Jamie Bear

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Science stuff, but not a scientist. Fud and infrequent food writer. Old skoool DCist (RIP!) and former Eater DC. I want to see pics of your dog!

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Project 2025 treats climate science - not climate change - as the problem that must be solved. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-manda...

Project 2025 will double down on protections for fossil fuel industries while killing clean power initiatives, while this is going on, but the media is mostly focused elsewhere for some idiotic reason www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Temperatures 1.5C above pre-industrial era average for 12 months, data showswww.theguardian.com Copernicus Climate Change Service says results a ‘large and continuing shift’ in the climate

This is A+. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Satanists to volunteer in Florida schools in protest at DeSantis religious billwww.theguardian.com Satanic Temple objects to governor’s push for more religion in schools and says members could act as student chaplains

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Happy #primeweek! I just want to let y’all know that the Amazon shipping warehouse where my husband works is denying workers fans during a nationally recognized heat emergency and everything you order during time week places workers’ lives at risk.

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I have some brand spanking new presidential #debate opinions for an outlet willing to print them: Donald trump is a fucking rapist who will enact fascism in the United States.

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Great piece about Washington DC's history boundary stones

Hunt for the nation's oldest monuments, and prepare to get muddywww.npr.org A series of small sandstone monuments marked the boundaries of the nation's capital in the 1700s. Most are still there, but they don't get a lot of visitors.

I’ve been thinking a lot about this section of Barack Obama’s autobiography and how his role was to make the hard decisions because the easy ones were made somewhere lower in the chain. barackobama.medium.com/how-i-approa...

How I Approach the Toughest Decisionsbarackobama.medium.com Our choices reflect and determine who we are.

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Just going to put this out there: Biden has been the most legislatively effective president since LBJ. The most pro-labor president WW2. He's done more re climate change than any POTUS. He's built an international coalition for Ukraine despite Russia-fueld GOP opposition. And yeah: he's hella old.

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This summer's COVID-19 surge isn't just out west, per new CDC figures out today COVID-19 emergency room visits in Florida have also climbed steeply in recent weeks, and are now near this past winter's peaks covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...

Last week, CDC's wastewater tracking of SARS-CoV-2 officially reached "high" across western states Some of worst levels in this region have been in Hawaii, which has also been seeing COVID-19 ER visits higher than recent peaks covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...

The best state. Don’t at me.

Congratulations to @bsky.app, which just passed the six million users mark. That's roughly the size of the population of the great state of Maryland. Please have some cake (crab OR Smith Island, or both!) to celebrate!

Looking forward to the day when we go back to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and sawdust in our dry goods. \hopefully obvious sarcasm

federal regulators will soon be entirely decorative at which point we can all bask in the glories of a truly innovative free market

Federal judge partially blocks U.S. ban on noncompeteswww.npr.org A federal judge in Texas has partially blocked the government's ban on noncompetes. An estimated 30 million U.S. workers are subject to the employment agreements.

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This includes Jeni’s and Dolcezza for those in the DC area

A wide range of ice cream products have been recalled due to potential contamination with listeria. www.newsweek.com/ice-cream-re...

Ice cream recall: Full list of brands impactedwww.newsweek.com The FDA has recalled 67 products across 13 brands.

Bit the bullet and did what I should have long ago and canceled my NYT sub. FYI if you are desperate to read an NYT or WaPo article you can get a renewable one-day pass from the DC Library (does not include cooking or crosswords).

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After spending the last year drafting a plan to conserve the Chesapeake watershed, with constant political pressure that a changing climate is “a distraction”… I’m feeling some kind of way that nearly a million people can’t safely drink tap water because record heat led to algal blooms

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Check out #DogsAtPollingStations 🐕. You’re welcome.

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More trains please.

Someone wore these earrings at last year’s Fourth of July party and vibes.

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Arlington: if you’re wondering if there’s a Covid surge locally, one data point from the Walgreens on Langdon Blvd: they have zero covid tests any more. Not Binax, not Walgreens brand. Nada. They had tons of boxes last month. I bought the last two today.

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Reminder from a Pittsburgher who was at one point Mr. Rogers neighbor: “Look for the helpers” was intended to be advice for his usual audience, children. We’re grown ups now. We’re supposed to be the helpers.

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This is the first headline I found after looking it up. I mean, what the fuck. edition.cnn.com/2024/07/02/p...

RFK Jr. denies eating a dog while sidestepping sexual assault allegations in Vanity Fair article | CNN Politicsedition.cnn.com Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has denied allegations made in a new Vanity Fair report that he had previously eaten a dog while sidestepping accusations of sexual assault lev...

Watched the Miami episode of No Reservations with Iggy Pop and it’s heartbreaking. So many episodes of Bourdain’s shows have a twinge of sadness.

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DC I really need a Pimms cup right now where can I find a good one

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For anyone doing this: USPS prices are going up on July 14th. Postcard stamps are going up from 53¢ to 56¢, & regular stamps are going up by 5¢. I think you can order them at the old prices from USPS until the 13th. USPS sells one variety of 'forever' postcard stamp: store.usps.com/store/produc...

I just signed up to write postcards to get out the vote in swing states. You can, too! www.turnoutpac.org/postcards/

Postcards to Swing States - Progressive Turnout Projectwww.turnoutpac.org Voters who receive handwritten postcards are significantly more likely to vote. We proved it in 2020.

My dentist is having a “cocktail attire” party to celebrate a new office opening. This seems like a sign to change dentists.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI.

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Most *white* Americans. There is no country on earth that imprisons more of its population than the US. Prisoners disproportionately Black. The US leads the world in child executions. Not a typo. Disproportionately Black. Life expectancy for US Black folk lower than for Uighur Chinese. Not a typo

Pretty much. What it mostly boils down to is that most Americans really don’t have the faintest idea what living under modern authoritarian regimes actually looks like, and how it’s often at the same time way more boring and way more scary than they’d imagined.

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A seasonal wave of #Covid is sweeping across the U.S., driven by the FLiRT variants, a trio of the latest #SARSCoV2 mutants making the rounds. So no, it's not your imagination. People are getting Covid again www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Yep, people are getting COVID againwww.seattletimes.com A seasonal COVID-19 wave appears to be underway with cases growing or likely growing in 39 states.

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Had we listened to Anita Hill, we wouldn't be here today. Had we listened to the women sexually abused by Trump, we wouldn't be here today. Had we listened to Christine Blasey Ford, we wouldn't be here today.

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A worthwhile read for those who aren't sure Biden has been a good president. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

30 Things Joe Biden Did as President You Might Have Missedwww.politico.com Drone armies, expanded overtime pay and over-the-counter birth control pills are just some of the new things Biden has ushered in as president that you might not have heard about.

So one thing that is supposed to help reduce symptoms is to avoid stress. Well… hahaha guess who feels queasy right now. So here are some more cute animals.

Woke up and had my first attack of positional vertigo for a few hours. I rolled over and it felt like my bed collapsed and the entire room was spinning, except it was my eyes twitching so fast it gives you nausea and headache. Luckily my sister has it and I knew to focus on one point in the room.

Who wants to join me in writing? I’ll throw a party.

I just signed up to write postcards to get out the vote in swing states. You can, too! www.turnoutpac.org/postcards/

Postcards to Swing States - Progressive Turnout Projectwww.turnoutpac.org Voters who receive handwritten postcards are significantly more likely to vote. We proved it in 2020.