FenrirIII

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/45436045

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/3950525

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/44975807

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20962470

not a perfect translation, but pretty good.

Post: https://lemm.ee/post/44990541

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21002957

• Atmospheric rivers are shifting poleward, reshaping global weather patterns

• For the first time in human history, we are pushing the global water cycle out of balance
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• Insurance 'nightmare' unfolds for Florida homeowners after back-to-back hurricanes
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• Climate change made hurricane milton stronger, with heavier rain, scientists conclude

• What happens to the world if forests stop absorbing carbon? Ask Finland.

• Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing?

• Only one-third of Europe's surface water is in good health, report warns

• Dams across the country are aging and facing intensifying floods wrought by climate change

• Rapid urbanization and climate change key drivers of dramatic flood impacts in Nepal

• The world's carbon sinks are on fire
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• Water challenges — made worse by rising temperatures — are threatening the world’s crops

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21020339

No Democrat has won a statewide race in Texas in decades. But conditions are friendlier than ever.

There's a reason no Democrat has accomplished a statewide victory in Texas since 1994.

Pulling off such an upset would require a uniquely talented politician running an almost perfect campaign. That candidate would need to display discipline, calm and poise. Be telegenic and quick on the feet. The candidate would need to be thoroughly Texan and have an identity infused with elements of the state's cultural zeitgeist. The person would need to run in a halfway decent national political environment. And even with all of those boxes checked, that rare Democrat would still need to square off against an extraordinarily disliked Republican running a lackluster campaign without much support from the person's own colleagues.

Enter: Rep. Colin Allred.

Allred's remarkable debate performance Tuesday spawned a flurry of Instagram slides, TikTok videos and X posts. Both in Texas and nationwide, news feeds have been flush this week with clips of the former professional football player **rebuking Sen. Ted Cruz for hiding in a "supply closet" during the attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol

a riot by a mob that Cruz himself helped whip up**. Others showed him repeatedly referencing the time Cruz flew to Cancun, Mexico, as hundreds of Texans died during the middle of a winter freeze, or hammering him on his abortion stance

an issue critical to white female voters who have been abandoning the GOP in droves. 

But an impressive debate performance alone is not enough for a Democrat to win a state like Texas. However, polls, fundraising and a changing political climate have all looked promising for Allred. Today, Texas Democrats are in an extraordinary situation, one that has proved elusive over the past three decades: They have an actual chance of winning a statewide race.