every time I see a new share of the "State Farm has uninsured 50k homes in california because fire" piece I can't stop thinking about how their tagline is "Like a good neighbour, State Farm is there"
This is an oldie but gift link on why you if you're near fires right now you want to be inside with an air purifier and if you have to go outside wearing the tightest sealing N95/KN95/KF94 is a really good idea
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
⚠️ URGENT ACTION ALERT TO STOP ANTI-IMMIGRANT BILL ⚠️
✨Call your Senators via the Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
✨Once you're connected, say: "Hello, I am a constituent, and I urge the Senator to vote NO on the Laken Riley Act."
✨After you're done, ask 3 of your friends to call
NYU up to some more bullshit
The fires in L.A. have caused terrible air quality conditions across the region. Here are ways you can protect yourself, and your children, from the health impacts of wildfire smoke.
*looks directly at U.S. universities and their comms people*
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Planet Fitness locations in Los Angeles are “offering anyone impacted by the fires—first responders and residents—free access to shower, recharge, and relax”
No membership is required to take advantage of locker rooms, WiFi, charging stations at any LA County location not impacted by the fires.
Lindsey Bestebreurtje is a curatorial assistant at Smithsonian’s NMAAHC. This interview is based on her new book, Built by the People Themselves: African American Community Development in Arlington, Virginia, from the Civil War through Civil Rights currentpub.com/2025/01/07/t...
When a liberal area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “God is punishing them.”
When a conservative area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “Democrats control weather machines.”
Must be hard going through life as a full-blown idiot.
Some Dems have this visceral urge to respond to batshit GOP ideas with "Of course I'll consider that!"
They think it makes them sound reasonable. But it actually just makes MAGA sound reasonable. It's a strategic self own.
Don't overthink this. Call out stupid shit and say no. It's not that hard.
it’s the culture war above all. the libs like clean, efficient energy? well then, fuck clean, efficient energy.
400,000 Americans lost their lives to Covid because of Trump's incompetence. He's not changed one bit because of it. American lives and deaths mean nothing to him.
Facebook is censoring 404 Media stories about Facebook's censorship
🔗 www.404media.co/facebook-is-...
FREE WATER: The Walmart location on Sheila Lane will be giving away cases of bottled water this afternoon.
When: Wednesday, Jan. 8 from 3 p.m. until supplies last
Where: 2410 Sheila Lane, Richmond, VA 23225
"This isn’t about free speech. It’s about allowing some people to harm others through vitriol – and providing the tools of amplification to help them.
This isn’t about shareholder value. It’s about a kayfabe war between tech demagogues vying to be the most powerful boy in the room."
Emails obtained by The Appeal show Virginia Department of Corrections officials discussing how to punish people at Red Onion State Prison who self-immolated.
"We need to make sure they know they won’t gain anything….but making them pay money is good too"
theappeal.org/red-onion-vi...
If you’re a disaster researcher willing and able to do wildfire interviews can you let me know so I can pass your info along to journalists?
Mark Zuckerberg cited a "cultural tipping point" to justify dumping fact-checks and relaxing hate speech rules. I wrote about how, for Meta, these kinds of tipping points seem to come along every four years. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Los Angeles received just 0.16 inches of rain since May 2024, the second-driest period on record.
Wildfires are now engulfing the city in January.
But some politicians still claim the climate crisis is a "hoax" as they do the bidding of Big Oil.
What planet are they living on?
If you’re in L.A. I’m hearing that the Planet Fitnesses are offering a place to charge phones, shower etc in case you don’t have access to power
To find a relief center near you, go to the links below for The Red Cross or Salvation Army’s relief centers.
www.redcross.org/get-help/dis...
www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/wildfire...
You know it's some bullshit when UCLA won't close for a damn inferno but will close because of protests. Utterly ridiculous.
I enjoyed my conversation with journalist Maria Smilios, who joined me on Left of Black to discuss her important book "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbj3...
Thomas Jefferson was a Deist. So was Washington. Deism is a philosophical belief that the universe operates by natural laws and that human reason can solve social and political problems.
This is a laughably poor choice to support their Xian nation myth.
PRAYER OF THOMAS JEFFERSON ALMIGHTY GOD, Who has given us this good land for our heritage, we humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will. Bless our land with honorable industry and prosperity. SAVE Us from violence, discord and confusion; from pride and arrogance, and every evil way. Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindreds and tongues. ENDOW with the Spirit of wisdom those to whom in Thy Name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that through obedience to Thy law, we may show forth Thy praise among the nations of the earth. IN THE TIME of prosperity, fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in Thee to fail; all of which we ask through JESUS CHRIST. OUR LORD. - Amen.
FWIW, here's a 1970 version of that apocryphal Thomas Jefferson prayer that Mike Johnson read in the House of Representatives today. It appeared in The Cross and the Flag, the magazine of Gerald LK Smith, a white supremacist & Christian Nationalist who was America's most notorious antisemite.
