Moving Power to the States
There is no doubt that Washington has its bureaucrats, but what it doesn’t have is a commanding majority of the right-wing extremists we find in the red states. There is precious little support in Congress, and even less in the electorate, for the federal criminalization of abortion, teaching creationism as science, or an energy policy that guarantees the consumption of fossil fuels in perpetuity, and the slow death of most of the Earth’s life forms.
If DeSantis gets his way, we’ll have certain regions of the United States that are among the most backwards and regressive on Earth.
As suggested here, the criminal prosecution of Donald Trump is based exclusively on testimony from Republicans.
From this interview with 
There are so many disgusting elements of Trumpism that it’s hard to know where to start.
If we still have an organized civilization here on Earth 100 years from now, we’ll have many people to thank, one of which will be David Attenborough, whose work has done so much to raise public consciousness about the fragility of nature and the need to act responsibly.
Speaking of things that are not easily dislodged, let’s look at the tens of millions of American voters whose belief in the honesty of the 45th U.S. president is unshaken, even after his third arrest on multiple felony counts.
Here are two viewpoints on the social and physical features of countries that contribute to the murder rate.
Here’s an article from 
Where does the enormous amount of money come from to fight those of us concerned about environmental responsibility? And what exactly is these donors’ purpose?
An old friend writes about the cloud formation shown here:
