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AXIOS (Amy Harder) - How to prepare for wildfires — now and for the future Thu Aug 27 09:23:12 2026

Wildfires demand action on radically different timelines: during the crisis, before the next fire season and over the coming decades. Why it matters: Climate change is worsening the underlying risk, making everything from evacuation plans to forest management and cutting emissions part of the response. Driving the news: America's northwestern corner is having a record-breaking wildfire year, and the traditional fire season still has months to go. "Even if not a single other acre or structure burned, we already have the most active fire season in recorded history for the Pacific Northwest," said climate scientist Daniel Swain, in an Aug. 18 virtual presentation . - "Washington and Oregon together [are] already breaking their historical…

Wildfires demand action on radically different timelines: during the crisis, before the next fire season and over the coming decades. Why it matters: Climate change is worsening the underlying risk, making everything from evacuation plans to forest management and cutting emissions part of the response. Driving the news: America's northwestern corner is having a record-breaking wildfire year, and the traditional fire season still has months to go. "Even if not a single other acre or structure burned, we already have the most active fire season in recorded history for the Pacific Northwest," said climate scientist Daniel Swain, in an Aug. 18 virtual presentation . - "Washington and Oregon together [are] already breaking their historical…Open

AXIOS (Madison Mills) - Big Tech faces Big Resistance Thu Aug 27 09:23:11 2026

Meta's landmark social media settlement marks the latest milestone in a decade-long unwinding of Big Tech's once-unfettered freedom to operate. Why it matters: The AI industry is watching closely . Its historic expansion, already fraught with job risks and public anxiety, depends on building thousands of power-hungry data centers in communities where opposition is rising fast. State of play: "The last time we've seen the public this angry about an industry was during the financial crisis," Nidhi Hegde, executive director of the American Economic Liberties Project, told Axios. - Meta's $17 billion settlement requires sweeping changes to how teens can use Instagram and Facebook, including daily time limits and restrictions on certain…

Meta's landmark social media settlement marks the latest milestone in a decade-long unwinding of Big Tech's once-unfettered freedom to operate. Why it matters: The AI industry is watching closely . Its historic expansion, already fraught with job risks and public anxiety, depends on building thousands of power-hungry data centers in communities where opposition is rising fast. State of play: "The last time we've seen the public this angry about an industry was during the financial crisis," Nidhi Hegde, executive director of the American Economic Liberties Project, told Axios. - Meta's $17 billion settlement requires sweeping changes to how teens can use Instagram and Facebook, including daily time limits and restrictions on certain…Open

NYTIMES (Tressie McMillan Cottom) - The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself Thu Aug 27 09:23:06 2026

She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.

NYTIMES (Frank Bruni and Bret Stephens) - Even Machiavelli Wouldn’t Like Trump’s America Thu Aug 27 09:23:05 2026

We are hated, but not feared.

ABCNEWS (ABC News: Top Stories) - Nepal-Tibet flood deaths rise to 168 amid search for hundreds of missing tourists Thu Aug 27 08:06:00 2026

At least 168 people have been confirmed killed by the massive flash flooding that ravaged the Nepal-Tibet border region on Wednesday.