The Mississippi Delta, 14th Day of Fall, 525 M.E. (Electra): The Deep South is baking from weeks and weeks of 90° degree weather. Torrential downpours occur late every afternoon as the climate grows more and more tropical and if it weren't for the rain, the landscape would probably resemble a dried-out husk.

Accelerating climate change is disrupting the water cycle, and freshwater loss from the continents is now contributing more to sea-level rise than melting ice sheets. Zones experiencing severe drying are expanding by an area twice the size of California each year. We are also mining groundwater at unsustainable rates, causing land subsidence and depleted aquifers. While some areas of the planet are getting wetter, these are vastly outnumbered by areas that are drying up and we can expect the water cycle to continue to go haywire as climate chaos continues.

Hurricane Erin is now a massive monster over 800 miles across as is churns its way up the Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast. Good news: the system behind it appears to be turning to the north now, too, probably avoiding any impact with the U.S. It's still too early where that third system, currently chugging across the Atlantic from Africa, is going to go.

Meanwhile, on dry land, racism, homophobia, and xenophobia are fully out in the open all across the South. MAGA mentality is out in full force and the KKK has been actively reforming since the Stable Genius' election. White Christian Nationalists are emboldened, cheering on ICE raids, and people are routinely stopped at police checkpoints looking for undocumented farm workers. Police are even reportedly investigating anti-Republican and anti-MAGA statements made on social media as crimes and even terrorism. 

Who really won the Civil War? Despite progressive gains of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries, we've moving backwards on voting rights, reproductive freedom, and civil liberty. Military forces, many masked and in unmarked vehicles, are  patrolling the streets of D.C. The Stable Genius is trying to have history rewritten in our schools, our museums, our national monuments, and our libraries. He even pardoned the thug who was rampaging in D.C., spitting on the police, and carrying a Confederate flag through the Capitol on January 6.