Narcissists don't like losing, and they don't like being told that people don't like them. What often results is a "narcissistic injury" - an existential threat to their self-worth, and a resulting fit of rage or need to exert power or control, fueled by ego. When the person expressing that rage is one of the most powerful people in the world, it can have lasting and out weighted impacts.

JD Vance cancels Minnesota visit to discuss fraud, officials say | FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul

Trump Moves Natalie Harp Into Ultra-Private White House Hideaway

Pentagon orders bases to plan for 90 days without the grid as Britain urges to stockpile supplies | Fortune

US warns allies to prepare for potential Iran strikes after election | AP News

US Army Starts Practicing Digging Mass Battlefield Graves - Newsweek

What Is FORTRESS? Pentagon’s 90-Day Plan to Keep US Military Bases Running - Newsweek

Senator Reveals Trump’s ‘Insane’ Plan for After the Election

Hegseth Fires a Top General - The Atlantic

Trump's 'no more elections' during wartime quip revives fears about American democracy | Fortune

Pentagon Secretly Braces for Embarrassing Trump Defeat

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A look at two aspects of Trump corruption:

Jared Kushner pushes back on report involving hacked phone, spies, billion-dollar transfer - CBS News

White House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior Staff - The Washington Sun

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Apologies, as expected I didn't have time to record a new episode today, so we'll revisit an old classic on our oceans, which is more relevant today than ever.

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Corporations are gaining more and more power to do as they please. As that translates to more profit, they will continue to do so at the expense of the planet and its citizens (both human and not).

Woody Harrelson: "No one loves you more than Exxon" | New Exxon El Niño Commercial

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre | Environment | The Guardian

Wolves roam into Finnish villages after Google destroys 1,300 acres of forest for AI data centers — forest where wolf packs used to live is now an expanse of mud | Tom's Hardware

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It's becoming evident very quickly that the advancement of AI will bring an increase in cybersecurity issues - making the internet an increasingly dangerous foundation to rely on.

AI's 'Black October': PHP vulnerabilities trigger fresh wave of alarms

Altman admits the cybersecurity crisis is going to get worse: "I no longer think we're gonna be able to patch all the bugs." : r/OpenAI

Impact of AI on cyber threat from now to 2027 | National Cyber Security Centre

AI-discovered bugs may soon trigger fresh disruptions, cyber experts say | Reuters

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As geo-engineering becomes more of an inevitable reality, we look at the results of one war-gamed scenario:

They War-Gamed Dimming the Sun. It Went Even Worse Than You Think | WIRED

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Sources:

FCC Threatens Broadcasters Over Polls Predicting Disaster for GOP | The New Republic

If Democrats Win Congress, Could the G.O.P. Refuse to Seat Them? - The New York Times

How the Trump Administration Politicized the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — ProPublica

'Don’t let them rig this' | Dolly Parton’s sister claims she had to correct her ballot selection while voting in Tennessee | wbir.com

Texas Sued After Glitch Delays 600,000 Voter Registrations | The New Republic

Exclusive: Thousands of North Carolina ballots set to be rejected after GOP imposed strict new rules, data shows - Democracy Docket

Armed federal agents knock on doors looking for noncitizen voters

DOJ accuses California of facilitating 'unlawful voting'

‘They will all go to jail’: Trump threatens California officials amid push to reject 20,000 ballots - Democracy Docket

Trump DOJ’s California crackdown rests on 25 potentially illegal votes out of 45 million ballots cast - Democracy Docket

Todd Blanche must confirm DOJ won’t seize ballots, senators demand - Democracy Docket

https://www.reddit.com/r/EyesOnIce/s/z2671NMevR

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Things can change quickly in a collapsing world. We often think of what the future will be like, and forget that collapse is being experienced today, in a million different little ways:

French supermarkets targeted by massive defrost cyberattack

‘We are suffocating’: protests spread to Lisbon and Milan as housing and living cost tensions intensify | Protest | The Guardian

FEMA tells states to handle disasters on their own - POLITICO

Tap water no longer drinkable in Norwegian village as climate-related thawing releases heavy metals | Norway | The Guardian

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