Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/01/2025every time I see a new share of the "State Farm has uninsured 50k homes in california because fire" piece I can't stop thinking about how their tagline is "Like a good neighbour, State Farm is there" 24616100
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 08/01/2025This is an oldie but gift link on why you if you're near fires right now you want to be inside with an air purifier and if you have to go outside wearing the tightest sealing N95/KN95/KF94 is a really good idea www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comHow Wildfire Smoke Impacts Human HealthAs smoke from hundreds of wildfires in Canada spreads across the US, health officials are urging people to mask up and take other precautions. 8309167
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.social🌈 #FreeThemAll @stacysuh.bsky.social · 08/01/2025⚠️ URGENT ACTION ALERT TO STOP ANTI-IMMIGRANT BILL ⚠️ ✨Call your Senators via the Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121 ✨Once you're connected, say: "Hello, I am a constituent, and I urge the Senator to vote NO on the Laken Riley Act." ✨After you're done, ask 3 of your friends to call 16671
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialvijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025LINKS TO MUTUAL AID IN LOS ANGELES — PLEASE SHARE tiny.cc/malan-firetiny.ccMALAN Fire & Wind Storm Resources 0346484
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialLos Angeles Times @latimes.com · 08/01/2025The fires in L.A. have caused terrible air quality conditions across the region. Here are ways you can protect yourself, and your children, from the health impacts of wildfire smoke. latimes.comHow to protect yourself from the smoke caused by L.A. wildfiresThe fires in L.A. have caused terrible air quality conditions across the county. Here are ways you can protect yourself, and your children, from the health impacts of wildfire smoke. 310365
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2025*looks directly at U.S. universities and their comms people* 211974330
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Planet Fitness locations in Los Angeles are “offering anyone impacted by the fires—first responders and residents—free access to shower, recharge, and relax” No membership is required to take advantage of locker rooms, WiFi, charging stations at any LA County location not impacted by the fires. 168159687097
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialKEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 08/01/2025Lindsey Bestebreurtje is a curatorial assistant at Smithsonian’s NMAAHC. This interview is based on her new book, Built by the People Themselves: African American Community Development in Arlington, Virginia, from the Civil War through Civil Rights currentpub.com/2025/01/07/t...currentpub.com 176
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialGod @thegodshow.com · 08/01/2025When a liberal area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “God is punishing them.” When a conservative area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “Democrats control weather machines.” Must be hard going through life as a full-blown idiot. 341134573088
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialEzra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Some Dems have this visceral urge to respond to batshit GOP ideas with "Of course I'll consider that!" They think it makes them sound reasonable. But it actually just makes MAGA sound reasonable. It's a strategic self own. Don't overthink this. Call out stupid shit and say no. It's not that hard. 1132735658
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/01/2025it’s the culture war above all. the libs like clean, efficient energy? well then, fuck clean, efficient energy. 2124490792
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 08/01/2025400,000 Americans lost their lives to Covid because of Trump's incompetence. He's not changed one bit because of it. American lives and deaths mean nothing to him. 51658391178
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.social404 Media @404media.co · 08/01/2025Facebook is censoring 404 Media stories about Facebook's censorship 🔗 www.404media.co/facebook-is-... 25973282315
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialWTVR CBS 6 News Richmond, Virginia @cbs6-richmond.bsky.social · 08/01/2025FREE WATER: The Walmart location on Sheila Lane will be giving away cases of bottled water this afternoon. When: Wednesday, Jan. 8 from 3 p.m. until supplies last Where: 2410 Sheila Lane, Richmond, VA 23225 11923
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialNeil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 08/01/2025"This isn’t about free speech. It’s about allowing some people to harm others through vitriol – and providing the tools of amplification to help them. This isn’t about shareholder value. It’s about a kayfabe war between tech demagogues vying to be the most powerful boy in the room." 0296
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialThe Appeal @theappeal.org · 08/01/2025Emails obtained by The Appeal show Virginia Department of Corrections officials discussing how to punish people at Red Onion State Prison who self-immolated. "We need to make sure they know they won’t gain anything….but making them pay money is good too" theappeal.org/red-onion-vi...theappeal.orgPrisoners Burned Themselves. So Staff Discussed “Making Them Pay Money.”Emails show Virginia Department of Corrections officials discussing how to punish people at Red Onion State Prison who self-immolated. 712067
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 08/01/2025If you’re a disaster researcher willing and able to do wildfire interviews can you let me know so I can pass your info along to journalists? 1118558
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialWill Oremus @willoremus.com · 08/01/2025Mark Zuckerberg cited a "cultural tipping point" to justify dumping fact-checks and relaxing hate speech rules. I wrote about how, for Meta, these kinds of tipping points seem to come along every four years. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comAnalysis | Meta’s ‘tipping point’ is about aligning with powerBehind Mark Zuckerberg’s lofty rhetoric lies a cold business calculation. 39516128
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Los Angeles received just 0.16 inches of rain since May 2024, the second-driest period on record. Wildfires are now engulfing the city in January. But some politicians still claim the climate crisis is a "hoax" as they do the bidding of Big Oil. What planet are they living on?axios.comLA's wildfires sparked by rare collision of climate factorsExtremely dry conditions and an hurricane force winds are overlapping unusually late in the year. 1132247966559
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.social𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧 @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 08/01/2025If you’re in L.A. I’m hearing that the Planet Fitnesses are offering a place to charge phones, shower etc in case you don’t have access to power 4222107
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 08/01/2025To find a relief center near you, go to the links below for The Red Cross or Salvation Army’s relief centers. www.redcross.org/get-help/dis... www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/wildfire...redcross.orgFind An Open Shelter and Other ServicesIf you are in immediate need of shelter during a disaster, use our shelter map to locate your nearest options or contact your local Red Cross chapter. 3649298
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialProf. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 08/01/2025You know it's some bullshit when UCLA won't close for a damn inferno but will close because of protests. Utterly ridiculous. 731769
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialMark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 04/01/2025I enjoyed my conversation with journalist Maria Smilios, who joined me on Left of Black to discuss her important book "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis". www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbj3...youtube.comLeft of Black | Author Maria Smilios on The Black Angels, the Nurses Who Helped Cure TuberculosisYouTube video by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke U. 05718
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialGamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Thomas Jefferson was a Deist. So was Washington. Deism is a philosophical belief that the universe operates by natural laws and that human reason can solve social and political problems. This is a laughably poor choice to support their Xian nation myth. 1332
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/01/2025FWIW, here's a 1970 version of that apocryphal Thomas Jefferson prayer that Mike Johnson read in the House of Representatives today. It appeared in The Cross and the Flag, the magazine of Gerald LK Smith, a white supremacist & Christian Nationalist who was America's most notorious antisemite. 751903814
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialjtj24.bsky.social @jtj24.bsky.social · 04/01/2025The corp media will sit back quietly and never press Johnson about where he found this prayer because they are complicit and have no issues with white supremacy! 1134
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialTʀᴇʏ Gᴏᴇsʜ. @tgoesh.bsky.social · 04/01/2025I don't listen to a lot of podcasts. This is one that I will heartily endorse. It is both eminently listenable, and it clearly unpacks a lot of the biased cultural norms we take for granted. It has changed the way I look at the world, for the better. A lot. 1185
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/01/2025America was not founded as a Christian Nation. But given that most people in the Republican Party today have convinced themselves that this is true (via many fake quotes like that Jefferson prayer) the US very well may BECOME a Christian Nation in the future. IMO, that would be a very bad thing. 729648
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/01/2025January 6 was part of an attempted coup d’etat in America. Don’t let Trump and his allies tell you otherwise | Arwa Mahdawitheguardian.comJanuary 6 was part of an attempted coup d’etat in America. Don’t let Trump and his allies tell you otherwise | Arwa MahdawiFour years on, it’s the most astounding case of collective amnesia. That so many seem willing to normalise that anti-democratic outrage is frightening The sun shone brightly on 6 January 2021. The birds chirped, children frolicked and thousands of… 411536511
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 03/01/2025I made a conscious decision to put my “Liv-gate” thread here on BlueSky, and not on X or Threads. I really hope more journalists use this platform here to engage instead of places like X/Twitter or threads — places that have actively sought to throttle journalists. 412155245
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever. Make it go viral but make sure she benefits. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...anntelnaes.substack.comWhy I'm quitting the Washington PostDemocracy can't function without a free press 190164056124
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialStrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 04/01/2025None of them were drag queens. 18668992485
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialThe Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 04/01/2025He demanded new elections in Britain, promoted Germany's far-right and blasted the European Commission. Elon Musk is pushing the hard right in Europe, where some are grappling with how, or even whether, to contain him. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/0……buff.lyMusk projects his hard-right influence in EuropeThe multibillionaire has demanded new elections in Britain, promoted Germany's far-right, blasted the European Commission — and that's just the start. 169242
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialJoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 04/01/2025I can’t believe we have titans of industry slipping million dollar bills into Trump’s inaugural g-string like it’s some bachelor party for the end of democracy. 913578934
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialProfolus @profolus.com · 04/01/2025ICYMI: A 6-part study conducted by researchers from the University of California-Irvine concluded that Republicans, specifically those with conservative leanings, tend to use and spread more misinformation than those with liberal leanings.profolus.comWhy Republicans Spread More Misinformation Than Democrats - ProfolusA study notes that Republicans or conservatives tend to use and spread more misinformation than those with liberal leanings or Democrats. 1415366
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialAlexis Pauline Gumbs @alexispauline.bsky.social · 04/01/2025I love Torch Literary Arts and I’m so honored to be their first feature of 2025. Check out their site for some new poems and a really fun interview💜 www.torchliteraryarts.org/post/january...torchliteraryarts.orgJanuary 2025 Feature: Alexis Pauline GumbsAlexis Pauline Gumbs is an award-winning author of nonfiction and poetry. Her most recent book Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde (FSG) has been named a Publisher’s Weekly Top 10 book of 2024 and a Time Magazine must-read book of 2024.Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice. Her poetic work 0267
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialP. Gabrielle Foreman @profgabrielle.bsky.social · 04/01/2025“I’ve worked for the Post since 2008 as an editorial cartoonist. I’ve had feedback and conversations—and differences—about cartoons I’ve submitted, but in all that time I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...anntelnaes.substack.comWhy I'm quitting the Washington PostDemocracy can't function without a free press 12712
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialJeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 04/01/2025In case you missed this last night, principled @anntelnaes.bsky.social quit the #BrokenPost because its Murdochian editors killed this cartoon. The Post and democracy are dying in front of us. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...anntelnaes.substack.comWhy I'm quitting the Washington PostDemocracy can't function without a free press 1030990
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialJennifer L. Pozner @jennpozner.bsky.social · 03/01/2025I was part of several media activist campaigns over decades to secure net neutrality, and can't begin to tell you how destructive this will be to journalism, public health, democracy (+art/popcult,etc) Net neutrality was crucial BEFORE local news died, before disinformation age. Now? Holy hell. 9306124
Reposted by @dburgher.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/01/2025Normally, outside cameras aren’t allowed in Congress. But remember when it took Kevin McCarthy 15 votes to scrape together a Speaker win in 2023, and we watched the chaos unfold live? That was thanks to C-SPAN bringing their own cameras—and they’ll be back at it again today. 🍿 🍿 🍿 25390211551
