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NYT: “.. high insurance costs are cascading into the broader real estate market, suppressing home values by an average of $44,000 in the top 10 percent of U.S. ZIP codes most vulnerable to hurricanes and wildfires ..”

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Rising Home Insurance Premiums Are Eating Into Home Values in Disaster-Prone Areas (Gift Article) Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.

man this 2014-2024 map is pretty striking 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Rising Home Insurance Premiums Are Eating Into Home Values in Disaster-Prone Areas (Gift Article) Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.

See my commentary in @nytimes.com in re climatic & non-climatic factors pushing down home prices (always excellent work of @benkeys.bsky.social & P. Mulder) Amazing to see how far prices have tanked in Nola. Good News: homes w/ Fortified Roofs are holding their value. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What’s really going on with AI and jobs? Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?

How is AI *really* impacting jobs?

Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:

-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs

For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate.

Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.

New York Is Going to Flood. Here’s What the City Can Do to Survive. Adaptation is a matter of survival, and the city may have to throw every solution available at a worsening situation.

Been obsessed with local flood hotspots since my ground floor apartment flooded during Hurricane Sandy. Seems like a good day to share this beautiful look at NYC's flood risk and some solutions the city is exploring (feat. lovely @nunderwood6.bsky.social maps!):

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Who Are the Federal Forces Behind Trump’s Mass Deportations and Crime Crackdown? (Gift Article) As President Trump deploys ICE, Border Patrol, the National Guard and other forces to U.S. cities, here’s how to tell them apart — and what their powers are.

The variety of federal forces deployed to support President Trump’s deportation campaign and anticrime efforts continues to expand. It can be hard to tell them apart or to understand what powers each agency has. Here is a guide to how these forces are operating.

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'Nothing to Go Back to': How Climate Change Is Driving Migrants From Their Homes to NYC - Documented New data shows how climate disasters correspond with migration to the United States.

This is very good. documentedny.com/2025/10/22/c...

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

Monday's photo from the Washington Post

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

“Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer. That includes four who were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.” www.propublica.org/article/immi...

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

"The order and structure give it the appearance of rationality and rigor. This appearance is easy to emulate." (David Byrne)

A black hat, embroidered with the a rainbow-colored radar image of a hurricane. Embroidered white text below reads, in all caps "DO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE YOUR LIFE IS SPIRALING OUT OF CONTROL?"

new hat 🙃

Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/c...

In Coal-Powered West Virginia, Sky-High Energy Costs Strain Residents

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A bar chart showing that TikTok is increasingly a place for news, especially among young U.S. adults. Adults ages 30 to 49 have also increasingly been getting news on TikTok: A quarter now say they do so regularly, up from just 2% five years ago. Much smaller shares of adults ages 50 to 64 and 65 and older say they regularly get news there (10% and 3%, respectively, as of this year).

NEW: In 2025, 43% of young American adults regularly get their news from TikTok.
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Hi! Today @quantamagazine.bsky.social published a special issue on climate science, featuring stories about how Earth's climate fundamentally works that I needed to read after covering climate impacts for so many years. I hope you'll check it out! <3 www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...

Penn State plans to 'wind down' WPSU after board committee rejects plan to transfer it to WHYY WPSU, which recently celebrated its 60th anniversary of bringing public media to Pennsylvania, is slated to close soon, after a Penn State board of trustees committee voted Thursday against a proposal...

This is the first NPR/PBS station I've seen that's going out of business as a result of the federal rescission:
radio.wpsu.org/2025-09-11/p...

Jeffrey Epstein Email Trove Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets A cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender.

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails.

It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

Just last month the FBI forced out its top agent in Salt Lake City, a Pakistani American woman whom a former FBI agent describes as a “legendary case agent who was involved in some of the most significant national security cases of the last two decades.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

doom scroll interlude!! please enjoy this fantastic visual explainer about earth's wobbles and whether your star sign is even really star sign 💫

Your Zodiac Sign Is 2,000 Years Out of Date (Gift Article) Over millennia, our view of the stars has shifted, because of Earth’s wobble. It may be time to rethink your sign.

I wrote about how Earth's wobble causes our view of the skies to shift over time. Here's a paywall-free gift link. With @fparis.bsky.social and @iamrumz.bsky.social

Humans Are Altering the Seas. Here’s What the Future Ocean Might Look Like. (Gift Article) Some marine ecosystems could soon be unrecognizable, according to new research. We mapped the possibilities.

Published a story with @rjnskl.bsky.social last week on the future of the ocean under growing human pressures -- and the future of cultures and economies built on the ocean and coastlines. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26085894-25a169-order/

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.

Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire - High Country News Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.

Holy shit:

Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status.

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How a Koch-funded campaign is trying to reverse climate action in Vermont - VTDigger Americans for Prosperity claims its mission is to make Vermont more affordable. But its founding and financing by some of the world’s richest oil men and a history of spreading climate disinformation ...

Vermont wants to make Polluters Pay so Now a Koch-funded campaign is trying to reverse climate action in Vermont vtdigger.org/2025/08/28/h...

How a Koch-funded campaign is trying to reverse climate action in Vermont - VTDigger Americans for Prosperity claims its mission is to make Vermont more affordable. But its founding and financing by some of the world’s richest oil men and a history of spreading climate disinformation ...

The dumb but deadly fossil fuel virus appears in Vermont.

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CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States

NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.