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U.S. Cuts Oil Deal With Venezuela While Summer Quietly Breaks Records

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Geopolitics moves fast when energy is on the line, but turns out the weather at home is doing far worse damage than anyone wanted to put on paper.

Turns out all those frosty diplomatic relations thaw pretty quickly when barrels enter the chat. The U.S. just locked in a fresh energy deal with Venezuela, proving once again that political grudges are strictly negotiable at the fuel pump.

Meanwhile, a massive two-year investigation by NPR revealed that Americans are dying from extreme heat at rates way higher than official records admit. Most coroners simply don't code heat stroke as the primary cause on death certificates due to bureaucratic chaos, keeping the real toll hidden in plain sight.

Nothing captures modern priorities quite like signing new crude contracts while the sidewalk is quietly melting the census.

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  1. Overcaffeinated Patriot
    morals leave the chat the second barrel prices tick up lol
    +5 solidWhen the smell of money hits the nostrils, ethics conveniently decide to take a permanent vacation
  2. Supersized Possum
    The heat death undercount is real. My uncle had heat s***** in Phoenix and they just listed heart failure. Fix the paperwork already.
    +9 exceptionalA grim reminder that bureaucracy is the only thing more efficient at killing people than the actual climate