A bit of good news in the field of public health. The Republican state of South Carolina is increasing its immunization requirements this year. @klunztrujillo.bsky.social @mattmotta.bsky.social

Trump loves war crimes. He's blockading Cuba right now to instantiate a revolt, maybe a famine too. He loves blowing up dams and roads and hospitals and bridges and power plants and water treatment facilities, because he really is the ugly brute Americans apparently have always wished to be

appears the US war apparatus is pivoting from general war crimes to a more openly genocidal strategy

I have to rant about how much I love this kind of public policy. This simple move provides free communal third spaces for people who might not keep regular day-worker hours. As a lifelong insomniac sick of bleary landscapes of gas stations and bars, I particularly love this. Simple, inclusive policy

We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

I never thought I'd be a Taco Bell apologist, but c'mon

I’m sorry anything that doesn’t start with reforming the supreme court is not a serious proposal

"But it was hot in 1936..." The Dust Bowl summer of 1936 remains one of the hottest in U.S. history. The difference is that 1936 was an exceptionally hot event in one region, while today, much of the entire planet is running warmer than average at the same time.

I know the air quality is “Very Unhealthy”, but I can see the actual sky for the first time in 2 days, and I’m going to call that progress.

Not that we didn't know this already but having ICE - whose jurisdiction has absolutely NOTHING to do with elections - investigate voter fraud gives away the game. ICE is no longer a legal entity bound by laws and norms, it's Trump's personal force, focusing on whatever he wants.

No, Mike Johnson cannot do that The House that Mike Johnson presides over ceases to exist when the new House convenes. There is no Speaker when the new House starts. bsky.app/profile/rech...

Update: Chicago is still experiencing "Hazardous" air quality. Please continue to take precautions - stay indoors or, if you need to be outside, wear an N95 or KN95 mask. Continue to follow @chicagooemc.bsky.social & @cdph.bsky.social and download the Chicago OEMC app for updates & alerts.

They also supply McDonald's, Burger King, Chipotle, Subway, and Wendy's.

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

Current* conditions near Webster, NY:

Current* conditions near Sandusky, OH:

today i saw EVERYBODY out and i guess I'm the silly one for thinking certain jobs should have shut down today. landscaping people just out maskless in this BRUTAL HEAT that on top of the entire city smelling like it's on fire. eyes burning INDOORS IN THE AC!!!

I started some brassicas for fall planting and didnt label my seed trays and they all look the same. Lolol

Brennan Lee Mulligan’s Dungeons and Dragons push is part of a wider trend using tabletop games for political action

I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS

Summer camp didn't seem to be modifying their activities based on AQI so we kept kid home today. Glad we have flexible work ability and wfh and are thus able to pivot.

Sounds like grounds for impeachment to us Why the steel-reinforced inaction from you? @ramirez.house.gov

I can't breathe the air, I can't eat lettuce, I can't afford gas, and my kids have measles. But at least now our soldiers will have enough testosterone.

It’s a great day to take the train

The Canadian wildfire smoke has arrived in Chicago

Sorry, our bad.

Classic black and white with a chain link edge.

Our recent easy dinner go to is baking a pound of bacon and throwing it onto an aldi cheese pizza. 6 yo came up with it and its a home run.

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

Google suggested train to bus - but i chose train to train to bus and I think I am going to beat the google time even with a wait for the bus

So they DO believe in gender affirming care.

future confirmed/current acting attorney general believes a warrant is optional for the feds to enter someone's home is both a big and bad headline

The Luddites' actual argument was that automated looms meant expensive, skilled workers were being replaced with literal children, who were then getting maimed and killed, and maybe this is bad.

the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

Context: a city of Chicago bike infrastructure planner, and several other people, have been killed after being “doored” by someone who didn’t look before opening a vehicle door

The city has put up some PSAs to advise people in cars to look for bikes before opening doors

Milwaukee used to have a fully-functional streetcar network, albeit one owned by a private company (Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Co.). View the system map and weep at what was/might have been again if the Hop weren't kneecapped by WI-Leg collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/coll...

Vast passenger pigeon flocks flying overhead. Accounts in the mid-1800s describe them as being numerous enough to block out the Sun for hours and in waves km long, with estimates of a total population of 5 billion. Hunting & persecution meant that the last individual died in 1914. 🎨 Julian Hume

AOC on Susan Collins touting the money she got for body cameras and ICE training in the DHS bill. “Senator Collins wrote the blank check to allow these officers to conduct themselves in the way that they have in Maine in the first place, and she's the one who's poured resources into it.”

And another. This morning. Running for his life and hit by a truck.

TIL about Master Gardeners. I also deepened my understanding of the Cooperative Extension System (I had heard of thr university extension - but its history goes back to land grant universities!)

BREAKING: Senate Democrats did something!!

I avoid AI for similar reasons that I avoid meth: maybe I'd become more productive in the short term, or maybe I'd spend 36 hours disassembling a lawn mower and sorting the parts into neat little piles and develop a crippling addiction. Who's to say!

I need the olds to please decide: do you want to complain about kids being inside on their phones, or do you want to complain about the kids outside? You must pick one.

They told Reuters that they were suspending traffic stops, apparently without qualification. They told Fox News that they were suspending most, in most major cities, subject to exceptions. That's how they do.

Decades of dehumanizing copaganda have primed people to see a Black man allegedly fleeing law enforcement as deserving of death, as expendable. ICE has the same script writers now trying the same tactics. The only way to challenge their narrative is to challenge all of it, every time: