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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 12h

They told us elections were rigged. Then they cloned stolen voting software. Then they bought the voting machines.

Half of America’s Voting Machines Now Owned by a MAGA Oligarch

They told us elections were rigged. Then they cloned stolen voting software. Then they bought the voting machines.

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 12h

Notabailoutnotabailoutnotabailout waaaaah! Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, under fire from U.S. farmers and Democratic lawmakers, has insisted that the credit swap isn't a bailout. Remember that Argentinians have free national health care, and you don’t.

U.S. buys Argentine pesos, finalizes $20 billion currency swap

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, under fire from U.S. farmers and Democratic lawmakers, has insisted that the credit swap isn't a bailout.

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 15h

What happens when the world’s biggest borrower starts defaulting in slow motion? According to an investment banker, that question may soon define the global economy. The alarm follows the IMF’s recent flag on the U.S.’s $36 trillion federal debt. Now America’s biggest lenders want their money back.

Is this how the dollar dies? Investment banker sounds alarm as China exits US debt - BusinessToday

The alarm follows the IMF’s recent flag on the U.S.’s $36 trillion federal debt—largely fueled by post-2008 bailouts, record defense spending, and pandemic-era stimulus. Now, America’s biggest lenders...

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 15h

FDA scientists found that PFNA, a forever chemical, could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the Trump administration has yet to release it.

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 16h

One in six bacterial infections worldwide is now resistant to standard treatments, according to anew report from the World Health Organization that identified an alarming global rise in infections that no longer respond to antibiotics.

One in six bacterial infections now resistant to antibiotics, WHO says

Many antibiotics have lost effectiveness against common bacterial infections since 2018, the report warned.

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 21h

Governments in America function like businesses, not governments. They won’t invest the taxes you pay into your healthcare unless they get a lavish return. Thus sickness and death have become much bigger money-makers for the economy than the provision of health coverage to citizens.

American Deathcare: The Short Story

Sickness and death have become much bigger money-makers for the economy than the provision of health coverage to citizens.

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 21h

Global warming is crossing dangerous thresholds sooner than expected with the world’s coral reefs now in an almost irreversible die-off, marking what scientists described as the first “tipping point” in climate-driven ecosystem collapse.

Climate tipping points are being crossed, scientists warn ahead of COP30

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Global warming is crossing dangerous thresholds sooner than expected with the world’s coral reefs now in an almost irreversible die-off, marking what scientists on Monday describ...

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 21h

Millions more homes in England, Scotland and Wales face devastating floods, and some towns may have to be abandoned as climate breakdown makes many areas uninsurable. New analysis suggests that some towns may need to be abandoned as homes and businesses struggle to get insurance.

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 22h

Hidden 'thermostat' may cause Earth to overcorrect for climate change, Most of world has recently set all-time heat records, Towns in UK may have to be abandoned due to floods, Climate goals up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal, AMOC faltering, world barely notices… in The Collapse Chronicle!

The Collapse Chronicle October 14

Hidden ‘thermostat’ may cause Earth to overcorrect for climate change, Most of the world has recently set all-time heat records, Towns in UK may have to be abandoned due to floods, Climate goals go up...

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 1d

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 1d

First climate tipping point reached: coral reefs face widespread dieback, Global Warning: Our future in a warmer world, Why ending capitalism won't save us, The hidden collapse of living systems, World evaporating before our eyes, This recession will feel like depression… in The Collapse Chronicle!

The Collapse Chronicle October 13

First catastrophic climate tipping point reached: coral reefs face ‘widespread dieback,’ Global Warning: Our future in a warmer world, Why ending capitalism won’t save us, The hidden collapse of livin...

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 2d

A 400-Word History of Capitalism, Cost of Our Living Killing Us, End of Degrowth, Team Apocalypse, Climate Change And The Boiling Frog Effect, Slow Death of America's Public Lands, Wages of Precarity, Assault on the Poles, Why America's Great Social Experiment Has Failed… in The Collapse Chronicle!

The Collapse Chronicle Review October 12

ICYMI: Best Stories of the Week

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 3d

Are we great yet?

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 3d

Umair: “We’re now in the implosive stage of American collapse. If it feels like things are fracturing ruinously around Americans, that’s because they are. This is a story of wealth—the real thing. That doesn’t just mean in financial terms, but the real wealth of nations and people.’

What Collapse Destroys, or How the Wealth of Nations (and People) Dies

Hi! How’s everyone?

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 3d

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been underestimated.

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 3d

Richard Crim observes that about half of MAGA voters don’t accept the reality of “human caused” climate change. Together with the 30% who accept that reality but, don’t think it’s very serious, they form a majority of voters. WHY there has never been enough pressure to DO anything “real” about it.

The Crisis Report - 122

For children being born today, the Climate Crisis is going to be the “defining reality” of their lives. They will be 75 in 2100.

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 3d

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 3d

Dept. of Grim Economic News: A recent monthly consumer sentiment survey showed households feel glum amid concerns about unemployment and inflation.Consumers’ five-year outlooks for their household finances fell to the lowest in over a decade.

Consumer outlook for household finances falls to lowest in over a decade: Survey

The University of Michigan’s monthly consumer sentiment survey showed households feel glum amid concerns about unemployment and inflation.

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 3d

The regime’s enablers in Congress passed a bill which enables a series of rescissions to the Inflation Reduction Act, passed in 2022. Trump’s dismantling of Biden-era climate policies and programs may well produce the most disastrous long-term effects of his apocalyptic second term.

Trump 2.0 Is Turning America into an Energy Backwater and an International Climate Pariah

Trump’s dismantling of Biden-era climate policies and programs may well produce the most disastrous long-term effects of his apocalyptic…

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 3d

The UK’s national security is under severe threat from the climate crisis and the looming collapse of vital natural ecosystems, with food shortages and economic disaster potentially just years away, a powerful pending report by the UK’s intelligence chiefs asserts.

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 3d

Right-wing seize on arson charge to deny role of climate change in Palisades Fire, UK intel chiefs: National security threatened by climate crisis, Trump 2.0 turning America into an energy backwater and climate pariah, Global extinctions increase, What collapse destroys… in The Collapse Chronicle!

The Collapse Chronicle October 11

Right-wing media seize on arson charge to falsely deny role of climate change in Palisades Fire, UK intel chiefs: National security threatened by climate crisis, Trump 2.0 turning America into an ener...

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 4d

Our economy is a Ponzi scheme with nuclear weapons. While we’re all arguing about whether inflation is transitory or permanent, our entire financial system is quietly bleeding out. We’re drowning in debt and pretending it’s normal.

The Slow Motion Disaster — Nobody Wants to Talk About

The Quiet collapse of the American economy

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 4d

Dept. of Your Tax Dollars at Work: Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the Trump administration has yet to release it.

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 4d

Every time a host repeats a regime talking point as a question, the propaganda wins twice - once on TV, and once in the minds of Americans.

Stop Answering Their Questions

"How legacy media keeps the Democrats trapped inside the regime’s frame."

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 4d

These days, social media can only accomplish two things: It can bore, or it can anger. Every platform is full of hotheads who believe they know everything. Good articles can be found, but are buried under piles of algorithmically-driven content garbage. Cory Doctorow’s “enshittification” has come.

The Death of Social Media

A mixed blessing.

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