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If you google “NBC climate reporter,” the first person to come up is Chase Cain.
For nearly eight years, the veteran meteorologist covered the most existential threat to humanity for one of the country’s biggest broadcast networks, traveling to Antarctica, reporting from inside the Palisades fire, and earning lots of big awards along the way.
But Cain isn’t an NBC climate reporter anymore, he tells HEATED in an exclusive interview. Last week, the veteran journalist resigned, citing burnout from near-constant internal fighting to get important climate stories on air—stories that he says were routinely deprioritized, buried late in newscasts, or cut entirely.
“It just really got to that point where I was just kind of exhausted by the sales, by the constant trying to explain and remind, like, hey, this is important. Please run this story,” Cain told HEATED. “It just wore on me after a while.”
In our conversation, Cain talks about the subtle ways climate coverage is suppressed at NBC—not through explicit directives, but through a thousand small cuts over time. HEATED podcast producer Tracy Wholf, a veteran of both CBS and ABC, shares similar experiences. ”The networks, I think, are bending the knee to the current political atmosphere,” she says.
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Films for Freedom
Five new international LGBTQIA+ “Films for Freedom” streaming in Australia in March thanks to the British Council
Five Films For Freedom, the British Council’s global LGBTQIA+ short film programme, is set to return from 18 March with five powerful new stories from filmmakers in the UK, Mexico, Brazil, Vietnam and France. Australians will be able to stream the five films from anywhere from 18-29…
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03.19( 01) ניסן. יום זה מציין את תחילתו של חודש ניסן (תשמ"ו לפי הלוח היהודי), שהתורה מכנה “הראשון לחודשי השנה”.
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What the teams said – Race day in China
RED BULL
Verstappen once again struggled off the line, dropping a handful of places as a result. Hadjar got away slightly better, with both opting for the soft tyre – the only team to do so. But then the Frenchman spun by himself when fighting with Bearman, and had to pit at the end of the first lap to get rid of his flat-spotted tyres.
That left Verstappen as the lead Red Bull, but his race was further hampered when he pitted one lap before the Safety Car came out, the timing not favouring the Dutchman. He did climb back into the points, only to have to retire the car with an ERS issue. Hadjar eventually scored his first points for the team, but could only come home in P8 at the end of a difficult weekend where neither driver scored in the Sprint either.
Max Verstappen, DNF
“It’s been a very challenging weekend for us overall. We unfortunately had to retire today in the race due to an ERS cooling issue, which is not what we like to see. We faced the same problems that we had in Melbourne: we had a lot of degradation and were still struggling with the pace and the grip. We tried a different procedure to help with the start, had a similar issue and lost quite a few positions at the beginning, ending up at the back of the grid. There are quite a few things we need to go away and analyse and learn from in order to improve our overall performance of the car. It is not where we want to be and something we will be looking at in detail ahead of Japan. The team are very talented and working on doing everything they can and I have a lot of confidence in them but at the moment we aren’t where we want to be. We do have a bit of time after this race to work on the car so hopefully we can work on improvements. Finally, congratulations to Kimi on his first race win: the first one is very emotional, and it was only a matter of time that he was going to achieve this.”
Isack Hadjar, 8th
“It’s a shame I wasn’t able to score more points today. I had a good start and had decent initial pace in the early laps. I enjoyed the fight with Ollie, it was good to race, but then the rear snapped out so fast and I lost the car. I had to then come through the pack, but I got some good overtakes and managed to work my way into the points. We got a little lucky with some of the cars ahead, but it’s still nice to get my first points with the Team. At the moment, we’re just lacking pure car performance to be competitive with the teams at the front but we’re understanding how to improve the car and its balance with each weekend.“
Laurent Mekies, Team Principal
"The Chinese Grand Prix proved to be a very tough event for us from Friday onwards. Being on the back foot at the start of a Sprint weekend is the worst possible scenario as there is really little time to catch up and get on top of any difficulties.
"We knew that just getting onto the grid in Melbourne with our own PU was a major achievement in itself and it would have been naïve not to expect we would encounter reliability issues. Today, we had to retire Max because of a coolant fault. However, this was not our only issue as overall, performance wise, our package showed some significant shortcomings.
"However, we have learned so much over the past few weeks and I expect that we can be more competitive from the next round in Japan in a fortnight’s time. After that, the unfortunate but inevitable cancellation of the races in April will give all of us a chance to catch our breath and work as hard as always in Milton Keynes.
"We have a great group of talented people on the campus and I have full confidence that we will get through our current limitations thanks to a massive push from everyone, and improve our package rapidly”.
(via formula1.com)
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What the teams said – Race day in China
RACING BULLS
Lawson started on the medium tyre, Lindblad the hards. And it was the former who was going well early on, only to pit one lap before the Safety Car came out. That was a moment of bad luck for the New Zealand racer, but he was able to fight his way back into the points after some fun battles with his fellow midfield runners. Lindblad had a different race, opting not to pit under the Safety Car. That jumped him up the order and he stayed out the longest on the hards hoping for a second Safety Car. That did not come, so he dropped out of the points when he eventually pitted – and was not helped by one spin under his own steam.
Arvid Lindblad, 12th
“It wasn’t the easiest weekend for us. I had a good start and the race was going okay until the Safety Car came out. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the ideal timing for our strategy as it was too early to pit onto the Mediums, so we were forced to stay out on the Hards. It was a different weekend compared to Melbourne. It was built differently, as this was a Sprint event on a new track for me, and with only a few laps completed during practice. There are definitely learnings I can bring forward, as well as things I can improve and look at together with the team before going to Japan.”
Liam Lawson, 7th
"I’m really happy with our result today. To be honest, we didn’t quite expect it, but our pace was strong towards the end. We had a poorly timed Safety Car, and at that moment I thought our race might be over. It turned out to be a really enjoyable race and we managed to pull off a few overtakes. Bringing it home in P7 feels great. Full credit to the team from a strategy standpoint, we did everything right this weekend and securing two point finishes shows how well the team executed. We’ll keep pushing to find a bit more speed for next week and the coming races, and hopefully we can fight even further up the grid.”
Alan Permane, Team Principal
“To come away with a total of 8 points from a weekend where we clearly weren’t quick enough is an exceptional result for the team. It was a very well executed race. We were unlucky with the Safety Car as we pitted Liam the lap before, but he drove a really great race. He was under a lot of pressure at one stage from Hadjar and didn’t put a foot wrong, delivering a solid result. Starting on the Hard tyre, the Safety Car came at the wrong time for Arvid, which comprised his race and all the cars that started on the Hard tyre. A tough weekend for him, but the learning continues. A sprint weekend at a new track was always going to be tricky and especially where he didn’t get much track time in FP1.
“It’s a quick turnaround now, back to Europe for a week before heading out to Japan. It’s a circuit that presents very different configurations and challenges compared to the last two races, and one we’re looking forward to taking on.”
(via formula1.com)
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Liam’s Post-Race Interview, Chinese Grand Prix 2026
Liam Lawson was happy and surprised to come away with P7 despite ‘the worst timed safety car ever’ having just pitted in the Racing Bulls. He says they need to find 'more pace’ before the next race to challenge the Alpine and Haas cars.
(via formula1.com)
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🌪 Chaotic Collective Energies
When the world experiences severe crises, a collective psychic field of tension is created. People with high sensitivity may feel this instability more intensely.
🌍 Astrological Cycles
Some astrologers associate psychological crises in society with tense planetary aspects, particularly those associated with:
Neptune — blurring the boundaries of reality
Pluto — profound psychic transformations
Uranus — severe nervous tension
Such cycles can increase collective anxiety.
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Media appealing to weirdos ≠ Exclusively intended for weirdos. (Looking at you, Dress Up Darling)
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This placement is magnetic and polarizing, but not necessarily in a flashy or overt way. Instead, it’s like a quiet tension or mystery: people might unconsciously project intensity, fascination, or even unease onto them, simply because they feel that there’s “more than meets the eye.”
In other words, Lilith here isn’t always about rebellion in style—it’s about the subtle aura of depth, hidden desire, or authenticity that challenges norms without needing to shout it out.
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What the teams said – Sprint day and Qualifying in China
RACING BULLS
It was a mixed bag for Racing Bulls, who called Lindblad into the pits to retire the car midway through the Sprint. Having also stopped out on track in FP1 on Friday, the rookie is very short of laps this weekend. Lawson started on the hard tyre, which proved a masterstroke. It looked by far the best compound and he rose through the field to score two points – but will only have one set of hards tomorrow for the Grand Prix, which might cost him then.
Both cars were then a tad unlucky in Qualifying, their last laps in Q2 hampered by yellow flags and leaving neither with a chance to improve. There were further reliability worries for Lindblad too, who was called into the pits in Q1 with an issue. He will hope for his first clean session of the weekend tomorrow in the Grand Prix.
Arvid Lindblad, Sprint: DNF, Qualifying: 15th, 1:33.784
“I felt really good in the car during Qualifying. I made a few mistakes in a couple of runs, but in my last lap, I was up by three tenths. I don’t know if I would have gone through Q3 but I was improving, so it was just a bit of a shame having the yellow flags in the last corner. Overall, we missed a few laps between yesterday’s FP1 and this morning in the Sprint, but this is the situation we’re in and it’s not something we can make up, so we just have to get the most out of it. I think it will be an interesting race tomorrow and it will be important to get the tyre management and the strategy right. We’ll do our best and see if there are any points we can get.”
Liam Lawson, Sprint: 7th, Qualifying: 14th, 1:33.765
"Sprint this morning went really well. We had strong track position towards the end, so when the Safety Car came out we didn’t want to give that up. It was a bold strategy, but it worked out nicely and we were able to bring home some points.
“Qualifying was a bit messy and we struggled to string the session together. However, we were on a really good lap at the end and had everything coming together before the double yellow flags forced us to abort in the final corner, which was a shame. Tyre and energy management will be really important tomorrow. It’s going to be tough, so we’ll need a strong race strategy, which we’ll be working on tonight.”
Mattia Spini, Head of Trackside Engineering
“Today delivered the kind of action you typically expect from the Saturday of a Sprint weekend. We made an unconventional call to start Liam on the Hard tyre for the Sprint, expecting the compound to be more resilient to graining. It proved to be the right choice and allowed him to work his way through the field into the points when the Safety Car was deployed on Lap 13. Liam managed the restart well on the cold Hards, holding the position and finishing in P7.
"Unfortunately, Arvid spun on Lap 1, and we decided to retire the car in order to give ourselves enough time to carry out additional work and ensure it was in the best possible condition for qualifying later in the day.
"In Qualifying, we used two new sets of Soft tyres on both cars in Q1, giving the drivers the best opportunity to adjust back to low fuel after the Sprint. Both progressed into Q2 and were finding a significant amount of lap time in the second run, before a double yellow appeared in the final corner, forcing both laps to be aborted.
"Our strategy group will now focus on identifying opportunities to move forward in tomorrow’s race, which is likely to be another eventful one.”
(via formula1.com)
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What the teams said – Sprint day and Qualifying in China
RED BULL
Red Bull were off the pace in Sprint Qualifying on Friday, and they did not find any answers overnight. Verstappen had a dreadful getaway, dropping to P14 and although he climbed back through the field, he could not score any points. As for Hadjar, he was the only driver to start on the soft tyre. Contact on the first lap with Antonelli did not help his cause, and he was already dropping back when the Safety Car at least allowed him to come in for fresh rubber.
Qualifying did not go much better for the team. Both Red Bulls made Q3 at least, albeit Hadjar scraping through by just 0.002s. But in Q3, they did not have the pace to match their rivals and fell behind the Alpine of Gasly too.
Max Verstappen, Sprint: 9th, Qualifying: 8th, 1:33.002
“It has been a difficult weekend so far. In the Sprint, we had a difficult start, which compromised our race, but we know what went wrong and had some issues with the graining and the balance of the car. Going into the Qualifying session, we changed a lot on the car but it didn’t make much difference unfortunately. It is very complicated at the moment and quite difficult to drive for me to get a good reference in and build on this, so each lap is tricky. We had similar issues to the Sprint, so there will be a lot to analyse and work on overnight. I hope that tomorrow we can be a little more competitive, but let’s see what happens.”
Isack Hadjar, Sprint: 15th, Qualifying: 9th, 1:33.121
“The Team put in a lot of work to improve performance from yesterday, and I felt that I extracted all I could from the car. We’ve managed to find a little more pace, but the consistency from lap to lap has been harder to find. In the Sprint, everything was working well until the contact, which makes it harder to get a read on tomorrow’s race. Coming out of qualifying, it’s a good feeling to be close to Max but at the same time we’d like to fighting for better positions. P9 is still a decent result to be able to fight for positions, even if it’s not exactly where we wanted to be. Tomorrow my aim is to bring home my first points for the Team. It’ll be a tough race, but we will do our best.”
(via formula1.com)
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The Medium is the Massage (1967)
“Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.”
“All media works us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the massage. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.”
“We have had to shift our stress of attention from action to reaction. We must now know in advance the consequences of any policy or action, since the results are experienced without delay.”
“Environments are not passive wrappings, but are, rather, active processes which are invisible. The groundrules, pervasive structure, and over-all patterns of environments elude easy perception. Anti-environments, or countersituations made by artists, provide means of direct attention and enable us to see and understand more clearly.”
“Print technology created the public. Electric technology created the mass. The public consists of separate individuals walking around with separate, fixed points of view. The new technology demands that we abandon the luxury of this posture, this fragmentary outlook.”