Notes today

• LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) - U.S. property catastrophe reinsurance rates rose by as much as 50% at a key July 1 renewal date, broker Gallagher Re said in a report on Monday, with states such as California and Florida increasingly hit by wildfires and hurricanes.

• The twitter dude faces lawsuit over alleged non-payment for office services in four countries. Is he a grad from trump university?

• TweetDeck etc. is fallingappart. When contacted for comment, twitter responded with an automated 💩poop emoji, as it has done since the genius took over  and gutted everything.

• Economist: Weeks of roasting temperatures in Beijing and elsewhere in northern China have raised the threat of drought and shortages of hydropower. That would add to the problems of China’s economy, which is far from sizzling.

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  World hits record land, sea temperatures as climate change fuels 2023 extremes. 

•  Unhinged from judicial standards, the court now roves through the policy landscape, overturning decades of law and reordering Americans’ lives and institutions. It upends women’s health, revamps college admissions, snatches student aid from millions and redefines public...  Laurence Tribe @tribelaw 

 Today's Quote: 

“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”

― Thomas Paine

Problem with these notes: some tend to run up against a deeply rooted feature of human cognition - the desire not to think about anything unpleasant……Sorry about that.