Walz should study this clip and use Vance's own words about women against him like Warren did with her "blood and teeth" debate strategy -- AKA the truth.
YouTube video by NBC News
A lovely story about a mysterious photo. (A counterpoint to all the real news which is uniformly awful.) (gift link) wapo.st/4eJZBvA
In 1974, a group of friends met the unthinkable with a lavish celebration. The real story behind a photo that captured the moment remained a mystery until now.
This is it. Great essay. "Do you know why people doomscroll?... Their phones are the only place they’re allowed to bear witness to the chaos. It’s the only place they see someone else express genuine emotion. It’s the only place where right and wrong still mean something."
There’s a global mental health crisis because we’re being forced to act like everything is fine when it's falling apart, and we’re ridiculed, censored, or thrown in jail for trying to do anything of substance to make the world a better place. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/watching-t...
Why we doomscroll.
People who relocated from the coastal South discover hurricanes can wreak havoc in the Appalachians too— and extreme rain and flood events will only become more common in our climate-changed world. Gift article. wapo.st/3XZuarr
The death toll from Helene climbed as emergency responders rushed to rescue residents in small mountain towns that have been cut off from communication.
This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.
People have been noting this juxtaposition: we’re talking about American citizens who are caught in a dangerous situation not of their making *in both cases*. And yet both the tone and policy are quite different.
Anyone still on the bad place have a link to this video?
Wonderful online historical map resources, available to all www.bpl.org/services-cen... As a very small child, we lived in a basement apt with an alley entrance. We walked one way, we were at the BPL. Another direction was the Public Gardens and the Common. Public. The Common land.
I love that! Thank you for sharing.
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