Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

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What's the opposite of apocalypse? Trying to chronicle that.

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People weren't lying about Prednisone dreams

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They’re already doing the birtherism again. Lol

If they do put Kamala Harris on the top of the ticket, I am prepared for a level of misogynoir unwitnessed since Rosa Parks sat down on that bus.

I thought that was Michigan

The reason the Pacific Northwest is so fascinating and eerie to Americans is because it functions as a gateway to an uncanny realm of magic and terror (Canada)

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DEATH VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — A person has died from the heat and another is hospitalized as temperature reaches 128 in California's Death Valley.

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And sometimes they'll even sue u for sharing their printed and 3 ring bound evil plans www.dispatch.com/story/news/c....

An Ohio parent joined LifeWise Academy to post its curriculum online. Now it's suing himwww.dispatch.com Zachary Parrish learned about the nonprofit Christian instructional program three years ago, when a public school teacher tried to enroll his daughter.

All you really need to know is it CAUSES IMMUNE AMNESIA. Imagine getting every single cold, infection vaccination all over again.

Most Americans don’t think about measles because vaccination had largely eliminated the scourge from the U.S. in 2000. But many Americans who survived measles as children never forgot how sick they were. These are some of their stories.

Isolation, extreme fatigue, lingering misery: What it’s like to survive measleswww.washingtonpost.com Measles is back, after vaccination largely eliminated it from the United States. Survivors describe having one of the most contagious diseases on Earth.

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Long elections waste immense amounts of money. they harass potential voters into apathy. They play into the horse-race, scandal-fed view of politics that feeds deeply unserious media coverage. They NOT INCIDENTALLY make it difficult/impossible for campaigns to deal with last-minute surprises.

note how long it took the French from calling the election to holding not 1 but 2 votes? and organizing the shit out of the second one? LESS THAN ONE MONTH A national election does not have to be a painful 1.5-2 year process! the US election campaign should quite honestly not even have started yet!!

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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project 2025 has come up in my celiac groups. they are attacking food & safety labels

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Wow. @nytimes.com has closed their Threads account and left the platform after days of getting just shredded in the replies for their handling of Biden post debate. Now they're getting dog piled on Instagram for running from Threads.

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This figure illustrates how record warm ocean temperatures fueled Hurricane Beryl, causing it to intensify faster, reach greater strength, maintain that strength for longer, and likely dump more rain than it would have otherwise. Source: www.bbc.com/news/article...

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I for one am glad the Cybertruck exists bc what other vehicle is out there providing nonstop hits like this

Isn't this one of the theories behind that kidney condition some farmworkers get California and florida?

By the time your 45 yo and in good condition, if your position puts you in outdoors for 8 hours the organ damage from our climate heat increase will begin to become visible. You may not have a diagnosed condition but the heart & lungs are working much harder than a 45 yo outdoor worker in 1974

Whose byline?

I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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Hey look, WSJ lying to its readers again. "More than 1,200 coal-fired units have shut down in the U.S. and Europe since 2000, according to Global Energy Monitor. This has made electricity systems more vulnerable to extreme weather, as coal is a stable source of energy, albeit highly polluting"

www.wsj.com

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The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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“Now that we know felons can be white, we’re massive fans of crime.”

I don’t even know where to begin with this.

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Four NASA volunteers are exiting a simulated Mars base after a year of isolation. I don't know how much news they had access to but can you fucking imagine re-entering the world in July of 2024. www.scrippsnews.com/science-and-...

A NASA crew is about to finish a yearlong Mars mission isolation experimentwww.scrippsnews.com NASA is concluding a yearlong Mars mission experiment — and four volunteers are set to leave a simulated Mars habitat that they've been living in since June of last year.

Gonna watch Boondocks while I clean my livingroom

A person on their own can kill maybe a few hundred people. White collar crimes have killed tens of thousands. Its hard not to look at the Bhopal disaster (union carbide India was 50.1,% USA owned) and think that wasn't violent

A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes. It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.

NYC shifting climate zones is really hitting me this summer because every so often now it will hit this heat humidity mix and suddenly NYC smells the way I remember Haiti smelling when I was a kid and it's unsettling.

Social media helped me build a career but ok

The very worst thing about social media, including this site and the Bad Site and every other site, is the illusion that by posting on it you’re accomplishing anything.

My 2024 hot take is: gatekeep like hell. You find a beautiful location tell only your closest friends. Keep that shit off social media. Unless you're talking about a literal stadium with explicit capacity keep that gem to yourself. Make people work for it

Travel influencer tik tok is wild. Just saw a video of influencers acting like governments are trying to "gatekeep" us from going to Myanmar

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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

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Welp, the "I caught covid at ALA" posts are rolling in. As well as at least NWL librarian who attended an award knowing she had covid.

The reason im in a boot is because my doctor said if I was somewhere car dependent she could trust me not to walk but since I live in NYC walking is kind of necessary so boot for me. It's like she was mocking my journalism about the downsides of car dependency

I'm on a course of drugs and with insurance the drugs were 5 dollars but the ice pack was 20 and idk why this is funny to me

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MOAR TRAINS!!!!!!!!

More trains please.

If the NYT was a person I'd punch it in the face tbh