Daiily News 10/05

Daily News 10/05

Figure 1. Conceptual illustrations of the effect of sea level rise on fault stress and earthquake triggering. (a) In a “constant sea level world,” the stress on faults increases due to tectonic loading. With rising sea levels from global warming, increasing hydraulic pressure will add to the tectonic loading, changing the timing of earthquakes on faults below the sea and near coastal regions. (c) Schematic earthquake cycle on a tectonic fault driven by the steady-state movement of tectonic plates until a critical stress level is reached leading to earthquakes. Both the stress drop (corresponding to the magnitude M) and the recurrence time vary on individual tectonic faults and over time. The dashed rectangle is enlarged in panel (b). Fault loading in a world with rising sea levels. The additional hydraulic pressure (blue arrows)’

Why the United States Government Assassinated Martin Luther King: Two Quotes:

My third reason moves to an even deeper level of awareness, for it grows out of my experience in the ghettoes of the North over the last three years — especially the last three summers. As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they ask — and rightly so — what about Vietnam? They ask if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent. — Beyond Vietnam — A Time to Break Silence

And that is a great deal that the society can and must do if the Negro is to gain the economic security that he needs. Now, one of the answers, it seems to me, is a guaranteed annual income, a guaranteed minimum income for all people and for all families of our country. It seems to me that the Civil Rights Movement must now begin to organize for the guaranteed annual income, begin to organize people all over our country, and mobilize forces so that we can bring to the attention of our nation this need and this something which I believe will go a long, long way toward dealing with the Negro’s economic problem and the economic problem with many other poor people confront in our nation. Now, I said I wasn’t going to talk about Vietnam, but I can’t make a speech without mentioning some of the problems that we face there because I think this war has diverted attention from civil rights. — The Other America Speech Transcript – Martin Luther King Jr.

Video: Kelvin Wave Headed Towards CaliforniaA Kelvin wave headed towards California is about to lift the ocean along the West Coast by up to a foot, and it could hold it there for months. Nobody on the beach will see it arrive.

Kelvin waves are a well-known, planetary-scale ocean phenomenon, but this particular forecast has experts worried because it will likely amplify the damage from severe storms, storm surges, flooding and coastal erosion that the record-shattering El Niño is expected to bring this winter. — Powerful ‘Kelvin wave’ triggered by super El Niño threatens to raise sea levels off the California coast for months

Freak ocean phenomenon takes hold of California coast with seas surging California’s coast is bracing for a massive surge that could push sea levels up by as much as a foot in the coming days, piling onto already battered beaches and raising the risk of flooding and erosion. The surge, known as a “coastal trapped wave” or “Kelvin wave,” is one of the effects of El Niño that has been building along the California coast in recent weeks. And this is no ordinary wave. The Kelvin wave is a massive, sustained bulge of water that will raise ocean levels across an area stretching 12 to 18 miles offshore — with potentially serious consequences for California’s coastline.

Southern California swelters as late-season heatwave smothers region Temperatures expected to hover around 100F in downtown LA and even hotter inland, raising concerns about wildfires

Tens of Thousands of Voters at ‘Risk of Disenfranchisement’ Thanks to Trump’s Postal Service: Analysis“In every state, a day’s delay in delivery means that if mail voters wait until the last day or two before the election to mail their ballot… they could be disenfranchised.”

The Humanity Archives: The Truth About American Elections:

27 Untold Stories The history your civics class left outThe right to vote in America has never been settled. Every time more people won the ballot, someone in power built a new way to take it back: a massacre at Colfax, a poll tax in Mississippi, a $1.6 billion donation, a map drawn by a man who said on the record he drew it to elect his own party. Learn the pattern once and you will see it in every election that follows, which is how Americans have beaten it before.

On November 3, voters in nine states will cast ballots under new congressional maps, and if recent midterms hold, more than half of eligible Americans will stay home 1. Slavery Elected Thomas Jefferson (1800

The Constitution counted each enslaved person as three-fifths of a person when it handed out House seats and electoral votes
Jefferson beat Adams 73 to 65 in 1800, and at least 12 of his electoral votes came from that clause
Subtract them and Adams keeps the job

27. The Supreme Court Just Gutted What Was Left of the Voting Rights Act (2026)

In April, the Supreme Court ruled that voters challenging a racist map now have to prove lawmakers meant to discriminate
Justice Kagan wrote that the ruling leaves the law’s main protection “all but a dead letter”
In the months around the ruling, Tennessee split majority-Black Memphis, Louisiana erased a majority-Black district, and Alabama went from two Black-opportunity seats to one Democratic Fault Line: The Voting Rights Act was won with marches and blood in Selma, and its strongest shield against racist maps has now been cut down. On November 3, nine states vote under new maps, and if recent midterms hold, most eligible Americans will sit it out.

As Negotiators Struggle to Advance a Plastics Treaty, Iran War Underscores the Urgency Blocked Middle East oil shipments upended supply chains and prices for fossil fuel-based plastics, offering yet another reason nations must support a global treaty that shifts to sustainable materials, environmental advocates say.

While America Is Blanketed in Flock Surveillance, Factory Farms Get a Free Pass Federal agencies are protecting abusive industries while monitoring decent members of the public, hoping that we turn a blind eye to their assault on democracy and civil liberties.