Breaking Down: Collapse

Sources:Supreme Court Sides With Trump for Now on Mail Ballot Curbs - BloombergHalf the Country Sues to Stop Trump’s Dangerous USPS Mail Ballot Rule | The New RepublicTrump Pardons of Fraudsters Cost Victims Nearly $2 Billion | The New RepublicTrump Administration Ends Corporate Ownership Reporting Rule, Orders U.S. Records DeletedTexas Secretly Started Torturing Trans Prisoners By Forcibly Detransitioning Them ‘a Few Weeks Ago’Federal judge strikes down Rubio's immigrant visa freeze on 75 nations | Fox News20260814175803632_TRUMP_Petition for a Writ of Certiorari.pdf (PDF)Trump admin says Kennedy Center 'cannot be saved' without his nameTrump administration is preparing to revoke visas of up to 200,000 foreigners | AP NewsJudge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’

A Substack breaks down the troubles that Europe may experience this winter due to the effects of catabolic collapse:Blackout Europe: The Coming Winter Energy Crisis

Two new pieces of research highlight the earth is potentially warming much faster than previously thought, and that the models are wrong (imagine that):World may warm by 25 per cent more than current projections suggest | New ScientistHothouse Earth: arriving sooner than you think…planetary-solvency.pdf (PDF)Global warming acceleration in satellite observed lower-tropospheric temperature | Research SquareThe world inches closer to catastrophic climate events | AP News

An episode to focus on various aspects of collapse showing up in the UK in recent days:Network Rail says heat poses ‘exceptional challenges’ after two trains derail in 24 hours | Rail transport | The GuardianWater companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought | Water industry | The GuardianEngland’s ancient oak trees dying in extreme hot and dry weather | Trees and forests | The Guardian‘Our new normal’: how marine heatwaves affect life in British seas | Marine life | The GuardianJust received UK, people still think this is normal? : r/collapse

New research suggests that the global population will peak much earlier than expected, and that's without considering major collapse forces:Economists Say World Population May Have Already Crossed into Below Replacement Fertility, Faster Than U.N. EstimatesNew mathematical model suggests global population crash by 2064Opinion | The Population Bust Is Coming Sooner Than Anyone Is Prepared For - The New York TimesDemographics.pdf (PDF FILE)Which countries have already passed peak population, and when will the rest do so? | Our World in Data

Sources:New evidence suggests White House took steps to punish Colorado over Tina Peters caseFormer DOJ Pardon Attorney Liz Oyer breaks down Todd Blanche’s 21-page memo expanding executive privilege.Blanche declines to pledge independence from the White House | CNN PoliticsCourt allows Trump administration to access trans patients' records - LGBTQ NationA Journalist Approaches 300 Days in ICE Detention With a Gunshot WoundICE Refused to Give Detainees Medical Treatment After Gas Leak | The New RepublicGEO ICE detention officials call inmate complaints about a gas leak was a 'hoax' after complaints of illness - Sentinel ColoradoICE is releasing people who are dying in order to avoid reporting their deathJustice Department deploys tactic to strip naturalized Americans of citizenship | PBS News Hour : r/lawIdaho must allow abortions to preserve women’s health, US judge rules | 1470 & 100.3 WMBDTrump Seeks Immediate Halt to Judge’s Penalties in IRS CaseTrump’s DOJ could be held in contempt over unredacted Epstein files, judge says: ‘It’s not a threat. It’s a promise’ | The IndependentTrump won't necessarily avoid financial discovery in lawsuitSouth Carolina Vote-by-Mail Restrictions Deemed Unconstitutional

Billionaires are making their plans for safe haven during the perils of our current and future world. Will they sleep well in those beds, knowing they're largely to blame for the situation? (the answer is probably yes)The Argentine ranch where tech CEOs plan to ride out the apocalypse

A look at various articles highlighting the ways in which we have doomed our waterways:Fears of ‘catastrophic’ decline of giant Australian cuttlefish after only 44 counted in dive survey | Marine life | The GuardianRomania shuts down nuclear reactor as Danube hits record lows – POLITICOGulf oil spill fast becoming one of world’s worst in years, agencies warn | The Straits Times'Environmental disaster' as one billion plastic pellets enter River Tyne - GeographicalEl Niño may peak at the worst time for the Amazon – and it should worry us all | Amazon rainforest | The GuardianRate of climate change affects stability of the AMOC | EurekAlert!

While some places are too hot with too little water, others are experiencing too much rainfall at once. Also, the floods of the future will have a combination of effects that will make them even more devastating.‘Unprecedented’ rain kills five in Japan as thousands stranded at airport | Japan | The Guardian‘I just want to find them’: deadly cloudbursts devastate Kashmir’s mountain communities | Kashmir | The GuardianTyphoon Dolphin: more than a million people evacuated in China as record rainfall dumped on Shanghai | Extreme weather | The GuardianThe floods of the future won't come one at a time » Yale Climate Connections