The latest forecast from the NOAA National Weather Service predicts that the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season will be a freakishly busy one and could even rival 2005 – the year of Hurricane Katrina and Rita.The NOAA forecast says there’s an 85 percent chance of an above-normal season, a 10 percent chance of a near-normal season, and just a 5 percent chance of a below-normal season.They estimated there will be between 17 to 25 total named storms with winds of 62 kilometers (39 miles) per hour or higher. Of those, 8 to 13 are forecast to become hurricanes, with winds of 119 kilometers (74 miles) per hour or higher, plus 4 to 7 major hurricanes with winds of 178 kilometers (111 miles) per hour or higher. The forecasters have a 70 percent confidence in these ranges.“This season is looking to be an extraordinary one in a number of ways," Rick Spinrad, oceanographer and administrator of the NOAA, said in a news conference.The record for the most major hurricanes in a single Atlantic season is seven, seen in both 2005 and 2020. With a maximum of seven major hurricanes forecasted, 2024 has the potential to rival those years."Severe weather and emergencies can happen at any moment, which is why individuals and communities need to be prepared today," FEMA Deputy Administrator Erik A. Hooks warned in a statement. "Already, we are seeing storms move across the country that can bring additional hazards like tornadoes, flooding and hail. Taking a proactive approach to our increasingly challenging climate landscape today can make a difference in how people can recover tomorrow," Hooks added.One of the main forces driving this year’s hurricane season is the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. A powerful El Niño is currently winding down, making way for La Niña conditions, which fuel hurricane activity in the western Atlantic. The aggressive Atlantic hurricane season ahead is also linked to the strong monsoon season predicted in West Africa, which increases wetness and waves off the coast of Africa that can travel across the Atlantic Ocean and foster hurricane activity. Atlantic hurricane season officially starts on June 1 and ends on November 30, with a peak of activity between mid-August and mid-October. Since the 1950s, tropical cyclones have been given names to make it easier to communicate between meteorologists and the public. The theory goes that people are more likely to acknowledge and remember a storm with a personable name, rather than just a list of digits or a date. Each year, the World Meteorological Organization puts together an alphabetical light of names that will be applied to storms. For 2024, the names of storms that originate in the Atlantic Ocean will be as follows: Alberto BerylChrisDebbyErnestoFrancineGordonHeleneIsaacJoyceKirkLeslieMiltonNadineOscarPattyRafaelSaraTonyValerieWilliam

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In many respects, the obstacle course confronting Caitlin Clark in the WNBA is more difficult than the path Jackie Robinson traveled integrating Major League Baseball in 1947. Let me clarify. Robinson had good reason to fear for his physical safety. He traveled the country with the Brooklyn Dodgers during an era of enforced segregation and public, anti-black racial hostility. He received numerous credible death threats. He risked his life to play a game. I don’t see a path to success for Clark. Caitlin Clark is not risking her life. She is, however, risking her sanity. She is combatting a normalized and insidious form of racial idolatry. Woke culture has turned Clark into the avatar for “white savior syndrome.” Black leftists have been programmed to believe that when white people acquiesce to demands from black leftists to help black people overcome “oppression,” white people are doing so to act as a white savior. And everybody knows white saviors are racist. Are you following the confusion? It’s a no-win situation for white people. If they ignore the “suffering” of black people, they’re racist. If they take action to limit the “suffering” of black people, they’re racist, too. White savior syndrome is really just a tactic that Marxists use to convince black people that Christianity is racist. It’s all part of a convoluted argument that Christianity is the white man’s religion. Caitlin Clark’s sanity cannot survive the racial, sexual, and political blender participation in the WNBA will cause. She’s a 22-year-old white woman with a boyfriend raised in the Catholic faith. She plays on a bad basketball team that has started the season 0-5. She’s playing in a league that is hostile to virtually everything about her – skin color, sexuality, and faith. That’s why, in terms of mental health, I think it’s fair to compare Clark to Robinson. The mental health challenges facing her are every bit – if not more – as strenuous as Robinson’s burden nearly 80 years ago. As of today, if I had to bet, I think Clark’s WNBA peers are going to break her. I’m not alone in that thought. Charles Barkley, LeBron James, and countless others can see what I see. The level of pressure on Clark to rescue the floundering league combined with the amount of jealousy, racism, and anti-heterosexual bigotry directed at Clark combined with the incompetence of the Indiana Fever organization are going to permanently destroy Clark. I don’t see a path to success for Clark. The sympathy appeals from Barkley and James will not lessen the animus showered on Clark. There’s a willful ignorance that defines the discussion of Clark, an ignorance that social media platforms and YouTube reward. “The one thing that I love that she’s bringing to her sport: more people want to watch,” James said on his podcast with J.J. Redick. “More people want to tune in. I saw, for the first time, they had a chartered plane. For the first time in their league history, they flew private. That should be celebrated in its own right. That should be celebrated, and it’s because of Caitlin Clark. Don’t get it twisted. Don’t get it f***ed up. Caitlin Clark is the reason why a lot of great things are going to happen for the WNBA.” Barkley scolded Clark’s peers on the set of "Inside the NBA": “You women out there, y’all are petty, man. Y’all should be thanking that girl for getting y’all private charters, all the money and visibility she’s bringing to the WNBA.” Shortly after Barkley’s televised lecture, WNBA player and ESPN broadcaster Chiney Ogwumike responded via Twitter. “Charles and Inside the NBA team are the GOATs of the industry, so respectfully I’ll offer my perspective with love. Every WNBA player I know supports the rookie class and are grateful for the spotlight & money that Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese and Co., are bringing to the W!” She’s being dishonest. Barkley did not make a single comment about the “rookie class” or Angel Reese. He talked about Caitlin Clark. These WNBA players do not want to admit that Clark alone is the primary reason there is significant interest in the WNBA. If they acknowledged that fact, they would be admitting a white girl is saving the league. They’re so controlled by their racial idolatry that they are forced to be jealous, petty, and racist toward Clark. Angel Reese’s embrace of femininity has helped the WNBA market itself to non-LGBTQ fans. But Reese is also part of the problem. Her brand was built on hating and trolling Caitlin Clark. Reese still struggles to conceal her jealousy of Clark. Reese recently complained that all WNBA teams should be getting “the same PUBLICITY it ain’t just one team.” But let me circle back to Clark and Robinson. Jackie Robinson was 28 during his rookie season in Major League Baseball. That’s six years older than Clark. He joined a team that finished 96-60-1 the year before. No one was all that surprised that the Dodgers advanced to the World Series in Robinson’s rookie year. Clark joined the worst team in the WNBA. No matter how much abuse Robinson suffered, at least he knew he was playing for a winner and playing meaningful games. Athletes love to win. Winning is the reward for suffering and sacrifice. As a baseball player, particularly as a batter, Robinson could single-handedly control his level of individual success. Clark’s success as an individual depends on the other four players on the court with her. She can’t pass herself the ball. She can’t catch her own passes. She can’t set screens for herself.So far, the defenses deployed against the Fever are solely designed to stop Clark. Defenders pick her up full court, and she’s blitzed and double-teamed virtually every time she initiates offense at the top of the key. Clark is going to struggle offensively and her team will struggle to win games all summer. She’s going to be miserable and isolated all season. And she’s going to hear idiots who know nothing about basketball dissect her play and racist idiots dissect her personality and impact. This is unprecedented. The WNBA is a floundering league. Jackie Robinson wasn’t tasked with “saving” professional baseball. He just needed to save himself. Clark is carrying the WNBA. When Larry Bird entered the NBA in 1979, he shared the burden of elevating the NBA with Magic Johnson. Bird wasn’t a white savior. He was the great white hope. Hope is a far lighter load than savior. Saviors get rejected, persecuted, and crucified. When the angry feminists and racists finish killing Caitlin Clark, she will not rise again three days, three months, three years, three decades, or even three centuries later. Her career will be dead right alongside the WNBA.

It might seem strange to read that Democrats are preparing to investigate a Supreme Court justice. The legislature’s authority over the top court, after all, is seriously limited. Justices’ lifetime appointments are designed precisely to shield them from the kinds of political pressures Congress or the president might bring to bear post-confirmation. It might seem even stranger to see Justice Samuel Alito splashed across the top of Politico’s Playbook and the New York Times morning newsletters for the high crime and misdemeanor of flying a nerdy Revolutionary War flag. But it is part of a deliberate strategy to try to try to combat virtually the only check remaining on the Democrat Party’s political power. While Congress and the White House cannot outright remove judges, they can bring real pressure to bear, cast national doubt on rulings, and reform the court even to the point of expanding it. The reason for all this is the Supreme Court sometimes says no to things Democrats want. Already this year, the court has batted down Trump v. Anderson, in which a state official tried to block Republican candidate Donald Trump from the Colorado ballot for treason. They are currently considering two other cases that could decide what immunities a president has from prosecution for official duties and whether a law designed to prosecute Enron executives can be used to put Jan. 6 rioters and trespassers in prison for years. For three springs, the court has endured an annual attack, coordinated between opposition researchers, their friends in the press, congressional allies, and sometimes even internal abettors. Far beyond Trump, the 2024 opinion season could prove a very hot summer for the administrative state. Decisions on the calendar look set to potentially overturn precedents and practices that have insulated and empowered the federal bureaucracy for decades. First, the infamous “Chevron doctrine,” which for nearly 40 years has given broad deference to agencies to interpret statutes themselves and enforce them accordingly. Second, for nearly 50 years, government agencies like the IRS, EPA, and National Labor Relations Board have been able to keep disputes out of court, confining them instead to administrative tribunals. The court is poised to strike down the precedent that sanctioned these internal courts. When you stack these upcoming rulings on the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, you’ve got a court that liberals hate as much as conservatives hated the Warren court 50 years ago. But while conservative thinkers like L. Brent Bozell and Judge Robert Bork took issue with that court’s legal thought and worked to reshape it, today’s American left is simply trying to intimidate and delegitimize targeted justices. “Democrats’ Supreme Court Strategy is fourfold,” a senior Republican Senate aide told Blaze News: “First, incentivize justices to defect and change their rulings. Second, delegitimize the Court’s outputs. Third, provide political cover for aggressive ethics reforms that are stalking horses for bureaucratic controls to kneecap the Republican majority, such as mandatory recusals on the basis of unevenly applied ethical standards. And fourth, create the political conditions necessary for court-packing.” We’ve watched modern Supreme Court intimidation for years now. President Barack Obama famously broke decorum at the State of the Union, scolding justices to their faces during his 2010 State of the Union. But now it’s different. For three springs, the court has endured an annual attack, coordinated between opposition researchers, their friends in the press, congressional allies, and sometimes even internal abettors. The timing matters because spring is around the time the court starts releasing its decisions. On May 5, 2022, Politico published a leaked decision from Justice Alito striking down Roe v. Wade. Over the following months, Democrats and their media allies launched a concerted and vitriolic pressure campaign hoping (in vain) to shift the decision before its eventual release. On April 6, 2023, the left-wing-funded ProPublica launched a polished series of pieces attacking Justice Clarence Thomas over his wealthy friends and supporters and the trips he and his wife took with them. On May 16, 2024, the New York Times sent out a “breaking news” alert that an upside-down American flag had flown at the Justice Samuel Alito’s New Jersey beach house on Jan. 17, 2020. The Times reported that the upside-down flag — traditionally a symbol of distress, but in more recent decades a more left-wing, anti-American symbol — was actually a secret Jan. 6 riot symbol. On cue, Democrats like Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) introduced a resolution to censure the judge. On May 20, news “broke” that Alito had sold Bud Light stock after the Dylan Mulvaney fiasco and bought stock in Coors. What scandal. On May 22, the Times followed up with another “breaking news” alert: this time, that the family had flown a Revolutionary War flag, which the Times also tried to link to the Capitol riot. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he was considering ethics reforms. Left-wing activist group and perennial gadflies Demand Justice announced a “six figure campaign that includes digital and television ad buys” targeting Alito, according to Politico. Little is ever unprecedented, but seasonal opposition research dumps on the Supreme Court are a new ball game. The rules and patterns are just beginning to take shape. The essential thing to remember is the embarrassment campaigns are not the goal but merely the first step. The goal is a frightened and subservient court. Wall Street Journal: Samuel Alito, his wife and the Ginsburg Standard Blaze News: Desperate to kneecap Justice Alito, liberal media try tying him to Bud Light boycott The Daily Caller: ProPublica’s top donors also bankroll activist groups targeting Justice Clarence Thomas The Washington Examiner: Democratic dark money kingmaker pumps millions into ‘nonpartisan’ Supreme Court watchdogs Sign up for the Christopher Bedford newsletter Sign up to get Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford's newsletter. IN OTHER NEWS Even Portland voters got sick of their progressive district attorney While “restorative justice” and “racially affirming” law-enforcement are still all the rage on National Public Radio, voters are less enthralled. On Wednesday afternoon, Portland DA Mike Schmidt underwent the humiliation of calling his former employee, Nathan Vasquez, to concede the Democratic nomination. This isn’t a minor thing. Schmidt was a poster boy for the George Soros-backed effort to elect virtually pro-crime prosecutors to public office. Portland was an epicenter of this movement and came to symbolize its disastrous effects. A Vasquez win, Politico reported in May, "would represent more than the rejection of a progressive prosecutor. It would be the culmination of simmering local frustration with crime, homelessness, and drug abuse and a resounding correction to the shift left on criminal justice that took place here and in so many cities in 2020.” Democrat politicians nationally, take notice. Your doctor is a fraud and your plane might explode A Thursday report in the Washington Free Beacon revealed that UCLA Dean of Admissions Jennifer Lucero’s progressive experiment in illegal racially weighted admittance guidelines have devastated the standing of what was once one of the world’s top med schools. “Within three years of Lucero's hiring in 2020,” the Free Beacon reports, “UCLA dropped from 6th to 18th place in U.S. News & World Report's rankings for medical research. And in some of the cohorts she admitted, more than 50 percent of students failed standardized tests on emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics.” If that doesn’t get you going, there’s a Federal Aviation Administration report that 300 Boeing planes flown by United and American airlines have fuel-tank flaws that could cause them to explode mid-flight. Bad news about Boeing has been a near-mainstay this year, and there’s no sign it’s slowing down. Turns out that grade inflation and PC culture isn’t so funny when it moves from pottery to STEM, huh. Washington Free Beacon: 'A failed medical school': How racial preferences, supposedly outlawed in California, have persisted at UCLA Daily Mail: Revealed: 300 Boeing planes used by United and American Airlines have potential flaw that could cause 'fire or explosion' on jets, according to FAA The fire rises: The Federalist: ‘Germany’s decriminalization of child porn reminds us why we need societal taboos’ There’s no sense arguing over the slippery slope any more. We were right, the "experts” were wrong, and now an ostensibly Western country thinks child pornography is just misunderstood. John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist and author of “Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come,” breaks it down: Why is this happening in a supposedly enlightened Western nation like Germany? It’s not a mystery. Indeed, German lawmakers are simply applying the same twisted rationale of consent that American lawmakers have been applying to other hot-button issues for years. From gay marriage to so-called “gender-affirming care,” consent has been the rationale for the removal of one societal taboo after another. So long as all parties freely consent, goes the thinking, there’s almost nothing that can be justly prohibited by law... According to this corrupted way of thinking, nothing more than consent is required for a sexual relationship to have legitimacy. The logic goes like this: Because minors are autonomous persons with human rights, any restriction on activities to which they consent is unjust. Sexual self-determination in particular means there is no legitimate basis for laws that criminalize pedophilia or child porn — so long as the children in question give their consent. On the exact same basis, laws prohibiting minors from taking puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones, or getting irreversible surgeries that leave them mutilated or sterile, are also considered unjust... But if we say, as the pro-trans ideologues do, that children can indeed consent to puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones or irreversible surgeries, then on what basis can we argue against the pro-pedophile crowd that children cannot consent to sexual relations with an adult? We can’t — and increasingly, we won’t... The Pillar: Study: Young German priests are rejecting the German church’s liberal priorities Blaze News: Lesson of Butker: Take your own side in the culture war

Dr. John MacArthur is an American pastor, author of the new book "The War on Children" — and a man who doesn’t believe common mental diagnoses are real. MacArthur had recently gone viral on X, formerly known as Twitter, for his comments on the latter. “There’s no such thing as PTSD, there’s no such thing as OCD, there’s no such thing as ADHD. Those are noble lies to basically give the excuse to, in the end of the day, to medicate people,” MacArthur said in the viral clip, adding, “And Big Pharma is in charge of a lot of that.” While he’s faced severe backlash on social media from Christians who claim this thinking is dangerous, he explains to Allie Beth Stuckey why he said what he said. “The brain can be sick. The brain can be damaged. You can have a tumor. You can have encephalitis. You can have a brain problem,” MacArthur tells Stuckey. “The mind is something completely different. The mind is transcendent. You can’t fix the mind with a chemical. You can wound the brain. And that’s what’s coming out now in psychiatry.” According to MacArthur, the idea that a medication could fix “the chemical imbalance” in your brain was “a useful lie” all along. “Is there post-traumatic stress? Of course. Is it a brain syndrome? No. Is there ADHD? Are there kids who have trouble paying attention, trouble sitting still? Yeah, I was one of them. Is it a brain problem? No. What about obsessive compulsive problems, is that a brain disorder? No,” MacArthur explains. “The culture’s bent is to say, ‘Hey, it’s not your fault, it’s not your fault, you’ve got a disorder,’” he continues. “PTSD is really grief. It’s horrendous grief. It’s survival guilt. It’s having watched your buddies blown to pieces. You got to deal with that grief. But putting a chemical into your body that will alter your brain, that’s what’s becoming the issue now.” “If you want to solve your mind problems, you’ve got to find love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control. Those are spiritual virtues that are available in Christ. Don’t turn to chemicals. Turn to Christ,” MacArthur says. Stuckey isn’t one of his critics. “We’ve had psychiatrists on the show say the same thing that you said, by the way, that actually we are causing a lot of harm, especially to children by diagnosing or medicalizing every single behavior that doesn’t fit perfectly into a classroom or doesn’t fall in line with this uniform range of normal.” “It is actually causing side effects in these kids, in these veterans that actually make it worse than what they were dealing with before,” she comments. Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

If you're planning on building a gaming PC, but have been holding off in hopes of price drops, it may be time to reconsider. An import tariff relief scheme put in place by the US government is set to come to an end. This could result in graphics card prices increasing by 25% if they're imported from or assembled in China, and the same applies to motherboard and PC case prices. The Trump administration initially implemented the import tariffs in question, and they could make some of the best graphics cards and other PC games hardware more expensive if they're reinstated. After a period of feedback, these tariffs look set to return ahead of the next presidential election. Continue reading Brace yourself, graphics card prices look set to soar again MORE FROM PCGAMESN: GeForce RTX 4070 Super review, DLSS explained, Best graphics cards

Looking for the best Android games? The mobile gaming world has evolved so much that the games we play on our phones can now rival those played on a PC. In some cases, they’re exactly the same game. If you want some exciting new experiences for your Android device, we’ve picked out a selection of the best choices. Following the footsteps of our best free PC games list, we’ve kept it to the freebies. A price tag is no longer a prerequisite for a quality game, which is fantastic news for anyone who loves to experiment and broaden their horizons. We’ve gone for a range of RPG games, farming games, and lots of other genres so that there's something for ever type of player. Continue reading Best Android games 2024 MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Play Raid: Shadow Legends for free, The best free PC games , Free MMORPGs

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