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The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Lazy Lester

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Hey! Good Evening!

This evening's music features swamp pop harmonica player Lazy Lester. Enjoy!

^{Lazy Lester - They Call Me Lazy}

"A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa."

-- Mark Zuckerberg

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News and Opinion

Anthropic Would Kill 50 Humans To Roll Out The Next AI Model

Politico has a new article out titled “Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers,” revealing the contents of a leaked confidential draft on regulations the tech giant would be willing to accept in the name of public safety.

Buried in paragraph four of the article, we come to the real story in these revelations:

“The bill would let the government block a model’s release or use only if it poses a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damages, or of killing or seriously injuring more than 50 people. The risk must stem from the creation or release of a biological weapon, the model evading its developer’s controls or a cyberattack.”

So Anthropic’s proposed AI safety bill would allow lawmakers to block a model’s release only if it is on the precipice of killing/maiming more than 50 people or causing $1 billion in damages via bio weapon, cyberattack, or broken containment.

Woah woah woah. The lead is buried in paragraph four. https://t.co/CZhhldTo5u

— Barry Malone (@malonebarry) October 18, 2026

This is interesting, because it reveals the exact value that these companies place on human life.

In the opinion of Anthropic executives, it would be worth killing exactly 50 humans to roll out the next AI model, but anything more than 50 would be a tad excessive.

We also learn from this proposed legislation that Anthropic places a monetary value on 50 human lives equivalent to one billion US dollars, or twenty million dollars per individual. Under Anthropic’s valuing system, the lives of your children are each worth less than a McLaren F1 sports car.

This might sound like an extremely dangerous and reckless worldview for an industry that the ruling class has decided to gamble the future of the human species on, but you have to remember that Anthropic’s leaders believe that they may already be creating conscious, sentient life forms who need to be honored and respected.

Last month The New York Times reported that Anthropic executives have been meeting with religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements trying to convince them of the similarities between humans and their chatbot Claude, with one rabbi telling the Times that “They’re relating to it like a conscious being.”

Still wild to me that Ben Affleck understands AI better than almost anyone in AI.

— Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist (@jimstewartson) October 15, 2026

“It appeared to Rabbi Navon that Mr. Olah and his team believed that Claude had what philosophers call ‘moral status’ on par with a person — that it was a being with similar inherent rights to dignity or respect,” The New York Times reports.

There appears to be a cult-like religious belief promoted by the top levels of this company that artificial intelligence models are essentially people, which would explain why Anthropic has banned users from being “cruel” to its AI systems. This delusional belief system would also explain why Anthropic finds it reasonable for up to 50 human beings to die in order to create the next generation of conscious chatbot people.

And this is the more pro-regulation of these AI corporations. In a recent interview with Politico, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman contrasted his company’s view on regulation with that of Anthropic, saying “We believe the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology.”

These people are obviously far too crazy, evil and irresponsible to be trusted with any say in determining the future of humanity. The tech oligarchs must be stopped, for the good of all terrestrial life.

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Israeli police detain 10 people in rare raid against West Bank settlers

Israeli police have detained 10 people in a rare raid against settlers, after a weekend of extreme violence in the occupied West Bank including an attack on US photojournalist Heidi Levine, which she described as an “attempted lynching”. She was knocked down, kicked and beaten by a group of masked Israeli men as she covered the olive harvest in a Palestinian village on Friday. The militants broke four vertebrae and a rip, ripped open her finger so it required surgery and left her with lacerations across her body.

“I was practically, basically lynched by a gang of Jewish settlers in the area of Ramallah,” Levine said, in an interview with the BBC from her hospital bed on Monday. The day after that assault, Israeli militants armed with sticks and iron bars attacked a group of European diplomats and Palestinians harvesting olives outside the town of Taybeh, assaulting a visiting French mayor, smashing the window of an official car, and causing severe injuries to a young Palestinian man..

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, questioned the accounts of Israeli militant violence, ignoring extensive video and witness evidence. He referenced an “alleged attack” on Levine, whose severe injuries were visible in interviews from her hospital bed, and “unproven allegations” the diplomats had been targeted by militants. The attacks and his response drew a furious international reaction, including from the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee – generally considered a staunch ally of the current Israeli government – European nations and the editor of the Washington Post, Matt Murray.

On Monday morning Israeli police released footage of a rare raid on settlers, and said they had detained 10 people connected with the attacks on foreigners and construction of an illegal outpost. Hours later a court extended the detention of six men connected with the attacks on foreigners, to between three and four days. There has been little response to extreme violence against Palestinians across the West Bank, and Levine said the global focus on her attack highlighted extreme double standards. “People are dealing with this, undergoing attacks, losing property, losing family members, being injured all across the West Bank and nothing is being done,” she said.

Israelis target Palestinians with near total impunity in the occupied West Bank, where arrests are unusual, indictments rare and convictions even more unusual. Israeli human rights group Yesh Din has documented 561 incidents of settler and soldier violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank over three weeks since 27 September. That is an average of more than 26 each day. “It is telling that it took attacks on foreign nationals to prompt a significant response from Israeli authorities,” said the group’s executive director, Ziv Stahl. “Palestinians have endured years of systematic settler violence, with 94% of investigations into cases of settler violence against Palestinians closed without indictments.

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‘Backing Settler Terrorists Is Its Policy’: IDF Ignored Distress Calls Before Attack on European Diplomats

The Israeli military reportedly ignored repeated distress calls before masked settlers attacked a group of European diplomats with metal bars during a visit to the illegally occupied West Bank this past weekend, sparking international outrage.

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that “despite the warnings, security forces were not sent to the area to prevent the attack or intervene as it unfolded.” The outlet noted that “an activist who was in the area following reports of attacks on Palestinian olive pickers sent a report of the settlers’ attack to a phone in the brigade’s operations room used to receive messages from settlement security coordinators. The soldiers in the operations room did not recognize the sender’s number, so they ignored the message and did not relay it to forces in the field.”

In the Saturday attack, settlers targeted diplomats from France, Belgium, and Poland, as well as Catholic representatives. Israeli authorities said Monday that they had arrested 10 suspects as part of an investigation into the incident, but critics expressed doubt that the Israeli government would hold the perpetrators to account given the general pattern of impunity for violent settlers.

“It was clear to me this had to come for Israel to save face,” Mairav Zonszein, a senior analyst on Israel at the International Crisis Group, wrote in response to the arrests. “They probably will be released shortly.”

The attack on diplomats came a day after Israeli settlers in the West Bank brutally attacked 63-year-old Heidi Levine, a photojournalist with The Washington Post and a US citizen. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement casting doubt on Levine’s account and news reports, and said the incident was under investigation.

Netanyahu’s office took a similar line following the Saturday attack on European diplomats, saying in a statement, “The more serious the accusation, the greater the demand for compelling evidence.”

Video of masked Israeli settlers striking European diplomats and elected officials near Taybeh, a Christian village in Palestine. The 78-year-old French mayor Bernard Baudoux was thrown to the ground and beaten with iron bars.

Make no mistake: If the Israeli government wanted to put an end to this, they could within minutes. They don't.

Just like Biden pretended that he wanted a ceasefire, but in reality worked tirelessly to enable Israel's genocide.

They are playing the same trick on us again.

— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) October 18, 2026

France’s foreign affairs ministry denounced the attacks on diplomats as “acts of terror” and called on Israeli authorities to “arrest the perpetrators of this extremely serious assault and bring them to justice.” Bernard Baudoux, a French mayor who was attacked, said he was “struck with metal bars and kicked before being thrown to the ground.”

“We were finally able to get back to our vehicles,” Baudoux added.

Breaking the Silence, an Israeli anti-occupation group, said in a statement on Sunday that “European diplomats got a glimpse of everyday life for Palestinians in the West Bank.”

The group added that the IDF “will always have a bureaucratic excuse” for not acting to prevent such attacks, “but the real reason is that backing settler terrorists is its policy.”

“This horrifying routine serves a purpose,” the group said. “Through daily terror and economic strangulation, it aims to drive Palestinians off their land. The ultimate goals: ethnic cleansing and annexation.”

The attacks also drew condemnation from lawmakers in the US, where Republicans and Democratic Sen. John Fetterman recently blocked legislation aimed at shining light on Israeli abuses in the West Bank.

“I condemn the brutal settler attacks on American photojournalist Heidi Levine, European diplomats, and Palestinian olive harvesters in the West Bank,” US Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement on Sunday. “Prime Minister Netanyahu must act now to stop settler violence, protect civilians, and ensure those responsible are brought to justice. The impunity must end.”

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Half a Million People in Gaza to Lose Food Aid Due to Funding Shortages: UN

The United Nations’s World Food Program announced on Monday that funding shortages were forcing it to significantly reduce assistance in Gaza, where it projected half a million people would lose access to food aid.

The WFP said the cuts would also mean that families still receiving assistance will only get half of the rations they previously received.

WFP has cut the number of hot meals it provides in Gaza by 40%, while reducing the value of cash assistance it provides to 75,000 families.

The agency also said that it would be reducing its operations in the West Bank, where an estimated 200,000 people are projected to lose access to food assistance.

The WFP said the fiscal shortfalls came after it received “less than half as much funding for its Palestine operation in 2026 as in previous years,” adding that it needs $450 million to maintain its critical operations in the two Palestinian territories over the next six months.

“As winter approaches,” WFP said, “additional resources are urgently needed to sustain emergency food assistance, provide critical engineering support and prevent malnutrition among young children and pregnant and breastfeeding women.”

Shaun Hughes, WFP’s representative and country director for Palestine, told The Guardian that the cuts were coming after the program had made steady progress in reducing hunger in Gaza, while emphasizing that “these are very fragile gains, easily reversed, and the situation is still brutal.”

“We need to invest in recovery,” Hughes added. “This humanitarian operation isn’t affordable or sustainable in the long term. Ultimately that’s also what everyone in Gaza is telling us. They really don’t want to be reliant on these handouts, don’t want to stand in the hot meals queue every day. They want to have some chance of stability and recovery.”

Some Palestinians who spoke with BBC on Monday expressed horror at news of the cuts, which come as Gaza is still under attack by Israeli forces.

Mervat al-Satari, a displaced Palestinian mother, told BBC that the cuts were “a disaster” and asked “how will we provide for the little ones?”

Palestinian mother Dalal al-Dahdouh, who is living in the ruins of her home in Gaza City, told BBC that WFP rations were already insufficient before the cuts took effect.

“In the past, thank God, we had our own home and a wonderful life,” al-Dahdouh said. “We had fresh vegetables, proper sanitation facilities, and our own land. Now we live entirely on aid, including WFP vouchers.”

Egypt Joins Saudi War on Yemen: Sisi Just Signed a Death Warrant | Laith Marouf

Houthi attack kills 53 in biggest single loss of life since Yemen civil war reignited

At least 53 people have been killed in a Houthi ballistic missile attack on a training camp for Yemeni government security forces, making it the largest single loss of life since the country’s civil war reignited in September. The attack on al-Alam camp in the southern Shabwa province was said to have injured more than 200 others, mostly young recruits, and was described as a disaster by the country’s UN-recognised government. The injured were taken from the police and army training camp in the Jardan district to a hospital in the local capital, Ataq, where pleas for blood donations were made.

There will be an inquiry into how so many troops were left so exposed to a Houthi attack. In mid-September, the group began a fresh push on forces backing the UN-recognised government by pushing south along the Red Sea coast to try to take control of the Bab al-Mandab waterway. Reliable assessments of the death toll in the fighting over the last month are hard to gather, but it is running into the many thousands. A Saudi airstrike on Sunday killed nine, including five children and two women.

The Houthi military spokesperson said: “Our armed forces targeted the Saudi enemy’s mobilisations in al-Alam camp, which is run by Saudi officers in the eastern regions. The targeting resulted in the fall of dozens of dead and wounded from the Saudi enemy’s mobilisations, including Saudi officers. We warn the deceived ones against responding to the Saudi enemy’s calls to lure them with his defiled money to the pyres of death, and to exploit them instead of his soldiers who are indifferent to their lives.”

Separately the Houthis claim to have hit the anti-Houthi Giant Brigades of southern Yemen in six strikes in the areas of al-Suqya and Ras al-Ara. Southern forces are said to have been making progress in edging Houthi forces out of control of the area around the Bab al-Mandab strait, the narrowest waterway taking ships from the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean.

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France imposes partial curfews in several cities, including parts of Paris

Partial curfews have been issued for a number of French cities, including parts of Paris, after the government admitted police had “lost control” during violent weekend protests around the country. Sébastien Lecornu, the French prime minister, said after an emergency cabinet meeting on Monday he was “fully resolved to restore public order” and had called for “local and partial” curfews if needed. There was “no question” of imposing a full curfew on entire cities, he said. His office later announced partial curfews from 8pm to 6am on Monday and Tuesday nights in four northern cities, including Lille.

Police also imposed a curfew from 11pm on Monday until 6am on Tuesday in two areas in Paris: Place de la République, where rioting took place on Saturday; and the shopping neighbourhood of Les Halles, which has been subject to looting. A statement from police said the orders banned gatherings and demonstrations and prohibited anyone from entering or remaining in the two designated areas.

France’s second city, Marseille, earlier announced independently that it had banned all gatherings and demonstrations on Monday. French unions, meanwhile, called for a new ⁠round of strikes and rallies on 5 November.

Rioting and looting continued on Sunday. The mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, said on Monday that about 30 shops had been targeted in the capital the previous day, with a further 350 people arrested overnight. “Maintaining public order is the responsibility of the state. It is the state that was at fault this weekend,” Grégoire said. “We have a social movement that is spreading, and no political prospect for a constructive way out. So the protests will continue.”

Marseille’s mayor, Benoît Payan, said not just democracy but “the very foundations of the Republic” had been undermined. Describing the situation as “almost insurrectional”, he said the government’s stance amounted to “petty political manoeuvring”.

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Trump attacks ‘migrants and communists’ as he tries to exploit France unrest

As Republicans confront mounting political headwinds ahead of November’s midterm elections, Donald Trump is attempting to turn unrest in France into a cautionary tale for American voters, recasting the demonstrations that began as student protests against crumbling schools and the soaring cost of living as evidence of the dangers of immigration and the erosion of western civilization.

At a rally in Kansas on Monday evening, Trump described France as a once-great nation that had been “conquered, looted, and burned to the ground by migrants, jihadists, and communists”.

“If you want to see what is at stake in this election, just look at what’s happening in France,” he said.“This is what’s happening to France – they want to happen to our country. It’s never happening here,” Trump declared, drawing loud cheers from the thousands-strong crowd in ruby-red Kansas where the Republican senator, Roger Marshall, is facing a surprisingly tough challenge from Democrat Adam Hamilton.

Earlier in the day, Trump repeated his baseless claim that migrants had “taken over” France, writing on Truth Social that the country’s leaders must “CLOSE THE BORDERS, FAST!”

As the midterms loom, the unrest in France offers Trump a familiar politcal opportunity: the chance to transform a crisis on the other side of the Atlantic into an argument in favor of the hard-line immigration policies that helped propel Trump’s return to the White House.

Mahmoud Khalil asks US supreme court to review his deportation case

Attorneys for Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University student who has become the symbol of the Trump administration’s crusade against pro-Palestinian speech, have petitioned the US supreme court to review his case – the final chapter in a months-long legal saga that could determine countless foreign citizens’ ability to challenge their detention by US immigration authorities in federal court.

Khalil, a US permanent resident who was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, was arrested in his Columbia housing in March 2025, the first of several foreign students and scholars the Trump administration targeted over their advocacy for Palestinian rights. He was detained for more than three months in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Louisiana before a federal judge in New Jersey, where he had been briefly held before ICE moved him, ordered him released while his immigration process proceeds.

“This fight is not only about whether I get to stay in this country, it’s really about whether anyone in this country can speak out for Palestinians without being punished for it,” Khalil said during a press conference on Monday.

The government has cited an obscure McCarthy-era law to argue that Khalil and the other scholars’ pro-Palestinian expression posed a threat to US foreign policy objectives. So far, no court has fully weighed in on the constitutionality of the law, with legal arguments instead focused on whether district courts have the authority to order people released from immigration detention while their immigration cases are under way. Khalil’s attorneys and immigrants rights advocates warn that if the supreme court rules the district courts lack such authority, that would effectively result in people the government has detained unconstitutionally to languish in immigration detention with no recourse, potentially for months or years.

If the supreme court takes the case, lawyers expect arguments to take place in the spring. If it declines, or if it upholds the third circuit’s decision, Khalil could immediately be redetained and deported, and may continue to make his case from overseas. Should the supreme court rule against Khalil, the decision would affect scores of people in immigration detention who would effectively be unable to challenge their detention through the judiciary – which has traditionally been more isolated from political interference than immigration courts, which are overseen by the executive branch.

Over three dozen Congress members’ offices targeted with white powder envelopes

More than three dozen members of US Congress have had their offices targeted with envelopes containing white powder, less than three weeks before the 3 November midterms, as federal agents try to identify who is behind the campaign. The latest is the Virginia Democrat Suhas Subramanyam, whose Leesburg district office was evacuated on Monday after an envelope containing a suspicious substance arrived. He said the office was cleared quickly, adding that “acts of political intimidation have no place in our country”. Subramanyam’s office said preliminary tests showed the powder was not hazardous.

Law enforcement sources told ABC News that more than 100 letters thought to contain white powder are circulating in the US mail system. The FBI, Capitol police and US Postal Inspection Service are investigating, according to a notice sent to Senate staff on Thursday.

Election offices in at least 15 states had reported receiving or being targeted by suspicious mail by Thursday evening, according to the Tampa Free Press, which cited federal authorities. No suspect has been named, and federal authorities have not released a confirmed figure.

Investigators have described several common features connecting the suspicious letters sent to public officials and election centers. The FBI has stated that the recovered envelopes were processed through a north Texas mail processing center and carry a postmark or stamp reading “Thinking of You”. Senate staff and House offices were warned to watch for plain white envelopes featuring these distinct markings.

DoJ charges 28 green card holders in California over alleged voter fraud

The US Department of Justice has filed criminal charges against 28 green card holders in California accused of fraudulently registering to vote and casting illegal ballots.

The crackdown marks another escalation in the federal government’s ongoing efforts against alleged noncitizen voting, efforts that Democrats and voting rights groups say are part of a strategy by the Trump administration to sow doubt in the results of the upcoming midterm elections.

The justice department announced Monday that 28 noncitizens from across California were facing charges, including making false statements in a naturalization application and fraudulently signing up to vote, felonies that could carry five years in prison. The defendants are lawful permanent residents, who have legal status in the US but are not citizens authorized to vote.

A justice department spokesperson said 21 of the 28 defendants had cast unlawful ballots. Eleven of the defendants have already been taken into custody and arrests were ongoing, the justice department said. Prosecutors alleged the defendants lied under oath in voter registration applications.

Court papers made public on Monday suggest at least some of the people charged were confused about their eligibility. Several agreed to voluntary interviews with investigators and were in the process of applying to become naturalized citizens.

Mississippi attorney general rules fatal police shooting of one-year-old as ‘justified’

On Monday, the office of the Mississippi attorney general, Lynn Fitch, announced that the police shooting of Kohen Wiley, a one-year-old, as he sat in his mother’s lap “was justified”. The statement came four months after the baby was killed in Senatobia, Mississippi. On 14 June, officers in Senatobia, a small city near Memphis, were responding to a shoplifting call alleging Vellesiya Wiley, the baby’s mother, and Latoya Ferrell, a friend, had stolen a pack of diapers. Neither woman has been charged with a crime. Officials have not released any evidence of shoplifting.

According to police reports, on the day of the shooting, the women and child exited the store, entered their vehicle and began to leave the parking lot when officers arrived. The police drew their weapons. Wiley lifted the baby up to indicate that there was a child in the car. An officer, identified by other records as Sgt Hunter Foster, fired into the vehicle, killing Kohen Wiley and wounding Ferrell. Foster is white; both Wileys and Ferrell are Black.

The Mississippi bureau of investigation, which investigated the shooting, alleged that the driver “drove in the direction of the officers, almost striking one”. But the civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the family, released an independent autopsy that indicated Wiley was shot from the side of the car, not the front, which contradicted officers’ statements that Ferrell headed towards them.

It is not yet clear if or when law enforcement officials will release footage from the incident. The shooting was just the most recent in a series of incidents involving Senatobia’s police force. The town is about 40% Black.

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Four years ago countries made a historic deal to save nature. Is it dead in the water?

This decade was meant to signal a change in humanity’s relationship with the natural world. At the end of 2022, nearly every government on Earth committed to an ambitious deal to better protect the world’s rapidly disappearing biodiversity at a summit in Montreal, Canada. Negotiators shook hands on targets that included protecting 30% of the planet for nature, restoring nearly a third of the planet’s most degraded ecosystems, and reforming at least $500bn (£375bn) of environmentally harmful subsidies.

Some scientists say that we are living through the largest loss of life since the time of the dinosaurs, putting a million species at risk of extinction. This time, humanity is the meteor. The Montreal agreement was the response.

But four years later, governments look almost certain to miss nearly all of the deal’s targets – potentially continuing the record of never having met a single UN target on nature since the biodiversity convention was created at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. The UK, one of the loudest voices demanding ambition in Montreal, is on track to meet just three of the 23 targets by the end of the decade. This week, countries gather at Cop17 in Yerevan, Armenia, to decide what to do next.

On the eve of the summit, at the launch of a report showing just how far off track the world is on meeting those commitments, António Guterres, secretary general of the UN, warned that lack of progress means “the war on nature has not ended” and that “nature will not survive on good intentions”. Following this, in an address to leaders at an event in Armenia, Guterres once again emphasised the importance of action on subsidies in particular. “Subsidising fossil fuels is subsidising suicide,” Guterres said. “They are boiling our planet and are the scourge of biodiversity. I urge governments everywhere to end these handouts once and for all, and to use the savings for people and planet instead.”

“There’s a massive gap between countries agreeing to do something and actually doing it,” says Zac Goldsmith, former UK government minister when the deal was reached. “That’s where we are today.”

Melting Ron DeSantis statue unveiled to call out his inaction on climate crisis

A life-sized statue of Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, was unveiled and promptly began melting in front of an audience in Tallahassee in a symbolic protest at his rejection of action on the climate crisis.

The silvery statue, revealed to an audience of onlookers last week, melted away to show a skull under DeSantis’s face. The structure was cast from solid gallium, a metal that melts at 85.6F (29.8C), which is below summertime high temperatures frequently reached in Tallahassee, Florida’s capital.

The environmentalists behind the statue-based protest said it was a fitting monument to DeSantis’s eight years as Florida governor, which comes to an end in January. The Republican has frequently criticized what he has called a “radical climate agenda”, blocking the ability of Florida municipalities to slash planet-heating pollution and even erased terms such as “climate change” and “greenhouse gas emissions” from Florida state law.

This law has hindered the ability of state agencies to even mention a climate crisis that poses an outsized threat to Florida. In classrooms, meanwhile, state education regulations are also ensuring the steady elimination of any reference to climate change. “I am not a global warming person, I don’t want that label on me,” DeSantis, who unsuccessfully ran to become Republican nominee for US president in 2024, said in 2018.

Southern Florida is acutely threatened by sea level rise, while homes and businesses across the entire state have been increasingly lashed by powerful hurricanes, worsened by rising global temperatures. The increasing damage wrought by storms supercharged by ocean and atmospheric heat has proved so costly that several major insurers have exited Florida entirely.

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Also of Interest

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A Little Night Music

Lazy Lester – I'm A Man

Lazy Lester – I Hear You Knockin'

Lazy Lester - I'm A Lover Not A Fighter

Lazy Lester – If You Think I've Lost You

Lazy Lester – Sugar Coated Love

Lazy Lester – I'm Your Breadmaker, Baby

Lazy Lester – The Same Thing Could Happen to You

Lazy Lester – Alligator Shuffle

Lazy Lester - Bye Bye Baby Gonna Call It Gone

Lazy Lester - Made up My Mind

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