Kate Birrell

@urkamabi
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The latte art in Tokyo is next level 🤯 I asked for a bear, Sophie asked for a tiger, and Lottie asked for Munchlax from Pokémon.
We risk being seen as the animals who shit in the woods, warn senior bears

Alberto Gonzales Lectures Jack Goldsmith about Perception versus Reality in a Democracy

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/08/13/alberto-gonzales-lectures-jack-goldsmith-about-perception-versus-reality-in-a-democracy/

Alberto Gonzales Lectures Jack Goldsmith about Perception versus Reality in a Democracy - emptywheel

Last week, it fell to Alberto Gonzales to school Jack Goldsmith that you don't defend democracy and rule of law by parroting the false claims Donald Trump makes in an effort to end both.

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This morning's sunrise over Liathach (and two herons).
twitter is rebranding as X and my only response to that is Y

Good grief! John Burn-Murdoch: “NEW: 85 people in Arizona suffered severe burns from contact with pavements heated up to 180F (82C). 7 of them died. In total, 257 people had underlying cause of death listed as "exposure to excessive natural heat".

This is not a forecast for 50 years time, it’s happening today.”

https://www.ft.com/content/de449d0d-0558-48da-90b9-5bb4fe809dab (💵)

#ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateChange #ClimateExtremes

What we get wrong when we talk about global warming

We emphasise the wrong numbers in what is a present reality, not a future threat

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05:30 this morning - Loch an Loin & Glasnock.

Yes @emptywheel. Thank you. Now let’s ask why& what the consequences are of the media & expert analysts on cable TV constantly whitewashing Trump’s targeting of Black voters.Below are my tweets from the KKK Act suit the NAACP LDF filed right after the election. It was there in plain sight.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/07/20/trumps-attack-on-black-votes-was-there-the-whole-time-we-just-didnt-call-it-a-crime/

https://twitter.com/sifill_/status/1341420795520831488?s=46&t=zr8OwjRATtdNOqo_RsX0eQ

Trump's Attack on Black Votes Was There the Whole Time, We Just Didn't Call It a Crime - emptywheel

Trump deployed threats of violence to make it harder to count the votes of Black and Latino voters but no one treated it as a crime.

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