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From 1980 to 1989, the number of billion-dollar weather disasters in the United States averaged just 3.3 per year. Between 2015 and 2024, that number had more than quintupled, averaging 19 billion-dollar disasters per year. Twenty-three billion-dollar disasters hit American communities in 2025.
The great American road trip is in peril
My family set out to see the beauty of America’s national parks. Along the way, we saw how wildfire, flood, heat, and drought are changing them.
grist.org
Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.
ProPublica@propublica.org · yesterdayProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
If music is therapy, who is your therapist?
Robert. Queer and broken.@queerbrokenfate.bsky.social · 14h agoIf music is therapy, who is your therapist?
me: I just want to drink coffee and look out of my office window cat: no
YOU MUST TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS TO HAVE STRENGTH TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES.
DRINK WATER FROM THE SKULLS OF YOUR ENEMIES! IF YOU HAVE CRUSHED THEIR SKULLS, USE A GLASS.
PUT AWAY YOUR SABRE, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE DARK THOUGHTS. AND YOU WILL WIN.
RFKJr's work to spread measles: "If anybody is twisting facts to fit his narrative, it appears to be Kennedy, who remains determined to downplay both the threat of measles and his role in abetting its spread across the country."
RFK Jr.’s Sickening Measles Victory Lap
While Pennsylvania struggles to contain an outbreak, the anti-vax health secretary keeps trying to score political points.
thebulwark.com
Hopper portrayed the “horror house” before Hollywood. House by the Railroad (1925) freezes a mansion in suspense—a lonely home becomes ominous, American suburbia turns into a nightmare. Years later, it inspired Hitchcock’s famous film Psycho.
The Little Prince gets richer, everyone else gets screwed.
The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 18h ago⚡️Breaking: US envoys Witkoff, Kushner arrive in Ukraine for the first time to discuss peace talks, sources say. The arrival came only a day after the two envoys held more than three hours of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, a discussion both sides described as "substantive."
When we think about energy demand, we should think about social utility. Yes, AC will increase energy demand but it is also necessary to save lives. AC has social utility. Hyperscaled data centers do not. We should prioritize one (AC) over the other (AI slop)
Air conditioners are our best bet in the fight against extreme heat – whether we like it or not
Global AC demand will inevitably accelerate as the world continues to warm amid the climate crisis
theguardian.com
I'm not sure if I'm up too late or up too early, but it seems 4:50 am is not the best time for me to Wordle Wordle 1,905 6/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Halloween candy prices gonna radicalize people this year
I love maple, I love blondies. When I see this I’m going to buy every box on the shelf.
Pangram last, word that I thought was an alternate spelling but is actually a bird second last
I got Queen Bee!
How many words can you make with 7 letters?
nytimes.com
Off to my stupid job that requires me to not only work 3 Saturdays per month, but also makes me come in earlier than on a weekday.
“This isn't just about a life lost, a family destroyed...This is about what kind of country we want to be.” @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social tells the story of 20-year-old Pierre Damas Bel, who took his life after losing TPS and being forced to wear an ICE ankle monitor.
