From this:
More than half of voters who cast a ballot for Donald Trump in 2020 believe that ongoing audits in Republican-controlled states will change the results of the 2020 election.
OK, that’s pathetic, but it’s headed in the right direction. At one point, almost all Trump voters thought the election was rigged. (more…)
From this article reporting “Trump will need to pay a significant debt if he intends to tour the US border with Mexico”.
Trump is reportedly planning to join republican governor Greg Abbott to tour Texas’s border, but a judge in the county of El Paso has said the former president will need to pay his debt first.
Here’s an idea that’s been around at least since the ancient Greeks.
If you’re looking for the reason that Donald Trump came to power, and then hired Betsy DeVos to ruin public education, you need not go any further.
American democracy will not survive the continuing devolution of its educational system.
Over the 12 years that 2GreenEnergy has been beating the bushes for new concepts in clean energy, we’ve introduced readers to countless bad ideas, suggesting, of course, that they be avoided.
There are many devices that help campers charge their electronic devices. One we covered earlier uses hydrokinetics; it’s a small water turbine that costs about $100 that is placed into a nearby fast-running stream or river (as if most campsites on Earth happen to have one). (more…)
Love this sign. So “random,” as my daughter would say.
But what actually will happen over the next few decades?
As George Will puts it, “The future always looks like the past, until it looks like something else entirely.” That said, we’re powerless to predict the future except as an extrapolation of where we are now.
The most probable major events over the coming years:
• Unabated climate change, dealt with, to whatever level of success, by adaptation. We’re doing very little to curb greenhouse gas emissions, and that’s not likely to change in time to make a difference. (more…)
I love this, perhaps only for how well it pertains to me personally.
Since I was a teenager, I’ve been in favor of environmental responsibility, common sense gun laws, a woman’s right to choose, immigration reform, abolishing the death penalty, reducing “defense” spending and favoring diplomacy over war, racial equity, holding “news” organizations accountable for spreading bald-faced lies, a one-tiered justice system, and using science as the basis of policy-making. (more…)
The level of ignorance it takes to make the statement at left is hard to calculate.
Racism wouldn’t exist without journalists and teachers? How stupid do you have to be to believe that?
U.S. history includes 300 years of enslaving black people, followed by 150 years of Jim Crow laws, and, more recently, a social order in which white families have 9.95 times the net worth of black families. The same history includes the mass slaughter of the Native Americans. These are facts; they are not the opinions of radicals.
This will never happen in the United States, for the simple reason that most people want things from their government, like infrastructure, environmental protection, quality education, programs that effectively support and uplift the poor, and universal healthcare.
Providing these is completely at odds with tax breaks for billionaires and corporations, and therefore encouraging people to participate in our democracy must be prevented at all cost.
From the Writer’s Almanac:
Today is the birthday of mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal. He was a child prodigy and by the time he was 19 he had already perfected the first mechanical calculator for sale to the public. In the field of physics he discovered that air has weight and proved that vacuums are possible in nature. In mathematics he founded the theory of probabilities and developed an early form of integral calculus. He also invented the syringe and the hydraulic press. (more…)
From Bloomberg:
Increasing pressure on major oil companies has forced many to make promises to reduce the extraction of their main fossil fuel. They also warn that the result may not be a reduction in global emissions. (more…)
