Today in Labor History September 2, 1885: 150 white miners, who were struggling to unionize for better wages and work conditions, attacked their Chinese fellow workers in the Rock Springs massacre in Wyoming. As a result, they killed 28 Chinese miners, wounded 15 others and forced all the other Chinese to flee town. By the time the federal troops arrived, there were no surviving Chinese people left in town.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #strike #massacre #racism #AntiAsianHate #chinese #immigration #mining #Wyoming #union

The names of the people who wrote 72 pages of complaint against a 21-year-old trans woman, 94% of which were basically mean-girl insults, are: Jayln Westernbroek, Hannah Holtmeier, Allison Coghan, Grace Choate, Madeline Ramar and Megan Kosar.

They originally wanted to make their transphobic allegations anonymously, which is more than enough reason, to me, to post their names in conjunction with this story. I don't know what kind of person joins a sorority, and then tries to sue to force the sorority to break its own rules - the rules they agreed to uphold and respect upon joining! Seems shitty and openly bigoted to me. I would certainly want to know if my friends or neighbors did something like this.

#wyoming #transRights #USpol

https://wyofile.com/judge-dismisses-lawsuit-against-uw-sorority-transgender-sister/

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/judge-rules-kappa-kappa-gamma-can-interpret-own-bylaws

Sheridan officials send support letters as Federal Railroad Administration considers expansion https://www.thesheridanpress.com/news/local/sheridan-officials-send-support-letters-as-federal-railroad-administration-considers-expansion/article_a1446a8e-3c40-11ee-bf0d-67fe2560ed04.html #PassengerRail #Wyoming

#Cheyenne #Wyoming morning walk

#EAS for Lackawanna, ##PA; ##Susquehanna, ##PA; ##Wyoming, ##PA: National Weather Service: #TORNADO WARNING in this area until 6:15 PM EDT. Take shelter now in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris. Check media. Source: NWS Binghamton NY** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***

#EAS for Lackawanna, #PA; #Susquehanna, #PA; #Wyoming, #PA: #Tornado Warning issued August 7 at 5:49PM EDT until August 7 at 6:15PM EDT by NWS Binghamton NY Source: NWS Binghamton NY** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***

AANW News, July 2023, A Very Productive Month—Greater Northwest Passenger Rail Summit, Train Treks, AANW Participates in FRA’s Amtrak Long-Distance Service Study, Upcoming Events, AANW’s Advocacy, AANW Volunteers and Supporters Needed, Connect and Donate to AANW! https://allaboardnw.org/blog/aanw-news-july-2023/ #Rail #PassengerRail #RailSummit2023 #TrainTrek23 #Boise #Wyoming #Oregon #EasternOregon

How The #Trinity #Nuclear Test Spread #Radioactive #Fallout Across #America

Story by The Physics arXiv Blog, July 26, 2023

"The #TrinityNuclearTest on 16 July 1945 is a key incident in the blockbuster #Oppenheimer movie and in the history of humankind. Many scientists think it marks the beginning of the #Anthropocene, a new geological era characterized by humanity’s influence on the Earth. That’s because Trinity’s radioactive fallout will forever appear in the geological record, creating a unique signature of human activity that can be precisely dated.

"But there’s a problem. In 1945, radioactive monitoring techniques were in their infancy so there are few direct measurements of fallout beyond the test site. What’s more, #weather patterns were also less well understood so the spread of fallout could not be easily determined.

"As a result, nobody really knows how widely Trinity’s fallout spread across the U.S. or indeed, how the fallout dispersed from other atmospheric nuclear tests on the U.S. mainland.

"Today, that changes thanks to the work of Sébastien Philippe at Princeton University and colleagues. This team have used a state-of-the art weather simulation for the 5 days after each nuclear test to simulate how the fallout would have dispersed.

"The result is the highest resolution estimate ever made of the spread of radioactive fallout across the U.S. It marks the start of the Anthropocene with extraordinary precision and it throws up some significant surprises. Some parts of the U.S. are known to have received high levels of fallout and the new work is consistent with this. But the research also reveals some parts of the US that received significant fallout without anybody realizing.

"The findings 'provide an opportunity for re-evaluating the public health and environmental implications from atmospheric nuclear testing,' say Philippe and co.

"Between 1945 and 1962, the U.S. conducted 94 atmospheric nuclear tests that generated yields of up to 74 kilotons of TNT. (Seven other tests were damp squibs.) 93 of these tests took place in #Nevada but the first, the Trinity test in the Oppenheimer film, took place in #NewMexico.

"The new work also has implications for the way compensation is paid to people who suffered from radiation exposure. The U.S Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (#RECA) provides monetary compensation for this in various counties and #tribal lands.

"But the new work reveals places that are not covered by the Act but that also received high exposure. 'There are locations in New Mexico, and in other parts of the United States, including #Utah, #Nevada, #Wyoming, #Colorado, #Arizona, and #Idaho, where #radionuclide deposition reached levels larger than those we estimate in some counties covered by RECA,' say the researchers.

"That’s interesting work with important implications. And it has been released in conjunction with the Oppenheimer movie, presumably to give it maximum exposure, and rightly so."

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/how-the-trinity-nuclear-test-spread-radioactive-fallout-across-america/ar-AA1eoKOO?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=e61565dc134048fff5b26a96c84eb708&ei=10

#NoNukes #NoWar #NuclearWeapons

I didn’t like this photo when I took it, but now I think it works. #hiking #wyoming

From my Wyoming trip, these yellow flowers are called “pussytoes,” which I initially thought was an old-timey crude joke. But I learned another name for this flower is “prairie cat’s foot.” So now I can see the five parts of the flower as toe beans! #flowers #hiking #wyoming

Multiple mooses!!! #GrandTetons #wyoming #moose #animals

Bald eagle! #GrandTetons #wyoming

The Grand Tetons from across Jackson Lake. An amazing, beautiful place. #wyoming #roadtrip

Beautiful hike at Jenny Lake in Grand Tetón National Park yesterday. There were a lot of these little guys - marmots? #hiking #animals #wyoming

Wyoming sunset. ❤️❤️❤️ #roadtrip #hiking #wyoming

by #JacobKnutson in #Axios:

"The pills will remain legal in the state pending the outcome of a lawsuit against the ban brought by a group that includes nonprofit organizations, medical providers and Wyoming abortion clinic Wellspring Health Access."

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/22/abortion-pill-ban-halted-wyoming

#Wyoming #AbortionRights #abortion #mifepristone #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #Dobbs #RoeVsWade

“The Federal Railroad Administration has accepted the #Wyoming Department of Transportation's (#WYDOT) request for a #grant to help fund the replacement of two #bridges on Interstate 80 that cross over #UnionPacific Railroad track, WYDOT announced yesterday.” https://www.progressiverailroading.com/freightnews/article.asp?id=69047

collect yellow lines
sunsets and distant mountains
—Wyoming highway

#roadtrip #Wyoming #haiku #MastoPrompt

Message from @barkflight: "Watch Duty is looking for volunteer reporters in Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico.

If you’re interested, go to watchduty.org/volunteer and fill out an application. Have questions? Email me at sekhar@watchduty.org." #wildfire #scanners #fireseason #colorado #wyoming #nm #co #wy

Wyoming’s GOP governor signs law banning abortion pills - The Washington Post https://apple.news/AvzfwH3T4QISRgBl0kTe7SQ #abortion #health #GovernmentOverreach #HumanRights #GetOutOfMyVagina #USpol #wyoming