Breaking Down: Collapse

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Poll: Americans worry Trump will seize ballots, voting machines in midterms

Exclusive | Trump Promises Mass Pardons to Staff Before Leaving Office - WSJ

Proposed Amendment: Congress Can Nullify Presidential Pardons. (119_HJRES_135)

US edges closer to popular vote deciding winner of presidential elections | US politics | The Guardian

Trump Says Israel And Lebanon’s Leaders Will Speak, Hegseth Gives Iran War Update: Live Updates | HuffPost Latest News

‘It’s absolutely wrong’: Vietnam vet sues to stop construction of ‘vain’ Trump arch in DC

USPS suspends contributions to employee pensions after warning of "cash crisis" - CBS News

Is Operation Epic Fury Illegal? Legal Experts Warn Donald Trump Could Face War Crime Violations | IBTimes UK

Trump Fires Judges Who Blocked Deportations of Student Activists Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi — “[The Trump administration is eroding] the concept of procedural due process, the idea that you get to have a hearing in the United States…” : r/law

Trump Mostly Fired Black Agency Officials, New Lawsuit Says

Trump says he’ll fire Powell next month if he stays in his role at the Fed | CNN Business

ICE is now flagging people that protest against them for punishment e.g. by cancelling their Global Entry credentials. They are reportedly using facial recognition scanning software by Palantir to track and tag people exercising First Amendment rights to protest and congregate. : r/law

Posts/Comments about recent ICE enforcement efforts are now prohibited : r/GlobalEntry

The Tech Arsenal That ICE Has Deployed in Minneapolis - The New York Times

Tennessee’s Charlie Kirk Act bans student walkouts, protects conservative speakers | WPLN News

Feds Try Secret Grand Jury to Unmask Reddit ICE Critic

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Greenland’s Ice Is Melting Faster Than Ever, and Scientists Are Alarmed

Lakes forming next to Greenland's melting ice sheet are speeding up glacier flow

AMOC collapse could turn Southern Ocean into carbon source, adding 0.2°C to global warming

Shifting Gulf Stream may signal an ocean current collapse is next - Earth.com

Record high ocean temperatures off southern California raise fears of prolonged marine heatwave | US news | The Guardian

Wildfires are spreading into places that rarely burned before - Earth.com

Summer is getting longer, and it's happening faster than we thought

‘Non-survivable’: heatwaves are already breaching human limits, with worse to come, study finds | Climate crisis | The Guardian

Arctic ice at lowest in marcch ever : r/collapse

Arctic: Sea-Ice Concentration/Extent – Zachary Labe

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The Philippines is a great example of a nation on the brink due to an externality, because of their heavy reliance on imported oil.

Nation on brink: this oil crisis may destroy everything we built | Inquirer Opinion

DOE: Philippines’ fuel supply can last up to 50.42 days

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Probabilities are increasing for a "Very Strong El Nino" this summer or fall. What are the potential impacts?

To date, 2026 is averaging 1.48°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline. This is striking because we're still in ENSO-neutral conditions, with El Niño on its way. : r/collapse

Super El Niño next year? Here's the probability of one | king5.com

Buckle Up! Gonna be a wild 12 months coming up : r/collapse

ECMWF | Charts

Possible super El Niño could bring extreme heat, droughts, strong floods - The Washington Post

A Super El Niño is coming. Here’s how a hotter ocean could change the weather near you | CNN

Iran war: Why a super El Niño event poses fresh risks to food costs

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A new paper suggests the carrying capacity of earth is 2.5 billion, just under a third of the current population. What say you? Realistic, or too high or low?

Earth can no longer sustain the global human population - Earth.com

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Democrats introduce impeachment articles against Trump and Hegseth as nearly 100 lawmakers call for 25th Amendment | The Independent

Trump uses the language of annihilation to threaten Iran | AP News

House Democrat announces impeachment push against Hegseth over Iran war

Trump pulls back on Iran threats after warning a 'civilization will die tonight' if deal isn't reached | PBS News

Trump threatens 'bigger and stronger' attacks if Iran doesn’t comply with 'real agreement'

With Trump Threatening Genocide in Iran, Military Must Disobey His Orders, Former Pentagon Officials Say

Trump threats cause dilemma for US officers: disobey orders or commit war crimes | War crimes | The Guardian

Pope says Trump's threat to destroy Iranian civilization is 'unacceptable' | AP News

Pentagon, White House Push Back on Alleged Remarks Made to Pope, Vatican | Military.com

Trump threatens CNN over its Iran coverage moments after announcing ceasefire plan | The Independent

Florida can fund religious charter schools, ‘encourage’ religion, state AG says | firstcoastnews.com

Supreme Court vacates Steve Bannon contempt-of-Congress charges - ABC News

Trump announces ‘fraud’ crackdown in Democratic states as arrests begin in California | Donald Trump | The Guardian

DeSantis signs Florida law to label groups as terrorists and expel student supporters

Exclusive: FBI’s New Political Pre-Crime Center

Acting attorney general: Trump has ‘right’ to order investigations into his enemies - Democracy Docket

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What a fun little game we play. Step 1: Scientific consensus is too conservative. Step 2: Something happens "shocking scientists". Step 3: Articles are released describing how it happened faster than expected, but don't worry because someone will fix it. Step 4: No changes are made, and the models remain conservative. Repeat.

Earth is warming faster than previously estimated, new study shows - Los Angeles Times

Uh-Oh—Global Warming Is Actually Speeding Up, Scientists Say

Thawing permafrost becomes 25 to 100 times more permeable, experiments find

‘On a whole other level’: rapid snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists | US weather | The Guardian

Amazon wildfires have released far more carbon than we thought - Earth.com

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It's not just the current geopolitical situation that's putting food supply under stress - it's been growing for a long time and is getting worse.

‘I’ve never seen anything like it’: Hawaii’s small farmers begin recovery after catastrophic flooding | Hawaii | The Guardian

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UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying | Farming | The Guardian

From gas to grain: Fertilizer disruptions raise risks for food security and trade | UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

How the Iran war could shatter global food security

Australia to Plant Less Wheat as Iran War Deepens Global Fertilizer Supplies - Bloomberg

Palm oil, cocoa, coffee… Who's going to tend to tomorrow's large tropical plantations?

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Established and important US infrastructure is rapidly being demolished, not as a forced response to desperate need, but in the petulant outbursts of a grifting narcissist.

The US government just used a dormant 48-year-old committee to strip endangered species protections from the entire Gulf of Mexico. : r/collapse

Trump’s ‘God Squad’ chose oil drilling over endangered species in the Gulf. This whale could be in particular danger | CNN

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

White House seeks $1.5 tn defense budget as Iran war drives costs

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New updates to economists' thoughts on AI and job loss, and new research shows the "heat island" effect of data centers on more than 340 million people globally.

Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN

States with the most data centers

Economists Are Drawing Stronger Connections Between A.I. and Jobs - The New York Times

Top leadership experts sound the alarm on the AI doomsday: bosses are choosing tech over people | Fortune

Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence \ Anthropic

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