Ancient Apothecary
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Mixing it up Good Intentions Serious Mistakes are Made
Water (lakes, rivers) no longer stop fire. “Recent hot, dry and windy days elevated the flames…the Little Giant is also significant as yet another example of massive conflagrations pushing farther and farther west.”
Blaze that jumped Lake Chelan offers ‘heartbreaking’ look into WA’s wildfire future
The Little Giant fire's behavior illustrates how dire conditions in Washington have become amid unprecedented drought, heat and severe weather conditions.
seattletimes.com
How Colleges, Wall Street, and Washington Preyed on America’s Parents. Over 2 mill American families — most of them poor, working-class, and Black — were pushed into federal Parent PLUS student loans designed to trap them in debt for life. Their Social Security garnished, can't file for bankruptcy.
The Great American Betrayal: … by Thomas Borgers
Over two million American families — most of them poor, working-class, and Black — were pushed into federal Parent PLUS student loans designed to trap them in debt for life. Their Social Security is b...
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They didn't rob a bank. They robbed entire generations by dismantling the one institution powerful enough to stand up to corporate America… hartmannreport.com/p/killing-un...
Killing Unions: The Greatest Political Heist in American History
They didn't rob a bank. They robbed entire generations by dismantling the one institution powerful enough to stand up to corporate America…
hartmannreport.com
Once again, this is not an accident. Creating horrific, life-threatening conditions in the camps is Stephen Miller's strategy.
Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 2d agoBREAKING — Another person died at Delaney Hall. The family of Edwin Lopez Cornejo (age 39) said he was not receiving the medications required to treat his diabetes, and blames his death on the lack of medical care (via USA Today). www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
Your 'moment of doom' for Aug. 3, 2026 ~ Let them eat beans on toast "Farms across the country were affected by floods over the winter, making planting extremely difficult, and now in many areas they do not have access to water as irrigation is being restricted due to drought."
Britain could face food shortages as drought continues, farmers warn
Farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops as heatwave set to continue
theguardian.com
Hothouse Earth: arriving sooner than you think cribb.substack.com/p/hothouse-e...
Hothouse Earth: the smash is getting closer
Hothouse Earth, the state of the planet in which civilisation and possibly even humans can no longer survive, is arriving much faster than predicted, according to new satellite data.
cribb.substack.com
Disabled in heat wave: 2021 heat dome was the primary catalyst for the lawsuit. Temps reached a record 116 degrees F in Portland Oregon, and 69 people died from heat-related causes in Multnomah Co. a disproportionately people w/ disabilities unable to reach cooling centers or receivetransportation
Disability advocates sue Portland over preparedness for 2021 heat dome
Temperatures reached a record 116 degrees in Portland during the heat dome event, and 69 people died from heat-related causes in Multnomah County.
seattletimes.com
We are watching, in real time, the biggest fuck-up by any president in the history of the United States of America.
Your 'moment of doom' for July 30, 2026 ~ Wow! "when I run my own forecast model separately on each of six datasets, it gives GISTEMP a ~65% chance of a new 2026 record even as the multi-dataset average only has a ~32% chance and is likely to come in second place." substack.com/home/post/p-...
Why Hansen may end up being right about 2026
Whether 2026 sets a new record is increasingly likely to be a spit decision between different groups
substack.com
"there is a danger of glossing over inspirations closer to home. These include the homegrown fascism of the post-Reconstruction United States, particularly the eugenicist race laws that inspired the Nazis, and the myriad ways that South America has served as a laboratory for U.S. fascism." Naomi K
The Goal is a Fascist Continent
Unpacking Trump's End Game in Latin America with William Callison and Verónica Gago
naomiklein.substack.com
Almost as many clips of him relieving himself in his diaper as there are clips of him falling asleep in public.
Volcano [Video]
YouTube video by The Dingo Daily
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Secret Service agents are trained to take bullets for a president but not this shit
'A major incident has been declared after a wildfire ripped through a coastal healthland. The fire at Dunwich Heath, nr Leiston in Suffolk [near Sizewell nuclear plant], started just after 5.30pm on Wed. Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service said the flames spread quickly' www.itv.com/news/anglia/...
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"The people understand that wealth is not the fruit of labor but the spoils from an organized protection racket. The rich no longer seem respectable men but flesh-eating beasts, jackals and ravens who wallow in the blood of the people." -Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
I heard the old, old men say, "Everything alters, And one by one we drop away." They had hands like claws, and their knees Were twisted like the old thorn-trees By the waters. I heard the old, old men say, "All that's beautiful drifts away Like the waters." ~ Yeats
July 23, 2026, was the busiest day for commercial air travel ever, according to data from www.flightradar24.com/19.48,128.47/2 A whopping 153,359 commercial flights were tracked worldwide. X source: x.com/US_Stormwatc...
Today Zohran is announcing that the New York City-owned grocery stores his administration is piloting will discount staple items 30%. Core groceries like produce, meat, seafood, pasta, bread, yogurt, butter, nuts, rice and beans will all receive this price cut.
U.S. taxpayers spend about $2 billion every year on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart employees, subsidizing the companies that refuse to adequately pay hundreds of thousands of workers, or give them healthcare. /1
Taxpayers spend about $2 billion annually on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart employees
American taxpayers are spending billions every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.
popular.info
It is weird how public services like Universal Healthcare which many Europeans have had for generations are seen as Radical, Extreme and Dangerous in the USA. Almost feels like an entire country has been lied to that services which will improve their lives are something to be scared of.
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New: James Carville, who has been calling to purge the left wing of the Democratic Party, was a senior advisor to a lobbying shop that was paid more than half a million dollars by a crypto industry group as crypto money poured in to knock out progressives.
Carville's War on the Democratic Left Is Funded by Centrist Billionaires
James Carville's firm has been paid by American Bridge, a super PAC funded by billionaires who also bankroll groups fighting progressives in primaries—and he advised a lobbying shop the crypto industr...
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'…another heat dome — predicted to strengthen Saturday into the most powerful one on the planet at that time — is threatening to break more records across the Plains and Rockies. Heat domes are towering and slow-moving areas of high pressure that trap hot air' www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
The planet’s strongest heat dome will soon tower over the Rockies and Plains
This expansive area of high pressure could send temperatures surging past 110 degrees in the central U.S. early next week.
washingtonpost.com
Need-to-Know: Wildfire smoke is more than a nuisance; it’s a serious health risk. Wildfire smoke can be up to 10 times more harmful to people than smog or smokestack emissions. Wildfire smoke contains enormous amounts of tiny PM2.5 particles -- v bad to breathe leahy.substack.com/p/were-all-c...
We’re All Climate Refugees
Don't underestimate the health risks of wildfire smoke
leahy.substack.com
Glad we made it to Bordeaux by taxi last night and are now in the TGV train to Paris!
