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This is a super story about wildfire resistance thanks to river restoration efforts in Central Oregon. I mean the overall picture is bleak, BUT there are some good spots of work and hope.

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BECAUSE HE IS A COWARD

"THEY CALLED THE TECHS ON HER"

The timing here tho

Whew. My goodness. The Iowa theatre department used to be pretty good, but I'm thinking someone perhaps didn't take classes in that area.

SOMEONE enjoyed writing that headline.

every gardener i follow is going absolutely hogwild flexing that they eat lettuce from behind their house. i've never seen gardeners act like this in my life. this is our super bowl. this is our olympics. gold medal in shitting normally

Substack is 100% doing another round of big cash payouts for reputation laundering. A fair number of people accepting that money aren't hurting for it so I'm not clear on why they're doing it. BTW, if you're still on Substack, why, but also, here's a resource to get off: leavesubstack.com

ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:

JK Rowling through her TERF organization, Beira's Place have sent Amnesty International a demand letter seeking a full retraction of their report, a public apology, and a bar to future criticism of gender critical groups as anti rights orgs. If they don't comply, they'll commence legal action.

DO. NOT. LIKE.

I'm still waiting to hear back for both of these but I'd like to connect with someone who's done stream fundraisers before -- I have *no* background in them and would appreciate a collaboration

Hi folks! I'm currently investigating a couple different fundraising needs: -The library in my neighborhood has been quite badly damaged on the first floor, especially the kids collection And - the Namaygoosisagagun First Nation in Northwest Ontario has been basically completely destroyed

As Mayor, Katie Wilson Doesn't Travel Much. When She Does, You'll Find Her in 23F. Unlike her predecessor, who traveled first-class and was out of town for much of his term, Wilson rides in coach and has mostly stayed in Seattle.

Wait, so CN Rail abandoned three freight trains carrying “combustible and flammable materials” near a First Nations community? “OPP disclosed shortly before 5:00 pm Tuesday that three trains carrying combustible and flammable materials were stopped and staged near … Collins First Nation”

I did a tonne of research so you don't have to. I talk about masking, air filtration, and air quality rating systems, & I give concrete suggestions to help you keep yourself and your loved ones safe. If you don't have this information yet, it's time to get educated. Wildfires don't respect borders.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but that’s rape. www.salon.com/2026/07/15/m...

This is tonight!!

This is a disaster created by the GOP. It's important to identify the culprits. It was directly created by them as POLICY. They clearly articulated that this was what they hoped to accomplish. gothamist.com/news/food-pa...

what’s the Odyssey about? I’m so glad you asked

in a lot of ways the current republican government is just the worst, extractive red state governance taken national. total hostility to public goods, total indifference to long-term investment, and a monomaniacal interest in using the state to enrich private benefactors

Great graphic. Added alt-text because it's important. #DisabilityPrideMonth #AltText

Hunh, how surprising this is

& also gods damn it, George Lucas, GFY.

We have @shokdiesel.bsky.social on our newsletter today talking about the wonderful ways immigrants are influencing American meat culture, from third-culture barbecue to the Dearborn Meat Market www.weareravenous.com/dearborn-mea...

The people we rely on to hold the powerful to account are hopelessly and pathetically in thrall to them

Brits are like “Look who’s boiling vegetables now.”

I write about this in the book. Increasingly, the proposition from these companies is “let us surveil you constantly.” That’s it! That’s the deal. In return you get the (supposed) benefit of a machine that “knows” you, whatever that’s supposed to mean. finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...

After a cost of more than $1 billion, the Everglades concentration camp has been removed from the airstrip where it once stood.

I wrote about what looks very much like a formal US plan to institutionalize a global network of concentration camps.

what do you call a genderqueer shark? om-nom-nom-binary (yes, this is still my favorite joke)

I like Annie, but no one grabbed Clark's throat. Let's please stop spreading this lie before someone gets hurt or killed. #WNBA

"The company hasn't been exactly transparent about what they're doing."

I'm calling my three-wheeler an "acoustic trike" from here on out.

of course, Cathy is gonna go continue golfing and caitlin/sophie will be able to get away with whatever they want. the W needs to be doing way more to protect their Black players but as long as CC pulls her bullshit, this is going to continue to happen.

1. good. fuck that guy. 2. another example of why sports betting should be abolished 3. i'm seeing a LOT of white women on IG get huffy about how "the guy doesn't even follow CC/Fever" and not the point, y'all. this escalation in racist abuse has been going for a WHILE now & needs to be dealt with.

yet another example of why sports betting is a plague on society and needs to be abolished.

"The abuse towards Gray—like much fan misconduct—appears to be related to sports betting." 😑

This is a really informative piece that gives context and background to the production and presents a thoughtful cultural critique of the book and previous TV adaptation. Well worth reading before deciding whether or not to watch the new series.

ummmmmmmm well the PT who told me, 13-year-old destroyer of her knees by soccer tackle, to wait just as long as humanly possible to have surgery mAY HAVE HAD A POINT.

Dana truly never misses.

News organizations should periodically stop and look in the mirror and ask themselves “Have we internalized copspeak to the point that our headlines indistinguishable from police department email subject lines?”

Can’t get diarrhea lettuce from a cinnamon bun. Follow me for more health tips!

Stick it to JKR and support feminist media!

A new federal lawsuit aims to halt the massive Hollywood deal that could be finalized later this month.

Many wonderful librarians and archivists have rummaged their stacks to digitize or snap a picture of such things for my latest book.

Every day this thread becomes more relevant, just as every day more people suffer and die needlessly from police violence and the prison-industrial complex. It's all wrong, all unjust, and all overdue to stop.