In the ten days since I wrote something titled "Everywhere Is Under Water" about flooding in Romania/Poland/etc, Nigeria/Chad/west Africa, and Vietnam/Myanmar/nearby, OTHER flooding has killed more than 20 in parts of Mexico, around 150 in Nepal, and at least 66 in the US thanks to Helene.In the ten days since I wrote something titled "Everywhere Is Under Water" about flooding in Romania/Poland/etc, Nigeria/Chad/west Africa, and Vietnam/Myanmar/nearby, OTHER flooding has killed more than 20 in parts of Mexico, around 150 in Nepal, and at least 66 in the US thanks to Helene.

DLdavelevitan.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 4:11pm

I wrote this a bit more than a week ago, before Helene but after OTHER flooding spread across four continents, and, well... "This last week or two, though, seems more like a blunt-force proof of an entire premise, 'a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture' writ large across the continents."

Everywhere Is Under Water

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Jesse Welles plays “War Isn’t Murder” in front of a live audience for likely the first time. These shows sold out very quickly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Ur...

War Isn’t Murder

YouTube video by Jesse Welles

“If 330 voters had gone the other way in 2022, we would not have a trifecta in Michigan. No free lunches for every kid at school. No abortion rights expanded. No green energy leaps.”

A young first time voter was eight when he first rode down the escalator.

This guy is the personification of press acquiescence to MAGA. His mistress, whom he met in the 2016 campaign, said he slipped abortion drugs in her drink. And the press agreed to quote him like a regular spokesperson without mentioning that in every story.

MGremakingmanhood.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 1:42pm

Trump senior advisor Jason Miller approves of 'states that want to set up full menstrual surveillance departments' www.rawstory.com/jason-miller...

Trump pal approves of 'states that want to set up full menstrual surveillance departments'

Donald Trump's senior adviser Jason Miller says that under a second Trump presidency, "it's 'going to be up to the states' whether or not they set up regimes to monitor women’s pregnancies so they can...

I dunno what timeline we are in but watching Helene return North Carolina & TN to the sea get almost entirely ignored while Harris & Trump do more border theatrics & Biden signs on to a regional war in the Middle East is making for some absolutely rancid failed state vibes

This is a story about a parent relentlessly and rightfully supporting their trans kid against right wing government harassment. When editors give space to Pamela Paul, Jesse Singal and other TERF-amplifiers, they are demonstrating deeply harmful anti-trans bias.

TWwashingtonpost.comSep 28, 2024 2:33pm

Over the last few years, half the country, including Florida, had banned trans girls from playing on girls teams. For all that fury, though, no one had been punished yet under one of the bans. Jessica Norton feared she might become the first.

Her trans daughter made the volleyball team. Then an armed officer showed up.

Half the country has banned trans girls from competing in girls sports. Jessica Norton didn’t suspect she’d be punished under one of the bans.

roll me up and smoke me when i die 🫡

Update from a family member who works for this hospital system (northeast TN). Names/places in the first text are all major hospitals; name crossed out in blue is my brother’s partner, a family MD. As he says, it’s very bad

my favorite Kris Kristofferson story remains this one townhallmeeting.org/2021/01/18/h...