Texas?
Most Americans’ perceptions of Texas are fairly negative, insofar as the state is known for Big Oil, cruelty to immigrants, and its status as the death penalty capital of the United States.
But what about Austin, the south’s Mecca of live music and one of our nation’s most important points of the development of cutting-edge technology?
At left are the words of American science and environmental journalist Andrew Revkin, who has written on a wide range of subjects including the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, sustainable development, climate change, and the changing environment around the North Pole.
If I had the slightest reason to be in Austin a few days from now, it would be a great honor to be in this man’s presence.
Re: Trump’s action here, a reader remarks:
A reader just sent me a note to the effect that his dentist has Fox News broadcasting into his waiting room, and that his hygienist asked if he wanted the volume turned up or down.
I seriously doubt that any significant percentage of the MAGA base will ever recognize that they got screwed by Trump’s policies.
The groups listed at left are certainly under pressure at this point.
The environmental action group 
Does anyone think the people who re-elected Donald Trump could possibly give a damn about his ripping off his non-profit that purportedly fought against childhood cancer?
Shakespeare wrote about “the quality of mercy.”
There is a vast difference between the demographic of “working families” and the uber-wealthy, the two groups that re-elected Trump. In particular:
If I were to show this to a science classroom of high school students who have B-or-better grades, the majority of them would understand instantly that this is just one example of the onslaught of misinformation that is circulating around the Internet. Solar PV generates electricity by absorbing photons, not by letting them pass through.
