Notices by input.translation (fluxed@ieji.de)

“Images of the New York region showed the city essentially disappearing behind a wall of #smoke and haze, with orange skies. The air was so choked with wildfire particulates on Wednesday afternoon that the city turned on its streetlights at 2 pm...As of 2:44 pm, the IQ Air website measured New York's Air Quality Index at 342, far above the threshold of 301 denoting ‘hazardous’ air quality...Flights were delayed into, and out of, La Guardia & Newark airports.” #wildfires

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/wildfire-smoke-and-haze-in-the-eastern-united-states-should-peak-this-week/

@TucsonSentinel @TexasObserver

“86% of #transgender and #nonbinary youth said anti-trans bills negatively impacted their mental health...

‘It’s a constant debate on my existence and it just makes me exhausted and frustrated that I have to legitimately just live,’ one #trans individual responded…

Others said they feared for their life, safety and future…

‘#LGBTQ young people are watching, and internalizing the anti-LGBTQ messages they see in the media and from their elected officials’…”