Breaking Down: Collapse

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Red Flag Alert - Anti-Trans Genocide in the USA - #3 | Lemkin Institute

U.S. court allows state bans on gender-affirming care for adults in unprecedented ruling | Advocate.com

Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas | US news | The Guardian

ICE Accused Of Detaining 14-Year-Old Girl In Massachusetts As 'Bait' To Snare Her Father — Judge Orders Her Immediate Return | IBTimes UK

Trump Melts Down at Supreme Court Justices in Unhinged Truth Social Rampage

Federal judge blocks RFK Jr.'s childhood vaccine cuts, says he likely broke the law | Fortune

Judge permanently blocks Ten Commandments displays at several Arkansas school districts

Hegseth Vows Lethal Day in Iran as Air War Intensifies - The New York Times

Trump faces impeachment calls after massive TikTok deal fee revealed

Trump Presidential Library Fund Paid by Companies He Sued Has Dissolved With No Public Accounting, Lawmakers Allege | IBTimes UK

In latest blunder, Trump DOJ spent months emailing the wrong address demanding Oklahoma’s voter rolls - Democracy Docket

Democrats Formally Request an Investigation Into Kristi Noem’s Lies | The New Republic

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The rate of climate news and research should be alarming... are you as desensitized to it as I am?

US weather to go nuts with blizzard, polar vortex, heat dome, atmospheric river all at once

The most extreme March heatwave in US history is coming : r/collapse

Stripped of life: the deadly South Australian algal bloom is still spreading one year on | Marine life | The Guardian

Mangrove waters are losing oxygen, putting fish nurseries at risk - Earth.com

Experts warn of ‘dramatic development’ as all but two of Austria’s 96 glaciers have retreated | The Independent

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We talk often of the effects of CO2 on our atmosphere and climate, but what about its effect on our bodies? New research shines the light.

Carbon dioxide overload, detected in human blood, suggests a potentially toxic atmosphere within 50 years | Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health | Springer Nature Link

Short-term exposure to indoor carbon dioxide and cognitive task performance: A systematic review and meta-analysis - ScienceDirect

Atmospheric CO2 Getting So High That It's Weakening Human Skeletons

Carbon dioxide emissions and change in prevalence of obesity and diabetes in the United States: An ecological study - ScienceDirect

Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood

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A discussion on the various effects of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

I feel this is our last year : r/collapse

On the Brink in Hormuz: Iran War and the Global Order

The Global Costs of Instability in the Strait of Hormuz

Fertilizer isn't getting through the Straight of Hormuz, which could lead to a global food crisis. | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

‘A big burden for farmers’: Gulf shipping crisis threatens food price shock | Supply chain crisis | The Guardian

Environmental Consequences Few Outlets Are Discussing : r/collapse

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Some anecdotal experiences regarding the increasing anti-intellectualism in the age of collapse.

So many Americans minds are completely rotted. : r/collapse

With how insanely warm and dry this winter has been, have you seen people changing their perspectives on climate change? : r/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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