Oct 10, 2024 | Salon.com
With Hurricane Milton making landfall in Florida on Wednesday evening, millions of Sunshine State residents have evacuated their homes or boarded up businesses to brace for the impending storm. This potentially historic storm has fluctuated between Category 3 status (meaning wind speeds above 110 mph) all the way to Category 5 status (wind speeds in excess of 157 mph), and its impacts, both short-term and long-term, will likely be devastating....
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Oct 8, 2024 | Salon.com
Hurricane Milton is shattering records, becoming the fifth-strongest storm in the Atlantic Basin’s recorded history by barometric pressure, strengthening into a Category 5 storm in just 10 hours. It has become so severe that President Joe Biden has declared a state of emergency in the soon-to-be-affected areas — is now expected to make landfall in Florida on late Wednesday....
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Oct 8, 2024 | Mental Illness, Salon.com
When “Joker” hit theaters in 2019, I criticized the movie in a review that called out its shallow and problematic depictions of mental illness. Yes, “Joker” was very entertaining as a gritty Martin Scorsese-style psychological thriller, but it also stigmatized mental illness through the grotesque way it fixated on the myriad disorders held by antihero Arthur Fleck (performed with characteristic panache by Joaquin Phoenix)....
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Oct 8, 2024 | Salon.com
As the finger-like celestial objects seem to grasp into the heavens, the Pillars of Creation are almost impossible to adequately describe with human language. Located in Eagle Nebula in the Serpens constellation, the clusters of cool interstellar gas and dust appear splotchy in the Hubble Space Telescope’s images, but thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Pillars truly appear like solid columns....
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Oct 8, 2024 | Salon.com
Hurricane Helene, the climate change-fueled tropical cyclone that pummeled much of the American southeast in late September, has claimed more than 230 lives with some estimates of damages ranging from $30 to 47.5 billion. But these statistics reflect a genuine human cost, such as that of a 27-year-old mother who died with her twin babies after a tree fell through the roof of their Thomson, Georgia home....
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Oct 7, 2024 | Salon.com
Just days after Hurricane Helene ravaged the southeastern United States, another major storm has formed: Hurricane Milton. Already, Milton was upgraded to a Category 5 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, raising alarms throughout the nation as it powers toward the region. On Monday, President Joe Biden signed an emergency declaration for Florida while the state has issued evacuation orders....
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Oct 7, 2024 | Salon.com
Kevin Greutert’s voice brims with enthusiasm as he vividly recalls the moment when he was introduced to “The Shining.” He was a 14-year-old kid from the Los Angeles suburbs in early 1980, and like so many admirers of director Stanley Kubrick, Greutert’s initial introduction to one of his classic movies took place inside a movie theater....
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Oct 7, 2024 | Salon.com
With less than a month to go before the 2024 U.S. presidential election, some polls show the race is essentially neck-and-neck for both candidates. Although Vice President Kamala Harris is consistently polling ahead of former President Donald Trump in the national popular vote, those same polls show the two candidates effectively tied in the seven swing states which will decide the election in the Electoral College: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada....
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Oct 6, 2024 | Salon.com
October is traditionally associated with cool autumn breezes, but a heat wave fueled by climate change in the West is defying that expectation by continuing to shatter temperature records. According to a recent post by the National Weather Service, a record high temperature of 108 degrees Fahrenheit was recorded in Phoenix, Ariz....
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Oct 6, 2024 | Salon.com
“The Apprentice” is the movie that Donald Trump does not want you to see, and it is easy to understand why. Despite taking creative liberties with the source material, historians tell Salon the new film that documents Trump’s rise to political celebrity is accurate in its most important assertion: Trump was groomed for power by Roy Cohn, one of the most sinister lawyers in our nation’s history....
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