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Toastie

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Indigenous affairs reporter, High Country News
They/them | Chahta Okla ⚫ ⚪ 🟡 🔴
Chinook lands, U.S. Pacific Northwest

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Toastie, to california
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Anti-camping ordinances and sweeps are pushing unhoused people into increasingly marginal spaces, exposed to extreme weather.

Officials in cities like Ontario, , can be hostile, by, for example, removing park gazebos.

But CA is prone to cycles of drought and heavy rainfall. And when the rain hits, like it did in Nov. 2022, it can be fatal to people living around culverts and drainage.

https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-6/californias-homelessness-and-climate-crises-leave-unhoused-communities-vulnerable-to-floods/

Toastie, (edited )
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👏 🏆 🎖️ to reporter Erin Rode for talking to houseless community members and relevant experts for this story instead of cops.

Toastie,
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Here's some artwork memorializing the late Poopsie, Maddie and Jojo.

(Side note: how often do you see a national magazine running a photo of graffiti not as pearl clutching about urban decay, but as artwork memorializing community members? You do me proud, HCN.)

Toastie,
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That November, the sudden rain washed away around 10 people, killing three:

Anthony “Poopsie” Ray Lopez, Madeline Velasquez and Josephine Guadalupe Dominguez.

“I miss them,” said Pandora Naranjo, a friend.

Matt Fowle, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania who tracks deaths among unhoused people in the U.S., found a 141% increase in mortality from environmental causes across 22 localities between 2011 and 2020.

He said those deaths are preventable with some planning.

Toastie,
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Quentin Fears, a soft-spoken 51 year old, has lived in and around a flood-control channel that runs under Interstate 10 for around a decade. That day in November, he rescued a friend he saw floating away on a mattress.

“I’ve seen on TV where there’s a fire or storms or whatever and you see that they’re warning everybody, and they never warned us at all,” said Naranjo. “They should have gotten us out in time.”

Today, Fears still lives in the same spot. “There’s nowhere to go,” he said.

Toastie, to LGBTQ
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"COVID and long COVID are not HIV/AIDS, but our response to both viruses has been to bury them, to cover disabled and high-risk people with dirt. There is silence, skepticism and denial as many of us have become immunocompromised, as thousands have died of complications of long COVID, as millions have died of COVID."

Beautiful essay by columnist Miles W. Griffis reflecting on AIDS, , and the work of artist David Wojnarowicz.

https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-6/how-to-live-and-die-with-long-covid/

Toastie, to Alaska
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"Filipinos have been in Alaska for 236 years... We are the state’s largest immigrant minority, but there are few records for us to learn from. It’s an uphill battle, trying to share our community’s stories the way we feel is right."

TASHA ELIZARDE (SHE/HER)
Co-founder of media collective Mana Alaska; executive producer of oral history project Mga Kuwento
Juneau,

https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-6/its-our-stories-that-ground-us-to-home/

EricAlper, to random
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Stuff David Bowie turned down:
A collaboration with Coldplay
The part of Sharaz Jek in Doctor Who
A knighthood
A musical film about himself
The lead role in Steven Spielberg's Hook
Producing the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Playing Max Zorin in the James Bond film A View to a Kill

Toastie,
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@EricAlper Some very good choices in there.

Toastie, to washington
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Colonialism -> Anti-union violence -> attacks at Pride

Welcome to Centralia, , where bigotry runs deeep.

https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-6/how-western-washington-history-explains-the-rise-of-hate-groups/

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