it was like a bomb going off suddenly and unexpectedly after only 30 years of continuous warnings about climate change
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“The most recent study of the earth energy imbalance or EEI—the difference between the heat the Earth absorbs from the Sun, and the amount it sends back out into space—shows 12 Hiroshima bombs of heat being trapped by greenhouse gases every single second of every day.(1/2)
Adam McKay@ghostpanther.bsky.social · 3d agoPiece I just wrote for Current Affairs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
Come on now. That’s awesome. www.democracynow.org/2026/8/5/hea...
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed Wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate Primary
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed has wonMichigan’s closely watched Democratic Senate race over Congresswoman Haley Stevens. NBC first called the race, followed by the Associated Press and CNN. Mike Rogers ran unopp...
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One of my favorite buildings here in Portland is on fire. I’m very sad. It was one of the last recognizable parts of that area in NW that I loved to wander around in the early 2000s as an industrial & undeveloped open space. Now it’s rich yuppies, glass & steel condos & manicured dog park.
There's E. coli In The Berries It should now be evident to all, even the 77,302,580 Americans who voted for Donald Trump in November of 2024, that the food supply is more dangerous because of Trump and MAGA and MAHA. You can subscribe to FDA's email safety alerts...
There's E. coli In The Berries | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
FDA has announced E. coli in GreenWise Organic Frozen Whole Blueberries and Whole Mixed Berries sold in Publix in Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
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Discuss: Jorge Méndez Blake, The Impact of a Book.
I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community
While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.
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odysseus just wandering around on the beach with calypso in an eileen fisher linen set
someone screwed in a huge No Parking sign on to a BRANCH of small tree at the apt. parking lot entrance A huge metal sign just dangling from a tree branch I’m furious that some human fucked with a tree this way
Linocut by contemporary UK printmaker and artist Alexandra Buckle who is inspired by her local countryside #womensart #Summer
ICYMI: After Colorado abortion clinic staff called police about threatening language posted on Instagram, officers were photographed praying with protestors—including the man who wrote that it was "kill day." It’s the latest instance of cops praying outside US clinics while on duty @autonomynews.co
Cops Stopped to Pray With Anti-Abortion Activists Outside Colorado Clinic
An abortion opponent wrote online that it was “kill day” at a clinic that provides later abortions. Boulder police showed up, then prayed with the author of the post.
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Cops hate cities, hate the people living inside of them and are much more empathetic to someone trying to race through the city to enter and leave as quickly as possible than they are to like, a cyclist or pedestrian, who represent a class of people (city residents) the cop wished stopped existing
@calizaybak.bsky.social · 2w agoI have seen this in so many places, I have no idea why police no longer care about enforcing traffic laws, it's bizarre! They're driving more than anyone! They have kids! Yet they don't care. Like do they get paid more dealing with crashes, the bloody the better?
36 years after the ADA, disabled people live in a eugenicist hellscape run by monsters trying to preferentially kill us --- and succeeding. My list of the shit the Trump Regime has done since 1/20/25 is public. No Patreon login required; please share it. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...
The Day After ADA Day | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
On July 26, 1990, George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law. Thirty-six years later, we find ourselves in a eugen
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Today is ADA day — on July 26, 1990 the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law. The ADA would not have happened without Representative Major Owens, a Black man. Which has something to do with why his vital contributions to the ADA are routinely ignored. www.ncd.gov/2013/10/23/n...
National Council on Disability | NCD Honors the Life and Legacy of Major Owens
Oct. 23, 2013 WASHINGTON, DC – Former Brooklyn Representative Major Owens, who considered his role in helping pass the Americans with Disabilities Act as one of the finest accomplishments of his 24 y...
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The legacy media sat there while Trump lied about the past elections and "joked" about running again in 2028. They did not boo. They did not walk out. They just sat there and ate their dinner. The journalists in that room will be remembered as the journalists in that room.
Imagine if the media were as upset about actual fascism as they are of nonexistent “communism.”
Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.
At 53, I had a speaking part in a music video for one of my favorite bands.
Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 3w agoOkay, my QUESTION OF THE DAY is… What is your weirdest actual accomplishment? Not the biggest necessarily…but the weirdest?
Malaria! That’s the band I saw open for The Birthday Party & whose name I’ve been trying to recall since making this list in May.
ToughestGirlInTown@thetgit.bsky.social · 3mo ago1980s: (just remembered an E band: Egoslavia) Government Issue Grand Mal Gray Matter Gun Club Half Japanese Honor Role Husker Du Ignition INXS Iron Cross Jam Jawbox John Waite Killdozer Killing Joke Kinks Knievels Madhouse Malefice Marginal Man MDC Meat Puppets Meatmen Minor Threat Minutemen
For years, public health experts have come together to review preventative tests and treatments for conditions like cancer, diabetes and H.I.V. Under RFK Jr., that task force hasn’t met in over a year. Preventative health care saves lives. Politicizing care jeopardizes them.
It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...
Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 3w agoMy pre-write turned out to be 70% a. CDC's comms have been wildly irresponsible; b. If I couldn't prove lettuce is not from Taylor Farms, I wouldn't eat it; c. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...
it’s always a good day when rapists are arrested for rape
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w agoLONDON (AP) — British prosecutors announce they are seeking extradition of Tate brothers from US on rape, sex trafficking charges.