AI ad with rapping Ben Franklin/George Washington/Thomas Jefferson for “Young Washington” movie?…anyone else seen that?

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Wonder if the US is going to count and publicize how many heat deaths occur during this 4th of July weekend. Many states stopped counting excess deaths for COVID years ago, no one cares, cant think this is any different.

Just went out to get some greens before the sun hits the garden and can’t believe how hot it is already.

Too hot to cook inside so frying the vegetable fritters outside. Not a bad vibe all things considered.

Our lettuce made it through the first day of the heat dome with this simple shade cloth. 🥬🔥

Per the observations at CHO airport we've reached 100° for the first time since July 16, 2024, though the official climate report around 5:30pm will confirm this for sure. Stay tuned. Regardless, heat indices are rough, be it by the observations or even just by stepping outside.

Just put a frozen towel on my head 😮‍💨 real feel is hovering around 115F/46C.

When are Virginia cities with formerly enslaved/historically disenfranchised communities like Charlottesville, Richmond, etc going to get on board with municipal reparations? Reparations Efforts “Sweeping the Country” Despite DOJ Attack on Evanston, IL Groundbreaking Program @democracynow.org

We try and sneak summer veg into every meal during the summer and this morning I invented the squashage egg and cheese breakfast sandwich.

Charlottesville's last 100° day? July 16, 2024 (100°). Heat indices across central Virginia on Wednesday afternoon could reach 105° or hotter.

In preparation for a Theodore Roosevelt Library in ND, Indigenous people weigh in about his racism and the future of the former American Museum of Natural History statue of Roosevelt on horseback, flanked by Native & Black people in subservient positions.  northdakotamonitor.com/2026/06/30/t...

I’ve been pulling all day workdays trying to get this audio done, and no matter how much music I work on I always want to unwind with more music…Alpha Boys School Radio from Kingston is hitting the spot tonight.

Growing up in Virginia I didnt hear much about Gabriel or the Frenchmen from Haiti living in Richmond who encouraged his rebellion. I also like how this one speaks to resentment enslaved people in VA held towards whites after the revolution when the planter class doubled down on their Slavocracy.

We mulched some plants, watered, made some mint tea, and I’m about to throw some hand towels in the freezer. That’s about as good as we’re going to get for the heat dome tomorrow. Looks like this one might be a record breaker…

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. goo-yay-kwo-nee

Hot as hell out there…

Way to go on this one @fire-toolz.bsky.social !

I 100% believe that a major factor in the Revolution were the land speculators ready to jump on newly cleared Indigenous territories. This talk by Prof Glanville goes into the attitude wealthy colonists felt towards the “frontier”. Once free from the crown they could void any treaties they chose to.

Started final mixes this week…like working in a cave during this heat dome.

brought some of the books and zines found in the Prairieland exhibit files to sentence 8 people to a combined 450 years in federal prison to @us.theguardian.com's podcast, Stateside, in the longest interview I've done so far about the story

Bevis loves smelling every type of vegetable we bring in but still really only likes to try the corn.

The older I get the more and more I’m coming around to the nu-grass on the radio.

Good a time as ever to watch DC formally incarcerated filmmaker Karim Mowatt’s doc Lorton: Prison of Terror. IMO there are few examples as clear as Lorton (other than Angola) that show so clearly the path from southern plantation & forced enslavement to mass incarceration style work camps.

I heard some truly disturbing things about the conditions in these prisons/jails around Rocky Mount NC from an old neighbor friend…🔥

Virginia Medicaid said I was going to talk therapy too much (once a week to deal with childhood/adult trauma)…the sessions are only like 75$ without insurance, makes me wonder what other essential care they’re cutting for others out there.

Rare to see a heat dome like this show it’s worst conditions in the middle Appalachian region. 😮‍💨🔥

Ngl I am glad the days of getting the clamshell containers interior lid riddled in small burn holes from hot chicken grease are over. I’ll take petrochemicals out of all our food over the nostalgia factor.

“America, U.S.A.”: Eddie Glaude on the 250th Anniversary, Race & “The Madness at the Heart of the Country”

Don’t underestimate how public opinion can change seemingly overnight. Anthony Burns, from Stafford co VA. The extreme conditions of his brief imprisonment in Boston radicalized many city residents. “We waked up stark mad Abolitionists” Anthony Burns (1834–1862) - Encyclopedia Virginia

That WU essay is fantastic, the only thing I wish they had done was taken the history back into abolition & slave uprisings. Abolition was so unpopular that the public never believed it was possible. I believe witnessing mass domestic death/suffering from climate breakdown will be our Harpers Ferry.

Great short piece on VA/NC Great Dismal Swamp. Maroon History->Climate Breakdown.

Our green bean row is unstoppable rn. 40’ gets us about a colander full every day. We lightly blanch and then flash freeze. This next row are the Chinese long beans that will take us through the whole summer and early fall.

Easy to see how the collapse of traditional agriculture is a possibility in the years ahead. If this is around 1.5C what is 2C going to be like? As a gardener I can tell you this is plant killing heat.

It is the 5 yr anniversary of the 2021 PNW heat wave, where Seattle reached locally unheard of temperatures of 108F/42.2C. Like most people here my family didn’t have AC for relief. I spent this week in the UK, where another major heatwave exposed how unprepared we are to manage our altered climate.

Finishing up my witness tree album, which deals heavily with climate breakdown and reverberations of colonialism, extraction, etc in the Chesapeake region, the same week as the record breaking heat dome…

Imagine living next to one of the data center complexes outside of DC (that create their own localized heat islands) when the temps hit 110.

PUNISHING heat wave Wednesday through July 4 in DC. NWS now forecasting highs of 104 Thursday, 105 Friday and 102 on July 4 -- all record highs. High indexes 5-8 degrees higher. Forecast update: www.capitalweather.com/live/#confid...

I'm not sacrificing air quality water & energy resources for this dogshit

Just saw an AI video say “struggled to make Anne’s meat” instead of “struggled to make ends meet”.

Leaders around the world are banking on tech advances to solve climate change. One leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and then burying it underground forever. It sounds practical. Here’s why there's no conceivable way it can work: (THREAD)

Gardening 100% is part of my creative process, when my ears get too blasted from the drones in my headphones I got tear it up outside.

Dueling Heatwaves ‼️ Europe vs USA in a match no one wants! It’s #Europe’s most severe #heatwave in history w/ Germany to 109 this weekend VS the USA where next week swelters w/ feels like up to 115°! This is boosted by the strong El Niño, steroids on top of the heating climate!

Still thinking about this Octavia Butler interview and why I believe more engagement from artists, journalists etc would be so important in helping people understand what’s happening and how to emotionally handle it all.

One of the more disturbing parts of living in America through climate breakdown is how little I hear people talk about what this means for children and what they’re likely to experience in their lifetime.

We’re loving the Gary Miller campaign content here…

Just heard of the passing of Mikel Dimmick. Pelt and Sprial Joy Band are really some of the most significant music from my life & he was always so nice to me. Those dudes influenced so many artists & I hope local music/art communities acknowledge it someday. RIP ❤️‍🔥.

I love radio garden so much. Tonight I was scrolling through a Georgia and found this Conyers Old Time Radio station that just plays old time radio material. The man with the stolen face is playing rn. Listen to Conyers Old Time Radio live on Radio Garden

The frogs are screamin tonight.

My latest: The campaign against data centers is adopting a major tagline of the anti-renewables movement… Protecting farmland. I wrote about how ag communities hate data centers and the risk this could tip into the energy transition, too.