Nearly half a million people across the world could lose their lives by February due to El Niño-driven extreme heat, according to a sobering new report. https://cnn.it/47sySSh
Abbey
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Increasingly radicalized dissident from Northern New England. Yale Poli Sci, advanced cynicism. ☄️ 🌎<shrug
Lose the glaciers and we lose a major source of dry-season water. Irrigation fails, harvests shrink, livestock suffer and fisheries are disrupted as oceans warm. Food gets scarcer, prices surge and supply chains buckle. The result will be famine on a scale humanity has never faced.
Lose the glaciers and we lose a major source of dry-season water. Irrigation fails, harvests shrink, livestock suffer and fisheries are disrupted as oceans warm. Food gets scarcer, prices surge and supply chains buckle. The result will be famine on a scale humanity has never faced.
The New Republic argues that Democrats’ most viable Supreme Court reform isn’t court expansion or term limits, but an enforceable ethics code. Unlike more sweeping proposals, ethics reform has striking bipartisan public support, including 91% of both Democrats and Republicans in a recent poll.
The Most Likely Avenue for Supreme Court Reform
Among the many ideas to change a wayward court, there is one that already has broad support—and is very likely to succeed.
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When farms stop yielding, hunger does not knock — it breaks the door. Across the Horn of Africa, soils that once fed nations are turning barren. This is not “bad weather.” This is climate change rewriting our food systems in real time.
"Jackson’s campaign manager is a Biden campaign veteran approved by Chuck Schumer’s Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), and brought in establishment consultants to help direct the campaign. According to Traister, they’ve essentially tried to muzzle Jackson."
The Consultants Will Kill You
In Michigan and Maine, a tale of two campaigns.
currentaffairs.org
America spent half a century of Cold War fretting over the Communist threat, then two decades fretting over Islamist terrorism. Turns out we should have fretted over the Supreme Court instead.
Republican coordinated campaign spending surges after US Supreme Court ruling
Since the US Supreme Court in June sided with Republicans and struck down federal caps on spending by political parties in coordination with candidates, Republican committees have blown past the forme...
reuters.com
This thing just keeps getting worse. Why the fuck is this merger allowed to happen?
Paramount Reportedly Seeking Elon Musk Investment After Warner Bros. Merger
The world's lone trillionaire is being asked for an assist by Paramount.
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Trump shrank Bears Ears National Monument by 91%, opening land to mining and drilling. Now Mike Lee is pushing a maneuver that conservation groups warn could block future administrations from restoring similar protections. The mining claims have already begun.
Mike Lee Moves to Block Any Future Restoration of Bears Ears National Monument, Conservation Groups Warn
Senator Mike Le
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More than half of America’s national wildlife refuges have no staff on site. Decades of underfunding, now compounded by Trump’s cuts, are hollowing out public-land agencies. Conservationists warn the goal is to break them, then sell off the land.
Inside the Long and Deliberate Collapse of America's Public-Land Funding
For decades, federal public-land agencies have been underfunded and understaffed. The second Trump administration has exacerbated it.
outdoorlife.com
More than half of America’s national wildlife refuges have no staff on site. Decades of underfunding, now compounded by Trump’s cuts, are hollowing out public-land agencies. Conservationists warn the goal is to break them, then sell off the land.
Inside the Long and Deliberate Collapse of America's Public-Land Funding
For decades, federal public-land agencies have been underfunded and understaffed. The second Trump administration has exacerbated it.
outdoorlife.com
Trump shrank Bears Ears National Monument by 91%, opening land to mining and drilling. Now Mike Lee is pushing a maneuver that conservation groups warn could block future administrations from restoring similar protections. The mining claims have already begun.
Mike Lee Moves to Block Any Future Restoration of Bears Ears National Monument, Conservation Groups Warn
Senator Mike Le
outdoorlife.com
I love this time of year. Even though it darkens earlier, the forest is so lush with green moss and odd fungi popping up everywhere. So I went out and snapped some photos of #mushrooms and Fall today. 🧵 📷 🍄
When Trump-aligned billionaires control the networks Americans trust for news, they don’t just own the cameras. They gain the power to decide what the entire country sees, hears, and never learns… hartmannreport.com/p/rightwing-...
Rightwing Billionaires Aren’t Just Buying CNN and CBS: They’re Seizing the Power to Shape Reality
When Trump-aligned billionaires control the networks Americans trust for news, they don’t just own the cameras. They gain the power to decide what the entire country sees, hears, and never learns…
hartmannreport.com
The FBI was pursuing a bribery probe involving Susan Collins and Navatek, whose CEO said donations bought millions in federal contracts. The investigation died after Trump purged anti-corruption agents. Collins denies wrongdoing.
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
propublica.org
Organizers say establishment Democratic consultants are sidelining the grassroots that helped Jackson and Platner win nominations, cutting voter contact while cashing in on ads. Activists have formed People Powered Maine to keep organizing outside the party machine.
Troy Jackson, the Accidental Candidate
How the Democratic Party is seizing control of his Senate campaign.
nymag.com
Even conservative Erick Erickson is sounding the alarm about the white nationalists and Nazi sympathizers gaining influence in churches, think tanks and JD Vance’s orbit. He names names and follows the money. Read this.
charles-haywood-claremont-american-reformer-fuentes
Charles Haywood's money sits inside the Claremont Institute, American Reformer, and the Southern Baptist fight. Nick Fuentes is working the same end from outside.
ewerickson.substack.com
I love this time of year. Even though it darkens earlier, the forest is so lush with green moss and odd fungi popping up everywhere. So I went out and snapped some photos of #mushrooms and Fall today. 🧵 📷 🍄
"The closer autocrats come to their end, the more frenziedly do they build. Nero embarked on a golden palace before he was driven to suicide. Marie Antoinette built a model hamlet before she was beheaded. Hitler pored over architectural plans in his bunker during his final days."
The desecration of DC: from a giant arch to a nuke-proof bunker, Trump’s legacy-building blingfest is an architectural atrocity
A bloated ballroom, a six-storey military HQ, a helipad-cum-cocktail patio, a gilded angel on a giant arch honouring himself … our architecture critic deplores the decorator-in-chief’s mutilation of W...
theguardian.com
Exxon is now expecting a 2.5 - 3C rise by 2050 But says f*ck you - we are just going to keep right on sucking up as much gas and oil as we can Because even though we know what's coming, we really don't give a sh*t www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Exxon raises 2050 global emissions forecast, sees slower coal decline
The world is at risk of falling behind in efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 2050, ExxonMobil said in its annual energy outlook published on Thursday, as the burning of coal could decline at a slo...
reuters.com
Campaigning on kitchen table issues won't win over these people.
The George W. Bush rehabilitation tour has taken an unexpectedly conceptual turn.
Trump already tried this after The Associated Press refused to adopt the phrase "Gulf of America." A Trump-appointed federal judge ruled the ban unconstitutional, noting that the First Amendment prohibits viewpoint discrimination, even within nonpublic forums like the Oval Office.
Trump bans CNN, MS Now and Politico from the White House
US president has overseen an unprecedented restriction of access for major traditional news media since start of second term
theguardian.com
The FCC will allow the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, & Abu Dhabi to own nearly 50% of a merged Paramount-Warner Bros — potentially giving them sway over our media. This of course comes after Trump received gifts or struck business deals with these countries. See the problem?
FCC Approves 49.5% Foreign Ownership of Paramount-Warner Bros.
The FCC has approved Paramount's petition to allow 49.5% ownership by Gulf state sovereign wealth funds as part of its W
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Imagine looking out your garden window at this. Fields in Mason County, West Virginia will soon be the foundation of a massive Nscale data center, one of the largest to be built in the U.S.
Back in 2020, a group of Senate Democrats proposed a rule that would prevent Durbin from serving as top Dem on a full committee while retaining his leadership post. They also wanted to get rid of the seniority system and enact term limits for committee chairs and ranking members. All was voted down.
Durbin pours cold water on Democratic hopes for SCOTUS hardball
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said that any future Supreme Court nominees should get a vote, regardless of which party controls Congress.
courthousenews.com