Prepping for Match No. 2 🇺🇸

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Wildfire smoke is a health emergency. In The Atlantic Daily, Lora Kelley and Zoë Schlanger discuss the danger it poses, and what it could mean for Americans in the years to come. theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

Credit to GW, he was ahead of his time on this one

Vindication for those of us (especially Tom Nichols) who've argued that the way to beat Trump is to put him on TV more, not less.

The speakers at the DNC are underlining the party’s latest framing: Trump is “weird, and the Republican Party is a cult,” Helen Lewis told Lora Kelley in The Atlantic Daily: theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

Free to read for a month! A chapter from the new Death of Expertise. (Link below.) academic.oup.com/book/55947/cha…

In big news, the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist presidential candidate who dumped a bear cub carcass in Central Park and had part of his brain eaten by a worm has endorsed a convicted felon fraudster who incited a violent mob in a failed attempt to steal an election.

My teacher groups are full of that oldest and most unquenchable expression of hope... "Okay, this year I'm trying _______________________."

Senator JD Vance of Ohio said on Thursday that school shootings were an unfortunate “fact of life,” and he called for strengthened security measures in public schools while he spoke at a campaign event in Phoenix. nyti.ms/4cTRDP8

I do appreciate that there are some conservatives trying to draw a line here but it is way too late. You should have paid attention when the neo-Nazis were saying how much they loved Tucker Carlson back in 2017.

LAUSD Struggling with Chronic Absenteeism Years After the Pandemic The 74 the74million.org/article/lausd-…

Georgia School Shooting May Accelerate the Backlash to Cellphone Bans edweek.org/leadership/the…

The #BoylesFire burning in Clearlake is 76 acres and 10% contained. There are approximately 30 structures involved with fire and around 4,000 residents displaced in the evacuation zones (CLE-E148, CLE-E157). CAL FIRE remains an assisting agency to the Lake County FPD.

"...hold Trump to a bar higher than he answered a question with words that did not make sense." theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

FEMA has approved the State’s request for a Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) to help cover costs to mitigate, manage, and control firefighting efforts for #BoylesFire.  I will continue to work to provide all available federal resources to respond to #BoylesFire.

NEW: @CAGovernor Newsom just announced that California has secured a Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) from @FEMA to help ensure the availability of vital resources to suppress the #BoylesFire in Lake County. gov.ca.gov/2024/09/08/cal…

NEW: California just secured a Fire Management Assistance Grant from @FEMA to help ensure resources to suppress the #BoylesFire in Lake County. Grateful for President Biden’ support as our firefighters & first responders work tirelessly to keep communities safe. gov.ca.gov/2024/09/08/cal…