Walton Muyumba
@wmuyumba.bsky.social
Hotter summers could be making us sicker in unexpected ways
July 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Hotter summers could be making us sicker in unexpected ways
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In the parts of the Hill Country known as “Flash Flood Alley,” a geographic area subject to rapid onset flooding, the changing climate, manifested through extreme weather paired with the distinctly harsh and rugged landscape, can lead to particularly deadly scenarios.
I Remember the 2002 Fourth of July Hill Country Floods. This Year, the Water Returned.
These floods do not come from nowhere. They are an effect of larger historical, structural, and environmental processes.
www.texasobserver.org
July 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
In the parts of the Hill Country known as “Flash Flood Alley,” a geographic area subject to rapid onset flooding, the changing climate, manifested through extreme weather paired with the distinctly harsh and rugged landscape, can lead to particularly deadly scenarios.
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From @theathletic.bsky.social: Angel Reese said she was fed up with the way she and the Chicago Sky have been officiated throughout the season. “I don’t give a damn if I get fined."
Angel Reese fed up with WNBA officiating: ‘I’m tired of this’
Angel Reese aired her grievances with WNBA officiating following the Chicago Sky's road loss at Minnesota on Sunday.
trib.al
July 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
From @theathletic.bsky.social: Angel Reese said she was fed up with the way she and the Chicago Sky have been officiated throughout the season. “I don’t give a damn if I get fined."
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Europe should reduce US and China ‘dual dependencies’, Macron warns
Europe should reduce US and China ‘dual dependencies’, Macron warns
French president also spoke of empowered ‘wider Europe’ on first day of state visit to UK
European countries need to reduce their “dual dependencies” on the US and China, Emmanuel Macron has warned, as he sketched out his vision of an empowered “wider Europe” on the first day of a historic state visit.
The French president addressed several hundred MPs and guests at the start of a three-day state trip – the first state visit of a European leader since Brexit. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Europe should reduce US and China ‘dual dependencies’, Macron warns
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Trump says Putin ‘just wants to kill people’ — is their bromance over?
The pair have been closer than any of their predecessors, spending hours on the phone. But the American president is losing patience
The pair have been closer than any of their predecessors, spending hours on the phone. But the American president is losing patience
Trump says Putin ‘just wants to kill people’ — is their bromance over?
The pair have been closer than any of their predecessors, spending hours on the phone. But the American president is losing patience
www.thetimes.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Trump says Putin ‘just wants to kill people’ — is their bromance over?
The pair have been closer than any of their predecessors, spending hours on the phone. But the American president is losing patience
The pair have been closer than any of their predecessors, spending hours on the phone. But the American president is losing patience
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‘Her death seemed to drive people back on themselves: do I matter? It is a reaction to the totality presented in the poems.’
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Patricia Lockwood · Arrayed in Shining Scales: Solving Sylvia Plath
I was under no illusion that The Collected Prose would solve the mystery, or lay to rest the lie, of how Plath was...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
‘Her death seemed to drive people back on themselves: do I matter? It is a reaction to the totality presented in the poems.’
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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‘Normative accounts of democracy claim that the arbitrary use of force stands in opposition to democratic rights. For Achille Mbembe, however, necropolitics isn’t democracy’s opposite but its dark underbelly.’
Kevin Okoth on the political theorist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Kevin Okoth on the political theorist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Kevin Okoth · The Pessimist’s Optimist: Beyond the Postcolony
Achille Mbembe is the pessimist’s optimist: he delivers a devastating analysis of the contemporary moment while never...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
‘Normative accounts of democracy claim that the arbitrary use of force stands in opposition to democratic rights. For Achille Mbembe, however, necropolitics isn’t democracy’s opposite but its dark underbelly.’
Kevin Okoth on the political theorist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Kevin Okoth on the political theorist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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‘The official version has Berry laying a ‘blues’ backbeat under a country melody. In reality, the melodic elements drew on the blues; the rhythm on Western swing. It’s the exact inverse of what we’ve been told.’
Alex Abramovich on Chuck Berry’s first single: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Alex Abramovich on Chuck Berry’s first single: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Alex Abramovich | Escape Velocity
‘There are ten thousand freedoms,’ the late Joshua Clover once said, ‘but rock freedom is definitely set – in...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
‘The official version has Berry laying a ‘blues’ backbeat under a country melody. In reality, the melodic elements drew on the blues; the rhythm on Western swing. It’s the exact inverse of what we’ve been told.’
Alex Abramovich on Chuck Berry’s first single: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Alex Abramovich on Chuck Berry’s first single: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
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Issue 47.12 is now online, featuring:
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath
Kevin Okoth on Achille Mbembe
Daniella Shreir on Cannes
Tareq Baconi on Gaza
Blake Morrison on G.W. Pabst
and a cover by Dror Cohen.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath
Kevin Okoth on Achille Mbembe
Daniella Shreir on Cannes
Tareq Baconi on Gaza
Blake Morrison on G.W. Pabst
and a cover by Dror Cohen.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
July 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Issue 47.12 is now online, featuring:
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath
Kevin Okoth on Achille Mbembe
Daniella Shreir on Cannes
Tareq Baconi on Gaza
Blake Morrison on G.W. Pabst
and a cover by Dror Cohen.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath
Kevin Okoth on Achille Mbembe
Daniella Shreir on Cannes
Tareq Baconi on Gaza
Blake Morrison on G.W. Pabst
and a cover by Dror Cohen.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
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Angel Reese finished with 22 points and 15 rebounds to extend her WNBA record to six straight games with 15-plus boards.
But the Sky fell to 5-13 with an 81-79 loss to the Mystics.
But the Sky fell to 5-13 with an 81-79 loss to the Mystics.
Angel Reese’s 6th straight 15-plus-rebound game can’t keep Chicago Sky from falling to 5-13
Angel Reese had 22 points and 15 rebounds in the Chicago Sky’s 81-79 loss to the Washington Mystics to extend her WNBA record to six straight games with 15-plus rebounds.
www.chicagotribune.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Angel Reese finished with 22 points and 15 rebounds to extend her WNBA record to six straight games with 15-plus boards.
But the Sky fell to 5-13 with an 81-79 loss to the Mystics.
But the Sky fell to 5-13 with an 81-79 loss to the Mystics.
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“I like to tell people that the night before I stopped sleeping, I slept. Not only that: I slept well.”
@jennifersenior.bsky.social became an insomniac at 29. She writes about her years-long quest for sleep—and how America is making its national sleep crisis worse.
@jennifersenior.bsky.social became an insomniac at 29. She writes about her years-long quest for sleep—and how America is making its national sleep crisis worse.
American Insomnia
Tossing and turning through our national sleep crisis
bit.ly
June 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“I like to tell people that the night before I stopped sleeping, I slept. Not only that: I slept well.”
@jennifersenior.bsky.social became an insomniac at 29. She writes about her years-long quest for sleep—and how America is making its national sleep crisis worse.
@jennifersenior.bsky.social became an insomniac at 29. She writes about her years-long quest for sleep—and how America is making its national sleep crisis worse.
A timely interrogation of the Supreme Court and its hand in maintaining the racial caste system in the US. www.altaonline.com/books/nonfic... Institutional Denial of Civil Rights
Institutional Denial of Civil Rights
Brando Simeo Starkey’s Their Accomplices Wore Robes provides a devastating critique and analysis of the Supreme Court’s role in preserving a racial caste system.
www.altaonline.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A timely interrogation of the Supreme Court and its hand in maintaining the racial caste system in the US. www.altaonline.com/books/nonfic... Institutional Denial of Civil Rights