#the New South

[coldmorte]

Hosea sits Unshaken

[a-sweeter-solarsystem]

take my hand for a moment

your objective from this point on is to survive

the election results are going to take a few days. The world is going to be very tense. I want you to take all the things you like to do to distract yourself and splurge on them. I want you to go eat your favroite foods and spend time with friends. I want you to do what you gotta do to make sure you can make it through the week.

There are people out there who want you to survive. There are people out there who are just as scared as you are.

We'll get through this. We will find a way

[puutterings]

you fail to inspire trust

        “And you have been a good friend of mine. Do you know why, with all your good qualities — and they are many — you fail to inspire trust?”       “I think I ought to after what you’ve said. But let me say something. I know I’m not accomplishing anything; but part of it is due to the easy condition of life here. Whether I do, or leave undone, a thing seems of so little importance, and I haven’t naturally the commercial instinct. If I could accomplish something by some great risk, I would do it; but daily puttering after my niggers, and scheming to make or save a dollar, seems a waste of time. Life is so short, and there are so many pleasant things to do. Hugh Carrington has three big plantations to look after, is in the saddle from sun to sun nearly every day, and what does he get out of life? I suppose he is a rich man, or will be — what of it?”

— from a conversation between Bessie Taylor (General Gault’s stepson’s widow, and closest in affection to him) who will ultimately inherit the plantation, and St. Clair her uninteresting suitor and future husband) — both thoroughly drawn in the novel, but neither of them its most significant characters, in Henry Burnham Boone and Kenneth Brown, The Redfields Succession (1903) : 104 Harvard copy/scan (one of two via hathitrust) : link U Michigan copy/scan (via google books) : link

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(much) more on and around this novel and its authors, at 508  

[batboyblog]

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's attempt to impose martial law collapsed after 190 Members of Parliament barricaded themselves into the National Assembly chamber and voted to end martial law while the military tried to break in to stop them before they could vote. Many members had to climb a fence at the back of the building to break in to get a majority of the 300 member body in the room to vote.

[geminisee]

ok so in the span of like 5 hours:

- the south korean president declared martial law (the first time since s korea stopped being a military dictatorship in the 80s)

- claims his political opponents are insurgents working on behalf of north korea and communism

- declares that all political activity must cease (inc the national assembly/parliament), all media must be under the control of the military, and all protests/strikes are illegal

- the opposing political party immediately assembles at the national assembly in the middle of the night

- holds an emergency vote that goes thru 190-0 to declare the end to martial law (while barricading the entrances to prevent the military from entering and removing them)

- the president concedes an hour later

- civilian protesters in the streets are calling for the impeachment & arrest of the president

please feel free to add details/correct me

as of 2:40 EST Dec 3 2024

[sayruq]

Brazil has also given its support

[petitworld]

Akaroa, South Island, New Zealand

[threesday]

louder for the people in the back. other trans and queer ppl from blue/northern states never want to hear about the reality of LOVING your southern culture and still LOVING your culture as a trans or black person or other minority group that is being attacked by the government and then having to leave because you know your government hates you.

I'm 32 and I've lived in Texas my whole life.

I'm 32 and I was born in Texas. I went to grade school and college in Texas. I fell in love in Texas. Nearly all of my family lives in Texas.

I'm 32 and I live in Texas because my great-grandmother came through the port of Galveston after she fled Poland in the 1930's. She's the reason my family survived, everyone else but her sister were lost. Texas has been my family's home for 4 generations now.

I'm 32 and Texas has been home to me my whole life, but now I feel like I have to leave because of who I am.

I'm 32 and I remember what that same great-grandmother and the other survivors in my life told me: to always keep a bag packed and run when you sense things are starting to get bad.

I'm 32 and I'm a transgender Texan. I live in a state where I constantly feel unsafe and targeted by its leaders. I am constantly waiting for that next shoe to drop, whether it's a hate crime or legislation. It's only a matter of time.

I'm 32 and my partners and I have been setting up different plans and logistics for escaping Texas for nearly every possible different scenario that could happen. I could flee to New Mexico and wait for them if we don't have time. We could find a new life in Connecticut if we do.

I'm 32 and I feel like I have to flee the only home I've ever known.

I'm 32 and I keep a bag packed.

[bandzboy]

source.

[mysharona1987]

It’s basically the same picture.

[tomi4i]

[reasonsforhope]

"A century of gradual reforestation across the American East and Southeast has kept the region cooler than it otherwise would have become, a new study shows.

The pioneering study of progress shows how the last 25 years of accelerated reforestation around the world might significantly pay off in the second half of the 21st century.

Using a variety of calculative methods and estimations based on satellite and temperature data from weather stations, the authors determined that forests in the eastern United States cool the land surface by 1.8 – 3.6°F annually compared to nearby grasslands and croplands, with the strongest effect seen in summer, when cooling amounts to 3.6 – 9°F.

The younger the forest, the more this cooling effect was detected, with forest trees between 20 and 40 years old offering the coolest temperatures underneath.

“The reforestation has been remarkable and we have shown this has translated into the surrounding air temperature,” Mallory Barnes, an environmental scientist at Indiana University who led the research, told The Guardian.

“Moving forward, we need to think about tree planting not just as a way to absorb carbon dioxide but also the cooling effects in adapting for climate change, to help cities be resilient against these very hot temperatures.”

The cooling of the land surface affected the air near ground level as well, with a stepwise reduction in heat linked to reductions in near-surface air temps.

“Analyses of historical land cover and air temperature trends showed that the cooling benefits of reforestation extend across the landscape,” the authors write. “Locations surrounded by reforestation were up to 1.8°F cooler than neighboring locations that did not undergo land cover change, and areas dominated by regrowing forests were associated with cooling temperature trends in much of the Eastern United States.”

By the 1930s, forest cover loss in the eastern states like the Carolinas and Mississippi had stopped, as the descendants of European settlers moved in greater and greater numbers into cities and marginal agricultural land was abandoned.

The Civilian Conservation Corps undertook large replanting efforts of forests that had been cleared, and this is believed to be what is causing the lower average temperatures observed in the study data.

However, the authors note that other causes, like more sophisticated crop irrigation and increases in airborne pollutants that block incoming sunlight, may have also contributed to the lowering of temperatures over time. They also note that tree planting might not always produce this effect, such as in the boreal zone where increases in trees are linked with increases in humidity that way raise average temperatures."

-via Good News Network, February 20, 2024

[troythecatfish]

South Korea took the unprecedented move to file lawsuits against 7 Israeli leaders for crimes against humanity

The shock move, Seoul has filed lawsuits targeting high-ranking Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog, IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Foreign Minister Israel Katz, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.

Source: Mintpress

[slayfk]

posting here because this just doesn’t feel right to talk about in the horseimagebarn voice but this is extremely important to talk about.

my partner and i have returned to our hometown to stay with her family and my own has gotten a hotel here too (they moved to the town we currently live in after we did) so we are all safe and out of the thick of it

however there are tens of thousands of people who are not both in my own town and in the many surrounding it. appalachia will take an extremely long time to recover from this and there are more storms on the way. all i see on social media right now is people asking for shelter because their homes have been destroyed, or people asking for help searching for family members who are missing. hundreds of trees have fallen. hundreds of homes have flooded. roads are literally falling apart. preexisting sinkholes due to shitty pipes are opening up and consuming land. dams are on the verge of bursting and the only way to stop it is to release water so quickly it floods whole towns. all but one of our cell towers are down, so only people with at&t have service and the rest can’t contact anyone. over half the town still doesn’t have power. a major water supply issue occurred and the entire town is on a water boil order with no electricity to boil with. people are trapped in their homes and workplaces or out on the street because they have nowhere to go. law enforcement is blocking off roads but trapping people in the process. people have to be rescued by helicopter. our animal shelter has no water or power and boarding facilities have been flooded. entire villages like chimney rock nc are gone, and entire cities like asheville are cut off from the rest of the state and are completely inaccessible. ALL OF THE ROADS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ARE CLOSED. 400+ roads are closed because they are unsafe . that is INSANE!!!

when people say that climate change isn’t real, they don’t know what they’re talking about. climate change and its father capitalism are only going to continue to worsen lives in every way possible. i live in the mountains and our infrastructure is completely unprepared to handle hurricanes and it’s only going to get worse. it’s such a strange and eye-opening experience to live something like this when you think that it could never happen to you because that type of weather shouldn’t reach you in your environment. climate change doesn’t care where you live. it’s real.

western north carolina and the rest of the southeast that has been hit by helene need help. more people need to be talking about this so that the government DOES SOMETHING because the government historically fucking hates appalachia and it still does!!! the major state institution near me took DAYS to respond despite being the only place in town with power and wifi connection because they had to wait for the state to approve their response—they could have allowed thousands of people to evacuate days prior to the hurricane hitting us but they didn’t do anything before or after until it was too late!!! it’s bullshit!!! PLEASE get talking about this because something has to be done. climate change is going to continue happening and our mountains and the people in them are going to suffer immensely. hundreds if not thousands are now homeless. please talk about this look at the footage online of the wreckage and look how quickly our infrastructure crumbled. we need better. the people of appalachia deserve better.

i’ll get back to posting horses soon. but for now this is a lot. my friends are homeless and my family had to get off the mountain or be trapped there without power and water for days. we’re all safe but exhausted. i hope everyone who has been affected by this is staying safe. if you are in western nc, dm me. when i come back, if you’re in my area, im happy to bring supplies. stay safe everyone

[sayruq]

[mahmoud-ziad]

300 days of war 🇵🇸🍉

have drained us and shattered our spirits. 💔

We no longer have the right to the most basic necessities of life.

We can no longer sleep in a safe place.

Do you realize that we endure immense suffering just to get water?

After hours of exhausting search, I found a well, but I don’t know if the water is safe to drink.

Diseases are spreading among us, and we desperately need your help to escape this nightmare.