Breaking Down: Collapse

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Trump announces he is issuing an unconstitutional executive order to shut down mail-in voting nationwide and he will defund states if they do not comply with him : r/law

Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections – The White House

Trump Suffers His Fourth—and Worst—Legal Blow in Just Hours | The New Republic

Humiliated Trump Storms Out of Catastrophic SCOTUS Hearing

Judge orders Trump to halt $400 million White House ballroom project, for now | Reuters

Donald Trump tells Pam Bondi she's fired over Epstein files fiasco after humiliating clash - The Mirror US

Trump DOJ sues Idaho as even red states resist voter data demands - Democracy Docket

Secret Chaos Exposed at Attorney General Pam Bondi’s DOJ Over Trump’s $10B Suit

Arkansas’ Ten Commandments Monument Law Ruled Unconstitutional

Judge says Trump not immune from civil claims his Jan. 6 words incited riot | AP News

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This was a wild week in the climate, and I fear every week will be this way moving forward. Here's some news from the around world.

Also, please forgive the audio quality. I recorded it twice, and the second time I apparently had the wrong mic recording. I love you, but not enough to record it a 3rd time. Sorry!

Limiting global warming to 2C would not ‘rule out’ extreme impacts - Carbon Brief

UK food supply at risk of 'catastrophic failure' by 2030, report warns - FarmingUK News

Malaysia dam levels on alert amid heatwave | The Straits Times

16 states with the highest March day temperature record. : r/collapse

Extreme climate, our biggest"enemy" : r/collapse

Arctic sea ice at lowest level ever this winter

‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds | Extreme heat | The Guardian

Jakarta rapidly sinks as climate change and overdevelopment collide | PBS News

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The world is suffering the consequences of Trump and Israel's war on Iran. How long will our oil woes last?

Israeli chief of staff warns army on verge of 'collapse' amid troop shortage

France confirms oil crisis, says 30-40 percent of Gulf energy infrastructure destroyed - Business - France 24

Cuban health-care workers struggle to support the sick amid U.S. oil embargo | CBC Accessibility

Philippines declares ‘national energy emergency’ and boosts coal power as Iran war grinds on | Philippines | The Guardian

Reliant on imported fuel, Pacific islands appeal for help as oil prices surge | Pacific islands | The Guardian

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Donald Trump hates women. Here's some ways he's showing it:

US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say | US immigration | The Guardian

A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion

Texas passes bill banning abortion pills from being mailed to the state - The 19th

Any Texas resident could sue over abortion pills under bill OK'd by lawmakers and headed to governor | AP News

Trump is Trying to Reverse Crucial Strides in Women’s Rights Movement | American Civil Liberties Union

Seven Ways the Trump Administration Is Hurting Women - Common Cause

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3 brand new reports highlight the various ways that superbugs are proliferating around the world. Are we heading into a post-antibiotic world?

The Cost of War We Aren’t Talking About: Superbugs • The Austin Chronicle

Drought could fuel the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs as climate change worsens, new research suggests | Live Science

EXPERT REACTION: Soils exposed to glyphosate might also be harbouring hospital superbugs - Scimex

Pipeline of new drugs to fight superbugs is ‘worryingly thin’, experts warn | Pharmaceuticals industry | The Guardian

Toxic herbicides: Map showing how high use is by state

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Judge Ends Asylum Claims for Liam Ramos and His Family

Stephen Miller is pushing states to stop educating undocumented children | The Independent

Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday - POLITICO

Bushehr nuclear plant hit again as Pentagon deploys 82nd Airborne — Day 25 of Iran war escalates

Chris Murphy accuses Trump administration of insider trading

Trump says he's 'glad' Robert Mueller is dead | Advocate.com

Trump has damaged democracy at remarkable speed, reports find : NPR

Donald Trump links shutdown end to SAVE America Act passage

Trump casts mail ballot in Florida even as he calls the method 'cheating'

US Supreme Court conservatives lean toward Republican bid to limit mail-in voting | Reuters

Georgia woman charged with murder after police say she took pills to induce abortion | Georgia | The Guardian

A page out of ‘The Handmaid's Tale’: Ohio Republicans propose bill to track all pregnancies

We have 5 articles of impeachment for AG Bondi: defying a subpoena for the full & unredacted Epstein files, violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act, weaponizing the DOJ for President Trump, consistently defying Court Orders (herself & DOJ), and perjuring herself to Congress. - Rep. Summer Lee : r/law

All of DOGE’s work could be undone as lawsuit against Musk proceeds - Ars Technica

Three Tennessee teenagers are suing Elon Musk's xAI for creating sexually explicit images of them | Fortune

Washington state bans all law enforcement - including ICE agents - from wearing masks while on duty | The Independent

Fired FBI agents who worked on Trump 2020 election probe sue for wrongful termination - CBS News

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Anthropogenic mass is overtaking natural biomass. Such hubris from humanity leads to collapse. In this episode we discuss recent findings in pharmaceutical waste and how it hurts local aquatic ecosystems.

Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass | Nature

The Hidden Environmental Impact of Pharmaceutical Waste

Antibiotics found in rivers raise new concerns about water safety - Earth.com

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A new $1billion disaster in the US unfolds thanks to climate change, and the WMO's report on the State of the Climate goes into detail on the growing energy imbalance.

Thousands urged to evacuate as Hawaii flooding anticipated to cause widespread damage | CBC News

Earth’s climate swings increasingly out of balance

Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high | Oceans | The Guardian

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It's been a while since we broached the topic of H5N1. Let's talk about its status, and the ways it effects the world beyond just the fear of impending human to human transmission.

H5N1 in marine mammals is spreading: Research tallies over 50,000 seals and sea lions killed along South America's coast

More animals die from H5N1 avian flu at Ano Nuevo State Park in California | CIDRAP

Hong Kong bans poultry imports from five nations after fresh H5N1 alerts

Philippines halts poultry imports from Indiana over H5N1 outbreak

Bird flu rampant among black vultures: Study points to year-round H5N1 circulation

Govt makes registration mandatory for all poultry farms across country amid H5N1 spread - Healthcare News | The Financial Express

A(H5) Bird Flu: Current Situation | Bird Flu | CDC

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This weeks heat dome in the US West would be virtually impossible without climate change, according to scientists. What does it mean for the rest of the summer, when you factor in a potentially Super El Nino, catastrophically dry conditions in some areas, and other destabilizing conditions?

The US is on the verge of an all-time heat record for March | CNN

Heatwave scorching US west ‘virtually impossible’ without climate crisis, say scientists | US weather | The Guardian

There’s No Way the West Will Have a Normal Summer - The Atlantic

Get Ready for a Year of Chaotic Weather in the US | WIRED

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