Breaking Down: Collapse

The world is suffering the consequences of Trump and Israel's war on Iran. How long will our oil woes last?

Israeli chief of staff warns army on verge of 'collapse' amid troop shortage
France confirms oil crisis, says 30-40 percent of Gulf energy infrastructure destroyed - Business - France 24
Cuban health-care workers struggle to support the sick amid U.S. oil embargo | CBC Accessibility
Philippines declares ‘national energy emergency’ and boosts coal power as Iran war grinds on | Philippines | The Guardian
Reliant on imported fuel, Pacific islands appeal for help as oil prices surge | Pacific islands | The Guardian
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Donald Trump hates women. Here's some ways he's showing it:

US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say | US immigration | The Guardian
A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion
Texas passes bill banning abortion pills from being mailed to the state - The 19th
Any Texas resident could sue over abortion pills under bill OK'd by lawmakers and headed to governor | AP News
Trump is Trying to Reverse Crucial Strides in Women’s Rights Movement | American Civil Liberties Union
Seven Ways the Trump Administration Is Hurting Women - Common Cause
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3 brand new reports highlight the various ways that superbugs are proliferating around the world. Are we heading into a post-antibiotic world?

The Cost of War We Aren’t Talking About: Superbugs • The Austin Chronicle
Drought could fuel the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs as climate change worsens, new research suggests | Live Science
EXPERT REACTION: Soils exposed to glyphosate might also be harbouring hospital superbugs - Scimex
Pipeline of new drugs to fight superbugs is ‘worryingly thin’, experts warn | Pharmaceuticals industry | The Guardian
Toxic herbicides: Map showing how high use is by state
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Sources:

Judge Ends Asylum Claims for Liam Ramos and His Family
Stephen Miller is pushing states to stop educating undocumented children | The Independent
Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday - POLITICO
Bushehr nuclear plant hit again as Pentagon deploys 82nd Airborne — Day 25 of Iran war escalates
Chris Murphy accuses Trump administration of insider trading
Trump says he's 'glad' Robert Mueller is dead | Advocate.com
Trump has damaged democracy at remarkable speed, reports find : NPR
Donald Trump links shutdown end to SAVE America Act passage
Trump casts mail ballot in Florida even as he calls the method 'cheating'
US Supreme Court conservatives lean toward Republican bid to limit mail-in voting | Reuters
Georgia woman charged with murder after police say she took pills to induce abortion | Georgia | The Guardian
A page out of ‘The Handmaid's Tale’: Ohio Republicans propose bill to track all pregnancies
We have 5 articles of impeachment for AG Bondi: defying a subpoena for the full & unredacted Epstein files, violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act, weaponizing the DOJ for President Trump, consistently defying Court Orders (herself & DOJ), and perjuring herself to Congress. - Rep. Summer Lee : r/law
All of DOGE’s work could be undone as lawsuit against Musk proceeds - Ars Technica
Three Tennessee teenagers are suing Elon Musk's xAI for creating sexually explicit images of them | Fortune
Washington state bans all law enforcement - including ICE agents - from wearing masks while on duty | The Independent
Fired FBI agents who worked on Trump 2020 election probe sue for wrongful termination - CBS News

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Anthropogenic mass is overtaking natural biomass. Such hubris from humanity leads to collapse. In this episode we discuss recent findings in pharmaceutical waste and how it hurts local aquatic ecosystems.

Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass | Nature
The Hidden Environmental Impact of Pharmaceutical Waste
Antibiotics found in rivers raise new concerns about water safety - Earth.com

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