Sweden’s Tesla Blockade Is Spreading (www.wired.co.uk)
Mississippi River hit record-low levels in October (www.noaa.gov)
U.S. struck with record 25 separate billion-dollar disasters so far this year
Moody’s Changes U.S. Credit Outlook to ‘Negative’ [amid congressional dysfunction] (www.nytimes.com)
Red Cross ‘deeply troubled’ as aid convoy attacked in Gaza City (www.aljazeera.com)
A convoy carrying “lifesaving medical supplies” has come under fire in Gaza City.
Dad of Highland Park parade shooting suspect pleads guilty to reckless conduct for helping son obtain gun (abcnews.go.com)
With return of three pandas to China, U.S. could soon have none (www.nbcnews.com)
The National Zoo’s beloved bears are set to leave this month, while the loan agreement for the country’s only other pandas, at Zoo Atlanta, is expiring next year....
Newspaper publisher and reporter arrested and accused of revealing grand jury information (apnews.com)
A smalltown newspaper publisher and reporter in Alabama were arrested after authorities accused them of publishing an article that revealed information about a grand jury investigation involving the local school system.
UAW Strikers Have Scored a Historic, Transformative Victory (jacobin.com)
Children in 1 million more families faced food insecurity in 2022, USDA says (www.cnn.com)
Tim Burton-inspired pumpkin mosaic sets world record (www.bbc.com)
A Tim Burton-inspired mosaic made with more than 10,000 pumpkins and squashes has set a new Guinness World Record.
Detroit casino union workers go on strike as unions seek better wages, benefits (www.freep.com)
US supreme court blocks ‘ghost gun’ makers again from selling at-home kits (www.theguardian.com)
The US Supreme Court on Monday barred two Texas-based manufacturers from selling products that can be quickly converted at home into firearms called “ghost guns”, granting a request by Joe Biden’s administration to once again block a federal judge’s order that had sided with companies....
Cory Doctorow won't publish his audiobooks with Amazon (www.cbc.ca)
*** this is a 15 minute audio interview.
Car rams into Chinese Consulate in San Francisco and police fatally shoot driver (abcnews.go.com)
A car rammed into the Chinese consulate in San Francisco on Monday, coming to a stop in the lobby and creating a chaotic scene that ended with police shooting the driver, who later died at the hospital, officials said...
Flexible hours, sick pay and meals: British workers get a better deal (www.reuters.com)
BRIGHTON, England, Oct 2 (Reuters) - For Josh Hughes-Davies, the best thing about his job in a bar in the coastal city of Brighton is the free meal with every shift....
At US Antarctic base hit by harassment claims, workers are banned from buying alcohol at bars (apnews.com)
From Sunday, workers at the main United States base in Antarctica will no longer be able to walk into a bar and order a beer, after the U.S. federal agency that oversees the research program decided to stop serving alcohol....
‘Monster Fracks’ Are Getting Far Bigger. And Far Thirstier. (Paywall) (www.nytimes.com)
A Times analysis shows that increasingly complex oil and gas wells now require astonishing volumes of water to fracture the bedrock and release fossil fuels, threatening America’s fragile aquifers....
A climate scientist on how to recognize the new climate change denial (www.vox.com)
Delay, deflect, downplay, and other ways fossil fuel companies block climate action.
Burning Man Ends With Hours-Long Traffic Jam (www.thewrap.com)
Thousands of stranded Burning Man attendees were finally headed home in hours-long lines on Monday and Tuesday.
UNC-Chapel Hill faculty member killed in shooting that sent campus into lockdown (www.nbcnews.com)
A University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill faculty member was killed Monday in a shooting that prompted a campuswide lockdown while officials searched for an “armed and dangerous person,” university officials said....
Jacksonville jail's review of deaths deemed inadequate by accrediting agency (jaxtrib.org)
Disneyland evacuates restaurants, rides, Paradise Pier amid Tropical Storm Hilary, earthquake (www.sfgate.com)
Warning sirens blared Sunday afternoon as guests were evacuated from rides, restaurants and the entirety of DCA’s Paradise Pier
Longterm use of Proton Pump Inhibiters linked to dementia (newatlas.com)
Link to study: American Academy of Neurology...
Alabama riverfront brawl videos spark a cultural moment about race, solidarity and justice (apnews.com)
As bystanders trained their smartphone cameras on the riverfront dock while several white boaters pummeled a Black riverboat co-captain, they couldn’t have known the footage would elicit a national conversation about racial solidarity....
