Now, the anti-wealth Marxist agenda taking over the Democratic Party is worsening the divide, turning blue-state economies into wastelands and condemning their least mobile residents to poverty.
—
Betsy McCaughey,
Boston Herald,
16 Mar. 2026
Thirty minutes south, on the Tennessee side of the border, Elon Musk has already begun transforming the industrial wastelands of South Memphis.
The forests are marked by sparse conifer stands, woodlands, herbaceous vegetation, and unvegetated barrens that dominate the transition to Arctic tundra.
—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
10 Feb. 2026
The population surge caused widespread urchin barrens across the islands.
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