#marshall burke

[theprojectatedensgate]

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[tomorrowusa]

The air pollution record was shattered on June 7th.

The US experienced its worst toxic air pollution from wildfire smoke in its recent recorded history on Wednesday, researchers have found, with people in New York exposed to levels of pollution more than five times above the national air quality standard. The rapid analysis of the extreme event, shared with the Guardian, found that smoke billowing south from forest fires in Canada caused Americans to suffer the worst day of average exposure to such pollution since a dataset on smoky conditions started in 2006. “It’s the worst by far, I mean, Jesus, it was bad,” said Marshall Burke, an environmental scientist at Stanford University who led the work. “It’s hard to believe to be honest, we had to quadruple check it to see if it was right. We have not seen events like this, or even close to this, on the east coast before. This is a historic event.”

While not as damaging as a major hurricane, this episode of air pollution has been disruptive over an entire region for several days. The overall impact on people's health will become more apparent when statistics on public health are crunched.

In New York, where the sky went from a milky white to a Blade Runner orange over the course of a day when schools and playgrounds shut down outdoor activities and people started donning masks outside not worn since the early days of the pandemic, the particulate matter hit around 195 micrograms, more than five times above the national air quality standard. “The levels yesterday were quite dangerous, particularly if you are in a vulnerable group,” said Burke, adding that this includes vast swaths of people such as the elderly, children, pregnant women and those with prior medical conditions. “I expect we will see an uptick in respiratory hospitalizations, pre-term births and, sadly, mortalities.” Many New Yorkers stayed indoors rather than brave the campfire smell lingering on streets shrouded in smoke but even this did not fully shield most people, Burke said, with indoor air monitors in Manhattan showing that people experienced more than 100 micrograms of particulate matter.

Locally, the pollution readings in NYC in the past 24 hours have dropped from Very Unhealthy down to Moderate. But don't throw away those face masks. We're still much closer to the beginning of the 2023 fire season than to its end.

With climate change, such wildfires and resultant pollution are becoming more common.

Francesca Dominici, an expert in air pollution and climate at Harvard University, said that people should also refrain from exercising outdoors to avoid the “crazy levels” of air pollution, but that she still expected a surge of hospitalizations from cardiovascular and respiratory problems triggered by the smoke. [ ... ] “I hope as part of this crisis there is an opportunity to realize we need to act on climate change. We’ve gone from three years of not going out because of Covid and now we can’t go outside because of polluted air. The world and nature is telling us something, it’s sending us a very strong message.”

Ultimately, this is the stat we need to worry about the most.

Get more active in protecting the planet's climate.

Building Grassroots Power - League of Conservation Voters

[paganminiskirt]

WIP JUST AFTER WEDNESDAY

Meant to post this last night, actually. Whoops

Thank you to @adelaidedrubman for tagging me!

Tagging: @henbased @strafethesesinners @detectivelokis @shallow-gravy

[paganminiskirt]

#who needs a parachute when you have an airbag built in

i’m so angry at this screenshot i took last night when Faith took me into the Bliss for the first time

cause the distortion makes it look like Burke has a massive ass

[gonnadosomethingwmylife]

I’m obsessed with the fact that Neal goes over to Peter and Elizabeth’s house so often the marshals gave up and just made it a part of his ankle radius 😭?? he gets 2 miles + their house???

[thankyouforthememoriesworld]

[jedidajo]

As much as I love Jason, he’s so rude to Jillian until he feels that she’s worth respecting - meanwhile, Officer Burke immediately adores Jillian without her needing to fit into a specific mold!

I NEED that rat Jason kicked to the curb and for Jillian to date Burke!!!

[chazz-anova]

Me 5 seconds into the game

[derputy]

Far Cry 5 as Parks & Rec* - Part 4 (Pt. 1/2/3) || As usual, tagging some awesome inspirations @racheljo47 @ms-rampage @i-am-the-balancing-point @yeetslovescheese - they never once asked to be tagged but they (so far) still let me for some reason <3

(commercial voice) **beware probable inconsistencies & spelling errors. the following meme video may not accurately depict op's feelings towards certain characters. canon accuracies may vary.

[dustzvacuumcleaner]

@stardust-0517 ’s design i did a long time ago

[thesillyphilly]

I know i been abandoning the lost hope au so here are some drawing (stupid ahh crap) of them as an apology

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Chris Geidner at Law Dork:

Just before the close of business Tuesday, items appeared on two court dockets with which Law Dork readers are all too familiar that showed how far removed reality is from the ideal of “equal justice under law” engraved above the U.S. Supreme Court’s doors.

The items show — in shocking if predictable contrast — that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is continuing to aggressively and explicitly encourage and protect forum-shopping for the right while federal courts in Alabama are continuing to aggressively investigate judicial concerns about alleged forum-shopping in LGBTQ civil rights litigation. First on Tuesday, two Trump appointees issued a ruling ordering, yet again, that a conservative ideological challenge to a Biden administration rule must remain within their ultraconservative circuit. Moments later, LGBTQ civil rights lawyers filed a notice that they had complied with the invasive order from another Trump appointee that he be allowed to review a document that they maintain is protected by attorney-client privilege as part of a two-year judge-shopping investigation. This issue is not new — I wrote about this issue more generally on June 10 — but Tuesday’s news developments are particularly stark examples of the differences in result that are the consequences of these differences in treatment.

Heads, the Chamber wins

For conservative forces — here, the Chamber of Commerce fighting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s credit card late fee rule — Judges Don Willett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has twice issued writs of mandamus to stop U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, a fellow Trump appointee, from transferring the challenge to the federal court in D.C. Pittman, after the first go-round, harshly criticized the “landmines” laid by the Fifth Circuit. In Tuesday’s order, Willett’s libertarianism was supported by Judge Kyle Duncan’s Christian nationalism to … protect business interests. [...]

Tails, LGBTQ civil rights lawyers lose

A little more than a 10-hour drive across the South away — across Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi and up Alabama — lawyers submitted a document to U.S. District Judge Liles Burke that they insist is protected by attorney-client privilege but that he has now twice ordered the LGBTQ civil rights lawyers to turn over more than two years into a judge-shopping investigation. Burke himself prompted the investigation by questioning in a court order whether parties’ dismissal of two cases challenging the state’s new ban on gender-affirming care for minors and lawyers’ discussion that another challenge would be brought constituted judge-shopping.

Chris Geidner writes in Law Dork how right-wing interests get deferential treatment in various courts, especially the 5th Circuit Court.

[helenstella]

Interviewer: In 2006, you had the opportunity to work with another Burke, your son Tom, in “Number 13,” the M. R. James Christmas ghost story. Was that the first time you ever worked with Tom on screen?

David Burke: The first time we worked together professionally. When Tom was still at school, we used to do performances in the village hall.

Anna Calder-Marshall: We’d make them up, in secret, just comedy, clowning, poems…we’d do Victoria Wood sketches.

David: Tom was brilliant at that.

Anna: Brilliant…we’d work them up over Christmas … We worked so much together as a threesome. I mean we did show after show … we must have done about 8 or something.

Interviewer: Do you think Tom would ever give the role of Dr. Watson a try?

David: I think he has too much charisma.

Interviewer: I was gonna say, I think he could probably play Holmes …

David: He actually does a speech…

Anna: … Holmes, as Jeremy Brett. He’s an incredible mimic. He learned it for one of our shows.

From David Burke: A Sherlockian Conversation (2022)

[paganminiskirt]

*Wanders in two hours after Wednesday ends holding starbucks*

Episode #2 of The Little OC/Canon Ship That Could, officially titled Blackamore Stump assuming it ever gets finished. This snippet is a direct continuation of this, if anyone wants to go back and read more niche Burkefucker material.

Got tagged by lovelies @adelaidedrubman and @shallow-gravy, and am tagging @henbased @florbelles @cultfollowlng @snake-in-the-garden @derelictheretic

Staci’s the first to take notice. 

“Federale.” He barks, dropping a sharp gaggle of square keys and MSU keychains into Joey’s fist. “Get down here. Try some real beer.” His syllables roll over each other, sloughing and sliding into what sounds like three long German words; he sounds worse than he feels, Nora would suspect, as his head sways to follow Hudson, trotting over to the driver’s seat with a levity she rarely lets loose. 

“Real beer?” Burke asks. He’s got the whitest voice of any ambiguously tan man she’s ever met, tense enough to be tweaker-ish while maintaining the distinct, upper middle class brand of snide. “I could smell the liquor from my office, man.”

“100% Hope County Grain.” Staci supplies helpfully, just as the doors unlock. “You should’ve had some, it’ll put hair on your chest.” His “office” refers to a cramped sideroom, once occupied by Hudson’s late partner, the Danny who Nora replaced. She’s never been brazen enough to move in, so it had been gathering dust until the Marshall arrived to fill it with a bunch of heavy folders he never opens and the smell of Arm & Hammer deodorant.

As far as she could tell, that room was always half shrine, half open wound - maybe that’s why no one can seem to decide if the Marshall’s worth his salt. He cocks his head, glancing between the three of them. “I already have that.” Nora huffs a laugh. “Oh shit, really?” 

Staci’s trying to work his right leg into the passenger seat, and not having much luck. She doubts he’ll stay at the bar very long, but she’s got a pleasant buzz on that she doesn’t mean to ruin; or at least, not alone. 

“It’s nice people there.” She says, opening the back door. “Family owned, I think.”

“I know them.” Burke says. It sounds dismissive, but he pushes himself up off the door nonetheless. “I’ll drive behind you.”

[autumncottageattic]

Parnell is a 1937 biographical film starring Clark Gable as Charles Stewart Parnell, the famous Irish politician. It was Gable's least successful film and is generally considered his worst, and it is listed in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.

Part I

[general-kalani]

You okay there, Marshall?

"Emotionally? No. Physically? Fucked up. Mentally? Destroyed. Spiritually? Not here right now. So no. No I'm not okay. I was fine before all of this shit but I am so... So fucked up right now."