The “Other 98%” reports: Trump is literally sabotaging America’s booming Clean Energy industry for his billionaire oil-tycoon donors. A couple of points: The 3.5 million American households that rely on paychecks that derive from the transformation to low-carbon energy and …
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Destroying the Clean Energy Industry
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Does “Democratic Backsliding” Only Happen to Others?
Dissenters against autocrats in Hungary, Serbia, and Turkey see the same “democratic backsliding” in the U.S. “Americans think this is something that also only happens to others,” said an opponent of Hungary’s Viktor Orban. “That mindset has to be fought.” …
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Why Are the Epstein Files the Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back?
As I mentioned in the earlier post, it appears that, miraculously, the Epstein scandal may be the undoing of Donald Trump’s second presidency. While I don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, I have to say that this seems …
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This Is So Strange
If we progressives had been asked a month ago if there were something–anything–that might come along and bust up the love affair between MAGA and Trump, we would have said no. If we were asked a month ago if it was …
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The Good Guys Do Not …
It’s true that history’s “good guys” have never built concentration camps. Nor have they banned books, degraded public education, deliberately ruined the environment, removed human rights, or allowed their leaders to commit crimes. When we say that this is a …
Not Too Much Honesty Here
We all understand that the Trump administration is working its hardest to punish the people who happen to live in states that voted against the president, but isn’t there a limit to the cruelty and dishonesty that we have shoved …
How Is This Making America Healthy Again?
Well, if you’re a full-on QAnon nut-job, the answer is obvious: everything you’re told by our scientists is a hoax designed to make you sick, destroy American capitalism, whatever. Conversely, anything that comes from the Trump administration is necessarily the …
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Have You Noticed?
It would be hard not to notice that the bigots and religious extremists align themselves with the Republican party. This has probably always been the case, ever since the platforms of the Republicans and Democrats switched places about a century …
Continuing Support for Trump
It appears that Trump will always have some support, regardless of how poorly things go for him. Though it may seem surreal to you and me, as shown at left, there are still plenty of people who believe that the …
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Hydrokinetics
The claim: Japan has activated its first megawatt-scale underwater turbine, the AR1100, to harness the power of ocean currents for clean energy. Anchored to the seabed, this 1.1-megawatt machine is now generating electricity from the relentless force of the sea. …
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