Pretty much. Though greenhouse gases mix in the atmosphere pretty thoroughly, so responsibility is almost surely in direct proportion to cumulative historical emissions

Basically no insurer in the US underwrites home flood insurance. It's all a single federal program.

This varies by state right now. You can sue in most still.

I think New Zealand might be the only country to have formally granted the fossil fuels industry immunity

I care about where I live in. And the US is a big enough burner of fossil fuels to affect the climate, with politics impacting that

Their plan is to block ballots before they get to voters, so you won't have a ballot in the first place

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It is. The engineeeing staff are in California, but the datacenters are mostly elsewhere, in part because the state actually regulated things.

Notice how it's a statement from another insurer

Pretty much defines Republicanism today. Way too many people in denial about how extreme they've gotten.

Per the article:

unnecessarily shot in the back of his right shoulder where a bullet remains lodged

He is still alive

The thing that's amazing is that Walz did these things in the 1990s, when it was still reasonably common to fire teachers for any kind of hint they might be gay. That takes real courage.

The problem is that as a random cemetery worker who can't afford bodyguards 24/7, pressing charges stands a significant chance of getting you killed.

ICE says she drove herself to the hospital. Firefighters say they found her in the street.

I think they shot her and left her for dead

Pritzker has the right response

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

His masked agents already are grabbing people off the street.

Separating children from their parents.

"Creating fear.

Taking people for “how they look.”

Making people feel they need to carry citizenship papers.

Invading our state with military troops.

Sending in war helicopters in the middle of the night.

Arresting elected officials asking questions.

We must all stand up and speak out.

That's the problem with being on the side of the rule of law: you're constrainted by it, but the side of lawlessness is not.

A lot of engineering was done assuming that rainfall behaved the way it did in the past. That's not a valid assumption anymore.

The decision has nothing to do with their stated reasons; they are in favor of racism, but don't want to say so

The magic here is that the Library of Congress has the Capitol Police backing them, and they answer to Congress, not the President.

Musk got his dealer a government job in DOGE:

At least 10 DOGE staffers identified by The Post are engineers. Among them is Alexandra Beynon, 36, according to Education Department records seen by The Post and an official with knowledge of the matter. Beynon previously was head of engineering at Mindbloom, a company started by her husband, Dylan Beynon, that “offers guided at-home ketamine therapy to transform your mental health.”

There is video. He did it more than once. Either it's so ingrained his muscle memory that he just moves like a Nazi salute, or he did it with intentionality. Both say he's a Nazi