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“In Yellowknife, where the skies have turned a treacherous deep orange, the Air Quality Index has soared to a shocking 55 times above the WHO guidelines.”

➡️ https://open.substack.com/pub/theplanet/p/canadian-wildfire-smoke-casts-a-veil?r=f6p28&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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#climate #wildfires #Canada #photography #health #science #photo #sunset

Canadian Wildfire Smoke Casts a Veil: A Photographer's Bittersweet Reality

The ominous veil of wildfire smoke looms as a significant threat to years of hard-fought progress in air quality. A newly released study featured in Nature has illuminated a disheartening revelation: in the continental United States, the gains in air quality have suffered a perilous setback. According to the study, the smoke emanating from wildfires has, since 2016, unraveled a quarter of the air quality enhancements painstakingly attained since the year 2000.

The Planet
Trump is getting worse, more dangerous, more bent on inciting violence. This is not a presidential candidate; this is a criminal defendant seeking to save his own skin no matter how much damage it causes. The media must stop pretending this is in any way a normal presidential horse race.
“Sometimes the cascade of news events can be crushing, a surreal expression of a world turned upside down..” That’s why I reflected on these 21 examples of what sanity would look like. Among them: #11. “No elected official, including an ex-president, would use his position to incite violence and increase the ongoing danger of stochastic terrorism.” https://open.substack.com/pub/america/p/in-a-sane-world-take-three?r=bb6o8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
In a Sane World (Take Three)

Here are 21 examples of what a better world would look like

America, America

If you are a TV exec, or know one, please, please, please make this happen.

#reality #TV #TVshow

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NO GO: Arkansas social media parental consent law REJECTED by court

A judge's preliminary injunction stopped a new social media parental consent law supported by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders from taking effect.

Occupy Democrats
Here is the growing list of fugitive Jan. 6 rioters running from the FBI: report https://www.rawstory.com/jan-6-2664908514/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Here is the growing list of fugitive Jan. 6 rioters running from the FBI: report

Last month’s arrest of Eric Bochene, a Jan. 6 defendant, just over two weeks after he failed to show up for his pretrial hearing in Washington D.C., is part of a new trend in the ongoing prosecutions of those in connection with the attack on the Capitol, CBS News reports. The New York state man, cha...

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A New Rudy Scandal: FBI Agent Says Giuliani Was Co-opted by Russian Intelligence

The whistleblower says his probe of Giuliani’s ties to suspected Russian operatives was thwarted.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/a-new-rudy-scandal-fbi-agent-says-giuliani-was-co-opted-by-russian-intelligence/

A new Rudy scandal: FBI agent says Giuliani was co-opted by Russian intelligence

The whistleblower says his probe of Giuliani's ties to suspected Russian operatives was thwarted.

Mother Jones
This whole fiasco just gets funnier and funnier.

Hey, everybody, the CDC says we should stop eating raw cookie dough because 18 people were sickened.

Meanwhile, keep breathing in #COVID19 in big crowded spaces without a mask. It's only hospitalized 422,000 and killed 38,000 Americans so far in 2023.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/05/25/raw-cookie-dough-salmonella-illness/

The CDC wants people to stop eating raw cookie dough. But it’s so tasty.

A salmonella outbreak linked to raw cookie dough has sickened at least 18 people across six states, according to the CDC.

The Washington Post

Rachel Maddow looks at Donald Trump's inability to absorb the lesson that it's a bad idea for American leaders to offer congratulations to dictators and points out that even on such an obvious mistake Ron DeSantis could muster only tepid criticism of Trump.

https://youtu.be/8pY-M3z4XkY

#press

'Do not congratulate': Trump coziness with dictators tests GOP primary opponents

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