All the GOP ads here, for Ted Cruz and TFG, are transphobic screeds: the horrors of high school athletics confused by trans kids, or Harrisās āpolicyā of inviting prisoners to transition. All made up, bizarre nonsense. They have no confidence in any of their real policy ideas.
This reminds me how the generation of amateur radio operators who kept external generators to power their āham shacksā is all but gone now. Maybe it would benefit communities to support this hobby, given the fragile nature of modern communications.
AM/FM radio is likely the only lifeline right now to most people in a US city of 95,000 apnews.com/article/hurr...
Floodwaters pushed by remnants of Hurricane Helene have left North Carolinaās largest mountain city largely cut off by damaged roads and a lack of power and cellphone service.
Western NC is experiencing an emergency as or more severe than any we have seen in the US in decades. The entire western 30% of the state is cut off from all outside help by motor vehicle, and many small communities remain cut off from all communication. 1/2
Even as a kid it struck me as odd. Excessive. Iām not sure I ever bought rubber bands in my life. Today, I found myself in need of a few, and I discovered a small plastic bag with about ten, bought decades ago, probably by my father.
My father kept a warehouse level inventory of rubber bands. He rubber banded all kinds of things, important papers, tool sets. I remember them dangling from the silver gearshift in his car, ready and waiting.
Some strong, unusual stuff on this piece I wrote for the Atlantic, I think... na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
The best-written stories can make readers feel as if they have passed through mundane states of being and been brought over to another universe.
A category 4 hurricane is a breathtaking, dangerous storm.
