Good morning, beloved community. It's Friday, January 9th. Today: Trump casually says, “Sure, I am a target for a 3rd Impeachment, so what, fuckers?”, 2025 becomes the third-worst year for billion-dollar climate disasters, Canada opens its arms to LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers fleeing American fascism, and the life hack that'll change your fucking week.

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The marble halls of Congress smell like old furniture polish and barely-contained panic. Republican representatives are quietly circulating draft articles of impeachment for a president who’s been in office only a year. The constitutional scholars are losing their goddamn minds—no president has been impeached 3 fucking times, but that hasn't stopped the whispering campaigns, the caucus meetings behind closed doors, the careful hedging of bets.

The damage: This isn't about legal precedent—it's about power players positioning themselves for the moment Trump's volatility becomes their liability instead of their weapon. The fractures in the GOP are well beyond hairline cracks now, and they're spreading. Every moderate Republican who's spent years swallowing their dignity is doing the math: How long until he turns on me?

Response: Constitutional experts are drafting op-eds. Democrats are caught between gleeful schadenfreude and genuine concern about normalizing impeachment as a political weapon. Legal scholars point out that impeachment exists , but should it so readily be used? Well in this case it’s either that or the 25th. Read the full constitutional clusterfuck

The smell of smoke and floodwater. The particular silence after a tornado passes, when even the birds have fled. 2025 carved its name into history as the third-highest year for billion-dollar weather disasters in U.S. records—24 separate catastrophes that killed 418 people and displaced tens of thousands more. Hurricanes Helene and Milton alone caused $100 billion in damage, turning neighborhoods into debris fields, transforming lives into insurance claims.

The science: This isn't weather anymore—it's ecological collapse with a forecast. Each degree of warming loads the atmospheric dice, making the extremes more extreme, the disasters more devastating. Communities that survived a century of "once-in-a-lifetime" floods now face them every five years. The mycelial networks beneath our feet are struggling to hold soil that's either drowning or desiccated.

Action: Indigenous water protectors continue defending watersheds. Engineers are designing flood-resistant housing. Communities are mapping mutual aid networks for the disasters we know are coming. The web holding us together is made of these connections—we either strengthen them or watch them fray. Read the climate math

Pride flags flying over frozen ground. Hands clutching documents at the Canadian border, breath visible in the January cold. Canada's immigration minister just announced emergency provisions for LGBTQIA+ Americans seeking asylum from states passing anti-trans legislation, drag bans, and laws criminalizing gender-affirming care. Applications are already flooding in—families calculating whether staying means watching their kids lose access to healthcare, education, basic fucking dignity.

Stakes: This is what fascism looks like in its early stages: not jackboots and armbands, but paperwork and "parental rights" laws that strip bodily autonomy, bathroom bills that make existing in public illegal, legislation that treats queerness as criminal. Canada's response is both humanitarian necessity and geopolitical middle finger—We'll take the refugees your cruelty creates.

Movement: Queer mutual aid networks are coordinating border crossings, fundraising for visa fees, helping families navigate immigration law. Canadian LGBTQIA+ organizations are preparing housing, employment assistance, community integration support. The underground railroad never really ended—it just keeps adapting to new forms of persecution. Read the refuge story

Stranger Things Finally Does the Damn Thing: After five seasons of queerbaiting, Will Byers finally, finally gets his coming-out scene in the show's final episodes. The Duffer Brothers issued a statement addressing fan frustration over the delay—something about "authentic character development" and "narrative timing" that sounds suspiciously like "we were scared of backlash." The scene itself is reportedly tender, age-appropriate, and exactly what queer kids deserved four fucking years ago. Better late than never, but let's not pretend this is brave—it's basic. Watch the moment

Minneapolis Rises Again: Hundreds filled the streets after ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good during a home raid. The protests aren't just about this murder—they're about the cumulative violence of immigration enforcement, the way ICE operates with impunity, the families torn apart by deportation machinery. Community organizers are demanding accountability, body camera footage, federal investigation. The echo of 2020 is deafening. Stand with Minneapolis

Earth's climate is a chaotic bastard that doesn't gently adjust—it fucking overshoots. Rain scrubs CO2 from the air, rocks crumble and swallow it into the ocean where it gets locked in limestone tombs for eons. But here's the twisted part: when shit heats up, nutrients flood the seas, plankton gorge themselves on CO2, then die en masse, rotting into oxygen-starved depths. This triggers a runaway burial spree that doesn't just cool the planet—it plunges it into ice ages so brutal the whole damn globe freezes. Ancient Earth had weaker oxygen levels, making this yo-yo even more violent. Today's atmosphere is more stable, but we're still cooking ourselves before any relief kicks in millennia from now. ScienceToday

The Five-Minute Morning Reset: Before checking your phone, before the doomscroll: Place both feet flat on the floor. Take five breaths so deep they expand your ribcage. Name three things you can touch, two you can hear, one you can smell. This isn't wellness bullshit—it's nervous system regulation that actually works. Your cortisol levels will thank you.

Reduce Phantom Power Draw: Unplug your devices when not in use, or use a power strip you can switch off. "Vampire power" from devices in standby mode costs the average household $165/year and generates unnecessary carbon emissions. Small action, measurable impact, fewer dollars to the fossil fuel industry.

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The smell of crude oil and constitutional crisis: Trump's planning to seize control of Venezuelan oil revenues, sell the nationalized petroleum, and pocket the proceeds—a scheme so brazen it makes previous kleptocracy look like amateur hour. Read the heist blueprint

Trump's Oil Scheme in Three Steps: (1) Claim Venezuelan oil as "national security asset" (2) Sell said oil to highest bidder (3) Deposit billions in accounts that definitely, totally, absolutely won't benefit Trump businesses wink wink

2025's Best Amateur Photography: National Geographic's "Your Shot" competition reveals images that stop breath—a child's hand in elephant skin, aurora borealis reflected in ice, a bee's wings catching light. The world is still worth seeing. Witness the visual feast

Clickbait: Linguists Identify 47 Words That Should Be Ceremonially Retired in 2026, Including "Unprecedented," "Pivot," and Literally Any Phrase Involving "Quiet Quitting." Read the vocabulary funeral

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