Team Studying ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Offer ‘Grim’ Update

[Splinter]( Sep 20, 2024 [Team Studying \'Doomsday Glacier\' Offer \'Grim\' Update]( [Team Studying 'Doomsday Glacier' Offer 'Grim' Update]( The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is, once again, not doing so hot. A team of scientists known as the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration met this week in the U.K., and offered a summary of their six years of work studying an enormous but troubled keystone section of the Antarctic ice sheet. [Kamala Harris\'s \]( [Kamala Harris's "Opportunity Economy" Is a Repackaging of the Neoliberal Status Quo]( We have been besieged by half-measures, given means-tested scraps, and this promised “Opportunity Economy” feels depressingly like more of the same. We deserve something real and something better. And those peddling this rehashed, warmed-over slop should be ashamed. [Israel\'s Destruction of Gaza Is a Warning to Us All]( [Israel's Destruction of Gaza Is a Warning to Us All]( In the hands of foreign actors — be they those in the “democracies” of the United States and the European Union, or those in the autocracies of the world — Israel’s weapons are being used against vulnerable people that the ruling classes no longer see any use for. [Court Filings Allege Matt Gaetz Attended Drug-Fueled Sex Party With 17-Year-Old at Center of Alleged Trafficking Scandal]( [Court Filings Allege Matt Gaetz Attended Drug-Fueled Sex Party With 17-Year-Old at Center of Alleged Trafficking Scandal]( Whether Gaetz himself is implicated in this is left to the courts to decide, but what's clear at this point is that there is more than enough smoke around these stories to suggest there is some kind of fire beneath it that urgently needs to be put out. [Three Mile Island to Host New Disaster in Exclusive Deal to Power Microsoft AI]( [Three Mile Island to Host New Disaster in Exclusive Deal to Power Microsoft AI]( The home of the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history is back on the map. One reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, decommissioned in 2019 after 45 years of service featuring one partial meltdown to its other reactor in 1979, will theoretically be restarted in order to send all 835 megawatts of its electricity to Microsoft's ballooning AI needs. [Remembering a Play: When Boban Gifted Los Angeles Free Chicken]( [Remembering a Play: When Boban Gifted Los Angeles Free Chicken]( If this is Boban’s NBA sendoff, then he can safely say he had one of the most successful NBA careers of the 21st century, proving that there is more to life than basketball, like free chicken. [A Report from Israel\'s Attack on a Funeral in Lebanon]( [A Report from Israel's Attack on a Funeral in Lebanon]( Lebanese ophthalmologist Dr. Elias Warraq said more than 60 percent of his patients have ended up with an eye removed. “In my 25 years of practice, I have never removed as many eyes as yesterday.” [Rejoice! Inflation Is Down and History Is Made as the Fed Stopped Trying to Kill the Economy!]( [Rejoice! Inflation Is Down and History Is Made as the Fed Stopped Trying to Kill the Economy!]( The Fed wanted to see the economy weaken, which it did, and the pain of high interest rates many have felt these past few years is a deliberate policy choice. [Trump, Musk, Vance and America\'s Violent Culture]( [Trump, Musk, Vance and America's Violent Culture]( America is a simmering, well-armed pot of rage. What's next? [Europe is a Fortress Dripping in Blood]( [Europe is a Fortress Dripping in Blood]( The bloc, it became blindingly clear, treats non-white life with disdain and makes a mockery of international law and human rights. It is a fortress designed to repel outsiders, and its walls are dripping in blood. [View this email in your browser]( Copyright © 2024 Splinter/Paste Media (7525 Colbert Drive, Suite 106, Reno NV 89511) [unsubscribe](