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The world inches toward catastrophic climate events: ‘Bigger shocks are on the way’

The risks have been known, and building, for over 150 years

By PETER PRENGAMAN
Updated 9:55 AM EDT, August 24, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — "In the opening scene of American writer #KimStanleyRobinson ’s 'The Ministry for the Future,' a #HeatWave combined with a breakdown of the electrical grid in India kills 20 million people. The devastation causes the world’s nations to unite to combat #ClimateChange .

"Scientists have long warned that the world will experience more intense #ExtremeWeather events like #heatwaves, #storms, #floods and #droughts. But what once seemed like the realm of fiction is now discussed as a possibility, even an inevitability.

"Warning about an 'extreme of extremes' or the 'Other Big One,' a play off the California reference of a big future earthquake, can be fraught. After all, nobody can say for sure when a weather catastrophe may happen. But in the last few years, the planetary ingredients needed for a massive disturbance have been building. And alarm is growing.
'The risk is that people just think you are exaggerating,' said #DanielSwain, a climate scientist with the California Institute for Water Resources. 'It’s the ‘Boy Who Cried Wolf’ problem. Sometimes wolves are real. If it’s outside the door, wouldn’t you want to know?' "

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-disaster-big-one-threat-5b062254250a759483c94376d32ae478

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/ahELv

#Oiligarchy #BigOilAndGas #BigOilKnew #Polycrisis #HungerGames #Wildfires #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

Lionsgate Shares Surge Amid Reports ‘Hunger Games’ Studio Is Courting Euro Buyers
#News #Banijay #HungerGames #Lionsgate #Mediawan

https://deadline.com/2026/07/lionsgate-shares-surge-amid-sale-hunger-games-1236983028/

Motion Picture Association Awards to Honor ‘Hunger Games’ Director Francis Lawrence (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #News #FrancisLawrence #HungerGames #MotionPictureAssociation

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/mpa-awards-hunger-games-director-francis-lawrence-1236764747/

https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2025/kw49-de-wehrdienst-1128220

Welcome to the 77th Hunger Games.

#Gewissen #Kriegsdienst #Pflichtdienst #Dienstpflicht #Militärdienst #Militarisierung #KriegDemKriege #Kapitalismuskrisen #KriegBeiKapitalKrise #KriegLenktAb #HungerGames #TributeVonPanem #NeinMeineSoehneGebIchNicht #NeinMeineKinderGebIchNicht #Kinderopfer #Imperialismus #Wehrdienstgesetz #ÖkonomischeInteressen #Hegemonie #InternationaleOligarchie

So, I am seeing some patterns... Cutting #USDA funding, support for #LocalFood and #LocalFarms, #SNAPCuts, #UnaffordableHealthCare, etc. #HungerGames. Plain and simple. Cull the population. This is #LifeOrDeath for many Americans. And #NationalGuard / #ICE / #DHS bullshit is just the establishment of a national police force ( #CapitolPolice ) to #SilenceDissent. #DoublePlusUngood! Pay attention folks!

#USPol #WorldPol #Fascism #authoritarianism #ClimateCrisis #NineteenEightyFour #BigBrother #CatchingFire #SilencingDissent #Resistance #LandBack #TakeBackThePlanet

Cooper Hoffman on Working With ‘The Long Walk’ Filmmaker Francis Lawrence — Who Also Directed His Father in ‘The Hunger Games’
#MovieNews #Movies #CooperHoffman #Events #FrancisLawrence #HungerGames #PhilipSeymourHoffman #Redcarpet #TheLongWalk

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cooper-hoffman-the-long-walk-father-hunger-games-1236365688/

#FoodAid groups bought from #LocalFarmers with #USDA grants. Abrupt cuts leave both struggling.

By Meg Oliver, June 30, 2025

"Four days a week, Maile Auterson and one of her employees drive hundreds of miles across Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas to deliver fresh produce to #FoodDeserts.

"Auterson's nonprofit, Springfield #CommunityGardens, helps #UnderservedSchools, #FoodPantries and senior centers. One center in Ava, #Missouri, is the only place for many where they can get a hot meal.

"Springfield Community Gardens is one of many organizations that relied on grants from the United States Department of Agriculture to distribute produce to schools and low-income communities through two pandemic-era federal programs. They provided about $1 billion in funding to schools and food banks to buy food directly from local farms, ranchers and producers.

"But in March, the USDA abruptly canceled the programs, calling the decision a 'return to long-term, fiscally responsible initiatives.'

"Now, Auterson says, 'some of the most vulnerable people' are without adequate access to food, including children and #SeniorCitizens."

Read more:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/usda-grants-cuts-food-insecurity-farmers/

#USDACuts #USPol #FundingCuts #FoodInsecurity #TrumpSucks #LocalFarms #FoodPantries #HungerGames #SchoolLunches #KillThePoor #TaxBreaksForTheRich

‘Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’ Finds Its Louella and Lou Lou (Exclusive)
#MovieNews #Movies #BillyRay #FrancisLawrence #HungerGames #Lionsgate #RalphFiennes #SuzanneCollins #TheHungerGamesSunriseontheReaping #Whitneypeak

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping-louella-lou-lou-1236222407/

Ralph Fiennes to Play President Snow in ‘Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’ (Exclusive)
#MovieNews #Movies #FrancisLawrence #HungerGames #Lionsgate #MayaHawke #RalphFiennes #SuzanneCollins #TheHungerGamesSunriseontheReaping #Whitneypeak

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping-ralph-fiennes-snow-1236219336/

Everything We Know About The ‘Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping’ Movie So Far
#News #FrancisLawrence #HungerGames #JosephZada #TheHungerGamesSunriseontheReaping

https://deadline.com/feature/hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping-movie-news-updates-1236376406/

A list of the #SocialSecurity offices across the US expected to close this year

By MEG KINNARD
Updated 12:59 PM EDT, March 19, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — "Dozens of Social Security Administration [#SSA] offices across the country are slated to close this year due to actions taken by #ElonMusk’s Department of Government Efficiency as part of the #Trump administration’s unprecedented effort to shrink the size of government.

"#DOGE has published a list of nearly 800 federal real estate leases that it is seeking to cancel. The Associated Press has obtained an internal planning document from the General Services Administration, which manages federal real estate, which shows when nearly two-thirds of those cancellations are expected to go into effect.

"The offices are closing despite a new requirement that tighter identity-proofing measures be put in place to prevent fraud and abuse. These steps will require millions of recipients and applicants to visit agency field offices rather than interact with agency employees over the phone.

"The AP also obtained more information about each lease on DOGE’s list through other publicly available datasets, including their addresses, the dates the leases had started and were originally expected to expire, and the landlords who own the properties."

Read more (includes a list of offices that will be closing):
https://apnews.com/article/social-security-offices-closures-doge-trump-b2b1a5b2ba4fb968abc3379bf90715ff
#ResistDOGE #TakeToTheStreets #KillThePoor #USPol #KillTheElderly #HungerGames #Authoritarianism #Oligarchy #DisabilityRights #ElderRights #TakeCareOfThePoor #SocialSecurityPayments #SocialSecurityAdministration

#Trump Admin Threatens to Stop #SocialSecurity If #DOGE Can’t Have #PersonalData

Trump’s interim Social Security chief says he wants to turn off the program if Musk and DOGE can’t access Americans’ most sensitive data

by Andrew Perez, March 21, 2025

"Donald Trump’s interim Social Security chief suggested Thursday night he will effectively turn off the agency that manages the essential safety net program for seniors and the disabled, if Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) can’t access the non-anonymized sensitive personal information and data of hundreds of millions of Americans, based on a judge’s order.

"'My anti-fraud team would be DOGE affiliates. My IT staff would be DOGE affiliates,' said #LeeDudek, acting Social Security Administration (#SSA) commissioner, arguing the order was too broad, according to Bloomberg News. 'As it stands, I will follow it exactly and terminate access by all SSA employees to our IT systems,' he said, adding: 'Really, I want to turn it off and let the courts figure out how they want to run a federal agency.'

"Dudek’s threat to block SSA employees from using the agency’s IT systems — a move that could halt #SocialSecurityPayments — came in response to a judge’s temporary restraining order in a case brought by the #AFLCIO #LaborUnion. The order bars Social Security Administration officials from allowing DOGE, including Musk, and the SSA’s DOGE team to access personally identifiable information. It also directs Musk and DOGE to delete from their possession all non-anonymized personal data, and bars them from having access to SSA computers or code.

"Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander wrote that the SSA had likely violated administrative and privacy laws when it gave DOGE 'unbridled access to the personal and private data of millions of Americans, including but not limited to Social Security numbers, medical records, mental health records, hospitalization records, drivers’ license numbers, bank and credit card information, tax information, income history, work history, birth and marriage certificates, and home and work addresses.'

"She added that the 'defendants, with so-called experts on the DOGE Team, never identified or articulated even a single reason for which the DOGE Team needs unlimited access to SSA’s entire record systems, thereby exposing personal, confidential, sensitive, and private information that millions of Americans entrusted to their government.'"

Read more:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-musk-stop-social-security-doge-data-1235300785/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/vvgMF
#ResistDOGE #TakeToTheStreets #KillThePoor #USPol #KillTheElderly #HungerGames #Authoritarianism #Oligarchy #DisabilityRights #ElderRights #TakeCareOfThePoor

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘇𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗲 𝗛𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀-𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗺: 𝘄𝗲 𝘇𝗶𝗷𝗻 𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝘃𝗲𝗿

De makers van de zesde Hunger Games-film, Sunrise on the Reaping, zijn "al heel ver" met het maakproces. Dat zegt producent Nina Jacobson in gesprek met filmvakblad Variety.

https://www.rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/5500344/producent-zesde-hunger-games-film-we-zijn-al-heel-ver

#Producent #HungerGames #Film

[Updated!] Which new #books are you most looking forward to in 2025? 📚Here are some of mine (in publication order):

* The Sinners All Bow by #KateWinklerDawson (history/true crime)

* The Mask of Fear by #AlexanderFreed (#StarWars/media tie-in)

* Broken Fields by #MarcieRendon (mystery/Indigenous) #CashBlackbear series

* Oathbound by #TracyDeonn (YA fantasy) #Legendborn series

* Sunrise on the Reaping by #SuzanneCollins (YA dystopia/science fiction) #HungerGames series

* School of Shards by #SergeyDyachenko & #MarinaDyachenko (dark academia/SFF in translation) #VitaNostra trilogy

* All That We See or Seem by #KenLiu (science fiction/techno-thriller)

** Also, This Book Will Bury Me by #AshleyWinstead (crime fiction/mystery) would be on this list, but I had the good fortune to read an ARC this year. 👍👍

#Bookstodon #BookRecs #2025Books

Which new #books are you most looking forward to in 2025? 📚Here are some of mine (in chronological order of publication):

* The Sinners All Bow by #KateWinklerDawson (history/true crime)

* Broken Fields by #MarcieRendon (mystery/Indigenous) #CashBlackbear series

* Oathbound by #TracyDeonn (YA fantasy) #Legendborn series

* Sunrise on the Reaping by #SuzanneCollins (YA dystopia/science fiction) #HungerGames series

* School of Shards by #SergeyDyachenko & #MarinaDyachenko (dark academia/SFF in translation) #VitaNostra trilogy

** Also, This Book Will Bury Me by #AshleyWinstead (crime fiction/mystery) would be on this list, but I had the good fortune to read an ARC this year. 👍👍

#Bookstodon #BookRecs #2025Books

Hmmm... I used to make #chai out of #guarana. I wonder how hard is it to grow?

Unexpected Sources of #Caffeine to Try

Most people have a caffeinated drink each day, but coffee is not the only energizing source of caffeine.

By Matthew Kadey, RD
November 14, 2022

"Caffeine is naturally present in the seeds, leaves, and nuts of several plants including cacao and coffee beans, #guarana seeds, and #tea leaves. In addition to caffeine, these plants also contain other nutrients and compounds like antioxidants."

https://www.health.com/condition/sleep/12-surprising-sources-of-caffeine

#HungerGames #ClimateCrisis
#FoodInsecurity #Inflation #Coffee #CoffeeSubstitutes