Rick McAlexander
rickmcalexander.bsky.social
Rick McAlexander
@rickmcalexander.bsky.social
Data Scientist.
My paper with Rob Williams and Mike Rubin linking Iraq and Afghanistan war casualties to right-wing radicalization in the US using parler data is available online, open access, at the APSR! cup.org/45CE7LV
They’re Still There, He’s All Gone: American Fatalities in Foreign Wars and Right-Wing Radicaliz...
They’re Still There, He’s All Gone: American Fatalities in Foreign Wars and Right-Wing Radicalization at Home
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October 19, 2023 at 12:38 PM
Reposted by Rick McAlexander
“Al-Shifa Hospital, the Gaza Strip’s largest medical complex, has enough fuel to power its backup generators for another four days at most, its director said on Wednesday. ‘If electricity stops, our hospitals will become nothing but mass graves,’ the director, Dr. Muhammad Abu Salima, said.”
Rescuers in Gaza Struggle With Dwindling Fuel and Lack of Equipment
Paramedics said they would need bulldozers, which they don’t have, to pull more people from buildings destroyed by Israeli airstrikes amid power cuts.
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2023 at 12:28 PM
Reposted by Rick McAlexander
The first global temperature data is in for the full month of September. This month was – in my professional opinion as a climate scientist – absolutely gobsmackingly bananas. JRA-55 beat the prior monthly record by over 0.5C, and was around 1.7C to 1.8C warmer than preindutrial levels.
October 3, 2023 at 3:41 PM
Reposted by Rick McAlexander
This meal just cost me $78 at the Newark airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.
September 21, 2023 at 2:47 PM