Globally, 84% of the heatwave days people were exposed to in 2020-24 would not have occurred without climate change. The rate of deaths associated with heat exposure increased by 23% from the 1990s, reaching 546,000 deaths annually. Look where people are dying. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

ok uhm I just watched a video from when London was still in the heatwave of a bus driver outside of his bus getting cold water poured all over him complaining it was 35C (95F) inside his bus. Which lead me down a rabbit hole, and a Question why don't London buses have real AC?

US data centers for AI tend to run on more fossil fuels than renewables → they produce proportionally more climate pollution → which is supersizing extreme weather → which is now the #1 risk to data centers themselves. The very definition of "coming right back around to bite you."

this story makes me feel so insane, I can't get over it

Question. It is going to be 103F (40C) on July 4th in Philadelphia. It is my understanding the stadium is not air conditioned. Are they really going forward with the World Cup match?

Today's tasks involve installing the bedroom AC ahead of tomorrow's heatwave, and stitching together two thermal curtains to keep the AC out of the entryway (they were bought for a different apartment and are too short)

This comes at the same time that the North Carolina Democratic Party becomes the first statewide Democratic Party in the country to endorse a full arms embargo on Israel "until Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and B’Tselem certify that Israel is no longer engaged in apartheid rule."

overheard the wife saying "I'm married to a man who told me to relax and go outside and went though a house on fire calmly collecting cats but has a panic attack because he was asked to put in a contact lens"

NYC: Tomorrow when Con Ed tells you to turn up your AC to avoid blackouts - do not lower your thermostat and tell them to turn off Times Square. Unless you have the misfortune of living on the Times Square Network they could turn it off completely and it wouldn't affect what ConEd needs you to do

Deadline today at 5:00pm: If you are on the NY Essential Plan and have a health vulnerability in extreme heat, you are eligible for a free air conditioner, installation included. Info and to apply:

Goddamn it. Kavanaugh also has the campaign finance case. 6-3, spending limits on dark money violate the First Amendment. Peter Theil's boy comes through for him, throwing WIDE the gates on the billionaire class buying elections.

The outcome is thus: 5–4 that the Constitution protects birthright citizenship for the children of all immigrants. 6–3 that Trump's order is unlawful (because Kavanaugh says it violates a statute, NOT the 14th Amendment.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Strong statement against the OMB's proposed rule change that puts research under political control from the American Association for Cancer Research.

Obviously the human toll is what matters. But here's a question I keep thinking about. The bulk of the SCOTUS docket is business stuff. If they are now openly reinterpreting the law on days that end in Y, how can anyone have confidence in the rule of law in America, including corporate interests?

It was a 5-4 vote. You are not suitably concerned. That it made it to the Supreme Court is a sign that the Court is corrupt.

it’s bananapants to live in a country where the 14th amendment basically hung on Amy Coney Barrett’s understanding of the world

And the reason Russell Vought is able to act in a “post-constitutional” way from OMB is because he knows the Roberts Court will back him. It’s all part of the same organized movement conservative effort, and defeating it and restoring democratic self-government will require us to organize.

NPR has removed its story about Justice Alito's retirement from its frontpage, and SCOTUSBlog says the article's author says it was posted in error. (I'll note it wasn't just posted; it was a top story on npr.org.) In short, no retirement announcement for now.

DAR: gives out an award for the best US history student at each of the high schools in the city of Hampton including one very progressive little Black girl [Decades pass] DAR: "trans rights are human rights" I'm not saying I *caused* this to happen but...

This is not JUST RFK Jr.s fault. He's the final nail in the coffin. It's also useful to note several countries have lost their measles free status (UK, Canada) without RFK jr. Mexico is on a similar precipice as the US. Focusing just on RFK blinds us to the anti-vaxx landscape.

Is there any info on the ICE agents? Because from the outside, I googled her and she's Black. And FROM MY PERSPECTIVE it seems like they thought she was a hijabi. That doesn't make it ok. But if my gut is right, it's another reminder that our liberation is bound up in each other.

I need y'all to understand that I teach high school and there are teenagers already planning to leave the U.S. to because they will be studying science or medicine. They are SO serious about it - saving money, learning extra languages, and looking to see if there are familial connections abroad.

Today, we honor the five Capital Gazette staffers killed in an attack on their newsroom eight years ago. Today is a reminder that we must protect the freedom of the press. A free press allows our journalists to serve our democracy by keeping residents informed about our government.

I got up to make a heat and bake chocolate chip cookie but opened the fridge and saw radish kimchi and I'm eating that instead.

Always reblog.

40+ is an arbitrary measure IMHO. A lot of older comedy movies simply don't hold up because their humor was rooted in racism and sexism. 9-to-5 holds up. It's fucking funnier now. So does Troop Beverly Hills. Many 80s teen comedies don't hold up because they have so much implied fucking rape.

"“It’s really funny ’cause people thought we were so nuts,” she says. “People were like, ‘This is extreme, you guys are extremists, you’re being loud about things, this isn’t going to happen in America.’”"

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Every Watches Women’s Sports,,, now we at The Tipping Point Letz see what brands really step up to really support them. www.forbes.com/sites/dougme...

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

This is what happens during a crisis when the entire information environment in a state and society is basically Fox News & fellow travelers.

Watched a video of an overstepping man being bear sprayed by a young woman (coming off of a hike) and it healed something in me.

I agree with Kendra here. Despite the evidence being crystal clear, the problem is just compounding. As I argued in this paper last year, high summer mortality is becoming so regular that it's increasingly hard to measure. muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Watched a video where a woman roped a friend into buying an AC in a whole other city in France, met her halfway via train to pick up said AC because she read the charts on pet mortality and dog size and realized her dog was at extreme risk of death and didn't want him to die.

NEW—'On Courage' is a new book out tomorrow by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist @juliaangwin.com and Harvard Kennedy School senior fellow @fieldsmeyer.com about the many ways regular people have dissented against autocracy. Read this EXCLUSIVE excerpt about a former HUD lawyer challenging Trump:

last time something like this made it to senate (KOSA), it passed 91-3. no votes on that one were: wyden (D-OR): listened to at risk people about how it would harm them lee (R-UT): didn’t think it did enough to harm queers paul (R-KY): libertarian stuff you should call your senators: reps.fyi

What's the average lifespan of an electric kettle? Is six years for an electric kettle I paid $130 for and I use on average 6-10 times a week good or bad?

The more I had to say: I've said it now ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

Really I am having trouble believing this is happening

Big in Louisiana today: State Supreme Court upheld decision vacating the conviction of Chris Duncan, who spent 26 years on death row claiming innocence. Context: 80% of people on Louisiana death row have been exonerated; this conviction hinged on discredited doctors. We reported on case here:

I'm old enough to remember when climate change was *going to* make us poorer in the future. Well, that future is now. New study shows how extreme heat and drought have already cut average household incomes across Europe, exacerbating inequalities in the process. bloom.bg/3QsSsJB @bloomberg.com

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

Springer Nature retracted two studies by Max Planck. In response to a question from @samkean.bsky.social, they issued this statement: "Detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared with the relevant authors.”

I was not familiar with Uwe Boll, who apparently specifically wanted Hammer for this movie. 🤔 www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

Wow holy shit www.them.us/story/daught...

I finished the Canada hockey rape book (We Breed Lions) and I am not well. Thanks.

They also say that AI slop will be clearly marked.