Raytheon (arms manufacturer) shut down in Rhode Island.

https://twitter.com/fangcollective/status/1425759273414533121?s=21

CW: murder of an unarmed person
https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1426224066160209922?s=20

Miami show tf up
https://twitter.com/apadillafilm6/status/1425629859712221187?s=19

Forecasted trajectory of Tropical Storm Grace. Stay safe everyone!
https://twitter.com/weatherchannel/status/1426205654335717377?s=20

Laura Ingraham: "What if we just cut off the unemployment? Hunger is a pretty powerful thing."

Bar Rescue guy: "They only feed a military dog at night, because a hungry dog is an obedient dog. Well, if we are not causing people to be hungry to work..."
https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1426017141724270597

American media saying the quiet part out loud

On this day nine years ago, the Marikana massacre. The South African state murdered 37 people on behalf of Lonmin mines. Current South African President Ramaphosa was a Lonmin non-executive director at the time.

https://libcom.org/library/states-brutality

This empire, too, will be eclipsed 🌒

Forget massive seawalls—coastal wetlands offer the best storm protection money can buy | Phys•org

"Seawalls are expensive to build, require constant maintenance and provide limited protection.

Consider China, which already has a huge number of seawalls built for storm protection. A 2019 study analyzed the impact of 127 storms on China between 1989 and 2016.

Coastal wetlands were far more cost effective in preventing storm damages. They also provided many other ecosystem services that seawalls do not.

[...]

Coastal wetlands reduce the damaging effects of tropical cyclones on coastal communities by absorbing storm energy in ways that neither solid land nor open water can.

The mechanisms involved include decreasing the area of open water (fetch) for wind to form waves, increasing drag on water motion and hence the amplitude of a storm surge, reducing direct wind effects on the water surface, and directly absorbing wave energy.

Wetland vegetation contributes by decreasing surges and waves and maintaining shallow water depths that have the same effect.
Wetlands also reduce flood damages by absorbing flood waters caused by rain and moderating their effects on built-up areas.

[...]

Coastal wetlands also provide other valuable ecosystem services. They provide nursery habitat for many commercially important marine species, recreational opportunities, carbon sequestration, management of sediment and nutrient run-off, and many other valuable services."

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