These communities are resilient, they will rebuild and continue to survive. But not all that has been lost can be restored or rebuilt. Somethings have been lost forever in these fires. Photo Credit: National Interagency Fire Center

It's tribal records, artifacts, art, regalia, ceremonial grounds, things that have been passed from generation to generation, hidden, protected and preserved, repatriated and restored.

I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.

Also I would hope that after a large swath of the US has bathed in wildfire smoke for decent portions of the last few summers we would not ever want to go back especially to smoking indoors at scale. I'm old enough to have experienced the insanity of "smoking sections" and please never again

"The declines “show the uncomfortable reliance of so many markets and so much economic activity on the AI boom at the moment”, said Richard Yetsenga, chief economist and head of research at ANZ."

Or is it great i think it might be great

Parks closed, skylines vanished and officials urged residents to avoid spending much time in the polluted air. The air quality readings were so dangerous in major cities like Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee and Cleveland that one public health expert recommended that “nobody should spend time outside.”

We are working with mutual aid groups to help distribute donated masks and air purifiers. Ultimately every employer has a responsibility to provide PPE, safe working conditions and safe migrant labor housing. (Not all of them seem to realize the urgency.)

Many areas including NY, WI and MI have extremely poor air quality due to wildfire smoke. While public health agencies advise people to stay indoors and avoid strenuous activity, farm workers are out working in these conditions. 1/

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Current law treats smoke as an “exceptional event” that can be stricken from the record of “ambient air quality” and not addressed rather than contemplating actions where it happens a lot that would protect public health by reducing exposure.

But because they’re too arrogant to believe they’ll ever actually go to prison.

I’m interested in any political imagination for accountability. It has to be proactive & retroactive. It has to be spectacular. And, ideally, it would leave so many of them broke that it actually becomes a deterrent. Being poor is truly all they care about not because they don’t care about prison.

But just pointing out that relitigating fraudulent and corrupt non-convictions, dismissals and pardons etc is even on the table for deeply centrist institutionalists like former DOJ attorneys. That seemed notable.

I needed to be outside quite a bit during a bad wildfire smoke day last week and had an awful flare of eczema soon after, something I've never experienced before. The consequences of environmental devastation are wide ranging and in public health, not well understood bc of the recency and severity.

Rev. Ed King, one of the last surviving founders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and a longtime ally of Black Mississippians throughout the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, died on Saturday, July 4, at age 89.

gonna start talking like this to my boss

It's an 80s power ballad kind of day.

That the minority leader voted against something the most recent leader voted for, with the majority of the party...that's the whole job is to whip votes and keep your caucus in line. If you aren't doing that then you have no business being in the role.

here is a link: an7gc.ca/donate/

the community is accepting donations via etransfer to [email protected] you are supposed to put your full name in the comments so they can issue you a reciept.

I am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times

It's hard and also notable when the editor selects passive voice

I feel like most of my interpersonal issues boil down to "the way you are stating this makes it sound as though I am a robot that's powered down in a basement waiting to be turned on and am immediately available to you at your request, with infinite time and energy to devote to it when I get it."

It’s so important to remind people that we can do good smart things that help and don’t hurt.

I wrote about Kerri Greenidge because the vague-accusation-to-career-ending-punishment math isn’t mathing. Show us the work. substack.com/home/post/p-...

goddamn

Being the curator of a dance archive means I spent part of today looking for photos of tassled bra and brief sets from a nightclub performer and when someone asked about "tableaux" (frozen posed scenes in a performance) referenced the ONE GRECIAN URN parts of Music Man

Librarian/archivist here. Concur and also crediting photographers whose work is used, noting when you're pointing to an older source or breaking news especially if the headline is, as they often are, click bait. Citations aren't just for academic papers, they help people know who to credit!

I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.

I decided to do a full medical write up including family history both bc my memory and recall are terrible on the fly and to see if there's anything obvious that stands out to me for what I'll call "compex, chronic" stuff. I'm including a family history writeup my dad did in 2013...

As an archivist who regularly works with the "stuff of history" meaning documents that show me over and over the character of people celebrated based primarily on the positions of authority they've been in: yes, join us.

"Mr. Conner and Mr. Newman began their efforts in 2018 with a few armfuls of backpacks. By 2026, they and almost 40 volunteers had distributed more than 180,000 packs to people living on the streets of Manhattan."

*pinches bridge of nose, eyes closed, takes a deep breath* so do we have ANY idea how many living US Senators there are right now?

Climate change and the wildfire smoke this past week has just been a smorgasbord of new and different ways my body is unhappy about it. In case it's relevant to anyone else: www.health.harvard.edu/blog/one-sur...

Please let this become an excuse for people to nerd out about the Hundred Years War or the Maginot Line or something

I'm only somewhat rooting for Argentina bc it will make my favorite empanada shop happy. (From 2022: denverite.com/2022/12/18/a...)

OK I see what you guys mean about Mads Mikkelsen coaching the Swiss team (apparently he's Danish, that's beside the point the resemblance is uncanny)

Super disingenuous framing by HuffPost. Look. I'm the king of calling Bernie and his Bernie Bros and the DSA Bros out on their anti-Black racism. This is not that. He was asking a *Black leftist*, how they address nonsense from *Black centrist* because as a white leftist, this is not his place.

Lamentation (flipped, detail), by Gerard David, 1515-23, 📸 by Roberto Schmidt

I always think of the otherwise apolitical While You Were Sleeping line "Argentina has great beef. Beef and Nazis"

I'm at the "Later" section of "Bad Company" please let the last 1/3 of this book not make me want to just walk into traffic

Hello from academia

This is the strangest timeline though I guess authoritarian leaders have tried to use over the hill pop stars and athletes for quasi diplomatic/propaganda purposes for quite awhile.

Still tho 😃

Let's go unions!

Crazy Ex Girlfriend is one of the best shows ever produced, at a level of difficulty that is unimaginable (t*hundreds* of original songs that are almost all bangers). It's one of the best depictions of mental illness, it has an organically amazingly diverse cast, and it pulls almost no punches.

“The social contract and social practices around an open-source contribution are just obliterated,” Nice piece in the FT on the problems of open source maintenance in the era of vibe coding.