Super Typhoon Sinlaku slammed into the Northern Mariana Islands on Tuesday, causing severe damage to the US-controlled territories that are home to roughly 50,000Super Typhoon Sinlaku slammed into the Northern Mariana Islands on Tuesday, causing severe damage to the US-controlled territories that are home to roughly 50,000
50,000 Americans battered by unprecedented typhoons while Trump denies climate crisis
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Super Typhoon Sinlaku slammed into the Northern Mariana Islands on Tuesday, causing severe damage to the US-controlled territories that are home to roughly 50,000 people.
According to a Tuesday report from The Associated Press, the typhoon that struck the islands of Tinian and Saipan was the strongest storm recorded so far this year, delivering sustained winds of up to 150 miles per hour.
Saipan Mayor Ramon “RB” Jose Blas Camacho told the AP he was concerned about how the storm’s severity was hindering local rescue operations.
“It’s so difficult for us to respond with this heavy rain, heavy wind to rescue people,” he said. “Objects are just flying left and right.”
Marko Korosec, a storm chaser and weather forecaster, analyzed satellite images of the storm and predicted the Northern Mariana Islands would be hit with “violent, destructive winds, catastrophic storm surges, giant waves, and flooding rain.”
“The damage,” he wrote, “will be extreme.”
An analysis of the storm written by hurricane scientist Jeff Masters and published by Yale Climate Connections projected that “damage from Sinlaku will be severe on both islands.”
Masters also said Sinlaku was just the latest in what he described as an “unprecedented” number of Category 4 and Category 5 typhoons over the last decade, which he attributed to “a combination of natural variability and climate change.”
“Beginning in 2017, the US has gotten absolutely hammered by high-intensity Category 4 and 5 hurricanes,” Masters explained. “Seven have hit the continental US, one has hit Puerto Rico, and now two have hit the Northern Mariana Islands. That’s as many US Cat 4 and Cat 5 landfalls as had occurred in the prior 57 years.”
Later in his analysis, Masters pointed out that 10 of the 13 strongest tropical typhoons to make landfall in the last 80 years have occurred since 2006.
A Washington Post analysis of the typhoon published Tuesday noted that it’s “unusually early” for a superstorm of this caliber to form in the Pacific, warning it “may be a sign of what’s to come” this season.
“The season is expected to be anomalously active because of a burgeoning El Niño, which induces a warming of water temperatures,” explained the Post. “That helps air to rise, generating more, and stronger, storms.”
The Post added that Sinlaku is “the last in rare set of triplet cyclones that formed this month,” which it said is an “unusual pattern” that is “also contributing to a burst of winds that is expected to greatly boost the odds of a super El Niño later this year, pushing warm water west-to-east across the Pacific.”
President Donald Trump sparked another round of concerns about his cognitive health with a disordered interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo.
The president shrugged off Chinese aggression, touted Republican chances in the midterms, predicted the war with Iran was nearly over, lamented that he did not take over Greenland and made a hash of the timeline for his replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
"Look what happens to Justice Ginsbug, she was not exactly a young woman," Trump told Bartiromo. "You had a Democrat with the liberal justice, and the liberals to stick together they stick together like glue – not like the Republicans. She decided she would live forever and two minutes after the election she went out, and I got to appoint somebody."
Social media users agreed the interview showed clear signs of mental decline, as well as evidence of a possible plot to let Trump add younger conservative justices to the court.
"This morning, Trump has nothing but grandpa moments," opined Harper's editor and attorney Scott Horton.
"Hey, everyone else acts like Biden was president in 2020 and responsible for everything that happened then," pointed out Bluesky user Gluten-free Seitan. "Why not pretend Biden nominated Amy Coney Barrett, too?"
"The pathology is so malignant and preposterous, it’s not hard to understand why some people look away and ignore," said child psychologist Ellen Braaten.
"How much longer can Republicans pretend he’s not bats--- crazy?" asked Bluesky user Jennifer Lee.
"So is he pushing for Alito and Thomas to retire now, while he (and the GOP Senate) could presumably stuff younger far-right Justices into their seats?" wondered historian Betsy Cazden.
"The President of the United States is a dementia riddled sociopathic idiot," snarled Bluesky user Chrysostom. "Every single day it’s there right in front of the world. And America just sits there and shrugs as this evil mentally ill monster drags the world towards catastrophe."
"This is a prerecorded interview too," noted Bluesky user ThatRaleighGuy. "Imagine the stuff they cut."
"He’s going to have to sue Fox News now," supposed MS NOW's Joyce Vance.
"So, Pappy dementia now can’t even recount pivotal events that happened during his own Presidency," suggested X user Hadley Sheley. "And Fox News has now become his enabler, just letting him incoherently ramble as if what he’s saying is completely salient and totally normal."
"He can't even remember his own presidency, he's completely senile," exclaimed X user Another.
"The sun is going down," added journalist Justin Baragona.
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Republican campaign committees are divided over whether to keep using a consulting firm headed up by a "convicted fraudster," NOTUS' Dave Levinthal reported on Wednesday.
"The Trump National Committee Joint Fundraising Committee’s apparent breakup with the firm coincided with NOTUS detailing on Oct. 31 how Better Mousetrap Digital is led by Jack Daly, a political operative who pleaded guilty in 2023 to defrauding thousands of conservative political donors," said the report.
Other Republican-affiliated groups and candidates followed suit, noted the report: "The Republican National Committee joined the Trump committee, which did not respond to requests for comment, in seemingly ditching Daly’s firm" — and Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) cut ties as well.
However, many others are sticking by Better Mousetrap. The National Republican Senatorial Committee is continuing to work with the firm, as are the campaigns of embattled swing-district Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA) and Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX).
This comes amid a broader issue of Republicans trying to grapple with which right-wing groups are genuine and which are running scams, which has been bubbling under the surface for years.
In 2020, just after President Donald Trump was denied re-election, a scam organization called Stop the Steal PAC cashed in heavily on Trump's election conspiracy theories. Meanwhile, questions have mounted about the legitimacy of far-right activist Scott Presler's massively well-funded voter registration operation, as data shows it had minimal to no effect on turnout in Pennsylvania despite Presler's repeated claims he delivered the state for Republicans.
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Former Republican rising star Elise Stefanik left not only her seat in the House representing New York, but a massive gap in campaign funding that has some of her colleagues scrambling to fill the void.
According to a report from Politico’s Playbook, the former House member who started out as a moderate before becoming one of Donald Trump’s most avid MAGA supporters, was able to use her ties to the president to become a prodigious fundraiser known to share the wealth while representing a safe GOP seat.
After she walked away from her seat following several false starts where she was set to join the Trump administration –– only to be passed over –– that cash she brought in has dried up.
"This is going to be a challenging year for Republicans and the party does not have the apparatus," one GOP official told Politico.
The report notes that three years ago, Stefanik was embracing her role as Republican Party powerbroker, and helping raise massive sums for swing-district House candidates. She had become the longest-serving House Republican lawmaker in New York — a position that came with serious fundraising clout.
Now there's no successor on the Republican bench and it is showing, according to reports.
Conservative Party Chair Jerry Kassar addressed the void bluntly, explaining, "We've lost a figure that can communicate very well throughout the state with all sorts of independents, conservatives, Republicans. I've felt it. I miss her. I miss her as a statewide player in politics."
The report notes that Stefanik's exit reveals a deeper GOP problem of overdependence on individuals: a vulnerability that is even more acute for New York Republicans running in a solidly Democratic-dominated state.
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