Regarding the indictment against the Trump Organization and its CFO, a reader notes: It’s a corporation. Anyway, it’s a flimsy charge. Everyone does this kind of thing. They need better charges.
As much as I want to see the justice system crush Trump like a grape, I think I speak for all like-minded people in saying that I hope he doesn’t go down for something like income tax evasion or something that many decent people have done. (more…)
As presented in the article linked here, a senior ExxonMobil lobbyist has been captured on camera claiming that the oil giant is waging a secret war on climate change legislation. The covert recordings was filmed by Greenpeace UK.
Did anyone think this wasn’t happening? Who on Earth believed that Exxon was peacefully accepting legislation that would help transition the world away from oil? (more…)
From The Atlantic:
A Republican state senator who chairs the Oversight Committee, had released a report detailing his eight-month-long investigation into the legitimacy of the 2020 election. The stakes could hardly have been higher. Against a backdrop of confusion and suspicion and frightening civic friction—with Trump claiming he’d been cheated out of victory, and anecdotes about fraud coursing through every corner of the state—McBroom had led an exhaustive probe of Michigan’s electoral integrity. (more…)
The civilization is doing a terrible job with respect to plastic waste.
Some people remain unaware of the issue, and most of the people who understand it are unwilling to alter their lifestyles accordingly.
Compounding the problem is that the corporate world has no compunction about shoving it down our throats; they’re ramping up the use of plastic rather than finding substitutes. (more…)
Hard to come across something like this and not laugh.
I like the subtlety.
Seriously, Roger doesn’t need assertiveness training, does he?
I had a sad realization during a phone call with my mom the other day. She’s a lifelong conservative, sharp as a tack at 95, and unsurprisingly, a Fox News devotee. Occasionally the topic turns to politics, and I love the opportunity to ask her what’s on her mind.
Fortunately, she’s concluded, as have so many other educated Republicans, that the GOP needs to cut its connections to Trump. We didn’t cover it directly, but she seems to have also accepted that the election was not rigged.
All that’s good, but it’s not the end of the discussion. That’s the realization: there is no end to the discussion. (more…)
Reader and climate skeptic Jim Kalergis writes:
If it seems that all the news in today’s world is bad, check this out. Apparently, the U.S. Justice Department isn’t enabling a certain political party to create and enforce voter suppression laws.
Apparently the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution have meaning, at least for now.
I happen to be closely connected to one of our nation’s top epidemiologists, and I can assure readers that the benefits of the vaccines outweigh the risks by several orders of magnitude.
What Johnson is doing here is among the most disgusting things ever to be witnessed in this formerly great land. There doesn’t seem to be a single element of American life that this criminal isn’t actively trying to destroy.
Whoever made this has a terrific point. Ivanka Trump is attempting to make the world believe that the last five years never happened, and that she didn’t participate in her father’s treasonous attempt to undermine American democracy.
Where this is going to go is anyone’s guess. In large measure, it will be a function of the criminal proceedings that are brought against her father. All we can do is hope that justice is done here.
