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https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrest-california-surgery-center-c827038f1a40227dc05ab1c28b048035Clearing the Air: Emerging Data and Battery Trends Suggest EVS Could Bring Lower Fire Risk
Emerging data tells us that electric vehicles (EVs) don’t have any higher fire risk than conventional combustion engine vehicles. According to Andrew Klock, senior manager of education and development at the National Fire Protection Association, EVs are “not more dangerous. They’re just different.”
EV battery fires involve thermal runaway, a chemical process that occurs when one of the cells in a battery pack short circuits and heats up unsafely. The heat from the malfunctioning cell can cause the adjacent cells to fail, and this can lead to a chain reaction in the battery pack. Compromised battery cells release oxygen that fuels a fire during thermal runaway. This can be slowed and eliminated by lowering the temperature enough to make the chemical process stop. Directly targeting the battery pack with water to gradually lower the temperature stops EV fires. Currently, it can take around 2,500 gallons to extinguish an EV fire; a combustion engine fire can take about 500–1,100 gallons.
Thermal runaway is more common in certain battery chemistries than in others, and lithium-ion batteries made with nickel manganese and cobalt oxide (NMC) cathodes have relatively greater fire risk than other chemistries. But there’s good news here: The battery industry is shifting toward nickel- and cobalt-free lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathodes and LFP batteries have high thermal stability that makes them less prone to thermal runaway. Assuming the shift continues, EV fire risk will be reduced over time. Next-generation, solid-state batteries currently in development promise to reduce EV fire risks even further by replacing flammable, liquid electrolytes in lithium-ion batteries with non-flammable, solid electrolytes.
According to data collected by EV FireSafe, an Australian company that monitors EV fires, there were slightly more than 500 battery-related fires in light-duty EVs globally between 2010 and the end of June 2024. With an estimated 40 million EVs operating globally as of early 2024, that’s around a 1 in 100,000 rate of fire. Tesla estimated that one of its vehicles caught fire every 130 million mi (209 million km) traveled, which is about one fire every 23,400 round trips from New York to Los Angeles. In comparison, the National Fire Protection Association estimated that a fire occurs once every 18 million mi (29 million km) for all fuel types, which is more than 7 times more frequent.
https://theicct.org/clearing-the-air-evs-could-bring-lower-fire-risk-oct24/
Organizing Call TONIGHT for lawsuit targeting NM Safety Over Profit
In case anyone is interested:
There’s a quick organizing call tonight about the lawsuit targeting NM Safety Over Profit (NMSOP)—a patient-advocacy group being attacked by billion-dollar hospital and insurance interests for demanding transparency and fighting corporate immunity in healthcare. If you’re a digital organizer or care about the power of narrative and online mobilization, this is worth your time. What’s happening in New Mexico could set a dangerous precedent for silencing cause-based campaigns everywhere. If you can make it, tune in.
David Yankovich is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: NM healthcare nonprofits being harassed/ Meet NM Safety over Profit Org.
Time: Jun 19, 2025 09:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82523922408?pwd=OEzcoi03cyGYbpKeaooCRyhRldkIBw.1
Meeting ID: 825 2392 2408
Passcode: 080095
David Hogg's Leaders We Deserve fundraising numbers
And in replies, one from Charles Gaba, who posted this: https://blue26.org/25/05/16/a-closer-look-at-david-hoggs-leaders-we-deserve-pac
https://x.com/rpyers/status/1935380745176105105
Randi Weingarten stepping down as member of the DNC
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/15/weingarten-dnc-00407364Were No Kings protests in MN cancelled because of the shootings of the lawmakers?
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-lawmakers-shot-d7983e1e4f1a7573a487cab1a98cd172‘State Patrol Col. Christina Bogojevic asked people “out of an abundance of caution” not to attend any of the “No Kings” protests that were scheduled for across the state on Saturday.’
Appeals court temporarily blocks judge's ruling to return control of National Guard to California
Source: PBS Newshour
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday temporarily blocked a federal judge’s order that directed President Donald Trump to return control of National Guard troops to California after he deployed them there following protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids.
The court said it would hold a hearing on the matter on June 17. The ruling came only hours after a federal judge’s order was to take effect at noon Friday.
Earlier Thursday, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled the Guard deployment was illegal and both violated the Tenth Amendment and exceeded Trump’s statutory authority. The order applied only to the National Guard troops and not Marines who were also deployed to the LA protests. The judge said he would not rule on the Marines because they were not out on the streets yet.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who had asked the judge for an emergency stop to troops helping carry out immigration raids, had praised the earlier ruling.
Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/appeals-court-temporarily-blocks-judges-ruling-to-return-control-of-national-guard-to-california
Ok, ANOTHER update on the Boyle Heights car crash: interview with the wife who says she and their toddler were in
the car. She opens the door to demonstrate how they hit the side next to the child’s seat.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKxqB4HhTMm/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D
So sounds like Feds, not ICE. Still question the need to crash his car to get him.
Los Angeles: Update on Boyle Heights ICE car accident -- report tear gas used, three taken were citizens
Hat tip to Chowder66: Here’s a report from KTLA 5, using the footage I shared from Bluesky:
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/video-shows-unmarked-vehicles-ram-car-in-possible-ice-arrest-in-boyle-heights/
Sean Beckner-Carmitchel
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BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
— Sean Beckner-Carmitchel (@acatwithnews.bsky.social) 2025-06-11T18:00:54.539Z
We’ll see if this all shakes out. I’m assuming it’s true, but you know what they say about assumptions.
And ANOTHER update, same source: The Department of Homeland Security has released a statement regarding the arrest, which states that the man they took into custody is accused of “punching a CBD officer,” during protests in Paramount, CA.
What about the other two people who were arrested? And what about causing an accident on a busy street?
Chickens coming home to roost: " Afrikaner 'refugee' family 'stranded' in US"
An Afrikaner “refugee” family has reportedly been left stranded in the US, and is appealing for help on Facebook.
The startling revelation was made by a South African expat on TikTok.
Two groups of white South Africans have taken up “refugee status” in the US in recent weeks, as part of a programme open to “persecuted” people.
AFRIKANER ‘REFUGEES’ LEFT STRANDED?
On her TikTok account, South African expat @catmpt revealed that she had come across an Afrikaner “refugee” family in dire need of help.
The family of four was reportedly stranded at a hotel in Montana without food, money, or a cellphone. Instead, they had reached out to a Facebook group for help.
The woman said of the “refugees”: “They were understanding that they would be arriving here for complete assistance. People thought they would be arriving at a house, a job, medical insurance, and other things. It isn’t that way at all.
She added: “Because of the political situation, they are really struggling to get jobs”.
The woman revealed that she had left South Africa more than a decade ago, but had gone through a lengthy process. She also criticised Afrikaner “refugees” for having unrealistic expectations.
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/afrikaner-refugee-programme-us-house-jobs-stranded-facebook-latest/
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