Breaking Down: Collapse

A deeper look at the oil/diesel availability crisis around the world:

Some Gas Stations ‘Out of Diesel’ as Prices Surge - Newsweek

Oil: What next as Saudi Arabia scrambles to restore East-West pipeline

Saudis tell European refiners they’ll get no crude next month | Financial Post

The Depletion Ledger — The Oil Supply Crisis

Costco Is Rationing Oil And Doubling Its Price As Supply Dwindles

Skyrocketing fuel prices spark protests around the globe | CNN

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Winter is coming, and with it many challenges.

Winter is Coming for Diesel | Rigzone

"There is no money." Russian farmers began to massively refuse to sow winter wheat - Russian Service of The Moscow Times

61% of French groundwater monitoring points sit below normal, up from 44% a year ago. The autumn rain everyone is waiting for mostly will not reach the aquifer. : r/collapse

Panama canal traffic facing further cuts as drought from El Niño worsens | Panama canal | The Guardian

Kelvin Waves: What they are, and why they pose a threat to Southern California : r/collapse

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Sources:

Trump erupts at Supreme Court for being ‘bullied by the Radical Left’ after mail-in ballot ruling | The Independent

Trump Makes Crowd Swear Pledge to “Cheat Like Hell” This Election | The New Republic

Bush-Appointed Judge J. Michael Luttig Warns of ‘Another Jan. 6’ After Midterms

WATCH: Blumenthal asks Patel to commit to not sending FBI agents to polling places on Election Day | PBS News : r/law

The IRS shared info it shouldn’t have with ICE. What now?

Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges - Democracy Docket

Former US detention officer charged with 20 counts of felony forgery | North Carolina | The Guardian

ICE Attacks Two U.S. Citizen Minors on Their Way to Enlist in Marines | The New Republic

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The rate at which the planet is heating is accelerating. Models haven't taken this into account, so when do we hit climate sensitivity, and how hot will that be?

Post by @climatecasino.net — Bluesky

Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds | Climate crisis | The Guardian

The Arctic melt season is now more than a month longer than it was in the 1980s, new research on sea ice trends shows

The U.S. just had its hottest summer on record, NOAA says - CBS News

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AI is an increasingly divisive topic, even (or especially) among collapse aware folk. How seriously should we take its development?

Anthropic Researcher Quit, Says AI Labs Are 'Gambling With Our Lives' - Business Insider

Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit | The New Yorker

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Today we take a look at the bottom of the marine food chain, where new research indicates things aren't looking to great:

Climate change may erase 25 million hectares of kelp forests by 2050

Seaweed carbon removal cannot keep up with climate-driven loss | PLOS Biology

Projected declines in zooplankton energy supporting Northwest European Shelf ecosystems | Communications Earth & Environment

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Wildlife is collapsing, and time is running low to make the changes we must in order to protect them.

Gray whales are washing up dead on the West Coast. The reason is alarming | Scientific American

France's wildlife suffers severe blow from intense heat: 'The entire food chain is disrupted'

Bears, coyotes spotted in unexpected SoCal places during scorching heat wave - ABC7 Los Angeles

One effect of climate change: More rats, ticks and mosquitoes — and more disease - Evanston RoundTable

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Sources:

Judge blocks Trump’s new USPS rules for mail-in ballots with just weeks before midterm elections | The Independent

2026 midterms: Trump is getting the mail-ballot chaos he wants.

US House passes bill penalizing universities that participate in boycott of Israel | House of Representatives | The Guardian

Jimmy Kimmel Says James Talarico Interview Won't Air After FCC Threats

Meagan Morris Speaks From Jail After Being Sentenced to 50 Years by the Trump Administration for an Alleged Terrorist Attack [WATCH]

ICE Arrests Soar as People With No Criminal Record Are Increasingly Targeted - The New York Times

Trump Pushes to Rename New Mexico ‘New America,’ but He Can’t Do It by Executive Order | Law Commentary

Donald Trump pledges $5K dividend if GOP wins Congress

Judge reinforces order banning immediate work on Trump’s 250-foot arch

Constitution Doesn’t Cover Right to Clean Water, Court Rules (1)

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Am I alone in imagining a better future? A whole bunch of data says no:

Support for changing the current economic system | Pew Research Center

Americans stand out internationally for their pessimism about the nation’s political system | Pew Research Center

AP-NORC America 250 Poll - AP-NORC

Harvard Youth Poll Finds a Generation Under Pressure — and Losing Faith in the System | The Institute of Politics at Harvard University

51st Edition - Fall 2025 | The Institute of Politics at Harvard University

Americans End Year in Gloomy Mood

New poll: Just 13% of youth feel America is headed in the right direction | Harvard Kennedy School

Young Voters Have Growing Power, but Broken Politics Leave Them ‘Fatalistic,’ Studies Find | Research UC Berkeley

The State of Public Trust in Government 2025 - Partnership for Public Service

New Low in U.S. 'Very Satisfied' With Personal Life

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If collapse is inevitable, is there a point to trying?

FYI the episode contains spoilers for the musical "Hadestown".

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