"The most extreme heat wave ever recorded in the Pacific Northwest continues to shatter records for another day. Millions of people are currently under excessive heat warnings — many of them sweltering through triple-digit temperatures without air conditioning in a region that usually enjoys mild summers… Behind the misery is a weather phenomenon known as a heat dome." Thunderdome was just waiting to be used.
"Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens is coming back for a sequel season on Amazon Prime. The company announced today that it’s greenlit a sequel to its adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s fantasy novel, and that Michael Sheen and David Tennant will reprise their roles as the angel Aziraphale and demon Crowley, respectively." I'll be in my bunk. #pleasdontsuck
"A panel of 12 lawyers from around the world has proposed a legal definition for a new crime that the lawyers want to see outlawed internationally: ecocide, or widespread destruction of the environment."
"Incessant and haunting high-pitched creaks echo along the hills of the countryside surrounding Winzen's farm. They're from a bucket-wheel excavator, a machine that's taller than the Statue of Liberty, longer than Madison Square Garden and heavier than the Eiffel Tower. It holds aloft a wheel 70 feet in diameter with 18 massive buckets along its edges, each of them capable of digging six-and-a-half tons of soil."
"A black hole swallowing a neutron star — a star more massive than our sun but only about the size of a city — has been observed for the first time ever." You know that scene in Jurassic Park where the cup of water starts vibrating?
"Walmart on Tuesday said it will start selling its own private brand of analog insulin with prices that are up to 75% below the cost of competing products. Insulin prices have escalated for years, making them unaffordable for some people with diabetes." Don't make me like or praise Walmart.
"There was a sense of back to normal when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks… On Friday, the World Health Organization came out and said masks should stay on." Po-TAYT-to, po-TOT-to.
"The Delta variant is here. First identified in India, this more transmissible form of the novel coronavirus has spread to at least 77 countries and regions and now makes up more than 20 percent of all U.S. cases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified it as a 'variant of concern.' If vaccination rates fail to keep pace with its spread, experts say, the variant could lead to new COVID surges in parts of the country where a substantial proportion of the population remains unvaccinated." And from the inside, the healthcare industry really can't take another spike well.
"Kids are practically immune" they continue to say, the virus says, "hold my beer"… "There has been a COVID-19 outbreak at a central Illinois summer camp… At least 85 cases of the virus are confirmed among staff and teens at the Crossing Camp in Rushville." A coworker's kid is going through Army bootcamp this summer, out of his platoon, only 4 are not infected.
"The quality of face masks healthcare workers wear makes a huge difference to their risk of coronavirus infection, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust research has found… Wearing a high grade mask known as an FFP3 can provide up to 100% protection." Just anecdotal, that FFP3/N99 masks, before the pandemic, that's what I would wear (when I had a beard), because the N95 wouldn't seal well over a beard. We haven't had them in stock for over a year now (and it's why I'm clean shaven these days).
"Electronic cigarette giant Juul Labs Inc. will pay $40 million to North Carolina and take more action to prevent underage use and sales, according to a landmark legal settlement announced Monday after years of accusations that the company had fueled an explosion in teen vaping." Vaping is smoking which is nicotine use. The only difference is that one used a higher temperature than the other.
"A painting donated to Greece by Pablo Picasso will go back on display at the newly renovated National Gallery in Athens following its recovery more than nine years after it was stolen and the arrest of a 49-year-old construction worker as a suspect."
"A venomous pet snake escaped and remains on the loose in Raleigh… Raleigh Police Department sent out an urgent alert Tuesday morning after the zebra cobra was spotted on someone's front porch." Look, I understand the appeal, and the the twisted cultural logic around what is a pet, but seriously, stop doing this.
"You might assume that Wall Street boss James Gorman and falafel-maker David Shadaha don't have much in common. But after months of remote work, they share a goal: to get bankers back into their New York buildings." Money money money.
"Home prices in April saw an annual gain of 14.6% in April, up from a 13.3% increase in March, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index." Wow, that's gonna make a big pop.
"But the Speights didn't get the help they needed, and their experience echoes those of low-income disaster survivors across the country. FEMA's own analyses show that low-income survivors are less likely than more affluent people to get crucial federal emergency assistance, according to internal documents NPR obtained through a public records request."
"California added five more states, including Florida, to the list of places where state-funded travel is banned because of laws that discriminate against members of the LGBTQ community, the state attorney general announced Monday."
"Maricopa County, Arizona, announced Monday that it will not reuse any of the voting equipment that was in the hands of the contractors hired by the Republican-controlled state Senate to conduct its so-called audit of the 2020 presidential election results." Of course not. Also, Dominion should really change up their security systems.
"Lawyers for the Trump Organization met again Monday with prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in a last bid to forestall a potential indictment stemming from a long-running investigation into the former president’s company."
"Donald Trump told supporters he would march on the Capitol with them on 6 January – then abandoned them after a tense exchange with his chief of staff, according to the first excerpt from Landslide, Michael Wolff’s third Trump White House exposé… Wolff’s third Trump book is among a slew due this summer." They are also attempts to introduce deniable plausibility.
"House GOP bristles as a Jan. 6 investigation lands in its lap… Many Republicans want to avoid the select committee on the Capitol riot — except for the firebrands who want a seat to discredit it all."
"Former President Donald Trump is facing a wall of accountability and truth as new revelations and investigations expose his abuses of power, delusional lies about the election and business conduct to ever greater scrutiny." By now you should know that reality and truth have nothing to do with Trump.
"With the law enforcement spotlight on the group, Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio envisions his organization focusing on local political races rather than national ones." Here comes a flock of wolves in sheep's clothing.
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