Quiz: Are You Being Nice Enough About the Climate Apocalypse? ❧ “The world is on fire! But let’s talk about your tone, okay?” (Current Affairs) Our climate change turning point is right here, right now (Guardian) The ocean is full of tiny plastic particles – we found a way to track them with satellites (Attention to the Unseen) Heatwaves and drought are killing trees at an alarming rate (Attention to the Unseen) Heat Wave Killed Marine Wildlife en Masse (New York Times) ‘This Is What Bipartisanship Looks Like’: Vicious Fire Tornado Caught on Film in California — “Climate policy isn’t about imagining a spectrum from left to right and finding the sweet spot in the middle.

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The Capitol Fence Comes Down (HillRag) The footprint of the fencing was reduced to the Capitol Square itself the weekend of Mar. 13 and 14th. Matthew visited the Capitol Grounds Friday with his 22-month son. The family lives nearby, and said that the Capitol Grounds are part of the neighborhood. “I felt a little bit of emotion,” he confessed of the moment he saw the fence dismantled. He said he felt lucky to witness such historic moments, but views the future with a touch of cynacism [sic].

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Opinion: Climate change is about greed. It’s time for big oil to pay us back — “America’s test, therefore, has come down to the question of honesty, honor and survival. Can we overcome corporate greed and a broken political system to save our nation and our world?” (CNN) June Was Hottest on Record for North America, Fourth Hottest Globally (New York Times) Climate change: US-Canada heatwave ‘virtually impossible’ without warming (BBC News) We Are Not Ready — “On the climate crisis and other hyperobjects” (Charlie Warzel - Galaxy Brain) Biden Defends Ending a War He’s Not Fully Ending (David Swanson: Let’s Try Democracy) Biden Drafting Executive Order to Promote ‘Right to Repair’ (PCMag) Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump — “…He relies on two internal metrics, known internally as GFW, Good-for-the-World, and CAU, Cares-about-the-world.

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It’s been a rough couple of weeks, and this and subtweeting the nature of my sleep interruptions is how I vent. But there are good things too, I wish felt like I could share them fully on the open Internet. My kiddo is into making dinosaur noises and I’ve got a sweet video of it from this morning. He seems to be on the tail end of this bout of HF&M.

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War on Science Persists Within Biden EPA as Staffers Allege Chemical Reports Altered (Common Dreams) Climate Change Drove Western Heat Wave’s Extreme Records, Analysis Finds (New York Times) I fucking hope so. (Keten Joshi on Twitter) Erik Prince Planned to Create Private Army in Ukraine: Exclusive (Time) Campaign to Rein in Mega IRA Tax Shelters Gains Steam in Congress Following ProPublica Report (ProPublica) The Rise and Fall of the Ultimate Doomsday Prepper (Intercept) The Tech Cold War’s ‘Most Complicated Machine’ That’s Out of China’s Reach (New York Times) Trump files class action lawsuits targeting Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube over ‘censorship’ of conservatives (Washington Post) Iceland tried a four-day work week.

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At the end of last week my wife and I were congratulating ourselves for missing a Hand, Foot and Mouth outbreak at our daycare. But, by Saturday morning it was clear something was off about the kiddo and a rocky weekend was underway. By Saturday afternoon, blisters were visible. By Sunday he had broken out and he had a fever. Luckily he kept eating, drinking enough to not get dehydrated and children’s Tylenol and Motrin do their thing fairly well.

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Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored) — “We are now living our ancestors’ nightmares, and it didn’t have to be this way” (Guardian) Climate Change Is Making It Harder for Campers to Beat the Heat — ‘It’s not just camp days that have changed; with climate change, nights don’t cool down as much. … Fans at night used to be enough to cool both cabins and campers.

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At 245, America’s Old Enough to Be Honest About Its Founding (Intercept) ‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’ by Frederick Douglass (Nation) A Fourth of July Symbol of Unity That May No Longer Unite — ‘David Surozenski, a Republican, refused to add Trump flags to his display. “That’s not the way I was brought up,” he said. “The American flag political? No.”’ (New York Times) I can admire that.

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