The air outside isn't just unpleasant - it's sending people to the ER. UPMC says its emergency departments saw a higher than usual number of patients for air quality and heat-related issues last week, as wildfire smoke and summer heat gripped the region. tinyurl.com/WTAEHeat

Great advice... #BookSky

He’s been gone for 45 years, but Harry Chapin’s music and message live on. www.sdstandardnow.com/home/want-a-...

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With no rain for weeks, your wellies are feeling neglected, so why not turn them into planters for houseleeks? Once grown on rooftops, they were said to protect homes from lightning and fire. Their cooling leaf gel was also used to soothe minor burns and sunburn. #FolkloreSunday

Taylor Farms recalled lettuce tied to a Cyclospora outbreak. It listed customer brands as cryptic codes instead of real names. Attorney Bill Marler decoded them: 🔹SY is Sysco 🔹MKTSD is Walmart's Marketside 👉 This recall touches grocery stores, not just restaurants. 🧵 #medsky #publichealth

Taco Bell does not grow lettuce. This is on Taylor Farms.

Btw, Wegman’s lettuce is from Taylor Farms. Since TF won’t tell you who they sell to

Ok. As promised, a thread about supply chain food safety vulnerabilities in the food industry. Buckle up. It's a long one.

I wonder if there’s a 3-letter word that starts with L, ends with E and has an I in the middle and means the same thing as “conflict with reality.”

Here's a reminder that Trump threatened 102 days ago to commit genocide against a nation of 93 million people. The story lasted a day or two and the news media moved on. The madman stayed in office to make new threats and kill more people in an illegal war.

We should not have to live this way. He has stolen 11 years of our lives. We should not have to live every day under assault psychologically by a deeply disturbed POTUS. This is all happening because REPUBLICANS will not do a thing to check his insanity and destruction.

Surgical masks are not designed to reduce particulate inhalation injury because they leave gaps and the particulate pollution enters unfiltered through the path of least resistance

oh, blessed rain! clear this smoke and let us breathe again!!!

♥️ more women politicians ♥️ abir al~sahlani is 🔥🔥‼️🔥🔥

Day two of the smoke event has kept EMS and the Fire Department busy with numerous calls for overexertion and smoke related respiratory issues. Forecasts suggest conditions should improve somewhat once the expected rain arrives tomorrow night. There is a city out there somewhere.

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We tried permanent daylight saving time in 1970s. It lasted less than a year. The Sunshine Protection Act would disrupt our natural sleep cycle leading to serious health conditions like obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, depression, and some cancers. Let’s not repeat the mistakes of our past.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT regarding local air quality conditions: www.gasp-pgh.org/achd-announc...

After so many years of trying to survive this ongoing pandemic none of us can still claim to be in our salad days, which is precisely why you should know that it is prudent to avoid salad these days.

This is the view looking across the river at Downtown Pittsburgh. Those white squares are the roof of the convention center. You can barely make out the skyline behind it. That Purple Air map is the worst air quality I've ever seen in our area.

WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.

awful

re-upping this as the AQI is getting worse by the hour in Pittsburgh

I've seen people talking about well, how bad for you is the air right now when we have this wild fire smoke in the northeast? Here's a telling anecdote. As some of you know i'm a woodworker. I use almost exclusively hand tool. But I have a bandsaw and a thickness planer for preparing stock ...

I said what I said. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

About Pete Hegseth’s talk about testosterone for service members … Rep Becca Balint (D-VT): “There are so many people in this Administration that have some weird, intense homoerotic feelings toward men, while also being homophobic”…

democratic politicians summed up neatly

Hey @democrats.org Why isn’t there an appointed leader to give a counter televised speech to immediately follow Trump to counter his lies? I nominate Senator Jon Ossoff. We cannot be silent!

I hope the college students who protested the US-funded massacre of Palestinian civilians, while being vilified by their universities and politicians and even the president, understand that they are actually having an impact, just much slower than they hoped

I don't need emotional support. It's people I need help with.

This is Benji. He recently learned how to wiggle his toes. Not sure what to do with that yet, but a good skill to have in his back pocket just in case. 12/10 (TT: benjiandbaxter)

Apparently in Congress they are debating about whether to turn back the clock, and in other news currently in Congress they are debating about making daylight savings permanent.

A Place of Hope I was deeply moved to see this installation in the heart of Lviv. The empty chair is waiting for its owner. Each tag carries the name of a Ukrainian defender who is being held in captivity or is missing, while their family waits for them to come home.

it's gotta be the heat wave

gambling-tainted granny

Todd Blanche about Judge Kathleen Williams in Florida: She didn’t refer me [to the state bar] Read full details in the Judge’s order here, context is everything: joycevance.substack.com/p/judge-is-a...

My son just told me is favourite sentence is: “I didn’t say we should kill him” because if you emphasise each different word it changes the entire meaning

heads up if you, like me, are allergic to sulfa.

I hope that some people will point out that threatening to ELIMINATE A CRIMINAL COURT suggests that you KNOW you’ve committed crimes. Laws exist. The rule of law exists. Crime exists. And pretending that they don’t exist does NOT permanently erase them.

if it ain't one thing, it's another.

Biddeford Resident: I clearly heard Joan Sebastian Guerrero say "I tried to stop" after he was shot by ICE

me against the world

"What lends books their modern moral valence is that literature stands in opposition to the Goliath of our age. ... literature challenges us in the right way. Where social media makes us incurious, reactionary, and cynical, literature requires nuance, patience, and critical thinking."

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"I tried to stop," said the immigrant shot in the head and bleeding to death This is the new "I can't breathe" www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/b...

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

MAGAS are like Slo-Pokes, all day suckers.

Every single person in Maine and everyone around the country with a sense of humanity and decency need to remember this today. mainebeacon.com/collins-vote...