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County Emergency Official Says He Was Ill and Sleeping as Texas Floods Hit

The emergency coordinator was sick in bed (and didn't listen to either of the Texas Emergency Management Coordination calls on July 3), the sheriff didn't wake up until 4:20, and the county judge was out of town.

There always need to be backstops in case part of the response plan fails.

Whoa! I am so sorry Violet.

I do not care that you are not “surprised.” Please. You have no idea how tiresome it is when you post that something horrible, fascist, authoritarian is “not surprising.” Nothing is “surprising” anymore. But a lot of it is horrible and frightening. Let’s deal with it together.

BREAKING

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, co-star of the Cosby Show, has died after drowning.

He was 54.

TMZ reports.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

My soror shared this note from a university hiring manager. The market isn’t just wrecked. I don’t think this is just a recessionary pullback. 2,000 applications for one higherEd job is 100% a sign of a structural failure. It’s so horrible. I’m sorry.

Supreme Court says the president can’t abolish student debt, but he CAN abolish the Department of Education.

This isn’t hypocrisy. It’s end times fascism—a fatalistic politics willing torch the government and incinerate the future to maintain hierarchy and subvert democracy.

What people who never go to the fucking library never seem to realize is that librarians constantly have to retrain on new tech because libraries already are doing what this guy wants. AND they have physical books for nerds like me who live in the horse era. AND they are one of the last commons.

They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.

We are hiring! We’re seeking two Subject Librarians to lead relationship management with our academic schools and deliver engaging teaching for students at Goldsmiths.

Closing 10 Aug.

1 FTE (permanent): jobs.gold.ac.uk/vacancy/subj...
0.6 FTE (1 year fixed): jobs.gold.ac.uk/vacancy/subj...

How do they do it so fast??

Oh that’s amazing!! I think I am basically at that point. I’m just so exhausted.

I’m moving and it is THE WORST. Hitting a wall here where I need to go pack up the random little bits that haven’t made their way into a box. That’s how I send up with boxes of misc that I forget to unpack. 😫

Sometimes friendship love is @jaenarae.bsky.social sending me a calendar invite to eat at the House of Prime Rib. 😂🥩

Yeah my skin issues are out of control right now (could be stress related) but I read a water filter can help!

It took me 4 decades of life to realize that I could in fact install my own shower water filter. It was so easy!

I didn’t even know I entered a raffle! I just went to the booth to accompany a friend who wanted a giveaway plushie lol

It’s nice to feel something else besides doom.

I’m shocked but I think I actually won a raffle at ALA???

Trump's NOAA Budget Cuts Could Gut Critical Climate Modeling Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

“If we don’t understand what’s happening and why it’s happening, you can’t be adapting. … You’re just going to suffer,” said a member of NOAA’s scientific advisory board. “We’re going to see huge impacts on infrastructure and lives lost in the U.S.”

(Published April)

If you’re in the Bay Area there’s a lot of cool new stuff building, just FYI

The Approach
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(print only!)

Bay Area Current
@bayareacurrent.bsky.social

COYOTE Media
@coyotemedia.org

ORB @oaklandreviewofbooks.org

Republicans in Congress have structured the most painful benefit cuts in their budget bill to kick in AFTER the 2026 midterms. 

But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately.

Remember this.

Who needs some self soothing content? Here’s my cat chilling on the couch. #cats

We will look back on this bill as we do Hitler creating the SS and building concentration camps, Mao plunging his people into famine with his "Great Leap Forward." A stain upon our nation and everyone complicit in it a traitor to our people.

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Library workers update your community lists of food pantries, pro bono legal assistance, housing help, free period & diaper assistance and more! I have a little info here that may be useful:

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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Sad cat giving a trying and wholesome thumbs up.

Anyway, my new ice breaker will be, what’s your death plan for living in this death cult? If you respond with AI, that will be icing on the cake. LOVE THIS FOR US.

Goodbye IMLS, goodbye meager social programs that help Americans who need it the most. None of these things cost nearly as much as the tax breaks for the rich. How many times can we say we hate this?

OMG what a nightmare that we will not be waking up from. If you’re not a millionaire or billionaire, prepare to be f-ed over. I keep thinking about this post and how I (actually we) are going to die. bsky.app/profile/tres...

“It’s a weird time. I’ve still got to get to work on time, pay my bills, manage chronic illness, all that stuff, while the world in general seems to be falling apart. It can be a challenge to juggle those two things while making sure one of them doesn't completely destroy my mental health. It’s just an odd thing to be like: ‘Oh, all of these atrocities are being committed in Gaza with my tax dollars, but what am I going to eat for dinner?’ Or: ‘Trump just dismantled another check on his power. We’re slowly sliding into fascism, nobody’s stopping him-- but what concert should we go to this weekend?’ The strangest part about the whole thing is that we’ve never been so connected. I could understand if this was eighty years ago; news travelled slowly. But now, in an instant, you get these facts, photos, videos. Verified by credible news, verified by aid organizations—and nobody cares. Well, a lot of people care. But the people who can actually fix things: they don’t care. Instead of standing up for the voiceless, they’d rather lay low, cling to their money or status. It’s hard to be a person who cares right now. Sometimes you just want to melt into your bed or couch and be with your feelings. But I won’t say that I feel hopeless. I’d never say that, because that’s what they want—those people who only care about winning, who don’t care about collateral damage. They want people to feel powerless. And I’m not going to give them that luxury. There are still reasons to be hopeful. Zohran just won the primary. And that’s a sign of change, in New York City at least. Even the people who don’t agree with his politics have to admit: his campaign was built on community. It wasn’t funded by billionaires. This was a campaign of fifty thousand people who volunteered, and canvassed, and made calls. Last week a lot of people who had been feeling powerless realized that they still have some power in this country. Let’s just hope a lot more people are learning from that.”

This was posted this morning by Humans of New York and I think this captures exactly what we are all experiencing right now