This is terrible. This is not the way we should be, as a nation. Meanwhile, a Montana politician says he doesn’t want any Afghan refugees in his state.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-court-blocks-title-42-expulsions-families

I’m with RAICES.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/

Welp… I guess there’s a (fore)shadow election going on in the country now. This is what happens when people snooze through judicial elections and a redistricting-year election. (It’s not enough, of course, to elect one hero or get rid of one villain, but our news headlines live to drive us to focus on One Guy.)

https://herereadthis.blog/2021/06/27/lumber-price-latest-futures-prices-charts-market-news-nasdaq/

And here we are. It occurs to me that the difference between prices short-term and long-term is like the difference between “weather” and “climate” and there ARE people who don’t really know (or care about) the difference.

http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/carkeet.html

I almost didn’t read this entertaining bit because (a) I’ll probably never need it or use it successfully, and (b) HN usually takes these things way too seriously, but, unexpectedly, there’s a smidge of humor on HN:

Actually, this seems like a good argument in ANY election.

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1436909804203622406?s=20

Today is Noah Smith day, apparently.

Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) Tweeted: “All the armies of Europe and Asia…could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River…No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.” — Abraham Lincoln

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-911-era-is-over-good

Worth a read, y’all.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48031/the-falling-man-tom-junod/#:~:text=The%20picture%20went,is%20all%20along.

«The picture went all around the world, and then disappeared, as if we willed it away. One of the most famous photographs in human history became an unmarked grave, and the man buried inside its frame—the Falling Man—became the Unknown Soldier in a war whose end we have not yet seen. Richard Drew’s photograph is all we know of him, and yet all we know of him becomes a measure of what we know of ourselves. The picture is his cenotaph, and like the monuments dedicated to the memory of unknown soldiers everywhere, it asks that we look at it, and make one simple acknowledgment.

That we have known who the Falling Man is all along.»

https://twitter.com/_beccaharrison/status/1436677531244052482?s=20

This.

becca harrison (@_beccaharrison) Tweeted: Enough with the 9/11 fluff. We’re literally not allowed to forget it. Meanwhile 700,000 people whose lives mattered just as much have died of Covid. We can’t seem to forget fast enough. Imagine if patriotism meant caring for each other rather than mere nationalism? 🥺💔