>Scientists looked at images from space to see how fast Antarctica is turning green. Here’s what they found
>They found plant life — mostly mosses — had increased in this harsh environment more than 10-fold over the past four decades, according to the study by scientists at the universities of Exeter and Hertfordshire in England, and the British Antarctic Survey, published Friday in the journal Nature Geoscience.
>Vegetation covered less than 0.4 square miles of the Antarctic Peninsula in 1986 but had reached almost 5 square miles by 2021, the study found. The rate at which the region has been greening over nearly four decades has also been speeding up, accelerating by more than 30% between 2016 and 2021.

The feels when we will see a green Antarctica (and probably a dead Amazon Rainforest) before we die

src: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/04/climate/antarctica-greening-vegetation-satellite-images/index.html

Quoting the legend, an entry on the timeline states: “On a subsequent occasion Arthur dressed himself in woman’s clothes in order to visit a girl at Rhuthun.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/11/king-arthur-may-have-been-a-girl-welsh-council-suggests/?msockid=2216a07f4b7d655d3504b5664ad564bf

A victory for the truth over Trump's Big Lie.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/10/gateway-pundit-defamation-lawsuit-election-workers

The Gateway Pundit, the far-right news website that played a critical role in spreading false information about the 2020 election, has settled a defamation lawsuit with Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, two Georgia election workers it falsely accused of wrongdoing.

Notice of the settlement was filed in circuit court in Missouri, where Freeman and Moss had sued the site for defamation. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed in the filing.

Nearly 20 articles that Freeman and Moss said had falsely accused them of wrongdoing were no longer available on The Gateway Pundit’s website as of Thursday afternoon, according to a Guardian review.

“The dispute between the parties has been resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the parties through a fair and reasonable settlement,” the legal team for Moss and Freeman said in a statement. Attorneys for the Gateway Pundit did not immediately return a request for comment.

After the 2020 election, the Gateway Pundit published a series of stories amplifying a misleading video that showed Freeman and Moss counting ballots. The site pushed the false claim that the two women were committing fraud and counting illegal ballots after counting had ended for the night. The Gateway Pundit was the first news outlet to identify Freeman and later identified Moss, who have been cleared of all wrongdoing.

Even after Georgia election officials debunked the video, the site continued to publish numerous articles falsely accusing Moss and Freeman of fraud. Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s lawyer, also attacked the two women publicly. A Washington DC jury ordered Giuliani to pay nearly $150m to the two women last year for libel, a decision the former New York mayor is appealing. At the trial, Giuliani’s lawyer at one point accused the Gateway Pundit of being the basis of the false claims about the two women.

Kanye West accused of drugging and raping ex-assistant Lauren Pisciotta at Diddy party in bombshell lawsuit
By Nic White For Dailymail.Com
15:04 12 Oct 2024, updated 22:01 12 Oct 2024

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13952577/amp/Kanye-West-drug-rape-assistant-Lauren-Pisciotta-Diddy-party-lawsuit-Bianca-Censori-mother-sex-antisemitism.html

Kayne West drugged and raped his former assistant at a party with Diddy, she claims in a horrifying new lawsuit against the disgraced rapper.

Influencer and former OnlyFans star Lauren Pisciotta sued West in June for allegedly sexually harassing and stalking her while she worked for him in 2021-22.

Now, a new 88-page updated lawsuit filed on Friday night and obtained by DailyMail.com makes dozens of new disturbing claims.

Pisciotta detailed West's alleged sick sexual obsessions, and his fetish for also wanting to sleep with his targets' mothers - including his wife Bianca Censori's family.

The lawsuit delves into his allegedly infamous sex parties and the full horror of his neo-Nazi views that included hate-filled rants and forcing staff to draw swastikas.

She also claimed West promised to pay her a $4 million a year salary, bragged about it to Jay-Z, then wrongfully fired her and reneged on a $3 million severance payout.

West denied the claims in her original lawsuit, calling them 'baseless' and accused her of 'blackmail and extortion', but has yet to file a defense.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2024/10/13/trump-biopic-the-apprentice-struggles-in-debut-weekend-after-controversy/

“The Apprentice,” a dramatization of the early years of former President Donald Trump’s business career, grossed just over $1.5 million, multiple outlets reported, a rough opening weekend for the controversial film that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year but struggled to find a distributor and drew legal threats from Trump’s team.
“The Apprentice”—starring Sebastian Stan as Trump and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn, Trump’s then-mentor—grossed about $1.6 million from Friday to Sunday, putting it at around 10th place at the box office, though its 1,740-theater debut was far smaller than most major films, which often open in well over 3,500 theaters.

The movie also features Maria Bakalova as Trump’s first wife, Ivana, was directed by Iranian-Danish director Ali Abbasi and the screenplay was written by Gabriel Sherman, who also wrote a biography of Fox News founder Roger Ailes.

“The Apprentice” was distributed by Briarcliff Entertainment after most Hollywood studios declined to pick it up despite its festival success, and was expected to gross between $1 and $3 million in its debut weekend.

“Terrifier 3” was at the top of the box office after grossing $18.2 million from 1,988 theaters in its debut weekend, and “The Wild Robot” held the second spot with $13.45 million, followed by “Joker: Folie á Deux” and “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” Variety reported.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/us/meteorologists-threats-conspiracy-theories-hurricanes.html

A meteorologist based in Washington, D.C., was accused of helping the government cover up manipulating a hurricane. In Houston, a forecaster was repeatedly told to “do research” into the weather’s supposed nefarious origins. And a meteorologist for a television station in Lansing, Mich., said she had received death threats.

“Murdering meteorologists won’t stop hurricanes,” wrote the forecaster in Michigan, Katie Nickolaou, in a social media post. “I can’t believe I just had to type that.”

Meteorologists’ role of delivering lifesaving weather forecasts and explaining climate science sometimes makes them targets for harassment, and this kind of abuse has been happening for years, weather experts said. But amid the conspiracy theories and falsehoods that have spiraled online after Hurricanes Helene and Milton, they say the attacks and threats directed at them have reached new heights.

Fox News host: Trump ‘resorted to crimes’ to hold on to power
Published: Oct. 02, 2024, 5:39 p.m.

Fox News host Neil Cavuto said Wednesday that a newly unsealed filing in the federal Jan. 6 case revealed former President Trump “resorted to crimes” to stay in office.

https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/10/fox-news-host-trump-resorted-to-crimes-to-hold-on-to-power.html

“It was in this newly unsealed court paper we’re learning that former President Trump resorted to crimes to cling to power after the 2020 election. We don’t know much more than that,” Cavuto said Wednesday on Fox News.

“A lot of this stuff was going to be coming out anyway. We’re going to be getting the latest on that, and a legal look at what is being revealed here and whether it’s giving us any new information, anything we don’t know. The timing of this, of course, is little more than about five weeks before the general election,” he added.

Prosecutors in the former president’s Jan. 6 case outlined their case against Trump in a newly unsealed court document on Wednesday, where special counsel Jack Smith argues that Trump’s offenses alleged in the case were private actions, not officials ones.

The filing came after a Supreme Court ruling over the summer gave broad immunity to presidents while in office. Smith is trying to argue that the actions he outlined in his case can still remain in his indictment of Trump because they were private acts.

“When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office. With private co-conspirators, the defendant launched a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results in seven states that he had lost—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin (the “targeted states”),” the filing reads.

>Another Democrat former Presidential candidate in a growing chorus calls misinformation a grave threat to democracy and the first amendment an "impediment" bemoaning lack of "truth arbiter"

John Kerry called the First Amendment a "major block" to combating misinformation and fighting climate change.

The former Secretary of State took part in a World Economic Forum panel on Green Energy on Wednesday. Near the end of the panel, a member of the audience asked what can be done to push back against disinformation surrounding climate change online.

"You know there's a lot of discussion now about how you curb those entities in order to guarantee that you're going to have some accountability on facts, etc. But look, if people only go to one source, and the source they go to is sick, and, you know, has an agenda, and they're putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence," Kerry said.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/john-kerry-first-amendment-major-block-stopping-disinformation

https://www.axios.com/2024/10/13/kamala-harris-biden-campaign-tension

>The relationship between Kamala Harris' team and Joe Biden's White House has been increasingly fraught in the final weeks before Election Day, 10 people familiar with the situation tell Axios.
>Why it matters: Biden's team wants Harris to win the election, but many senior Biden aides remain wounded by the president being pushed out of his re-election bid and are still adjusting to being in a supporting role on the campaign trail.
>"They're too much in their feelings," one close Harris ally said of the president's team — a sentiment shared even by some White House aides.
>Some on the Harris team say that top White House aides aren't sufficiently coordinating Biden's messaging and schedule to align with what's best for the vice president's campaign.
>Biden gave an impromptu press conference in the White House briefing room Friday just as Harris was about to do an event in Michigan, ensuring that her event would get less TV coverage than it otherwise would have.
>Earlier in the week, Harris criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for not taking her call about the recent hurricanes, only for Biden to praise DeSantis soon after for being "gracious" and "cooperative." (A person familiar with the situation told Axios that Biden hadn't been briefed on Harris' comments.)
>Biden has been eager to boast about a robust jobs report, helping to end the strike by the longshoremen's union and other perceived victories recently. Harris has been trying to focus on voters' pocketbook concerns, including inflation.
>One person involved with Harris' campaign told Axios: "The White House is lacking someone in the room thinking first and foremost about how things would affect the campaign."

Only 3 weeks left and it's all falling apart lmao. You know it's bad when even Axios is reporting on it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/01/trump-wisconsin-swerves-subjects/

By Sabrina Rodriguez & Isaac Arnsdorf

>MILWAUKEE — Republican nominee Donald Trump spoke for 33 minutes before his first mention of the ostensible focus of his remarks.

>Signs reading “SCHOOL CHOICE,” “EDUCATION FREEDOM NOW” and “LET PARENTS DECIDE” decorated a small auditorium, and a panel of speakers preceding the former president focused on using public funds to let families choose between public and private, especially religious, schools. Trump read from a binder containing a prepared speech on the subject, and he switched abruptly between the text and a jumble of other topics.

>“We can be nice and we can be politically incorrect, but the only thing they’re going to do there is cheat on elections, and we just can’t let this happen,” he said at one point. Without warning, he continued: “The city of Milwaukee is the home of first and oldest choice program.”

>He spoke of “a million Rambos.” “Turnarounds” and “gotaways” and “dead-head spending.” He mixed up Iran with North Korea and strained to pronounce United Arab Emirates. He marveled at Hurricane Helene coming so late in the storm season, which typically runs through November. He falsely claimed government agencies can’t name the U.S. population, and he compared the conflict between Israel and Iran to “two kids fighting in the schoolyard.”

>Trump, 78, often speaks in a digressive, extemporaneous style that thrills his fans at large-scale rallies. But Tuesday’s event, in front of almost entirely reporters, was especially scattered and hard to follow. Polls show voters’ concerns about Trump’s age and fitness have increased since President Joe Biden, 81, withdrew and was replaced as the Democratic nominee by Vice President Kamala Harris.

>Trump spoke slowly and appeared tired. It was his second stop of the day, and he has picked up the pace of campaigning in recent weeks.