collapse of the old society
> we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.
- abcnews.go.com Sizzling sidewalks, unshaded playgrounds pose risk for surface burns over searing Southwest summer
Sizzling sidewalks and unshaded playgrounds increasingly are posing risks for surface burns as air temperatures reach new highs during the searing summers in Southwest cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas
- newrepublic.com Trump Lawyer Argues Fake Electors Were “Official” Presidential Act
Donald Trump is already using the Supreme Court immunity ruling exactly how you’d expect.
- Idaho library bans minors from entering without parental consent
This is the context - an Idaho law that penalizes any library that allows minors access to "inappropriate" content, and lets each child's parent define what "inappropriate" means. So libraries could be penalized if, for example, a homeschooled Christian child reads a book on biology that mentions evolution or a YA novel with a gay character, and their parents object to it. Or if a liberal parent objects to their child reading the Bible or Quran.
Given the wide scope and uncertain limits of this law, some Idaho libraries are banning minors entirely. As was, I suspect, the goal.
Laws like this are becoming widespread in red states and will likely become federal law with Project 2025.
The United States is becoming a nation where parents' right to keep their kids stupid and bigoted is more important than children's right to learn. And if that isn't a sign of collapse I don't know what is.
- www.nbcnews.com She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.
"The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.
- theconversation.com Loss of Supreme Court legitimacy can lead to political violence
What happens if the highest court in the land loses legitimacy?
- Facing a Future of Fewer and Less: “Tell Them at Least What You Say to Yourself”www.resilience.org Facing a Future of Fewer and Less: “Tell Them at Least What You Say to Yourself” - resilience
Changing our political and economic systems to make a decent human existence possible in a big-picture future is crucial, but so is learning to live within the existing systems in ways that are decent in small ways today.
- www.levernews.com Is This Really How It All Ends?
Biden’s blackmail strategy relies on you thinking there’s no alternative - even though there is.
- I want to survive the apocalypse – but not if it’s just me and some terrible billionaireswww.theguardian.com I want to survive the apocalypse – but not if it’s just me and some terrible billionaires | Emma Beddington
Since the pandemic, remote properties have been marketed for off-grid living. But a life spent gardening and eating cormorants is not for me, writes Emma Beddington
- abcnews.go.com White Nebraska man shoots and wounds 7 Guatemalan immigrant neighbors
Authorities are not ruling out racist motives as they investigate why a white Nebraska man shot and wounded seven neighbors who were Guatemalan immigrants
- www.cnn.com Beryl strengthens into the earliest Category 5 Atlantic hurricane on record after devastating Windward Islands | CNN
Hurricane Beryl has strengthened into a Category 5 Atlantic hurricane — the earliest on record — as it powers across the Caribbean after bringing devastation to the Windward Islands, where at least one person is dead.
Beryl posted here twice in quick succession because its just breaking so many records.
- www.theguardian.com South Carolina implements one of US’s most restrictive public school book bans
Education superintendent and Moms for Liberty ally drafts law requiring all reading be ‘developmentally appropriate’
- phys.org Deep dive into past climates paints grim outlook for fish species
Climatic stability over millions of years has allowed ancient and isolated freshwater fishes to flourish in areas such as the 356,000 square kilometers from Shark Bay to Esperance in southwest Western Australia.
- www.businessinsider.com The Supreme Court discards Chevron doctrine, unleashing a threat to Biden's climate policies
The Supreme Court curtailed the federal government's power to regulate the environment.
- www.bbc.com Pakistan: More than 500 die in six days as heatwave grips country
Soaring temperatures in Pakistan have led more people to head to hospitals seeking help.
- www.bbc.com Arctic wildfires ravage region, EU climate service says
Scientists at the EU's Copernicus monitor say Russia's Sakha region is experiencing intense wildfires.
- www.nytimes.com At Least 750,000 on Brink of Starvation and Death in Sudan, Experts Warn
A devastating civil war is pushing the country toward a full-blown famine, according to the international body that measures hunger.
- Data centers could set back climate progresswww.hcn.org Data centers could set back climate progress - High Country News
AI, cryptocurrency “mining” and our digital lifestyles imperil the energy transition — and the planet.
- www.theguardian.com Rising sea levels will disrupt millions of Americans’ lives by 2050, study finds
Floods could leave coastal communities in states like Florida and California unlivable in two decades
- www.bbc.com Farmers ‘at war’ with rural crime gangs
One farmer told the BBC he faces 'constant warfare' against balaclava-clad thieves.
- www.denverpost.com The West is warming and drying so fast that a crucial drought-monitoring tool can’t keep up, study says
Drought in the American West is becoming a persistent reality instead of a periodic emergency due to climate change, and a recent study found that an essential tool used to measure drought can̵…
- www.theguardian.com Plastics companies blocked mitigation efforts and may have broken US laws – study
Paper outlines different legal theories that could help governments pursue accountability for harms
- www.nytimes.com Corruption Law Allows Gifts to State and Local Officials, Supreme Court Rules
The court, which has limited the sweep of several anti-corruption laws, distinguished after-the-fact rewards from before-the-fact bribes.
Bribes are legal, so long as they are paid after the fact with a fig leaf of an excuse.
- phys.org 'Breathing smoke': Brazil's Pantanal wetlands hit by record fires
Erica Cristina has been "breathing in smoke every day" since a large fire broke out across the river from the city of Corumba, the gateway to Brazil's Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetlands.
- When will the heat end? Never.www.cnn.com When will the heat end? Never. | CNN
Summer is off to a sweltering start after multiple record-breaking heat events sent temperatures soaring for millions of people. Here’s what to expect moving forward
- www.theguardian.com Rightwing cases built on made-up stories keep making it to the US supreme court | Moira Donegan
Again and again, the conservative movement promotes cases based on inaccuracies, falsehoods and outright deceptions
- www.vox.com Misinformation is winning the war on misinformation
Online falsehoods are as bad as they‘ve ever been. Does anyone care?
- phys.org Scientists document self-propelling oxygen decline in the oceans
Five hundred million years ago, the so-called Cambrian "SPICE" event made oxygen levels in the oceans drop dramatically.
- www.theatlantic.com What Will Become of American Civilization?
Conspiracism and hyper-partisanship in the nation’s fastest-growing city
- Fossil fuel use, emissions hit records in 2023, report says
Cross posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10720935
- www.theguardian.com ‘What if there just is no solution?’ How we are all in denial about the climate crisis
In his new book, Tad DeLay suggests there is no rosy roadmap to go forward – but there are things we can do
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10713443
> >For denial doesn’t only amount to rejecting the evidence, he argues – it also consists of denying our role in the climate crisis; absolving ourselves through “carbon offsets, hybrid cars, local purchases, recycling”. And in this, far more of us are implicated. > > >In some ways, this argument might not seem all that new. Multiple authors have pointed out that green capitalism, not rightwing deniers of the crisis, is our greatest obstacle to properly confronting the problem. DeLay agrees. The difference is the lens he brings to it – using psychoanalysis to explain the mechanisms behind denial. > >
- www.theguardian.com Outdoor clothing brands still using ‘forever chemicals’ despite health risk
Campaigners find PFAS, which can contaminate the soil and water supply, in more than 80% of 27 companies’ products
- www.aljazeera.com Working in ‘hellfire’: Gig workers bear the brunt of India’s heatwave
Delivery workers face physical and mental hardships while enduring India’s scorching summer.
- www.nytimes.com Alabama’s I.V.F. Shield Law Now Faces a Constitutional Challenge
The challenge, from two of the families who filed the initial lawsuit, raises the possibility that access to I.V.F. could once again be in jeopardy in the state.
- www.theguardian.com Wisconsin Republicans block PFAS cleanup until polluters are granted immunity
GOP-controlled committee thwarting distribution of $125m budgeted by legislature until polluter immunity approved
- www.404media.co Americans Are Hiring People in the Philippines to Help Them Find Adderall
For $50 a prescription, a freelancer overseas will call pharmacies in your area to find Adderall and weight loss drugs like Mounjaro or WeGovy.
