Here are a few words from the Sierra Club: Our public lands are under threat. Elon Musk’s DOGE team has fired thousands of rangers, docents, educators, scientists, and caretakers of the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and …
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Inspiration from Mike Pence on the Russia/Ukraine Matter
It’s good to see these words from Mike Pence, calling out Donald Trump for just one more bald-faced lie. “The road to peace must be built on the truth.” Excellent. Yet part of me is more amused by the hypocrisy …
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Kentucky’s Needs Are Different than Yours and Mine
This blurb on Mitch McConnell is completely true, but I have news for you: poor and ignorant people care very little about affluence and education, as long as their fundamental need is met, i.e., the supremacy of white people. Seriously, …
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What Hath God Wrought?
We live among people who believe that God wants the United States to function according to the ideals of the modern-day Republican party: • Round up and deport everyone living here without documentation. • Re-instate the death penalty. • Destroy …
Wealth Tax
The suggestion from a reader at left represents the right idea overall, but needs to be rethought. I met a guy from Norway the other day who talked about his nation’s wealth tax. In short, it’s hard to become and …
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When You Buy Gas, You Support Trump
The man with the sign here is my friend Paul Scott, co-founder of Plug-In America way back in 2005. FWIW, Paul overbuilt the solar PV array on his roof specifically to charge his car; he hasn’t used a drop of …
“World, We’re Sorry.”
At left are the words of former Republican Party U.S. representative from Illinois and 2020 Republican presidential candidate Joe Walsh, apologizing to the free world for what’s happening in the United States at this point in time. It is indeed …
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Trouble with DOGE
The author of the meme here doesn’t seem to understand that the youngsters in DOGE are making policy decisions that do violence to the health, safety, and general well-being of every American, and, indirectly, most of the people in other …
Tagged with: environmental sustainability
Credulousness / Gullibility
Yes, stupidity is required here, but keep in mind that the MAGA crowd will believe anything, regardless of how absurd, if it comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth. That’s more than mere stupidity. Someone asked me recently if I thought …
1984
My wife believes that the United States is headed towards the Orwellian dystopia “1984,” based on the systematic distortion of truth we see all around us. If a U.S. president can convince his followers that Ukraine started the war with …
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