Trauma Zone

December 11, 2025

“Catastrophic” flooding is expected to hit parts of Skagit, Snohomish and King counties Thursday as rivers swell and the region is drenched in rain.

I first arrived in Shasta County just over a year ago, in September 2024, when summer’s fever was just about to break. The small city of Anderson is one of the last stops before you hit the Klamath Mountains when you’re driving up the mighty I-5, the interior artery of the Central Valley. I had come as a “local reporting fellow” assigned to Shasta Scout, a nonprofit news service, through a UC Berkeley program staffing newsrooms in “news deserts,” typically in remote or disenfranchised parts of the state.

From the “papers, please” dept.:

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/56569341

New Haven, Connecticut, has broken ground on an ambitious geothermal energy network that will provide low-emission heating and cooling to the city’s bustling, historic Union Station and a new public housing complex across the street.

Pokrovsk has not fallen yet. That is despite President Vladimir Putin’s recent claim that Russian forces have taken the city.

This will no doubt have zero long-term ramifications.

Hey, y’all, lets celebrate Trump’s birthday by going to national parks he wants to destroy … for free!

MAXWELL CRUTCH, 72 I wish I could employ Canadians, but they keep asking for things like “benefits” and “bathroom breaks”. What else can I possibly do but import dozens of minimum wage employees from halfway across the world and make it absolutely clear that their place in this country is wholly dependent on my whims as their employer? If it’s good enough for Dubai, then it’s good enough for me.

According to Forbes managing editor Russell Belanger, at the current rate of mergers, there will be only one corporation in the world by 2000.

In what Arizona’s attorney general slammed as an “unacceptable and outrageous” act of “unchecked aggression,” a federal immigration officer fired pepper spray toward recently sworn-in Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva during a Friday raid on a Tucson restaurant.

Brown University senior Caitlyn Carpenter was working on a class discussion post the night of Oct. 1, when news broke that set off a firestorm of debate in academia. The Trump administration had just released a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” and invited nine prominent universities, including Brown, to sign on. Schools that did so would receive preferential federal treatment.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39754889

Nearly a decade into my writing career, as an Atlanta-based journalist, I’ve become accustomed to national media turning a blind eye to the South.

Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Mozambique, Liberia and Bolivia

A detailed investigation released Thursday reveals that the e-commerce behemoth Amazon is using its market dominance and political influence to gain a foothold in local governments’ purchasing systems, locking school districts into contracts that let the corporation drive up prices for pens, sticky notes, and other basic supplies.ya

[…] Alex Jennings, associate secretary to the Deputy Chief of the Prime Minister’s Office, acknowledged Ottawa receiving the formal declaration from the province but confessed that the staff “thought it was a joke from New Brunswick.” […]

RICHMOND, Va. — Several ICE agents had their internal organs forcibly removed during a recent raid on the Slave Pit, home of the extraterrestrial rock band GWAR, confirmed absolutely horrified sources.

“This ‘blame Muslims’ thing has been great, but we can’t ride that wave forever.”

I was debating whether to write this article or not. I discovered the news of NREL’s name being changed from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to the National Laboratory of the Rockies from Michael Barnard’s article about it yesterday. That article is a much more professional look at the situation and the history of the laboratory. This one is going to be a full-scale venting of how idiotic the United States has become, and particularly the orange/yellow man running the show.

The University of Alabama’s decision to suspend two student magazines has sparked criticism and outrage on the campus.

*According to a transcript obtained by the German outlet, Europe rallied around Volodymyr Zelenskyy and sharply criticized Washington.*

I’m not a fan of those dynamic e-ink shelf signs for pricing, but this seems like the perfect use of them.

Hey, while we’re turning the country to shit, why not make it more difficult to relax?

A liquor store employee in Virginia was startled on Saturday to discover smashed whisky bottles on the floor of the shop and, upon entering the bathroom, an apparently drunk, sleeping and spread-eagled raccoon.

In 2023, Keene, a small college town with about 23,000 residents, installed its seventh and newest roundabout. These circular intersections are easily confused with rotaries or traffic circles, but are distinctly free of traffic lights. Instead they require drivers to yield to traffic before entering and are constructed to be slower-moving while minimizing stopping.

The U.S. government has caused massive food waste during President Donald Trump’s second term. Policies such as immigration raids, tariff changes and temporary and permanent cuts to food assistance programs have left farmers short of workers and money, food rotting in fields and warehouses, and millions of Americans hungry. And that doesn’t even include the administration’s actual destruction of edible food.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/56110035

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/56110106

The season’s most destructive hurricane, Melissa, was one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever. It slammed Jamaica with 185 mph winds, devastating communities and killing dozens of people.

Not satire, but a real article

With grocery giants ripping off Canadians, it’s time for a bold alternative: public grocery stores.

Australia is on course to meet a target of eliminating cervical cancer by 2035, which, if achieved, will make it the first country to do so.

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the western German city of Giessen on Saturday as the far-right Alternative for Germany’s new youth organization was set to kick off its founding convention.

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Hâte to bring up an overused joke, but Milhouse is all that comes to mind.

Poor? Even canned soup comes at a premium these days.

[…]Thanksgiving guests at the Ross family dinner reportedly froze in disbelief Thursday after teenage son Ryan informed them of the genocide of Native Americans. “No, no, it can’t be! Not my precious holiday!”[…]