Welcome to Democracy-ish. I'm Danielle Moody.

And I'm with Jophthalee.

Wash, what's cooking?

You know, what's...

Aside from the earth. You know, I'm going to just test out if I can fry my egg outside

on my porch.

You know, that's a normal thing to do in 2022.

And then, you know, just to get some more impressions and retweets, I'll just take a video

of it and put it on Twitter.

Because that's apparently what we do now as a summer activity in 2022 as the planet cooks, thanks to unchecked climate

change that scientists have warned us about for 30 years, but thanks to human greed Republicans

and Joe Manchin, who do not give a single solitary F, We now have a record heat wave in Europe

where I think the temperature in England is 104,

and by the way, that was the temperature in Pakistan.

So I empathize with you because I've spent some summers in Pakistan.

And there's wildfires in Spain and a drought in the Horn of Africa.

But other than that, Danielle, what's cooking in New York?

Well, aside from people in the subways, aside from which I just saw yesterday, an entire

sinkhole that pretty much sucked up half of a street in the Bronx, because following the tremendous heat,

there was a buckets load of rain that was dropped in New York,

and an entire cars, cars, entire cars,

were sucked into the street by a sinkhole that has opened up.

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