Bill McKibben spells out what I said in the previous article and why I said it. Climate change prevention, like our democracy based on the data, hangs by a thread. Except for Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren , Katie Porter, and a few others no one in Congress, certainly no Republicans, seem to give a damn about what is happening. As the data in the chart shows other countries seem to get it but in the U.S. as a culture, we seem to be incapable of moving past greed as our first priority.
In one of the gigglier moments in modern movie history, Dr. Evil, awakening from thirty years of cryogenic sleep, threatens the world with utter destruction unless it pays him…one million dollars. (His criminal accomplices explain inflation to him, and he ups his price to $100 billion; happily, Austin Powers saves the world, and the cash).
Donald Trump has his own number—a clean billion, which is what he told fossil fuel executives they should pay in return for giving them literally anything they want in his next administration. That they would use that power to once-and-for-all overheat the earth is a given; the level of corruption and danger here is so over the top that it almost seems like a movie—but not a comedy, unless you run Exxon.
That’s not the only valuation we’ve gotten in recent weeks. In a largely overlooked story a few weeks ago, a Reuters team obtained the report that Citibank had prepared for the Federal Reserve, outlining its exposure to climate risk—or, […]
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, “At least 21 million people nationwide have been disenrolled from Medicaid since states began eligibility redeterminations in spring 2023.” Between that and what post-Dobbs is doing to healthcare in Red States, what is happening in the Illness Profit System as a result of changing health policies, as well as hospitals closing particularly in rural areas, America’s already inferior healthcare, is getting even worse.
Disabled people are losing benefits with little or no notice, getting bad advice when they call for information, and facing major disruptions in care while they wait for issues to be sorted out.Credit: Rich Legg / Getty
Jacqueline Saa has a genetic condition that leaves her unable to stand and walk on her own or hold a job. Every weekday for four years, Saa, 43, has relied on a home health aide to help her cook, bathe and dress, go to the doctor, pick up medications, and accomplish other daily tasks.
She received coverage through Florida’s Medicaid program until it abruptly stopped at the end of March, she said.
“Every day the anxiety builds,” said Saa, who lost her home health aide for 11 days, starting April 1, despite being eligible. The state has since restored Saa’s home health aide service, but during the gap she leaned on her mother and her 23- and 15-year-old daughters, while struggling to regain her Medicaid benefits.
This is one the many stories I see about hospitals closing. Rural hospitals and healthcare systems have been in a growing crisis, and since 2010, over 130 have closed. Yet when was the last time you ever saw this medical crisis discussed on a network news program?
Hicksville Hospital. Credit: WANE
HICKSVILLE, OHIO — After releasing through a Facebook post late Thursday, local officials are reacting to the closure of Hicksville Community Memorial Hospital after experiencing financial woes in 2021.
In January of this year, Roy Davis, CEO of Community Memorial Hospital, said the hospital had a “50-50” chance of surviving, following the financial hardship from an electronic medical records conversion disaster in 2021. The disaster caused the hospital to lose 6-months of revenue.
“We’ve had plans in place for a while to help with if that did come to fruition,” said Bruce Silcott, Deputy EMS Chief.
Instead of heading to Hicksville Community Memorial Hospital, the emergency services will reroute to Parkview Bryan, Parkview DeKalb, Parkview Regional or Defiance Regional, depending on where they are in the community. They have already been able to put these runs into practice continuing to serve the 8,000 people […]
This is the candidate for President of the Republican Party calling for the execution of the serving President while speaking to an audience of individuals notably suffering from obsessive gun psychosis and with a demonstrated proclivity for violence. It should also be mentioned that criminal Trump, whose mental abilities are clearly deteriorating, froze in mid-speech and stood silently with his head down for about two minutes before beginning to speak again.
Donald Trump speaking to the NRA in Texas Credit: MSNBC screenshot)
All three co-hosts of MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” along with former Donald Trump White House aide Sarah Matthews, pounced on Donald Trump for telling a raucous NRA crowd on Saturday that President Joe Biden deserves to be executed.
During his speech before the gun owners in Texas, the former president told the crowd that “Manchurian candidate” Biden has accepted money from Russia, China and Ukraine before claiming, “If that were a Republican, he would have been given the electric chair, they would have brought back the death penalty.”
That led “The Weekend” co-host Alicia Menendez to begin the segment with, “A reminder, in case you needed one, a political candidate alluding to the execution of a sitting president in front of the most prominent organization of gun owners — definitely not normal.”
Co-host Michael Steele, the former chair of the RNC, ruefully contributed, “Look, okay, so Trump is a liar, well established, we know that. […]
I have been warning readers for years about the insurance crisis climate change is going to cause. You may live in a state that is already being affected, and it is going to get much worse. As this article describes it isn’t just coastal states, and I predict we are going to see a growing internal migration as this trend worsens. Take a look at what is predicted for your state before your real estate value collapses.
Tornado wreckageCredit: Brandon Bell / Getty
The rising cost of homeowner’s insurance is now one of the most prominent symptoms of climate change in the United States. Major carriers like State Farm and Allstate have pulled back from offering fire insurance in California, dropping thousands of homeowners from their books, and dozens of small insurance companies have collapsed or fled from Florida and Louisiana following recent large hurricanes.
The problem is fast becoming a crisis that stretches far beyond the nation’s coastal states. That’s owing to another, less-talked-about kind of disaster that has wreaked havoc on states in the Midwest and the Great Plains, causing billions of dollars in damage. In response, insurers have raised premiums higher than ever and dropped customers even in inland states such as Iowa.
These so-called “severe-convective storms” are large and powerful thunderstorms that form and disappear within a few hours or days, often spinning off hail storms and tornadoes as they […]
