Sunday Reads
Posted: June 27, 2021 | Author: JJ Lopez aka Minkoff Minx | Filed under: just because |16 Comments
Happy Sunday….
Here’s your cartoons from Cagle:
“Long before the Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside crashed, the building started sinking.”https://t.co/aRgsljbdUe
— The Grey Man (@IntelOperator) June 26, 2021
Champlain Towers South had "major structural damage" that was explained in a detailed 2018 report.
— Brian Entin (@BrianEntin) June 26, 2021
Concrete cracks and other problems are detailed in these building documents/permits/and reports released by Surfside:https://t.co/IkdvUMJ7l2
It is unclear what caused the collapse.
“We are finding human remains” –
— Glenna Milberg (@GlennaWPLG) June 26, 2021
A profoundly difficult time for the families of those still missing in the Surfside building collapse… they are being briefed by rescuers right now.
@WPLGLocal10 pic.twitter.com/RcjmxKjUN1
Officials said the remains they find are being sent to the medical examiner. https://t.co/AFPRPSMfZs
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) June 27, 2021
This is so Fucking sad https://t.co/tkccyt4Ljd
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) June 27, 2021
Freeways in Detroit are "littered with abandoned vehicles" and 911 services are overwhelmed after 6.5 inches of rain fell last night.
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) June 26, 2021
Heavy rain is forecast to continue for the next six days.
This is not normal. We are in a climate emergency.https://t.co/HPpLfr7FbT
Detroit Flooding: 50 Drivers Rescued and 350 Vehicles Damaged https://t.co/brSUbtwdOR
— Watchdog Progressive (@Watchdogsniffer) June 27, 2021
Portland records hottest ever day as heatwave scorches Pacific north-west https://t.co/FsF8HTWxkw
— Guardian World (@guardianworld) June 27, 2021
— victor reyes (@vicm_reyes) June 26, 2021
That area has temps near 100°F today https://t.co/iqY5hyL5k7
— geographile (@geographile) June 26, 2021
At the beginning of what's expected to be a record-breaking wildfire season in California, a photo of a firefighter who has battled flames in Big Sur's Willow Fire is becoming a symbol of the foreboding 2021 wildfire season.https://t.co/16pMNhWiLx
— SFGATE (@SFGate) June 25, 2021
UPDATE: Over 750 unmarked graves were found at a former forced assimilation school for Indigenous children in Saskatchewan, Canada.
— AJ+ (@ajplus) June 24, 2021
The Catholic Church running the Marieval school removed the headstones. Experts believe over 10,000 children died in such schools across Canada. pic.twitter.com/8wk51sHIU1
The Cowessess First Nation is trying to identify remains in 751 graves at the Marieval school, where Indigenous children were forcibly assimilated.
— AJ+ (@ajplus) June 24, 2021
The school closed in 1997.
"Canada will be known as a nation who tried to exterminate the First Nations. Now we have evidence." pic.twitter.com/4W8rPMRrNw
This is an open thread.
Another wonderful newsletter, Skydancing,
Hope you have a decent Sunday.
Thanks for all these juicy links and delightfully scary reads. It’s not good to tick off Mother Nature or Mother Earth.
One big difference though. The Germans except for a few tiny muted pockets in the hollows were 100% on the side of “Never Again.”
But the racists would like to keep on doing racism, thank you very much. So learning about its effects does force them to see themselves. And it’s kind of hard to like what you see there.
Though with CRT (I presume that’s what @primediscussion is talking about) the whites can’t ever be non-racist whether they want to or not or no matter how much they understand.
Barr has no spine.
A principled man.
What a fantastic post today, (and every day) the cartoons were just great, really hit the spot. The Ten Commandments one, the captions of our usual suspects,phew! And the rest of the links were great. Thanks for the effort.
Great cartoons, JJ.
Detroit — and other places — where they build without looking at 100 year records. One of my relatives lives on a rural riverside area described as a 100-yr floodplain. Except records of river volumes haven’t been kept for 100 years, so even then it’s guesswork.
In Seattle it’s supposed to get to 99 today and 108 tomorrow, then drop into (only) the 80s. Nightime lows are around our usual daytime highs. It’s really hard to handle for a native Pacific Northwesterner who gets too hot at anything over about 78. Prof Cliff Mass says it’s due to a
He’ll be writing about this event soon in the context of climate change and I look forward to reading his discussion.
I hope you have air conditioning, Luna.
I do! As of 3 yrs ago. It’s saving my sanity and health.
Thank goodness! Just stay inside and stay hydrated until it’s over. We’re having another heat wave here too. It will be in the 90s for the next four days.