They did just act; a bunch of Republican activists got outed as Russian tools in the process.

Just one smallish outlet where the founders were Russian agents and the staff had a very flimsy pretext about who was paying them

The donation form for the Harris Victory Fund literally describes how the funds you contribute are divided between the Harris campaign, the DNC, and the state parties.

The DNC has remarkably little power over any of this; organizing at the local level happens locally and that's really hard to do when it's so far from attaining anything like power at the municipal or county level.

The shop has, per its proprietor, since gone out of business due to the internet.

He was actively involved in the negotiation of the Inflation Reduction Act and its implementation, only taking on this role earlier this year.

He lives in the US, so it's not a "visit"

What do you mean? This is Brassica oleracea, just like that thing over there.

He wants to cut them all down and give the timber to his buddies to resell at a huge markup now that there aren't any forests let.

A combination of thinning and prescribed burns definitely does better at reducing fire intensity

It doesn't look like a commercial clear-cut operation though.

Yes, heat pumps are really common in new EVs, but I'm not sure if it's most worldwide or not.

Your idea about thermal storage is interesting; I'm very much unclear on whether it would make sense to do that or simply have a bigger battery or some amount of insulation on the passenger compartment.

There are examples of exceptional heatwaves like the one you're thinking about. The article is about testing people under controlled conditions to figure out exactly where the point that things go from 'healthy adults will be fine' to 'not just the sick, pregnant, young, and elderly suffer, but huge chunks of the population die'