New York Times gift articles

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/climate/2024-hottest-summer-on-record.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ik4.KUeX.iA90kAAIuIwd

The "it's not a big deal" attitude seems to be driven by the US$126,452 median household income; people there can mostly afford pools and AC.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13056825

Title taken from the article version of this newsletter; linking the newsletter version because that has no paywall

Dated: 2024-09-04. Added: 2024-09-04.

Dated: 2024-09-04. Added: 2024-09-04.

Large numbers of Republican staffers have done the same

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13027413

You can find translations of the Russian propaganda messaging plan here. Docs from this press release

TL;DR; gerrymandering means that there are a lot of races where the best a Democrat could do is 35% or so of the vote. The same often goes for white rural areas where the boundaries weren't gerrymandered, but are simply non-competitive. Democrats don't even bother running a candidate a lot of the time under those conditions.

Two luxury real-estate projects in Albania proposed by the son-in-law of former President Donald J. Trump are stirring up lingering tensions in that country, with the Trump family facing accusations that land it hopes to develop has been improperly set aside for them.

While climate change is upending food supply chains everywhere, it is a particularly sensitive issue in China, where famines have historically led to unrest, and leaders have long made food security a policy priority. The latest flooding is a reminder of how even the ruling Communist Party struggles to tame the unpredictable weather gods.

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“Climate change is another motivating factor for China to focus on food security,” said Darin Friedrichs, the agriculture market research director at Sitonia Consulting. “A common idea in state media and official speeches is the idea that, given its size, China cannot rely on other countries to feed it through imports.”