The Hungarian government is doing regular updates on the drought and heat. The UK government... Just saying.
Sherrill Stroschein
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Political Science and other things. Reposts are for information and do not mean agreement.
Dear news people: Don't call the weather "settled". It is an effing drought.
Wildfire smoke is now the primary pollutant affecting pregnancy, study shows missouriindependent.com/2026/08/03/r...
Wildfire smoke is now the primary pollutant affecting pregnancy, study shows • Missouri Independent
A new study examining pollution levels across a 16-year span found that while general pollution levels from sources such as cars and industry have significantly declined, recent increases in wildfire ...
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we talked about this more at the time but initially a lot of the ppl who died were in big blue cities and were not white. this is not incidental to the revisionist and eugenicist nonsense we hear now.
Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 3d agothis boils down to "the pandemic didn't actually happen but they still closed the applebees" which frankly i think is a trauma response by a lot of people that buy it - lot easier to be in denial that things were that bad instead of reckoning with 1.3m dead people [in this country]
It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough
Because the liars are out lying again— I wrote this from Paterson NJ in April 2020
‘Anybody who says they’re not scared during this is lying to you.’ A day in the life of paramedics in a pandemic | CNN
The man lay unconscious in the back of the ambulance, parked in front of the nursing home on the Passaic River. Another life slipping away before the paramedics of Paterson, N.J. For these health care...
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Bounce or no, one still has to read the room. And maybe consider reassuring people that steps will be taken to prevent fires and shore up food supply. Wherever Number 10 is, it isn't thinking as much about the lack of rain as we all are. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham risks first revolt as PM over apparent support for North Sea drilling
Labour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concerns
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Drilling the North Sea would be breaching a Labour manifesto commitment. Which of course makes all of Burnham's protestations of the things he can't do because they weren't in the Labour manifesto utterly meaningless. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham risks first revolt as PM over apparent support for North Sea drilling
Labour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concerns
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Unsurprising that all these cuts being made to #Harvard —from the Office of Student Services to the Writing Center to now the Dudley Co-op—are happening with input from McKinsey, a firm made up of The Second Worst People I knew in college there
Mary Lewis@profmarylewis.bsky.social · 7d agoFirst it was the writing center, now Dudley House. This was the place where people like married veterans & other students who had reasons to live off campus found community at Harvard. I refuse to believe this was extremely costly. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
“Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Harvard Paid McKinsey $250,000 For FAS Consultation, Internal Documents Show | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.
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sakura christmas@prof-christmas.bsky.social · 6d agoUnsurprising that all these cuts being made to #Harvard —from the Office of Student Services to the Writing Center to now the Dudley Co-op—are happening with input from McKinsey, a firm made up of The Second Worst People I knew in college there
Once people decided denial was the way forward on Covid as a persistent problem, this kind of inaccurate representation and scapegoating could be expected to happen. The Pandemic Wasn’t One Man’s Story open.substack.com/pub/drrubin/...
The Pandemic Wasn’t One Man’s Story
How the Search for a Villain Is Replacing the Search for Truth
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One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.
Questions like this usually aren’t straightforwardly useful in polling IMO but when paired with things like approval ratings, they are revealing of how much people will tie themselves in knots to avoid admitting they made a mistake, and how culturally radioactive “regret” as a concept is
Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · last wk.2024 Trump Voters - "Do you regret voting for Trump in 2024?" No: 77% Yes: 22% GSG / July 27, 2026
Air Filtration Doesn’t Work To Prevent Illness Says Study Done By People Who Didn’t Switch The Air Filters On Properly
When people are afraid of their own government you know fascism has arrived
Burnham Week One: This is what a professional political operation looks like open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Burnham Week One: This is what a professional political operation looks like
He has a diagnosis, a proposed cure, and a strategy. Which is more than we can say for the last lot.
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Uh, who is defying whom again? Which one works for the other?
@ersjournal.com has published a review forum for my @stanfordpress.bsky.social book, Neoliberalism and Race Contributions are by Arun Kundnani, Siddhant Issar, and Hasret Cetinkaya, followed by my reply www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Race, neoliberalism and ideology critique
In this response to the book symposium on Neoliberalism and Race, the author explains what intervention the book aims to make, explores the value of ideology critique when studying the role of raci...
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How do departments determine which colleagues should be made redundant? Often the criteria used to make such decisions are based on 'merit'. Lorna Finlayson examines how measuring academic performance undermine, discriminate & reduce staff to arbitrary metrics
Weakest Link
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