air rises from the tropical Atlantic Ocean, and the system of clouds and winds begins to spin.

Source: False claims about Hurricane Milton’s origins spread online

 

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