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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m sitting in a blacked-out room with a sick child clutching to me, listening to the world explode around us. That’s got to be a metaphor for something.
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.
Here’s hoping: Reports say Capitol Hill is coming next week though I bet the bike rack fence they had over last summer will be up for awhile https://t.co/8IQgtSlz92 — Barred in DC (@BarredinDC) July 4, 2021 Statehood for DC would be nice too. "I am trying to function as a small business, and I don't have someone in Congress that's gonna fight for me, that's gonna fight for my business, because it's in Washington, D.
Links for 3 July 2021 The North American heatwave shows we need to know how climate change will change our weather (Attention to the Unseen) Biden backs Dems into a corner on climate — “Climate activists … are worried that no one — including President JOE BIDEN and lawmakers on Capitol Hill — is doing enough to fix it, and as climate policies get swallowed up by the reconciliation process, they’re gearing up for a new pressure campaign to turn up the heat on Washington.
The heat wave here in DC, nothing like the heat dome effects of the Southwest and Northwest, has actually broken. So I did not have a hot, sleepless night. Merely a sleepless one. Still, our early and exceptional heat wave coupled with news about the western heat waves and correspondence with a friend in my childhood home turf about a heat wave in Upstate New York brought my insomniac attention to the issue of overnight temperatures.
The Mid-Atlantic region and DC were always known for stormy summers, and even catching the tail of hurricanes now and again. But yesterday, and last night especially, was intense. The Tornado Warning alerts caught us off guard. I had to check to see if was meant for us. I found I lived inside territory covered by those red boxes and ultimately under that storm track. Tornado Warned storm left rotation track right through the middle of Washington, D.