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Tar, feathers and gin served fresh daily. Occasional hooligan. Runs with scissors. #Jazzsky #Cansky #NoKings #goodtrouble #NSCLC survivor #birds #owls #climatechange #whodat ⚜️ 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇳🇿 🇪🇸
Every D we know here are all asking the same question "When is @dougforalabama.bsky.social going to mount a real fight against Tuberville?" He should be everywhere talking to as many voters as possible.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayTuberville: "If we don't straighten out this country's voting and immigration system, we're not gonna make it. It's gonna be over. I'm gonna go back to Alabama and hey, we might build a 30-foot wall around our state."
And now, a little Vivaldi. Michel Tirabosco, a renowned pan flute player, collaborating with Raphaël Froissart. He is a professor at the Geneva Conservatory. Born with physical differences, he began playing the pan flute at 7 and has achieved international recognition for his skill. #streetmusic
"Warming in the Artic is four times faster than any other place in the world." Insanity. #climatechange
It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now
The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is
scientificamerican.com
Congrats again to the White House Correspondents Association!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"
A video taken Saturday shows former NYC Mayor Eric Adams in sales pitch mode in Wisconsin Rapids, as he's heckled by residents opposed to the data center he's trying to sell them on. "My name is Eric Adams," he begins, as the boos begin to rain down. "You belong in prison!" one attendee shouts.
Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now
The former mayor had a wild weekend, and other links to start your day.
hellgatenyc.com
A little showy for my taste, but still an OK bird. Male Resplendent Quetzal #CostaRica #birds #nature
So angry. Fiery-throated Hummingbird at Paraiso Quetzal Lodge #CostaRica #hummingbirds #birds #nature
Just met two people, one in her 50s not registered to vote, the other who had no clue about how bad data centers are. Not even 9a where we are and I'm already exhausted.
Put in a manner where you don't "play down the effects of the virus..." "The daily US mortality rate from COVID 19 is equivalent to the 9/11/21 attacks, which claimed 2988 lives occurring every 1.5 days, or 15 Airbus 320 jetliners, each carrying 150 passengers, crashing every day." JAMA
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Rep. Ogles: "Look, I don't want to play down the effects of the virus, but at the end of the day it had a roughly 1 percent mortality rate. We coulda gotten through this."
a statement from Fauci's lawyers says Rand Paul has "an intense & seemingly pathological course of retribution, revenge, & obsession with Dr. Fauci ... The accusations that Chairman Paul continues to propagate are false and disgraceful, and we will examine all options to hold him accountable."
This moray's home is off the southern shore of Liuqiu Island, southwest of Taiwan. Taken with my Sony RX100 Mark IV, Nauticam housing, wide-angle wet lens and YS-D3 strobe. #marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #scuba #eastcoastkin #photography
Considered to be one of the world's most beautiful hummingbirds. Endemic to Jamaica Red-billed Streamertail 📷 unknown #birds #hummingbirds
A lot of what-the-hell moments in this story, but building a data center in a floodplain in Louisiana is inviting the wrath of Poseidon.
How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal (Gift Article)
A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.
nytimes.com
Two years ago our average electric bill through Alabama Power was around $125 - $130. Now, even with setting thermostat at 76 and using large appliances only in off-peak, it's $225+. Zero benefit from this so called "ratepayer protection" lie.
Craig R. Brittain@craigbrittain.com · 2w agoThis is Chris Womack (net worth $58 million, annual salary $9 million) - CEO of Southern Company which owns Georgia Power and Alabama Power, which are currently seizing people's homes and offices using Eminent Domain to build AI data centers on their land. And look, he's MAGA.
A council packed with Trump appointees is poised to rewrite historic preservation rules. Critics say that could help him build his D.C. arch faster — and endanger important sites across the country.
Trump allies are poised to weaken protections for historic sites — not just in D.C.
A council packed with Trump appointees is poised to rewrite historic preservation rules. Critics say that could help him build his D.C. arch faster — and endanger important sites across the country.
n.pr
Excellent thread, and useful for finding safer foods in the grocery store
Max Blau@maxblau.bsky.social · 2w agoI’ve reported at length about abuses of foreign farmworkers who come to the U.S. on H-2A visas: stolen wages, guns pointed in their faces. One woman I met was kidnapped, raped and nearly killed. I wanted to know: How do I tell if the produce I buy is part of the problem? 👇
A gorgeous Turquoise Dacnis native to Central and South America. Status vulnerable due to habitat loss. 📷 by Sandro Henrique #birds
This is Alfie. He is a professional opera singer with some of the best vibrato in the industry. Some have even called him the next Paw-varotti. 13/10 (TT: thelifeofalfiee)
🧵 “I shut my mouth like they wanted me to,” said Kimbrelle Kyereh, who lives just a few hundred feet from the massive chemical storage tanks in St Rose, in south-eastern Louisiana. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A public health emergency waiting to occur’: how US industry groups spent years fighting who gets to measure toxic air
Air polluters try to ensure toxic emissions happen far from monitors – but the people who live nearby still feel it
theguardian.com
Previously: Both Austin and Dallas passed laws mandating rest breaks for construction workers, as protection from dangerous heat. Then the lege overruled them, and banned future laws like it. Cities plan climate action but it's blocked by the state.
The Hard Ceiling over Texas Cities’ Climate Plans
From the biggest cities to smaller towns, local officials wrote serious climate plans. One law at a time, state policy has narrowed the tools to carry them out.
texasobserver.org
