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A lot of comments in this thread have been focused on flood/hurricane-prone Florida and wildfire/earthquake-prone California.  I would point out that the article in the OP is talking about insurers pulling out of previously profitable states like Iowa and Wisconsin.

I always feel like the earthquake argument with respect to just California is a misnomer. California gets some tremors here and there, but it gets off pretty well when you look at the larger Ring of Fire. Loma Prieta and Northridge are the major earthquakes of consequence since 1906. I don't know what LA has done, but the Bay Area has taken significant efforts to prepare for the worst. It doesn't have to be horrifically expensive either. Japan is probably the model for the world in terms of earthquake preparedness. All of that doesn't even factor in the fact that the most worrisome areas for a massive earthquake are off the Juan de Fuca Plate and the New Madrid Seismic Zone, well beyond California's borders.

The "Joe Biden is Hamas" lady now blaming us for the dead hostages. We are so hostile that just the other day the House passed a bill making military funding contingent on Israel spending, placing Israel's security above our own, yet still most of Israeli society thinks we're horrible. Why is this? How much more of a sugar daddy must we be before this country is finally thankful?

https://twitter.com/CarolineGlick/status/1791491736121843847?t=PBBUi0pDc0frnP6Et...

How many times are you going to pretend this joke of a failed politician turned pundit is worthy of a diplomatic incident with a nuclear ally?

For those who don't get it, Caroline Glick is a far-right columnist and social media figure, not an Israeli official. This would be like France expelling the US ambassador over Rush Limbaugh insulting them during the Iraq War.

Horus believes all Israelis are ontologically evil, it doesn't really matter to him who they are. If they're from Israel they're taken as representative of of the Israeli hivemind

No, he does not. To even reach that conclusion requires deliberately mischaracterising him.

The "Joe Biden is Hamas" lady now blaming us for the dead hostages. We are so hostile that just the other day the House passed a bill making military funding contingent on Israel spending, placing Israel's security above our own, yet still most of Israeli society thinks we're horrible. Why is this? How much more of a sugar daddy must we be before this country is finally thankful?

https://twitter.com/CarolineGlick/status/1791491736121843847?t=PBBUi0pDc0frnP6Et...

How many times are you going to pretend this joke of a failed politician turned pundit is worthy of a diplomatic incident with a nuclear ally?

For those who don't get it, Caroline Glick is a far-right columnist and social media figure, not an Israeli official. This would be like France expelling the US ambassador over Rush Limbaugh insulting them during the Iraq War.

Horus believes all Israelis are ontologically evil, it doesn't really matter to him who they are. If they're from Israel they're taken as representative of of the Israeli hivemind

I don't know all of the legal issues in this case, but are federal charges possible (presuming none have been brought so far)?

I'm not familer with the case, but if the wiki is correct

Murder
On July 25, 2020, Daniel Perry, a then-30-year old United States Army sergeant, had been working his Uber shift when he encountered a protest against police brutality that was blocking the road. Perry originally stopped and honked his car horn at the protesters, but later ran a red light and drove his car into the crowd.[5] Garrett Foster, a 28-year old United States Air Force veteran who was legally open carrying an AK-47 walked up to Perry in an attempt to tell him to stop driving into the crowd.[6] After he walked up to Perry's vehicle, Perry shot and killed Foster. Perry claimed self-defense and claimed that Foster had pointed his weapon at him, but eyewitnesses contradicted this account.[7][8]

When Perry was interviewed by police about what happened before the shooting and how Foster held his gun, Perry said: "I believe he was going to aim it at me … I didn’t want to give him a chance to aim at me, you know."

he seems pretty funking guilty to me.  Gonna need video of the guy pointing a gun at you if you shoot someone in a crowd full of people sympathetic to the guy you shot and angry with you.

Those darn woke insurance companies /s

Seriously though, as has already been mentioned, insurers have been factoring climate change into their models for at least two decades now. Republicans can stick their fingers in their ears and call it a "hoax" like their orange cult leader does all they want, but the science is irrefutable and money doesn't lie.

Florida has two choices. They can stay on their current path, keep electing Republicans, keep repressing renewable energy and promoting Big Oil and watch their state be half under water by the middle of the century, with stratospheric insurance rates for the houses that remain above sea level. Or they can radically change course and do everything possible to address climate change. When they choose the former (we all know they will), they will not get one red cent from the federal government to fix their s*** hole state.

They will probably go for door number 3:
Provide a junk insurance option that is not sufficiently capitalized. After the first hurricane where that insurance is unable to pay, raise hell about DC doing nothing to help. And throw in gratuitous references to woke DC politicians helping the minority of the day over real Americans.

I think you're probably right that this is what will happen, which actually makes me thankful that the word "bailout" has been so thoroughly weaponized in American politics post-2008. It will be pretty easy for the anti-bailout forces in Congress to paint this as the rest of the country bailing out an irresponsible state that planned all along on having the other 49 states pay it's bills when disaster inevitably struck.

Not much has change from 1988 when his segment was presented on 60 Minutes.

 https://twitter.com/SomeBitchIIKnow/status/1788934737991475495

Isaiah L. Kenen, the founder of AIPAC (and AZC), was registered as a foreign agent of Israel under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA).

Kenen was also the chief information officer for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The American Zionist Council (AZC), the predecessor of AIPAC, was forced under Kennedy to registered as a foreign agent.

After Kennedy died, the issue dropped of the political radar and AZC reorganized itself as AIPAC.

AIPAC has managed to evade being registered as a foreign agent ever since.

So what you're saying is that the predecessor of AIPAC was run by Israelis, and was as such registered as a foreign agent.

Meanwhile, AIPAC is run by Americans advocating for our alliance with Israel.

The "AIPAC is a foreign agent" talking point comes from the far-right.

I am saying that AIPAC should be registered as a foreign agent under FARA.

Then you are agreeing with the far right that American Jews who support Israel are foreign agents, and that's a patently obvious antisemitic stereotype based around the dual loyalty myth.

AIPAC members care about Israel more than America. Unequivocally. Same for CUFI. Of course, the vast majority of American Jews are not AIPAC members. JStreet would never pull crap like this.

AIPAC staffers? Surely

AIPAC backed Congressmembers? Nah, they just suppoet Israel when the AIPAC demand it. The reat of the time they focus on other issues.
Look at Latimer: an experiences politician who can be considered a generic D, who can campaing as "pragmatic progressive" while still being clearly to the roght of Bowman. He needs the zionist vote, but he won't be "the new Torres" or anything like that.

On the case of Torres, he is either being WELL played, a sincere Zionist (the ones that are one staters in their heart) or a careerist that is looking to the next Senate election.

[No, it's a 270-268 map.]

No, it's a 270-268 map.

Finally watched the special and I have to ask:  Why did we have all this David Tennant nonsense, when Gatwa is already more interesting than anyone since Eccleston?!...at least Matt Smith at a minimum.

It's just amazing how quickly he slipped into it.

I think for most of the audience that has been watching since Doctor Who was revived in 2005 or those that have jumped on along the way, Tennant is sort of the Tom Baker of NuWho. For RTD as well, it probably eased him back into his role as showrunner. I'd also like to think that he had regrets as to how he wrapped up Donna's story at the end of Series 4. Ten and Donna are still my top Doctor/Companion pairing in NuWho (though Twelve and Bill got very close), so I'll pretty much always defend any decision putting more of them on screen, haha.

Oh yeah, it's all out there innit. I guess I'll get to it, given how much I liked Gatwa. Ideally he isn't let down the same way so many Modern Whos have been.

Next week is a Moffat episode so that will help tremendously.

The Moff isn't without fault. Yes, he's usually really good, but when does miss, he really misses. Cautiously optimistic.

That was as showrunner though. Everything he wrote when RTD was showrunner ranks at the top of most lists.

Always a bad sign when people vote against unionization of their workforce. With the benefits of having a union(better pay, pension plan) you will be better off than what you will be getting at the rate you are working. Hope unions will continue campaigning in the deep red South, because to revitalize labor in the US we need to target the right to work states run by enemies of the worker. You can't have worker solidarity in one region without having the backing of the rest of the nation.

I think there's a cultural aspect to it too (We're not Yankee Socialists etc..) and how unions have been associated as such in that region since at least the 1950's, but the sooner labor can convince them that they support them the better.

The south has long time been antiunion, even when they kind of supported fiscal progresivism in the 1930s.

"Fiscal progressivism" that transfers wealth from the Northern middle class via federal taxes to build bridges and dams and roads in the South that they could and should have built themselves is not progressivism. It's just regionalist welfare chauvinism.

Well, it was not only infraestructure. It was also banking, regulation, etc. Remmeber who wrote the Glass-Steagall Act: two southerns. It was all on southern interests (like free trade), one can say. Let's remember that the 'Old Right'of Harry Byrd appeared just after the Wagner National Labor Relations Act.