There is no doubt that people who disconnect from the news cycle have happier and less stressful lives.
And today’s bad news isn’t about car accidents and house fires; it’s about global pandemics, environmental collapse, and our trajectory towards world fascism, as Trump works to join Putin as the world’s next authoritarian.
The problem, of course, is that these things really are happening, whether we’re paying attention to them or not.
From this:
Conservative Christians are quickly piling on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who this week accused churches that help resettle undocumented immigrants of being controlled by Satan. (more…)
My eldest nephew and his wife are buying a house in Rolesville, North Carolina. I had never heard of it, but I was gratified to know that it’s very close to Raleigh, and even closer to Wake Forest. It’s a region robust in high tech, and, of course, higher education.
As suggested in the meme here, if you get more than about 50 miles from Raleigh/Durham or Charlotte, you’re going to find yourself living among Trump supporters from hell.
Some progressives claim they don’t mind, but speaking for myself, I can’t walk past a house with a “Trump Won” sign and not shudder.
As Elizabeth Warren points out in this brief video, over the six years since the Paris Climate Accord was signed, the world’s 60 largest banks have poured $4.6 trillion into fossil fuel extraction.
Of course, through accounting tricks and vague promises about the future, their public relations teams tell a completely different story.
This fellow claims that his plane’s propulsion mechanism consists of two wires that are charged to have a potential difference of 40K volts, the first of which ionizes nitrogen atoms, causing them to be strongly attracted to the second, via the intensity of the electric field.
I think what he’s going to find is that, due to the First and Second Laws of thermodynamics, more energy needs to go into keeping the wires charged than the kinetic energy of the plane.
I like you, Ms. Warren, but are you trying to tell me there aren’t existing laws prohibiting Clarence Thomas from doing what he did (failing to recuse himself in a case in which he has a personal interest), or what his wife did (attempting to overthrow the U.S. federal government)?
We have laws. What we don’t have is the personal integrity to enforce them when powerful people stand in violation.
If we were to list the people who have worked hard to destroy American education, Betsy DeVos, the U.S. Secretary of Education under Donald Trump, would be at the top.
What makes her even more exceptional is that she admits what she did.
The majority of Americans have progressive values, and one is acknowledging and dealing with systemic racism.
It’s so good to see that the owner of the Las Vegas Raiders is accepting Colin Kaepernick and actually complimenting him on his activism.
This, of course, is going to roil conservatives, who went insane with delight when Trump said about a black protestor, “Get that son of a bitch off the field!”
Let’s not lose sight of the fact that the Republican Party is the traditional home of some very fine and righteous people, who happen to hold values that existed in the GOP until recently. Reagan’s platform of personal accountability, limited government, law and order, and a strong military got him elected twice, and made him one of the most popular presidents in U.S. history.
Now, most of those values have been replaced by expressions of hate and ignorance, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of Republicans, like the fellow here from Michigan, who are decent people at their core, and have sufficient personal integrity to walk away from Trump and his lies.
You might think that there is one and only one stance that is possible on Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine: some blend of disgust and anger.
You’d be wrong.
Because the U.S. President is a Democrat, he must be opposed on everything he does and says. What we see here is that there are absolutely no exceptions, regardless of how obviously correct the president’s position, which is why some Republicans are saying that Russia is justified in its actions.
The answer to this guy’s first question is yes. Yes, this is the best they have. He suits his voters’ way of thinking, which is why they keep electing him. That’s the sad part.
