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Breaking News! Code: y-Axis Alert! On September 11th, the preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature measured 2.98°C above the 1991-2020 mean, which was 4.03 standard deviations above the mean. No previous year has broken 3SD. The Climate 8-ball is feeling oblong.

Quote from Stella Parton about her sister Dolly is making me tear up: ““My sister was always thinking of others, and if you want to honor her legacy, show more kindness, lift others up, and give more of your time and resources, as she continued to do to the very end.”

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress, DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

Tomorrow a lot of us are going to wake up for the first time in a world without Dolly Parton. I feel like we all have to be better and more generous people to make up for her absence.

A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.

I used to be mildly against stuff like the French 'right to be forgotten' laws, but I think I've flipped. in the age of agents being able to construct a detailed precis of your entire life trivially you need explicit legal protections over your digital footprint, I think

Lily in Duolingo asked me how old I am, and I told her. Then she asked if I still work or if I have already retired! Brutal! #Duolingo

Willie Nelson urges people to ‘fight against data centres invading our land’ Country music legend Willie Nelson is publicly opposing the construction of artificial intelligence data centres in his home state of Texas and across the United States. Source: Global News What do you think?

These are some of the most cowardly men who have ever lived.

This bird nudged its buddy out of the rain, and it is not random kindness. Birds use shelter-sharing like allopreening, a bonding ritual that keeps flocks calm and close.

‘Way back in the day — 1956 — Republicans actually cared about people, like President Eisenhower. Definitely NOT NOW!

😕 says it all, really (From @justinjpearson.bsky.social )

NEW: This is too much. The DOJ accidentally emailed copies of Volume II of Jack Smith's final report to the lawyers representing a woman they charged with obstruction of justice for emailing Volume II of Jack Smith's final report. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/doj-accide...

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

At least they're not hiding their corruption. Go big or go home.

Happy Juneteenth everyone! God bless America and General Granger for making us the la d of the free!

You should ask yourself why all of the people who are screeching about election fraud on social media are always unwilling to repeat these claims under oath. Let me help you: it’s because they know they’re full of shit. The entire purpose is to keep people angry.

I am suddenly pretty sure that if I had been in Pompeii, I would have shrugged off the rumbling volcano and hurried to work, only to be buried in ash.

“In effect, today’s corporations and wealthy are hoarding the society’s resources for themselves, while starving the treasury of funds that are badly needed for repairing and strengthening the society on which their wealth depends.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

A man named Markwayne, let's just pause there for a minute, wants to stop international travel into several of the world's biggest international travel hubs weeks before the World Cup plays over 50% of their matches in those cities, including the final held in New York. Brilliant. No notes.

"This is how you create a dictatorship. You destroy the idea of truth." .. (quote Hannah Arendt) .. (cartoon Stuart Carlson)

Quick sketch of a Pigeon Made with a bic pen 5x7 #art #birds #nature #sciart

"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." ~ George Orwell

I think Democrats should come out and say Blanche's "settlement" and the Slush Fund generally is one act in a continuing January 6 conspiracy, extending statutes of limitation for another 3 years.

"Across the decades, though, geologists on the big screen are consistently portrayed as scientifically competent, often heroic, and usually doomed." Cinematic geologists are usually portrayed as good persons—but they have a 1 in 3 fatality rate, a film analysis shows. www.science.org/content/arti...

Well, isn’t this interesting? Vanguard alone holds between 8% and 10% of overall market value, and what they want to talk about in meetings is… tracking error? That’s new. My sense is a lot of houses are not saying a lot of things right now. Smart money going quiet… hmmm.

#Pinks

Many of you keep asking how you can see the film that captures my final semester of teaching, The Last Class. Well now you can, because it's available to rent. Learn more here: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/take-my-classroom-to-your-home

David is being too kind; Carney and the EU can't move fast enough to prepare for the coming collapse of the U.S.

Back when I was in the government, a senior official, much less a president, would never go on a mission like Trump's to China that offered no real deliverables of any sort. He embarrassed the country. But, the story of this summit is even worse than that. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-trip-...

Trump is negotiating to settle his lawsuit against his own IRS, and one of the remedies being floated (along with almost 2 billion dollars) is the IRS dropping all audits of Trump, his family, and his businesses. Just absolutely staggering corruption.

Oof.

Someone should make sure Exodus 32 was included in those Trump Bibles. www.latintimes.com/watch-pastor...

And the Supreme Court cries foul..fuck them all

So the guy who was Epstein’s cellmate who has had Epstein’s “suicide note” (that’s been kept secret since 2019) is (1) a former cop and (2) was convicted in April 2023 for strangling one man and murdering three more people execution-style. Okaaaay. Sure.

Just came across this pathetic document titled “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” which is a cautionary tale about failure to read great literature. I pity the people living in such extreme intellectual poverty among riches. a16z.com/the-techno-o...

Let that sink in…🤔 #ReleasetheEpsteinFiles #Epsteinvictims #justice #womensrights

In a low room over the church doors, overlooking the city, Mary hears some remarkable news. Ghent Altarpiece, by Jan & Hubert van Eyck, dedicated on this day in 1432.

Stop your doomscrolling and look at this otter

Codifying Roe, passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and holding members of this administration criminally accountable are important goals, but none of it sticks without Supreme Court reform.