*New England intensifies*

If you appoint an incompetent panel of political hacks, you get what you paid for. Good on CDC staff. I expect an absurd blowup from merchant of Death, Bobby.

The Dems are basically just a european coalition of 5 parties (you got your centrist business types, you got your libs, you got your socialists, you got your greens, etc) that forms before the election rather than after it

The exodus is underway. A lot of birds headed back south tonight

New from 404 Media: we've obtained a leak from inside Palantir describing Palantir's plan to help ICE find people to deport. Includes peoples' location. Palantir is expecting a backlash, preparing comments for employees to tell their family. Says ICE "mature partner"

www.404media.co/leaked-palan...

First approved drug for mitochondrial disease could pave way for more treatments. buff.ly/f6qmmWP

talk to the toes

Coming from Connecticut, this is why I refer to the 203 vs the 860.

203 is the area code down by NYC. Fits nicely with that "tri state area" ... 203 is the Stepford Wives part of the state. 203 commutes to NYC.

860 is proper New England. Old mill towns and colonial era stuff everywhere.

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

The world is on fire all I want is for Yankees fans to suffer IS THIS SO MUCH TO ASK

There will not be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, the FAA is warning.

Now on the seventh day of the government shutdown, the same scenario is playing out at FAA offices across the country, with ripple effects hitting flights almost everywhere.

I find N95s with head straps a lot more comfortable and that helped me a lot with masking all day, but that's not really what they asked for 😅

I've been working on a book proposal and alternating between "this is meaningful" and "this is pointless," and a friend recently shared this quote that she stumble on in a Goodreads review: "Every book is a grand gesture of optimism on the part of both the reader and writer." Keep creating, friends.

Representatives of every demographic: Black, White, Asian, Wheelchair, Girl, and Yordle

The U.S. soy market problem is going to cause massive problems with corn in coming years, as soy is rotated in the same fields with corn to keep corn rootworm populations low.

If farms switch to corn only, we’ll see pest resurgences and increased pesticide use.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

the fascism is for sure happening now. all the far flung harms you anxiously laughed off before are on the table. take time to think earnestly and calmly what you need to do to stay safe and survive. the time for brushing it off as alarmism or prematurity is over.

Y'all in love or something

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

FINALLY YAY

suddenly paying (a lot) more for water and electric?

you can thank the data centers