Injured Kyrie having a year to mentor Cooper Flagg is easily, clearly the best chance of converting a white man to the Nation of Gods and Earths. Cooper will know who Yakub is – he will unequivocally know – before training camp ends. He'll call TJ McConnell a "cave ape"
The Senate has voted 61-35 to break filibuster on the Laken Riley Act. With the help of 10 Democrats, the bill directing the detention of migrants without due process will now advance.
Democrats also helped make the bill's authority even wider than when it was first introduced.
We truly are living through a new era of fire--one dominated by human ignitions of all kinds. Stephen Pyne, appropriately, termed our present moment the "Pyrocene." There are now reminders of this on the evening news nearly every day, in some form or another.
We breathe a huge sigh of relief that a ceasefire deal has finally been reached after 15 months of mass murder and total devastation in Gaza. The world will see the magnitude of Israel’s criminal and genocidal aggression. It will see the price of the collective failure to stop a genocide. Now let the journey of healing begin, starting with burying our dead, attending to our wounded, providing for basic human needs and rebuilding livelihoods. The world must not fail us again
The thing about fire ecology is that our side of the valley probably had 50-100 year fire intervals and the other side (south facing) might have been every decade via cultural burning. So like, it depends.
At this point I pretty much immediately disregard wildfire ecology takes that aren’t hyper-specific to an ecotype and climatological condition. “Forest do this,” “plants respond like this after a burn.” Yeah, sometimes. And sometimes something else happens.
Cops find some rando with an arson rap and pins it on them so nobody thinks twice about the actual implications of what’s happening, classic. Bonus points for the migrant/looting angle here. We’re in an era of near effortless state propaganist shit-smearing
It’s obviously true that development patterns and exurban land use exacerbate wildfire severity. That doesn’t mean climate change isn’t real and noticeable, but more importantly, it’s all part of the same system.
Remember that when Hurricane Katrina hit, hordes of bloodthirsty white fascists descended on its victims to openly hunt them under the guise of "protecting property". Fascists will always use chaos as an opportunity for scapegoating and bloodshed
Maybe before you blame Karen Bass for cutting all that money for the fire department you should consider that she only did it because conservatives told her to. Bet you feel pretty silly now