From this: Kevin McCarthy was allegedly the subject of foul-mouthed rants by former US president Donald Trump, who claimed that the Republican House leader “pretended” to be his friend, a new book says. Mr Trump, according to an account from …
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House Democrats’ Tax Plan Fails to Eliminate Domestic Fossil Fuel Subsidies
From the article linked below: Environmentalists found a glaring omission when they reviewed the latest plan from House Democrats for raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations to fund the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package: There’s no repeal of domestic …
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Irony: Radio Anti-Vaxxers Die of COVID-19
With all the injustice in the world today, one might think that fairness no longer exists. Fortunately, that’s not the case. There have been no fewer than five ultra-right wing radio hosts, formerly spewing QAnon-style nonsense about COVID-19, who are …
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Climate Change Disinformation Campaigns Are Losing Effectiveness
In the main, this is true. Fortunately, the disinformation campaigns are no longer effective on anyone except the “ignorant yokels.” This, I believe happened not because everyone trusts science, or that we all have seen evidence of malfeasance on the …
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COVID-19 Analogies
We’ve all seen dozens of memes featuring analogies about the pandemic, especially, the limit of our personal rights. Some are stronger than others. I suppose that once your mind is made up, you can invent any story you like to …
Trump Supports January 6th Insurrectionists
Ex-president Trump announced yesterday, “Our hearts and minds are with the people being persecuted so unfairly” in connection with the attack, which he called a “protest concerning the Rigged Presidential Election.” In addition to the five deaths there were 140 …
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America, Land of Injustice
The bankruptcy judge in the case of Purdue Pharma is Robert Drain, who signed off on the settlement plan, which includes the bonuses shown at left. Why he’s allowing anything remotely resembling this is a complete mystery. Even worse, the …
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Trump’s Mental Health
Additional discussion with my friend based on my post yesterday: Friend: Your fixation on Trump is unfortunate as I have said before. As I recall, you were just as certain that Trump was a pawn of Russia four years ago as …
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Will Chevron Be Investing in Renewable Natural Gas and Hydrogen?
From CNBC: Chevron Chairman and CEO Mike Wirth told CNBC on Wednesday the oil company’s lower-carbon investments focus on areas such as renewable natural gas and hydrogen because it sees significant potential to create shareholder value. “One of the things we’ve …
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Solar PV on Electric Vehicles
We’ve commented a few times on concepts that involve putting solar PV on the surfaces of EVs, like this one, Pi Energy. They’re calling for investors to pony up $500. Here’s an idea that may appeal to people who know …
