I’ve been seeing a surprising number of complaints about the amount of media space devoted to New York’s orange skies and red alerts. James Fallows, a former editor of The Atlantic, writes: “Everyone who has lived in a big Chinese / Indian city during the past couple of decades, or in Pacific NW / SF Bay area / SoCal during US/Canadian wildfires is thinking: Yes, we feel for everyone in smoke-ridden NYC! And, we can’t help but notice the diff in press attention.”
The culture wars have come for corporate America. In the days and weeks leading up to Pride Month, right-wing critics have levied boycotts and even threats of violence at Bud Light, Target and Kohl’s for merchandise and marketing campaigns affiliated with the L.G.B.T.Q. community. Even Chick-fil-A, the chicken-sandwich seller that has historically been aligned with conservative causes, drew sudden condemnation for an existing diversity, equity and inclusion policy.
There are a lot of unsettling signals coming from the world’s oceans right now.
Even for those of us who watch things like temperature anomalies and extreme weather events as likely portents of the climate to come, the off-the-charts rise of global sea surface temperature this spring has been eye-popping. As is much of the language recently used to describe it: “record breaking,” “huge,” “alarming,”
Were you planning on a last-minute trip to Orlando to visit Gov. Ron DeSantis’s favorite amusement park? “Prices are currently high for your search,” warns Google Flights. Well, yes they are.
It’s over three years now since a visibly chastened Boris Johnson emerged from his near-fatal brush with Covid to declare that he had seen the light.
Despite vows from the leaders of the PGA Tour that they would not permit their game to be sullied, men’s professional golf is now in thrall to Saudi Arabia, a nation engaged in a full-tilt attempt to distract the public from the abuse of its citizens through the glitz, gloss and worldwide appeal of sports.
JACKSON, Miss. — The refrain across much of the Deep South for decades was “Thank God for Mississippi!” That’s because however abysmally Arkansas or Alabama might perform in national comparisons, they could still bet that they wouldn’t be the worst in America. That spot was often reserved for Mississippi.
So it’s extraordinary to travel across this state today and find something dazzling: It is lifting education outcomes and soaring in the national rankings. With an all-out effort over the past decade to get all children to read by the end of third grade and by extensive reliance on research and metrics, Mississippi has shown that it is possible to raise standards even in a state ranked dead last in the country in child poverty and hunger and second highest in teen births.
I got a number of e-mails asking for a link to the TikTok video I referenced in my article about “Succession.”
I went through my TikTok history and found it, the guy operates under the name: tonyspolitics
So the specific video I was referencing is here:
“Conservative Rage Explained”: https://tinyurl.com/ycku9c82
I’m going to list a couple more of his videos, you can watch even more if you want to:
“Conservative Rage Explained Part 2”: https://tinyurl.com/45nfj7dh
“How to talk to your MAGA Family and Friends”: https://tinyurl.com/4wuxs4r3
“Why Conservatives Hate Socialism”: https://tinyurl.com/mxjpx5vs
P.S. Once again, you do not have to sign up for TikTok to watch these videos. When confronted with the “Log in to TikTok” screen when you paste one of the above URLS into your browser, just click the “X” in the upper right-hand corner to make it disappear, and then watch away.
There was a point — somewhere in the mid-2010s — when it seemed as if a plurality and, in some cases, even a majority of Western voters had finally decided to restrain mass immigration. The election of Trump and the success of Brexit were both part of this shift. Trump promised to build a wall; Boris insisted that a line had to be drawn.
But now, almost a decade later, after four years of Trump and seven years of Brexit, we can see that … basically nothing happened. Covid made it hard to see long-term trends, but as the pandemic recedes, it’s now crystal clear that mass immigration has not just continued as before in the US and the UK — but has even increased, quite substantially. Both countries are now absorbing a huge new wave of immigrants, reaching historic highs in their share of foreign-born citizens, and there seems to be no slowing the pace of it.
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Titus Crown is an ex-F.B.I. agent who gets a sheriff’s job, almost by accident, in a rural Virginia community. He’s Black. Mr. Spearman teaches geography and wears a coat of many countries on Earth Day. He’s white. Given the name of the town and county where these two live — Charon — one can expect bad things to happen, and they certainly do. As in S.A. Cosby’s previous two novels, “Blacktop Wasteland” and “Razorblade Tears,” the body count is high and the action pretty much nonstop.
On the other hand, it’s also a bountiful summer for newer favorites, full of the second or third or fourth seasons of popular or praiseworthy (sometimes both) recent shows like “The Bear,” “Heartstopper,” “How to With John Wilson,” “Never Have I Ever,” “Only Murders in the Building,” “Physical,” “Reservation Dogs” and “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan.”
One final thing to say about the new normal on TV: More than a few of those buzzy shows will be ending this summer. The minimum benchmark for long-term success used to be 100 episodes; now you can take a bow at 18 or 24. At least it looks as if we’ll always have “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”
I was trying to figure out what was wrong with this series. Whether it was me or whether it was possibly not that good. And I didn’t want to ask Felice her opinion, because I thought she wasn’t into it, and that once she expressed her thoughts that would be it, we’d shut it down, move on, for she has veto power. And especially when you’re unsure about something yourself, you’re easily influenced by another’s opinion.
But I wanted to keep watching it.
I’d never heard of the show, but Jake sent me an article from the “Globe and Mail” entitled “The 10 best international police series you need to stream right now,” and I researched each one and wrote down those that appealed to me. You can read the article here: https://tinyurl.com/2apzd2dt
"My bloody hair and makeup are not done, the house is a f****** mess, the dishes aren't done.
"Because he's thinking of getting married."
A Navy pilot walks into a bar and takes a seat next to a very attractive woman.
He gives her a quick glance then casually looks at his new Apple watch for a moment.
The woman notices this and asks, "Is your date running late?"
No,” he replies, “I just got this state-of-the-art Apple watch, and I was just testing it.”
The intrigued woman says, “A state-of-the-art watch? What’s so special about it?”
The pilot says, “It uses alpha waves to talk to me telepathically.”
The lady says, “What’s it telling you now?”
Well, it says you're not wearing any panties.”
The woman giggles and replies, “Well it must be broken because I am wearing panties!”
The pilot smirks, taps his watch and says, “Darn thing’s an hour fast.”
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