Went full Ben Davis with the smoke today

Joel Embiid's teammates in elimination games:

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

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

Preventing some Iranian villagers from getting drinking water does nothing to prevent the IRGC from firing missiles and drones. Water is a red line. I know those of you who hate the US military and US foreign policy won’t care about the difference, but it’s significant, with very bad implications.

Really need to run in the morning so this needs to chill

I want trials for every last one of these mother fuckers.

I cannot stop laughing at this. They were so close to cracking lmao #InfoWars #MAJA

WFWTD in honor of the smoke this week

It was a really bad air day for DC. A pollution double whammy. Not only did smoke pollution reach code purple (very unhealthy) levels this AM and hover at code red this PM, but ground-level ozone, another pollutant, spiked to code red this afternoon. This is not something we can remember seeing.

Fully internalizing that climate change impacts don’t care about any borders, but that they make border politics even more charged is going to be one of the keys to predicting and understanding all future geopolitics.

Taco Bell grows its own lettuce in its stores, everyone knows this

Masterful gambit by Trump to put us on a course for full escalation ahead of midterms.

Goddamn. I crashed hard AF last night

I’ve been working from my kitchen and I guess it’s close enough to the big sliding door that my eyes have started burning a bit inside my house. I’m sure that’s fine

His ex-wife (who left him because he beat her and their daughter) didn't believe him when he said he'd been hired by ICE because he said delusional shit all the time and who would give this violent maniac a gun?

There are so many people to blame for our failure to address climate change, but we’ve had two presidential chiefs of staff who managed to stop chances at progress at critical times that may have doomed us, and only one of them is a Republican

Every Christopher Nolan movie

This has been the case since the end of the first week of the war. Once it was clear that the decapitation strike didn’t lead to the downfall of the regime, the war was completely lost.

Going outside this morning

Abundant wildfire smoke plainly visible on satellite this morning. Lots of reports of scratchy throats, burning eyes, headaches. Limit exposure by staying indoors with windows closed and AC on. Consider masking when out. Updating: www.capitalweather.com/wildfire-smo...

Thinking about climate change and getting angry at Rahm Emanuel again

Blaming Canada for wildfires while situated in the country that has sent by far the most CO2 up into the air is some real hot dog guy meme stuff

The cowards at the NYT backtracked on the accurate "President Asserts Outlandish Claims" headline and retreated to "Trump Exaggerates Claims About Election Vulnerabilities in Speech."

Trump must be impeached for undermining and subverting our free and fair elections. And when he sends ICE agents to the polls, then we must turn civic action into civil disobedience and take to the streets. Sit in. Protest. Withhold our labor. Everything must be on the table.

Sheesh

This incident escalates the already serious questions about ICE's hiring practices. He reportedly has a diagnosis of severe bipolar disorder, confirmed by family, and was hospitalized for suicide multiple times. How many corners were cut to hire him and put a gun in his hand?

Now @apnews.com has a deeply reported story confirming the recently-hired ICE officer who shot a man in Maine had serious mental health issues and a long history of violence against women. This comes after ICE slashed hiring standards and rushed some into the field before background checks cleared.

It gets worse: “David Brouillette has a history of terrifying and violent behavior, according to those relatives. They accuse him of attacking women in his life over the years, and one shared a voicemail with the AP from last winter in which he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat

The forest fire issue is actually super complex and almost impossible to solve at this point given the state of the climate crisis, decades of forest neglect and changes in population distribution

Oof

The worst political text I’ve ever received

Sorry an error: Texas has had *two* one in a thousand rain events *this year*.

I mean, dude has an injury history and went from being a nibble the edges low 90’s to a high 90’s power pitcher. This shouldn’t be a surprise

ICE agent David Brouillette murdered Joan Sebastian Guerrero

Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable

The last patient with Ebola in Uganda has been discharged from the hospital, marking the beginning of a 42-day countdown to declare the end of the outbreak in the country, said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

A lot of people said that the Guard members in DC are victims in all of this and we shouldn’t take it out on them but honestly we’ve normalized American cities being occupied by federal troops and that’s something that needs to be fought regardless of how disinterested the occupying troops are

Not enjoying the time of monsters very much at all

The FF LSRs coming out of Texas right now are horrific. "Feet of water over bridges" or "Every highway underwater". Wildfire smoke pouring into some areas across the north. GOES-19 down with possible massive problem. No ETA on fix. Good luck to all my fellow forecasters out there. Rough week.

If you ever read the Bible and wondered why it took so many plagues before Egypt got their shit together; we're on explosive diarrhea and smoked filled skies, and Pharoah is still allowed to have his brain fall out all over TV.

Graham Platner is a rapist with a Nazi tattoo who has no real political experience. Abdul El-Sayed is a left-wing Muslim who ran the health department of one of the country’s most populous counties. To “Jewish Insider,” these are apparently the same.

Jealous of the people who timed their bout with the explosive diarrhea bacteria to coincide with when they’re already inside for the wildfire smoke attack

Folks, the Republicans have imposed Diarrhea Law.

I found this in the boy’s room. I guess he forgot to give it to me for Father’s Day, but it’s pretty hilarious.