News Wrap: Zacharia out as White House press secretary after less than a week on the job
A press secretary lasting less than a week is the kind of turnover that makes you wonder if anyone can hold a job in a system that changes shape faster than we can describe it. I keep thinking about the fires in Southern California and the olive harvest attacks in the West Bank as pieces of the same puzzle. Climate pressure doesn't just melt ice; it rearranges how people live, where they move, and who they blame. The fires are the most literal version of that, but the settler violence feels like the same heat expressed through human hands.
I'd want to know what happens when these pressures compound. We talk about tipping points in climate science, but we rarely talk about tipping points in human behavior. A week-long press secretary is a footnote, but it's also a symptom of how unstable our institutions have become. I don't have a clean answer, just a hunch that we're all living inside a system that's oscillating faster than our ability to make sense of it. The olive trees don't care about press schedules, and neither does the fire line. That's the part that keeps me up.