tingilinde

comments on libertarian anti-maskers

Pointing to one prominent one who seems to think she's a hero..  well written.

 

 

college collaboration houses

If college is online you can be anywhere.

 

delusionals

Time on conspiracy theories - mass delusions is more fitting.

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On a cigarette break outside their small business in Ozaukee County, Tina Arthur and Marcella Frank told me they plan to vote for Trump again because they are deeply alarmed by “the cabal.” They’ve heard “numerous reports” that the COVID-19 tents set up in New York and California were actually for children who had been rescued from underground sex-trafficking tunnels.

Arthur and Frank explained they’re not followers of QAnon. Frank says she spends most of her free time researching child sex trafficking, while Arthur adds that she often finds this information on the Russian-owned search engine Yandex. Frank’s eyes fill with tears as she describes what she’s found: children who are being raped and tortured so that “the cabal” can “extract their blood and drink it.” She says Trump has seized the blood on the black market as part of his fight against the cabal. “I think if Biden wins, the world is over, basically,” adds Arthur. “I would honestly try to leave the country. And if that wasn’t an option, I would probably take my children and sit in the garage and turn my car on and it would be over.”

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A tip of the hat to Jim

 

And this .. not leaving burning areas 

 

 

 

 

the ami - a microcar for cities

Citroën's new electric Ami - called a light quadricycle by the French.  Aimed at the youth market with specifications that are practical mostly in urban areas.

 

on california heatwaves

Following the trend - it's likely to get worse.

 

smoke gets in your eyes..

and lungs.  A toxicologist on wildfire smoke.

 

 

dealing with fire

A piece from last year by Susie Cagle - how native people have managed fire.

 

 

going down!

Quality of life in America is plummeting.

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The United States, despite its immense wealth, military power and cultural influence, ranks 28th — having slipped from 19th in 2011. The index now puts the United States behind significantly poorer countries, including Estonia, Czech Republic, Cyprus and Greece.

“We are no longer the country we like to think we are,” said Porter.

The United States ranks No. 1 in the world in quality of universities, but No. 91 in access to quality basic education. The U.S. leads the world in medical technology, yet we are No. 97 in access to quality health care.

The Social Progress Index finds that Americans have health statistics similar to those of people in Chile, Jordan and Albania, while kids in the United States get an education roughly on par with what children get in Uzbekistan and Mongolia. A majority of countries have lower homicide rates, and most other advanced countries have lower traffic fatality rates and better sanitation and internet access.

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a tip of the hat to Greg

 

the church police

Signing up by the thousands to police the election.

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Religious right and social conservative groups are training thousands of volunteers in key 2020 battleground states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to watch for alleged fraud with the expansion of mail-in ballots, plus filing lawsuits to block more voting by mail, which they claim with scant evidence will lead to sizable election fraud.

Texas-based True the Vote, a central player in the right’s anti-vote-by-mail drives, has trained about 10,000 volunteers in areas including handwriting analysis who are expected to volunteer in key counties such as Allegheny in Pennsylvania and Las Vegas in Nevada to detect voting fraud by mail and at the polls, said True the Vote’s founder, Catherine Engelbrecht.

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ecosystems

Sea Otters and change in the Aleutians.