Dad from IA, vidiot-savant w/ ISF, #NextGenTV fan, observer of US politics, Minneapolis Drinking Liberally (6-9 Th @331 Club Nordeast) / ANTIFA
#UBI works!
Heat pump tech rules!
โWe all do better when we all do better!โ - Wellstone!๐บ๐ธ
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The future is renewables, not fossils, bc we have figured out how to harvest new sunshine at lower costs than digging or drilling to harvest old sunshine. ($.033/kW @ 20 year deals)
Coal is not cost competitive & gas is close behind. No pollution is the bonus!
www.latimes.com/environment/...
NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.
Explosive allegations that the United Arab Emirates sent Jared Kushner $50 million after he helped oust a Trump Cabinet member have sparked fierce backlash, including demands that President Donald Trump's son-in-law face prison time.
The fatalistic assumption that autocracy in the world is rising and democracy is declining was challenged forcefully in three different countries this past weekend.
It's a moment worth celebrating.
Read more: michaelmcfaul.substack.com/p/a-good-few...
I say it plainly: I do not celebrate Castro. I call Cuba what it is, an authoritarian regime, and I will fight for the Cuban families who fled it.
Meanwhile, Ashley Moody backs deporting Cuban families back to the regime they escaped.
#AngieforFlorida
Reuters: A hacker is attempting to breach the US Federal Election Commission's systems and that agency has had to 'temporarily shut down' its web-facing services as a result, according to an email seen by Reuters.
Alex Prettiโs parents held a press conference in Minneapolis Tuesday morning to call on federal agencies to investigate their sonโs killing by Border Patrol agents โ and to share more about who Alex was.
"The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
--The Treaty of Tripoli, unanimously ratified by Congress on June 7, 1797
Astonishing! During this morning's king tide, Miami crossed the threshold for "Major" flooding without a hurricane for the first time. This was the city's highest water level in 11 years, and 3rd-highest since 1994. Yellow highlights: 8 of 14 top spots are from king tides during the past 2 years.
I agree, but I must admit that I wonder if the Republican Party can ever be that sort of reasonable, pro-democracy conservative party again.
The upcoming generation of Republicans really only knows Trump. No policy chops. Just transgressive bigotries as political theater.
Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States.
"In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct."
Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
The lessons from Brazil and Serbia?
Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right.
Don't appease.
Don't triangulate.
Don't grovel.
Don't say they have "legitimate concerns".
Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.
Remembering one of British comedyโs most iconic sketches โ with JOHN CLEESE โ 87 Candles ๐ today โ RONNIEโs BARKER & CORBETT (co-written by MARTY FELDMAN).
THE CLASS SKETCH (1966)
Again MAGA as a political movement must be DESTROYED. MAGA is an openly white supremacist movement that is fueled by cruelty and hate. They reject democracy and gave us the Jan 6 attack. It is the greatest threat to our democracy! Our Republic can NOT co-exist with MAGA!
RFK Jr goes full white supremacist in supporting GOP's Mike Rogers for Senate saying "Arabs Donโt Produce Literature,โ Only โHatredโ and โWar." Of course that is BS. BUT key is RFK said this in Michigan to help Rogers--will media call on Rogers to denounce it?! www.mediaite.com/politics/rfk...
Whenever you read trans rights are an issue, remember where it started. Who fueled the hatred. Far right Catholic Nationalists. Evangelicals piled on, as infantry does, but it was Leonard Leo Catholics generals, w below the belt politics, who created the issue.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
RFK Jr goes full white supremacist in supporting GOP's Mike Rogers for Senate saying "Arabs Donโt Produce Literature,โ Only โHatredโ and โWar." Of course that is BS. BUT key is RFK said this in Michigan to help Rogers--will media call on Rogers to denounce it?! www.mediaite.com/politics/rfk...
British prosecutors on Tuesday charged two men with assisting a foreign intelligence service under the National Security Act, in the first charges brought over the September 27 incident at RAF Fairford. Counter Terrorism Policing indicated that the country involved was Iran.
โHeโs not even an American.โ
โWe have a problem in this country, itโs called Muslims.โ
โHe doesnโt have a birth certificate.โ
โPerhaps it would be that where it says religion, it might have Muslim.โ
Sound familiar to what Trump and Republicans are saying about Abdul El-Sayed right now?