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.

‘Completely and entirely erased’: How Helene swallowed one mountain town

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

Column | A review of what Elon Musk’s hyperventilating immigration post got wrong

The right-wing owner of X has been increasingly fervent in his opposition to a process that granted him citizenship.

This is a shock. RIP. What a talent. (Gift) www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/t...

Gavin Creel, Tony-Winning Musical Theater Actor, Dies at 48

He won the award playing a Yonkers feed store clerk in “Hello, Dolly!” and was also nominated for roles in “Thoroughly Modern Millie” and “Hair.”

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]

Lost Lives and an Epic Crisis in North Carolina

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...

Britain Shuts Down Last Coal Plant, ‘Turning Its Back on Coal Forever’

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

Videos and this map reveal the extent of Helene’s destruction

Follow along the storm’s path as it leaves entire communities flooded

After it has already claimed the lives of multiple pregnant women

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A judge in Georgia struck down the state's abortion ban: www.ajc.com/politics/jud...

Judge again strikes down Georgia abortion law, allowing abortions to resume

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...

List: Ways to donate and help flood victims in Western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene

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.