Katrina

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

A tuxedo cat lies lazily half on her back on a window shelf. The morning sun beams on her and a shadow of part of the window falls across her flank.

Cats are art projects just waiting to happen.

Newsom releases new ad 🔥

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

Well obviously they'd like to keep as much of their war crimes concealed as possible.

Shooter opens fire outside Reno casino, killing 3 and injuring several others A gunman opened fire Monday outside the largest casino in Reno, Nevada, killing three people and wounding three others before police shot the suspect and arrested him, officials said.

A gunman opened fire Monday outside the largest casino in Reno, Nevada, killing three people and wounding three others before police shot the suspect and arrested him, officials said.

Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."

A screencap of an e-book version of Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire. Some parts are highlighted for the app to bookmark the passage. "A familiar and plaintive admonition; I would like to introduce here an entirely new argument in what has now become a stylized debate: the wilderness should be preserved for political reasons. We may need it someday not only as a refuge from excessive industrialism but also as a refuge from authoritarian government, from political oppression. Grand Canyon, Big Bend, Yellowstone and the High Sierras may be required to function as bases for guerrilla warfare against tyranny. What reason have we Americans to think that our own society will necessarily escape the world-wide drift toward the totalitarian organization of men and institutions? This may seem, at the moment, like a fantastic thesis. Yet history demonstrates that personal liberty is a rare and precious thing, that all societies tend toward the absolute until attack from without or collapse from within breaks up the social machine and makes freedom and innovation again possible." -Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

I guess we should have expected the park rangers to lead the resistance!

Um, no. If our federal taxes aren't paying for disaster relief then are we even 'United' States? Or is it just trying to be a mafia 'protection' scheme now?

A tuxedo cat displaying the Flehmen response and looking up into the light to the right of the frame after sniffing the arm lying next to her.

My cat, literally every time I come back in from outside.

I think this is my favourite report cover of all time. Any others?

Rereading the phenomenal Lies My Teacher Told Me after some years, and am reminded that Helen Keller called Woodrow Wilson "the greatest individual disappointment the world has ever known."

What a fantastic turn of phrase for a very particular situation.

I may catch a lot of heat for this, but did you know it's possible to just not eat eggs?

Every time I hear Xiye speak, I learn something new. Now, more than ever, we need voices like hers - original, compelling, and grounded. If you care about climate, watch this! ⬇️

You can say, “gravity isn’t real,” but if you step off the cliff, you’re still going down.

And if you convince other people it’s not real, you are responsible for what happens if they make decisions based on the information you withheld.

Wildfire climate connection Climate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last ...

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change.

Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:

www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

If beginning, one should begin well, with a cat.