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* Shakespeare in the state park: Why a group of Marquette students created an empowering outlet for creativity that provides students with summer jobs.

* Bring this to Wisconsin!

* CFP: Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures.

* A historian of concentration camps explains that this will only get worse.

* Trump administration cancels English classes, soccer, legal aid for unaccompanied child migrants in U.S. shelters. Botched family reunifications left migrant children waiting in vans overnight.

* It’s not just at Guantánamo. In a supermax facility on US soil, inmates are force fed — and barred from sharing their stories. An inmate breaks his silence for the first time.

* Earth’s carbon dioxide has jumped to the highest level in human history. Can the Paris Climate Goals Save Lives? Yes, a Lot of Them, Researchers Say. Climate change is will cause our third world war. Extreme weather has made half of America look like Tornado Alley. India roasts under heat wave with temperatures above 120 degrees. If I knew the world would end tomorrow, I’d plant a tree today.

Just for the record: the major problem the public has with climate change is not error but ignorance, and the major problem with climate messaging is not that it misleads but that there's too little of it in general.

— David Roberts (@drvox) June 4, 2019

These floods are truly insane. This family in Conway, Arkansas used more than 10,000 sandbags to keep several feet of water from taking over their home. Their house has become and island. The only way in and out is by boat. @THV11 @tvtomee pic.twitter.com/lD5HtFpLxk

— Marc Sallinger (@MarcWBIR) June 3, 2019

* Meanwhile, the DNC has bravely decided to… forbid candidates from participating in any climate debate.

we demand a DNC debate on climate change highlighting all the positions the party currently holds on climate change, from “do nothing” to “do nothing and pretend to feel bad about it”

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 5, 2019

despair is the beginning of wisdom https://t.co/JsFntid2M3

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 5, 2019

* Biden, man. Biden.

Right now our biggest hope is that Biden isn't really playing to win and wants to parlay his presidential run into a new TV network — but the Russians will tip the scales unexpectedly in his direction, in the hopes of destabilizing us.

— Adam Kotsko (@adamkotsko) June 5, 2019

This week, Joe Biden has supported the Hyde Amendment, backed mass incarceration, and plagiarized a proposal.

Someone should tell him this week is not taking place in 1988.

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) June 5, 2019

the biden campaign is AGAINST abortion, people under forty, and whining about money problems, and FOR being friends with mike pence and touching ten year old girls in problematic ways. will this work? 50/50 at least

— flglmn (@flglmn) June 5, 2019

* The only way 2020 can end.

* Is Chernobyl historically accurate about the things that matter? HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ Doesn’t Understand History.

* Learning The Shape Of Dungeons & Dragons in 2019.

* Understand the destruction of the UC system the reclaimUC way.

* Free speech on campus remains the last great mystery.

* The madness of school shooting drills.

It seems absolutely certain to me that it is training kids to be better killers and possibly creating killers who wouldn’t otherwise exist https://t.co/XsOquxYIi1

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 5, 2019

* YouTube pivots to pedophiles.

* Not the Catholic Church’s best week.

* “And then he’d still be Captain America, instead of a lying, indolent, murdering sack of shit.”

* I for one welcome our new insect overlords.

* “Mars, Nestlé and Hershey pledged nearly two decades ago to stop using cocoa harvested by children. Yet much of the chocolate you buy still starts with child labor.”

* Tremendous wealth mysteriously producing tremendous poverty.

* And sing to me, muse, of Reviewer 2.