“It’s broken and deviated from its original purpose, which is to temporarily help Americans in need,” Turner said. “HUD assistance is not supposed to be permanent.”

If you fuckers had kept the minimum wage in line with inflation, we wouldn’t have so many people on long-term assistance. Instead, you keep the minimum wage the same as it was 40(?) years ago, allow massive corporations to onboard people with the explicit instruction, “We’re not going to pay you enough, here’s how to apply for food stamps and other benefits”, then act surprised when people have to use public benefits to survive.

ICE ‘morale in crapper’ as agents forced to ‘arrest gardeners’

Like, no one’s forcing them to do anything. They could refuse orders, get a transfer, get another job, etc.

Their measles information page is here. The data seems complete, just not as nicely compiled as it used to be. [Their respiratory illnesses page is here.]

This was after he stole the trophy itself …

It was an eleven hour video run at 101%, not just three minutes. You can read about it here.

Didn’t they find that the video was run at 1.01 speed, making it seem like there was more time missing than was actually missing?

I’ve never heard of yeast oil, but I just found this article on the climate impacts which maybe someone else who isn’t on the verge of sleep can summarize.

My main question regarding yeast oil is how quickly it goes off. Yeast itself goes off, and presumably yeast oil is a good habitat to breed yeast (which is most places in the environment), so, like, what’s the shelf life?

I’d say the big three are California (fire, potential earthquakes), Florida (hurricanes with tidal surge), and Texas. But as you say, Texas is the one that refuses to do anything to mitigate their risks, even those of their own making - and it does seem that so many of the disasters Texas has are massively exacerbated by their refusal to mitigate risks.

A friend of mine suggested that Texas’ nickname should be “The One Star State”.

Campers were not allowed to bring mobile phones, and counselors were made to surrender theirs, leaving them unable to see the emergency alerts themselves

The kids, I understand, but I think the counselors should have been allowed to keep their phones, at least after hours.

The Post said the NWS alert did not contain an order or recommendation for evacuation, a power it said rests with local government officials.

Yeah, the local government officials that debated a flood warning system for over a decade because they didn’t want to pay the $1 million themselves, then were given $10 million in pandemic funds and re-directed most of it to the sheriff’s department, and a footpath.

“We’ve heard accounts of trailer after trailer after trailer being swept into the river with families in them. [We] can’t find the trailers, we don’t know how many of them there are,” the county judge, Rob Kelly, said. One trailer was found “completely covered in gravel” 27ft below the surface of the river, he said, adding that sonar crews were searching the river and local lakes. Two reservoir lakes attached to the river would be drained to aid the search, officials said.

The more I hear, the sicker - and angrier! - I feel.

To my mind, that just makes it worse: he knows he’s in a flood plain, he’s got repeated exemptions to expand his camp in excess of normal regulation and procedures, be gets a flash flood warning, and he still doesn’t evacuate?

3.5% for a sustained protest posting several days. Unfortunately, we’re nowhere near that yet.

What happens if Paxton wins the primary against Cornyn? Texas becomes a COMPETATIVE STATE for the 2026 midterms.

I don’t understand why Texas would become competitive.

And growing plants that we eat.

will there be huge power plants just dedicated to AI all over the world soon?

It takes time to build a power plant. A more realistic scenario is that we’ll continue as we have: AI centers will be built wherever local governments approve them for the taxes, without regard for the strain they put on the aging electrical grid and, given the massive amount of electricity they need, everyone’s electrical bill will just massively increase.

They’ve been building a large number of data centers and AI centers in Virginia, and it’s been straining and raising prices across the entire PJM interconnector region, to the point where at least a couple states are considering leaving it. Microsoft has bought the rights to and is reactivating part of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, because they wanted dedicated power, and they’re still going to be pulling power from the grid.

USC law students have set up a hotline to help move immigrants move their in-person hearing to online format, reducing the risk of getting kidnapped.

He’s just absolutely determined to break the healthcare system, isn’t he?

In May, there were relatively elevated shares of delisted homes in metro areas including Miami–Fort Lauderdale–West Palm Beach in Florida, Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler in Arizona, and Houston–Pasadena–The Woodlands in Texas

When Trump was threatening to annex Canada, as well as having his goon squads kidnap people off the streets, there were a lot of Canadians who decided not to vacation in the States and more. And there were a bunch who owned summer homes in Florida and Arizona who decided to sell.

The economic uncertainty provoked by the massive layoffs, the tariff threats and the cratering value of the dollar, is also making people less secure, making them less likely to make big-dollar purchases.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about US President Donald Trump’s proposal that the US take over post-war Gaza and permanently resettle its population elsewhere.

This can only end well …

There won’t be any. You saw that lack in his last administration, everything wrong was “sabotage by the Deep State”. Now it’s that he’s doing the right things, they’re just “being implemented wrong”.

I keep thinking back to something I heard during the election: Republicans get to be lawless, Democrats have to be flawless.

Not that I’m bitter …

RFK wants to open “wellness farms” where people with “mental health” and addiction issues can “raise their own food”.