I’d like to see more news about the source of all the smoke we’re seeing in the US now. IOW, how reports from Canada about the status of the efforts to fight the wildfires?
This isn't a news topic really, but I feel like we need more time to absorb some things and reflect on their significance. We need to take in what we've learned and change accordingly. And then we need to applaud genuine evolution. Maybe it's partly me aging, but a lot upending things have happened in the last 5-8 years. Sometimes it seems we're just skipping from one thing to the next. It feels like we are thrashing and aren't evolving. This forum is good because it allows for discussion. In general though, it feels like something important is being missed with the rapid buckshot of news. It can be overwhelming.
We are surely missing some lessons life gives to us. I'm thinking it might help us to identify what's more important and better set priorities. The pandemic taught us things (I don't mean things related to public health, medical care, transmission etc). Didn't it teach us we are all connected? That taking care of one can take care of all? That service workers, farmworkers, truckers, healthcare workers, teachers... are so important and they take care of all of us? Remember how it felt to heartbreakingly miss people, to miss face-to-face talks and hugs? Remember when the Italian people sung from their balconies with the hope others would join in, just to feel like they were together? Remember when people would applaud our healthcare workers in NYC as they arrived at and left the hospitals? Remember when people would leave encouraging messages in chalk on sidewalks for others to see? It taught us so much more, too. It feels like whatever love and gratitude was experienced has been largely forgotten. It happens a lot with tragic situations. The love is fleeting and then we jump to something else before we commit to the love and what should come from it.
I'm not good at thinking in lists, so I didn't think until later about more stories about national and international stories about indigenous cultures and initiatives, more stories about latine-USian culture and priorities, and agricultural. Fisheries, forestry, and mining, too, but especially ag. If I'm not very much mistaken most urban and suburban people think agricultural production is some kind of corny tiny not-that-real thing.
There is a growing movement of people claiming the Covid vaccines have done more harm than good. This, of course, is absolutely the opposite of the facts. But more people seem to be signing onto this dangerous idea. It really is a movement, being shadow-funded by some wealthy individuals and organizations. It has infected elected members of our government, most of whom are Republicans. But the left are sadly prone to this lie as well, as evidenced by growing support for RFK, Jr.'s presidential campaign. It worries me a lot because the movement actually wants to ban all vaccines, which have been a primary boon to public health for decades.
I am right now reading "A Fever In the Heartland" and getting a snoot-ful as to how these movements work. First, you engage the media in your lie. Then, elect asswipes willing to embrace the lie. RFK shouldn't be given more than a footnote, if that. I mean, come ON.
So many things don't get covered, or get mentioned once and vanish in the Obviously More Fascinating Flood of Trump and Kardashian gossip. To name a few:
- The continuing story of police violence surrounding Atlanta's Defend the Forest
- The continuing obligato of police offing Black people, including children
- Scientific analysis and policy recommendations around global warming
- Work and words of Vice President Kamala Harris
- More and deeper discussion of Democratic policy initiatives
Whole lines of enquiry are ignored. It recently flashed by how designated Supreme Court reporters simply covered their Oracular Utterances, while straightening reporters investigated and reported profound corruption. Women and people are undercover. Immigrants refugees, and applicants for immigrant and refugee status go without public voices.
And you know how I feel about "economic reporting."
Oh! This is an excellent list (including "economic reporting." I have made it my business in such a small way to amplify the words of the VP, mainly because on social media, the rats come out of the sewer every time she or her office posts something.
Side note: It seems as if the only congresswomen getting much press now are MTG and Lauren Boebert, who are grist to the multi partisan Women Are Grotesque and Inept mill.
I wish more attention was being paid to the Chinese collaborating with Mexican drug cartels. Their insidious partnership is flooding our country with fentanyl and worse!
Sometimes I wonder about the child laboring in our country.
With recent relaxing of rules in some states, this is a good question to ask.
I’d like to see more news about the source of all the smoke we’re seeing in the US now. IOW, how reports from Canada about the status of the efforts to fight the wildfires?
We were just talking about this last night. It’s all about air quality here, but nothing about the source.
This isn't a news topic really, but I feel like we need more time to absorb some things and reflect on their significance. We need to take in what we've learned and change accordingly. And then we need to applaud genuine evolution. Maybe it's partly me aging, but a lot upending things have happened in the last 5-8 years. Sometimes it seems we're just skipping from one thing to the next. It feels like we are thrashing and aren't evolving. This forum is good because it allows for discussion. In general though, it feels like something important is being missed with the rapid buckshot of news. It can be overwhelming.
Doesn't it feel like stuff comes at us so fast we don 't (or won't) take time to do this? I cannot even iimagine what doing this would look like.
We are surely missing some lessons life gives to us. I'm thinking it might help us to identify what's more important and better set priorities. The pandemic taught us things (I don't mean things related to public health, medical care, transmission etc). Didn't it teach us we are all connected? That taking care of one can take care of all? That service workers, farmworkers, truckers, healthcare workers, teachers... are so important and they take care of all of us? Remember how it felt to heartbreakingly miss people, to miss face-to-face talks and hugs? Remember when the Italian people sung from their balconies with the hope others would join in, just to feel like they were together? Remember when people would applaud our healthcare workers in NYC as they arrived at and left the hospitals? Remember when people would leave encouraging messages in chalk on sidewalks for others to see? It taught us so much more, too. It feels like whatever love and gratitude was experienced has been largely forgotten. It happens a lot with tragic situations. The love is fleeting and then we jump to something else before we commit to the love and what should come from it.
(I still have “Stay safe” painted on the road in front of my driveway. Maybe I should replace that with “I love you.”)
I'm not good at thinking in lists, so I didn't think until later about more stories about national and international stories about indigenous cultures and initiatives, more stories about latine-USian culture and priorities, and agricultural. Fisheries, forestry, and mining, too, but especially ag. If I'm not very much mistaken most urban and suburban people think agricultural production is some kind of corny tiny not-that-real thing.
The wild-fire smoke is a symptom of *the* problem, global warming--which, of course, we can't talk about. Too hard. Too scary.
And by refusing to talk about it (too hard, too scary), we consign ourselves to more of this.
There is a growing movement of people claiming the Covid vaccines have done more harm than good. This, of course, is absolutely the opposite of the facts. But more people seem to be signing onto this dangerous idea. It really is a movement, being shadow-funded by some wealthy individuals and organizations. It has infected elected members of our government, most of whom are Republicans. But the left are sadly prone to this lie as well, as evidenced by growing support for RFK, Jr.'s presidential campaign. It worries me a lot because the movement actually wants to ban all vaccines, which have been a primary boon to public health for decades.
I am right now reading "A Fever In the Heartland" and getting a snoot-ful as to how these movements work. First, you engage the media in your lie. Then, elect asswipes willing to embrace the lie. RFK shouldn't be given more than a footnote, if that. I mean, come ON.
So many things don't get covered, or get mentioned once and vanish in the Obviously More Fascinating Flood of Trump and Kardashian gossip. To name a few:
- The continuing story of police violence surrounding Atlanta's Defend the Forest
- The continuing obligato of police offing Black people, including children
- Scientific analysis and policy recommendations around global warming
- Work and words of Vice President Kamala Harris
- More and deeper discussion of Democratic policy initiatives
Whole lines of enquiry are ignored. It recently flashed by how designated Supreme Court reporters simply covered their Oracular Utterances, while straightening reporters investigated and reported profound corruption. Women and people are undercover. Immigrants refugees, and applicants for immigrant and refugee status go without public voices.
And you know how I feel about "economic reporting."
Oh! This is an excellent list (including "economic reporting." I have made it my business in such a small way to amplify the words of the VP, mainly because on social media, the rats come out of the sewer every time she or her office posts something.
Side note: It seems as if the only congresswomen getting much press now are MTG and Lauren Boebert, who are grist to the multi partisan Women Are Grotesque and Inept mill.
Good point.
I wish more attention was being paid to the Chinese collaborating with Mexican drug cartels. Their insidious partnership is flooding our country with fentanyl and worse!
Honestly, I’ve seen very little about this. Do you have a go-to source that’s covering this?
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/dea-chinese-organized-crime-laundering-money-for-mexican-drug-cartels-180354629573
Thank you for the link.