wapo.st/3XOffyS#GiftPost#NoPaywall The people in this story are the Appalachians I know, not the caricatures in Vance's Hillbilly Elegy. Tough people, and community minded.
Scenes of destruction and suffering lay almost everywhere in Swannanoa, N.C. — cars in tree limbs, mangled homes, mud-choked roads and people desperate for water and food.
I walked through Musk's great-replacement-style hyperventilation about immigrants and elections to explain all the various things he got wrong. Gift link: wapo.st/3TQLL2a
The right-wing owner of X has been increasingly fervent in his opposition to a process that granted him citizenship.
Nuts. And Asheville, NC, was one of those cities climate refugees would be seeking out because of its perceived safety. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/u... [gift link]
Scenes of devastation in the western part of the state, where the traces of Hurricane Helene destroyed some communities and stranded others.
🎁 “Britain (becomes) first among the world’s major, industrialized economies to wean itself off coal — all the more symbolic because it was also the first to burn tremendous amounts of it to fuel..its rise as a major industrial and imperial power.” www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/c...
The Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant was the last surviving coal-burning power station in a country that birthed the Industrial Revolution and fed it with coal.
FWIW, the policy he supports would denaturalize citizens like him who lied on immigration paperwork.
Here's all the details. Including the documentation he committed a federal felony while being an undocumented overstay. Or what he and his fellow travelers would call an "illegal immigrant."
Amazing collection of photos and videos from Helene. (Gift link) wapo.st/47KlJ6q
Follow along the storm’s path as it leaves entire communities flooded
After it has already claimed the lives of multiple pregnant women
A judge in Georgia struck down the state's abortion ban: www.ajc.com/politics/jud...
The state can no longer enforce its ban on abortion that took effect in 2022, a Fulton County judge said Monday, allowing the procedure again to be performed in Georgia after a doctor detects fetal ca...
MEANWHILE. I’m going to keep posting this link which has several other links in it. www.bpr.org/bpr-news/202...
Hurricane Helene unleashed devastating flooding in the mountains of North Carolina. Here are ways to help local flood victims in Western North Carolina by donating relief funds or volunteering.