Officials had known for decades that the Pajaro River levee that failed this weekend — flooding an entire migrant town and trapping scores of residents — was vulnerable but never prioritized repairs in part because they believed it did not make financial sense to protect the low-income area, interviews and records show. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-12/authorities-knew-the-levee-could-fail

Interesting piece on Saudi Arabia's role in the BRICS bloc and the strategy to attack the dollar.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/readersblog/blogthoughts/saudi-arabia-the-foundation-of-brics-currency-47508/

"A right-wing billionaire can take over and clumsily and maliciously break an institution I'm counted on, so we should switch to a different system of decentralization, emergent rules and norms, and ease of exit to governance instances that better align with personal needs and preferences" is a good way to think about and approach social media, but it's also a good way to think about and approach government and the state.