This Caribbean nation is preparing for the ravages of climate change by selling citizenship: Dominica is using revenue from its citizenship-by-investment program to fund its ambitious plans to become more resilient against hurricanes in the Caribbean. - [ed. note: it's a corrupt fund and allows Russians, Chinese, Belarusians, and other assorted bad guys to sneak around visa-free]
Opinion Larry Hogan made the wrong choice: The former Maryland governor should have left the Republican Party and run as an independent for Senate. - "Contrary to what a lot of mindless pundits would have you believe, it takes pretty much zero courage to criticize your fellow Republicans when you’re the governor of a state such as Maryland. That’s just rudimentary politics; Hogan actually couldn’t have won two statewide elections any other way. What takes real courage is to break with that party entirely, because you just can’t be in league with these people and still manage to sleep at night."
Trump allies threaten Deloitte contracts after employee shares Vance chats: Republicans are targeting $3 billion in federal contracts after a consultant disclosed messages unconnected to his work. - "Ethics experts said the episode is a potentially ominous preview of how a second Trump administration might use the enormous power the federal government wields over private industry to punish political acts by individual workers. Although federal contracting laws prohibit cutting off a business because of its workers’ private political views, such threats could have a chilling effect, they said."
Earth’s wildlife populations have disappeared at a ‘catastrophic’ rate in the past half-century, new analysis says: The Living Planet Index tracks thousands of vertebrate species globally and found the worst declines were in Latin America and the Caribbean. - "Earth’s wildlife populations have fallen on average by a 'catastrophic' rate of 73 percent in the past half-century, according to a new analysis the World Wildlife Fund released Wednesday.
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"The worst declines were in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a 95 percent average drop, followed by Africa, 76 percent, and Asia and the Pacific, 60 percent. But the report said that is at least partly because in Europe, Central Asia and North America — whose animal populations declined by more than a third — people living there had already wiped out nature on a wide scale by 1970."
Boris Johnson just published his political memoir. It’s unbelievable.: The former British prime minister’s book “Unleashed” has made minor news. But British readers seem to be viewing it more as entertainment than history. - "In the Times of London, reviewer Tom Peck cautioned, 'The reason Johnson, a biographer of notoriously dubious merit, has turned to autobiography significantly earlier than he would have liked is because his party correctly calculated that the country could no longer believe a word he had to say.'"
How hurricane falsehoods are dividing the Republican Party: As the country digs out, Republicans in storm-battered states appear torn between the need to curb dangerous conspiracy theories and fear of drawing a rebuke from Trump just weeks before the election. - "On Tuesday, Edwards issued a lengthy fact sheet dispelling multiple falsehoods about Helene and FEMA. The fact sheet noted that FEMA 'has NOT diverted disaster response funding to the border or foreign aid,' and that NOAA official Charles Konrad has “confirmed that no one has the technology or ability to geoengineer a hurricane.”"
Ohio voters dismiss false claims about Haitians, but Trump has slight lead, Post poll finds: Key Senate race is essentially tied between Democrat Sherrod Brown and Republican Bernie Moreno. [ed. note: a six-point lead is not slight]
How China is using antisemitic conspiracies to influence down-ballot races: China is increasingly targeting down-ballot races in America, spreading divisive and antisemitic claims about politicians on the social media platform X. - "The Spamouflage accounts analyzed by The Post are increasingly posting about the Israel-Gaza war, and spread divisive and sometimes hateful rhetoric about Jews on X in July and August, furthering the rise in antisemitic content on social media since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel."
What Went Wrong at Blizzard Entertainment
What I Learned Serving on a January 6 Jury: He’s guilty. So why do I feel so bad after voting to convict? - "The feminist thought did occur to me at this moment that one way to see some of these J6 cases is that the men were out enacting their 1776 fantasy while the women were home putting away the Legos. And there was plenty of evidence of that in this case.
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"Taylor didn’t explicitly choose his ideals over his family, but that was kind of the end result. Like, he could have pled guilty, which would have probably cut his sentence in half. Or he could have gotten a lawyer, instead of representing himself. But he took none of those roads, and now she had seven years of: Okay. It’s just me.
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"And this was the beautiful, terrible exchange that brought me to human empathy and then deposited me at a dead end—because the couple had doubled down on their doubts about the election watching Dinesh D’Souza’s movie 2000 Mules, a garbage film full of conspiracies and lies. And that had prompted them to think everything involving the government was rigged, including his trial, which is why he went about it in the weird, self-defeating way he did."
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