Feeling the outskirts of #Helene in central IN. Windy and rainy all day (and will be all weekend). The power finally committed to being out after flickering every few minutes for the past half hour or so. Hopefully the Chinese restaurant we just ordered from still has power...

Gnaw Bone, IN as well.

Hey y'all, The USPS is shipping out free Covid tests again. We are in the midst of a Covid surge, so get yours today! special.usps.com/testkits

Here for "Messalopolis" 🤣

Used to spend almost every weekend in high school (20 years ago, ugh!) hitting up the nearby second-run theater for $2 shows. Looks like they renovated a few years back and changed over to first-run movies. Prices look better than big chains, but not $2.

They did?! Goddamn. Never thought the Lake would upgrade, bad idea or good. 🤣

Yes, the death penalty is cruel, brutalistic, immoral, retrogressive, unevenly distributed among races/ethnicities, and plays to our very worst instincts as a species. But: it also doesn't fucking work. So that's neat. www.scientificamerican.com/article/evid....

Evidence Does Not Support the Use of the Death Penalty

Capital punishment must come to an end. It does not deter crime, is not humane and has no moral or medical basis

Missouri executed Marcellus Williams tonight around 6 PM. "Tonight, we all bear witness to Missouri’s grotesque exercise of state power. Let it not be in vain. This should never happen, and we must not let it continue,” The Midwest Innocence Project said in a statement.

TItheintercept.comSep 24, 2024 9:20pm

Marcellus Williams was sent to Missouri’s death row in 2001 for a murder he swore he did not commit. Forensic testing of the knife used to murder Felicia Anne Gayle Picus revealed male DNA that did not belong to Williams, but he is scheduled to be executed tonight at 6 PM CST.

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First-ever interagency sea level rise website is live | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration https://buff.ly/47FP69X

First-ever interagency sea level rise website is live

For the first time, the public has access to a whole-of-government, comprehensive online resource all about sea level rise: SeaLevel.GlobalChange.gov. On behalf of the U.S. Interagency Task Force on…