Lake Powell, a vital reservoir, plunges toward unprecedented low levels as water crisis deepens in US west

Experts say the critical reservoir system is careening toward a breaking point as the US west’s climate warms and dries…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/07/lake-powell-water-crisis 

 

 

Trump ECONOMIC COLLAPSE Hidden in Plain Sight

Max from ‪@UNFTR‬ dissects the latest round of economic data releases and explains how the stock market can continue to pump out gains while the rest of the US economy craters. This episode also features an important clip of former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson talking about how we are not prepared for the next crisis and how it’s probably already begun. He would know.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WizQjYp87i4

Report exposes a Trump scheme to override midterm vote with bogus crisis

Rachel Maddow talks with Senator Mark Warner, top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, about reporting in the Washington Post that people close to Donald Trump are being pitched an idea to use fake intelligence about foreign election interference to allow Trump to declare an emergency and take over the voting system ahead of this year's midterm elections.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak__tRF8PnM

Farmers are in crisis

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Acy5UNmDScQ.

 

The Truth About the "Crisis" for Young (white) Men

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1qV8-TqFOI

 

Immigration crisis! Crisis! Crisis! Oh, never mind. - The Washington Post Opinion

When House Speaker Mike Johnson invited President Biden to give his State of the Union address on the unusually late date of March 7, people were puzzled. Now, the mystery can be revealed. House Republicans delayed the State of the Union so they could use the time to foment a state of disunion…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/02/republicans-immigration-forget-crisis-mayorkas-impeachment/

We need to talk about the United States’ mental health crisis – and its larger causes

The anxiety disorders suffered by Americans are real, and they apparently are growing. But instead of regarding them solely as personal disorders, maybe we need to understand them at least partly as social disorders – and get to work remedying them as a society...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/11/united-states-suicide-rates-mental-health-crisis-causes

He was a church official who criticized Trump. He says Christianity is in crisis : NPR

It was the result of having multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching — "turn the other cheek" — [and] to have someone come up after to say, "Where did you get those liberal talking points?" And what was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, "I'm literally quoting Jesus Christ," the response would not be, "I apologize." The response would be, "Yes, but that doesn't work anymore. That's weak." And when we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we're in a crisis…

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192663920/southern-baptist-convention-donald-trump-christianity

How to Manufacture a Debt Ceiling Crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndh5fjpnfSw

‘It’s happening now’: how rising sea levels are causing a US migration crisis

…Already, about 15 million American homes are at risk of flooding, and the threat is only going to get worse. A report released in February by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) projected that sea level along the US coastline would rise by 10 to 12in, on average, in the next 30 years – an uptick that would make damaging flooding occur 10 times more often than it does today. 

"It's important to understand in these communities that sea level rise is happening now," said William Sweet, an oceanographer with NOAA's National Ocean Service and the country's top scientist studying sea level rise. "Its impacts are happening now, and those impacts will grow worse in the next 30 years. Minor-nuisance flooding will be replaced by flooding that's more damaging to economies and to infrastructure."…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/07/its-happening-now-how-rising-sea-levels-are-causing-a-us-migration-crisis

Biden says supply chain crisis didn't materialize - The Washington Post

…"We brought together business and labor leaders to solve problems," Biden said at the White House, where he held a video conference with business leaders and officials in his supply chain task force. "And the much-predicted crisis didn't occur. Packages are moving, gifts are being delivered, shelves are not empty."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-supply-chain-crisis-averted/2021/12/22/e56bc598-6340-11ec-a7e8-3a8455b71fad_story.html

‘Super polluters’: the top 10 publishers denying the climate crisis on Facebook

Ten US-based and Russian state media outlets responsible for 69% of content on Facebook, finds Center for Countering Digital Hate…

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/02/super-polluters-the-top-10-publishers-denying-the-climate-crisis-on-facebook

Floods, Fires, and Outdated Disaster Plans at Chemical Facilities (Union of Concerned Scientists; Got Science? podcast #119)

Researcher Casey Kalman discusses how chemical facilities can prepare for worsening climate change and natural disasters. 

Interview: 

https://soundcloud.com/gotscience/ep-119-floods-fires-and-outdated-disaster-plans-at-chemical-facilities

Got Science? · Ep. 119: Floods, Fires, and Outdated Disaster Plans at Chemical Facilities

UN agency warns of looming global water crisis | TheHill

… The report determined that as of 2018, some 3.6 billion people did not have sufficient access to water at least one month every year. This number will surpass 5 billion by 2050, according to the report...

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/575530-un-agency-warns-of-looming-global-water-crisis

Opinion | Democrats must again keep Republicans from causing a debt limit catastrophe - The Washington Post

…The GOP has come close to blowing up the global financial system through a debt default before, and the party has only grown more nihilistic in the years since…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/20/once-again-democrats-must-be-grown-ups-keep-republicans-causing-global-catastrophe/

Young people experiencing 'widespread' psychological distress over government handling of looming climate crisis, researchers say - ABC News

… 75% of those surveyed said they feel the future is frightening, while 64% said governments are not doing enough to avoid a climate catastrophe…

https://abcnews.go.com/International/young-people-experiencing-widespread-psychological-distress-government-handling/story

Kayleigh McEnany: 'You didn’t see crisis after crisis' under Trump despite two impeachments and COVID-19 - Raw Story - Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism

… In fact, Trump's administration was plagued by unprecedented executive branch turnover that saw him burn through six different national security advisers in just four years; a botched response to the novel coronavirus pandemic in which Trump suggested the virus could be treated by injecting disinfectant; and two separate impeachments, one for trying to extort the Ukrainian government into investigating Joe Biden and another for inciting a deadly riot at the United States Capitol building...

https://www.rawstory.com/kayleigh-mcenany-2654780391/

Opinion | Hey, whatever happened to the border crisis? - The Washington Post

"In March, the Border Patrol rescued 18,663 unaccompanied minors fleeing life-threatening conditions, the overwhelming majority of whom were quickly processed and placed in appropriate settings."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/02/hey-what-happened-border-crisis/

What’s going on at the border and why it’s a humanitarian crisis - Vox

... The pandemic-related economic downturn and a pair of hurricanes late last year that devastated Honduras and Guatemala in particular have only exacerbated those more longstanding problems. Many people are hoping to apply for asylum or other humanitarian protections, and the US is obligated by federal law and international human rights agreements to give them that chance...

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22346509/humanitarian-border-crisis-biden-unaccompanied-children

'Predatory Elite' Also Bear The Blame For Migrant Crisis, NSC's Juan Gonzalez Says : NPR

... Gonzalez said that the Center for Global Development conducted a study that showed the U.S. investments led to less violence in El Salvador, which in turn resulted in drops in migration. "So we were seeing results, and then the Trump administration came in and cut a lot of those programs," he said...

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/26/981284187/predatory-elite-also-bear-the-blame-for-migrant-crisis-juan-gonzalez-says