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NWS Sacramento@NWSSacramento7 Sep 2022
**UPDATE** We just hit 116 degrees in Downtown Sacramento. That is the new All-Time highest temperature for Downtown Sacramento. Old record was 114 on July 17, 1925. #cawx
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I just got a text from a friend who works on energy policy in Montana saying the Inflation Reduction Act basically took their goals from impossible to achievable in one day.
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Rattlesnakes thrive in California amid increasingly hotter temperatures theguardian.com/us-news/2022…
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Short thread on the dangers of the fire at Zaporizhzhya NPP.
As of 8am this morning, according to Ukraine's regulator, three of six reactors were connected to the grid; the other three were offline. However, ALL the units will need cooling if they have any fuel inside. (1/n)
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FOX NEWS host Harris Faulkner turns to Condoleezza Rice this morning and says, "When you invade a sovereign nation, that is a war crime" -- Rice nods in solemn agreement. Just incredible. Establishment factions are going all-out leveraging this to whitewash their own past actions
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Senators who voted for Biden's Pentagon budget—which increases military spending by $37 billion— took over 7 times more campaign cash from military contractors than those who voted against it
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Strong, lucid overview from .@razibkhan of what we know (and don’t know) today about the peopling of the Americas: razib.substack.com/p/a-whole…
Let me add one small point about recent archaeological finds he doesn’t go into. (Map: Raff & Bolnick 2014) 1/11
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Environment: Lebanon has been promoting a community-wide programme that offers aid in exchange for recyclable material - Robert McKelvey reports english.alaraby.co.uk/featur…
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In #Afghanistan:
*18.4 million people need humanitarian assistance.
*7 million people have no access to health care facilities.
*40 million people don’t have enough to eat.
*3.1 million children are at risk of acute malnutrition.
The needs remain immense.
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House Armed Services Committee just approved a $24 billion increase to Biden’s Pentagon budget. 14 Dems joined Republicans in support. Here are their names/how much campaign cash they’ve taken from military contractors since 2019:
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Hate crimes in US rise to highest level in 12 years, says FBI report theguardian.com/us-news/2021…
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bill maher played a key role in manufacturing consent for the afghanistan and iraq wars, disseminating the most deranged racist islamophobic garbage in service of US imperialism. here's that time he was totally destroyed and humiliated on his own show by glenn greenwald for this
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Finally landed in Norway with my family leaving my father & sister behind. I can’t stop my tears for my people & country 😭
I am not a Proud, Resilient & Hopeful Afghan anymore.
I am again a hopeless & helpless Refugee whose search for Identity, Home & Peace is never ending
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Despite legal setbacks, the Proud Boys have continued to organize and engage in violence.
This weekend they took part in yet another violent rally in #Portland, ending in gunfire.
Read more by Hatewatch Analyst, Cassie Miller:splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021…
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Not a scene of Hollywood, it’s Just #Kabul air port, people want to run away, after the Capture of Kabul by the #Talibans
#Afghanistan
By: @Mukhtarwafayee
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Highest Temperature Ever Measured in Europe Expected to be Broken Tomorrow as Apocalyptic 47°C (116.6°F) are Forecast for Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Turkey
severe-weather.eu/europe-wea…
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Seattle has only hit 100° three times in the past 100 years.
Pretty sobering to think we could hit 100° three times in the span of three days (Saturday-Monday).
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97% of the funding behind the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine came from public sources. theguardian.com/science/2021…
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Never forget & never forgive. 18 yrs ago, the Iraq war began. It was justified by lies: the nukes that didn’t exist; that it would be over quickly, Iraqis would welcome us as liberators; It would usher in an American century; & democracy would take hold & spread across the ME 1/2
