Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.
Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.
But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.
Trickle down hoax.
By Ann Telnaes.
Coral Reefs Declared Collapsed, What Could Happen at 2C of Warming, Iceland Gets First Mosquitoes, Worst Congress Ever for Public Lands, Colorado River Outlook Grows More Dire, Record US Drought: Worries About Fires, Water and Food, AI Doctors Give Bad Advice… in The Collapse Chronicle!
By Michael DeAdder:
2026 Super El Niño Threatens Global Crops, States With Biggest Crop Loss Due to Drought, Catton on Collapse ‘Bottleneck: Humanity’s Impending Impasse,’ Relocating Venice? The Geopolitical Threat Nobody Is Talking About, Rusting Rivers, AMOC Collapse, Wildfires Never Sleep… in The Collapse Chronicle!
The American gestapo abducted an 85 year-old widow.
Was she one of the worst of the worst? No, her step-son, a retired Alabama state trooper, got ICE to put her in a detention center to deport her because he wanted all of his father's inheritance.
Sounds like the son is the worst of the worst.
Screenshot of a tweet by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) showing a congressional exchange where Rep. Doggett challenges RFK Jr. on the administration's approach to healthcare fraud, cutting him off to note that Trump has pardoned more fraudsters than any president in American history. The embedded video shows RFK Jr. reacting at a witness table with a nameplate reading "Hon. Kennedy Jr."
Nailed his brain-worm-addled self with this.
The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks.
The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks.
It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.
Central Asian countries lack sufficient water for spring planting of food this year, setting the stage for potentially massive population flight and even for military conflicts across the region.
At a time when a super typhoon is steadily battering islands in the Pacific Ocean, we’re reminded that the dangers posed by one of humanity’s greatest scourges – the tropical cyclone – are being significantly increased by human-caused global warming. Expect more Cat 4 and Cat 5 storms.
The heat keeps rising and the land keeps drying. Experts say the expected El Niño climate pattern could supercharge extreme weather events and push temperatures to record highs.
Earth Heating at a Rate of Over One Million Hiroshima Bombs A Day! The Coming Super El Nino, The Boiling Point, Global Warming Making the Strongest Hurricanes Stronger, Antarctica’s Alarming Wake‑Up Call, Survival on a Budget, The Price Jump Is Coming… in The Collapse Chronicle!
Corpus Christi’s economic success lies in Texas oil — from industry defined by refineries, LNG and chemical plants. The Texas water situation and that of New Mexico and Mexico is notably bad, and industrial use accounts for more than half of demand. How long can this go on?
As we burn fossil fuels and ratchet up temperatures, we're driving more severe heat waves, floods, droughts, and wildfires. But there are even bigger impacts on the way. The widespread death of coral reefs is the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible tipping points.
The World Isn’t Ending. It’s Stopping Working, Global Tipping Points, Earth Hits First, The Coming Civilization Collapse: A Biophysical Analysis, Corpus Crispy, Global Climate Impacts: Food System Risks, Infrastructure Strain, and Ecosystem Change, A Coming Super El Niño… in The Collapse Chronicle!
For those offense who do not live in the US west, it's easy to overlook the persistent and damaging draft conditions there. The outlook for the Colorado River, and Lake Powell in particular, continues to worsen due to an historically warm winter and dismal snowpack.
More than half (56%) of the US is currently in drought. That number is easy to read and easier still to gloss over and ignore. But on the ground, it translates into water shortages, rising wildfire risk, and a growing pressure on landscapes and communities.
Anyone who has been following environmental threats and climate change for a long time has been aware of methane releases from melting permafrost from polar regions dissolves into our atmosphere. Thawing permafrost may release greenhouse gases much faster than previously expected.
The Moment Collapse Enters the Room, Will High Gas Prices Lower Carbon Emissions? Half of the US Is Now in Drought, No End in Sight to Colorado River Water Crisis, Heatwaves Already Breaching Human Limits, Thawing Permafrost More Dangerous Than Previously Thought… in The Collapse Chronicle!
By @Think and Exist
Three Tightening Strands Of A Fragile World, March Smashes Heat Records for Continental US, Western States Face Above-normal Wildfire Threats This Summer, Iran War Revealed the End of Petroleum Civilization, Doomer Derangement Syndrome, There’s No Going Back… in The Collapse Chronicle!
Trump Agrees To Ceasefire With Iran, Taco Taco Taco, Mass Death as Political Theater, The Forces Still Standing Between Trump and Catastrophe in Iran, Rising Heat, Agricultural Strain, and Human Displacement, Too Many People, Coming: Strongest El Niño in a Century… in The Collapse Chronicle!
Dept. of Idiocracy: Are we evolving to be more stupid? Humans have a relatively high genetic mutation rate, which has been thought to be driving down our physical and mental fitness – but columnist Michael Le Page finds these mutations aren’t the health risk some make them out to be.
As the saying goes, “Collapse is here, it’s just not evenly distributed.” For years, climate scientists have projected that South Texas would grow hotter and drier. In Corpus Christi, when drought cycles outpace infrastructure planning, a water emergency is not a surprise—it’s a forecast.
Snow surveys are offering a grim prognosis, after a historically warm winter and searing March temperatures. Experts warned that even as the heat begins to subside in the US west, the stunning pace of melt-off over the past month has left key basins in uncharted territory for the dry seasons ahead.
This year spring arrived 3-5 weeks earlier than the 1991-2020 average in the central US and two to three weeks earlier in southern Midwest states. An earlier spring affects when migratory birds arrive, leaves emerge, and fruit ripens — among plants and animals that determine ecosystem health.
Wildflower Beauty and the Search for Home, Spring Comes Earlier. How Will That Affect Farming and Ecosystems? A Garden Against the Polycrisis, Fears of a Prolonged Marine Heatwave, Rapid Snow Melt-off in US West Stuns Scientists, How Bad Is it Going to Get? Think Scraps… in The Collapse Chronicle!
Map of significant wildland fire potential outlook for June 2026
The outlook for the start of wildfire season this year is…ominous to say the least.
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