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Homes flooded in Kipnuk

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Y'all, Portland is a war zone. It's burning down. It's out of control. People are terrified to go outside.

Things I do not care about:

How thin is your computer device.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Live from "war ravaged" Portland

We're on a mission from god.

Trump has authorized excessive force in the apprehension of the criminals know as “the blues brothers” via a truth social post

Someone put together six hours of streaming 'radio' as if it were a WKRP broadcast.

www.awphooey.com/ohio

Meh. Just muddling through. Dad passed away so figuring out the feels that go with that. Out of a job in the next few months. Probably drinking too much. Wheeee.

In other late-stage-capitalism news, disneyland officially kicks Halloween 'season' on August 22.

I'm sure Marco Rubio has some free time.

No money for flood recovery, but hey...

Mary Church Terrell was one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree, and became known as a national activist for civil rights and suffrage.

#1stWaveFeminism
#CivilRights
#NAACP
#Suffragist
#VotesForWomen
#WyrdWomen

This from Wyden is striking:

"Epstein clearly had access to enormous financing to operate his sex trafficking network, and the details on how he got the cash to pay for it are sitting in a Treasury Department filing cabinet."

He lays out roadmap for DOJ to follow:

newrepublic.com/article/1982...

EPSTEIN LATEST: In light of what we released last week from my staff's investigation, I'm handing Trump's DOJ a ready-made case with seven different lines of investigation for them to follow the money on Jeffrey Epstein.

One day, maybe fifty thousand years from now, an archeologist will name us for our individually packaged in plastic not marked for resale half-avocados and a brand new branch of taxonomy will flourish under the heading Homo Erectus Imbecillus.

Sourdough waits for no woman or man.

And yet, I wait for sourdough.

More of this from Democrats, please.

Education is a winning issue for Democrats as long as we fight for public schools.

most logging of it was halted in the mid-90s through much gnashing of teeth, activism, and application of environmental science and law.

yet, here we are again.

i saw a one-log truck today. it hurts.

3/3

in my youth, they were more common to see rolling down from mount hood out of estacada or rumbling up the valley from the willamette or siuslaw forests.

the thing about a one-log truck; that there is old growth. we cannot replace it.

2/x

saw a one-log truck today. I-205 heading north through portland.

last time i saw a one-log truck was maybe fifteen years ago up on the olympic peninsula.

even at that time, i was stunned on account of it had been a couple of decades prior since i had seen one then.

1/x

American Government: Constitutional Foundations | Harvard University Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.

pll.harvard.edu/course/ameri...

free education.

Overall, the white minority - just 7% of the population is white - still owns the vast majority of the land in South Africa, which the World Bank has called "the most unequal country in the world."

The Associated Press would like to remind people who read:

I can't even buy lunch for government employees visiting my business.

More of this. These anti-Constitution MAGA hooligans need to be called out for their lawlessness in very direct terms.

"ancient times": "The incarnations of filial piety in various cultures are reflected by examples through history. Rabbi Eliezer (c. 100 CE) was said to have interrupted a man reading aloud the opening words of the then-banned and still-troubling Ezekiel 23.[5] Man: "Mortal, proclaim to Jerusalem her abominations..." Eliezer: "Why don't you go out and proclaim the abominations of your mother?"

"Plutarch's biography of Cicero notes that:[6] Again, in a dispute with Cicero, Metellus Nepos asked repeatedly "Who is your father?" "In your case," said Cicero, "your mother has made the answer to this question rather difficult." In the Strategies of the Warring States, it is recorded that the following was said by the King Wei of Qi after "

I'm obsessed with how much ancient history wikipedia editors managed to fit into the "yo mama" article

YouTube video by Don Giller Letterman's 1st LNwDL, February 1, 1982 (full)

'late night with david letterman' was the best thing on television but for saturday's snl and local wrestling. a thousand times funnier than the tonight show, for sure.

i've found youtube of all of them in chronological order.

i expect i will be occupied for a bit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYuh...

i just sent an audition recording for a voice acting role. first of many? or a lark?

oh, boy. where does this life take me now?

Data visualization of Myanmar conflict
myanmar.iiss.org/dashboard