Breaking Down: Collapse

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Banning Islam, deporting Muslims discussed at Fort Worth church after primary elections | Fort Worth Report
"Political suicide": Idaho Republicans vote no on overturning same-sex marriage - LGBTQ Nation
Trump administration threatens eminent domain to seize warehouses for ICE detention
Kids Online Safety Act: New Protections and Parental Controls. (119_HR_7757)
SAVE Plan Blocked: Student-Loan Borrowers Kicked Off in Court Reversal - Business Insider
Kash Patel gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats days before US strikes, sources say | CNN Politics
Pete Hegseth evades question on whether U.S. is at "war" with Iran: "The lawyers will debate all of these things. We have great lawyers, and we'll make sure it's all buttoned up...call it what you want." : r/law
Donald Trump threatens to veto all bills until SAVE Act passes Senate
Donald Trump tells House Republicans: SAVE America Act will ‘guarantee the midterms’
Trump won't say if he'll send armed agents to the polls. So Dems are suing to find out - Democracy Docket
Kristi Noem battered over $143M in no-bid contracts to operative-tied biz that doesn’t have a HQ or even website | The Independent
Trump sets off GOP shockwave by contradicting testimony Noem made under penalty of perjury - Alternet.org
DOGE Lead in deposition details how he emailed documents to his personal device to then send with Signal using auto delete : r/law
DOGE staffer responsible for flagging grants for ‘DEI’ struggles to define DEI : r/law
DOGE member took Social Security data on a thumb drive, whistleblower alleges - The Washington Post
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Today we discuss yet another war, waged by the US and Israel against Iran. The war is destabilizing conditions in the Middle East and threatens economic catastrophe throughout the rest of the world.

The latest: Iran’s president says nation 'will not bow' to pressure from US and Israel
Tehran indicates Khamenei's son will be named supreme leader as Israel expands Iran strikes
Iran war's targets widen into civilian infrastructure and Saudi Arabia reports first deaths
Iran Says Can Fight Intense War For 6 Months As Israel, US Step Up Strikes
Trump’s demands for ending Iran war shift as US military works through its target list
Qatar warns that oil could double to $150 a barrel and 'bring down the economies of the world' | This is Money
Strait of Hormuz Shutdown : r/collapse
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Researchers stumbled upon the discovery of a glacier collapse in East Antarctica, which was determined to be the fastest glacial collapse every recorded. It spells trouble for other (larger) glaciers in similar situations.

Antarctica just saw the fastest glacier collapse ever recorded | ScienceDaily
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One of the things I fear most about collapse is that there's so much we don't understand, and that inevitably means there will be consequences we can't predict. Today I go through a couple of recent findings that weren't necessarily expected by the scientific community, and therefore not accounted for in climate models.

Antarctic warming is altering atmospheric stability: New evidence from the 1950s to the present
Volcanism-induced collapse and recovery of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation under glacial conditions | Science Advances
Reduced Vegetation Uptake During the Extreme 2023 Drought Turns the Amazon Into a Weak Carbon Source - Botía - 2026 - AGU Advances - Wiley Online Library
Brazil’s growing water crisis
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Some new research has come out showing that for every .1C rise in temperature, there's a 7.2% loss in marine life.

Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds | Marine life | The Guardian
Long-term warming reduces fish biomass, but heatwaves shift it | Nature Ecology & Evolution
Climate Reanalyzer
Scientists Thought Antarctic Ice Melt Helped Fight Climate Change. It Doesn’t

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