From Rolling Stone: Trump Tells Team He Needs to Be President Again to Save Himself from Criminal Probes

Obviously Trump understands this; he’s not an idiot.

But is this a valid reason to vote for a U.S. president?  Our boy is on his way to a life sentence in prison for seditious conspiracy and treason if we don’t get him back where he can overthrow the federal  government and skate through the judicial system.

Sounds like sketchy reasoning, but maybe that’s just me.

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An old friend sent me this, as apparent evidence that environmental science has no idea what it’s talking about, and that climate change is a hoax.

It’s perfectly possible that some jackass predicted in 2005 that New York City would be under water 10 years later, but the actual discipline of climate science has been amazingly accurate since it began in earnest half a century ago.

Moreover, it’s constantly improving, as technology advances and gives us more and better information about atmospheric conditions, melting ice masses, ocean currents, etc.

When someone challenged my friend on the validity of all this, she responded that she was simply passing it along.  To which I reply: don’t forward malicious lies.

 

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The only one missing here, it seems to me, is the hamstringing of the EPA when it comes to limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

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The logjam in the U.S. Congress has meant essentially zero progress of environmental sustainability, and climate change mitigation in particular.

This is hardly a surprise, due to the demands of the billionaire class and the stranglehold it has over our lawmakers. Of course, the descendants of the super-wealthy will have to live on a horribly degraded planet, just like the children of the rest of us, but that doesn’t seem to have any bearing on the matter.

The Sierra Club is calling for President Biden to use his executive authority to make this happen.  Needless to say, he has my support.

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As we watch the rapid devolution of the United States into a country of hateful morons, it’s hard not to feel sorry for the people who tried their best to make it stop.  Some had the courage to teach us and our children, only to have their pay cut and freedom to express their own ideas extinguished.

They tried.

And we failed them.

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It’s always good to see progress being made in the form of reducing the use of plastics.

These leaves and fronds have a really nice look to them, as well.

This would be hard to pull off in the U.S., though most of us are doing our best to reduce, reuse, and recycle.

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Here’s an article entitled: ‘He’s making everything all about him’: Republicans furious Trump is disrupting their plans.

It begins:

According to a report from the Guardian’s Ed Pilkington, Republican leaders are begging Donald Trump to put aside his complaints that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him because he is making their efforts to regain majorities in both chambers more difficult. (more…)

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A few years ago, I was speaking with a man who is, I believe, the most intelligent person I’ve ever known, Dr. David Doty.

The discussion turned to human rights, and he told me that freedom from impoverishment should be among them.

This made a big impression on me, and the concept is certainly not lost on the author of the meme here.

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From this article on Germany’s energy scene: Germany will completely stop buying Russian coal in August and Russian oil by the end of the year, marking a major shift in the source of the country’s energy supply, Joerg Kukies, state secretary in the German federal chancellery, says. (more…)

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It’s easy to become cynical about environmental responsibility when we see the U.S. Supreme Court hamstring the EPA re: greenhouse gas emissions.

Yet we need to remind ourselves of how effective such regulations have been in the past, and what’s possible if we work  together.

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