No lie.

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When I was back home I spent an afternoon volunteering at the food bank my mom helps run. It’s in a mid sized Midwestern city. It was pretty eye opening. These are people who are really reliant on the social safety net that the BBB slashed. Here’s a list of observations 1/x

I’m here in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, where military style vehicles have pulled up down Wilshire and Alvarado, amid rumors of an ICE raid in the park have proliferated since last night

The academic’s mid-summer crisis is a mid-life crisis in miniature:

You realize summer is half gone, & not only that: you see that the longest & least burdened days came early, & they are well past. You compare all you thought you’d do against the days remaining & grieve for what never will be

I assure you, none of them are mine.

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Well…

If you watched Andor, you know what's going on right now in Los Angeles.

YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO Johnny Cash - Hurt

As I wake to the 81st day of the Fall of the American Empire, the question I contemplate:

Which version of "Hurt" is more appropriate as a soundtrack to the decline? The Johnny Cash cover, or the Nine Inch Nails original? 🤔
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The problem is that cuts to cancer research don't have an immediate impact. The research being done right now doesn't save lives right now. It's going to save lives ten, twenty years from now. It's just not tangible.

It will be something. Disease outbreak, national disaster, major infrastructure failure... Who knows. Something is going to happen and they will be completely unprepared to handle it because they fired everyone who knew what to do.

YouTube video by Adam Conover Debunking L.A. Wildfire Myths with Climate Scientist Dr. Daniel Swain

Just finished a recent Factually! podcast episode where @adamconover.net interviews @weatherwest.bsky.social about the recent Los Angeles #wildfires. The podcast provides outstanding context on the various factors that came together and debunks myths. I highly recommend watching it. #cawx 🧪

One day?

YouTube video by PettyYou007 Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967

It's an old song. But I think it has a vibe for today's stress.

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A phone picture looking at an apartment building with a few palm trees in front of it, near dusk. The sky is still blue, but looming behind the building in the distance is an enormous cloud of smoke from the Palisades Fire near Los Angeles. The smoke is stained orange from the sun behind it.

🧵 I live in Los Angeles. We have not had to evacuate and are safe, but like many people here, I have friends who have lost everything. I realize I can't combat the firehose (see what I did there?) of bullshit spewing about this disaster from internet and media sources, but I'll say this:

I know many people that had to evacuate and at least one family that lost their home, from a fire that started and spread to 10000 acres in less than 24 hours. This rhetoric has me livid.

Just an example. Last week my family spent the day in Los Angeles. We took Metro trains almost everywhere, but there was one thing we wanted to visit that wasn't on a Metro line. We took a Waymo there and took a Waymo back to another Metro station to ride the train back home.

I kept changing my mind which Carter cartoon i should go with. Here's all three.

Under my tree this morning.