From this piece:
With President Donald Trump’s term soon coming to an end, the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday finalized a rule that critics are calling a last-minute attempt to “sabotage” future efforts by President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration to tackle the intertwined climate and pollution crises. (more…)
A reader asks: What act by President Trump do you consider to be the most damaging to the country and its people? (Not COVID handling please.)Here’s a list of things off the top of my head. Trying to name the most damaging really isn’t possible, if only because in most cases their consequences are very long-term, and it’s impossible to know how all of this will ultimately play out.
One way of breaking this down is to divide the list into two parts: a) criminal and b) despicable, but probably not prosecutable. (more…)
This may be something of a call to arms for all those PO’d about the 126 Republicans’ attempt to overthrow the 2020 election on specious grounds.
To be honest, I’m more interested in the meaning and value of the law than the time in which it was written.
In the 11,108 blog posts here, this may be the very least interesting. Wouldn’t blame you if you skipped it altogether. (more…)
From this:
The fringe right-wing lawyer who filed the court challenge to Donald Trump’s election loss in Georgia has called on the president’s supporters to stock up on “Second Amendment supplies” — presumably firearms and ammunition — to prepare for what he apparently envisions as an apocalyptic future. (more…)
Reader Tom sent me this:
All the talk about the Republican-leaning states’ seceding from the United States gets one thinking:
Some say that Lincoln should have simply let the Confederate States of America leave the union, allowing them to wither and die, as the CSA would have been so repulsive to the north and the rest of the world that it would have been completely isolated, not to mention devoid of technological innovation. After a few years the CSA would have been so debilitated that the Civil War, were there to be one, would have been over in a month with very few casualties, cities burned, etc. (more…)
Not only is vegetable gardening good for the environment, it’s an extremely rewarding experience, something in which one tends to take great pride in one’s accomplishments; I certainly did.
Yet my gardens didn’t resemble this one….in the slightest.
Yes, these lawsuits are “tearing at the heart of American democracy,” and the whole situation is going to get worse before it gets better. The longer this drags out and the more venues, governors, senators, state courts and Supreme Court justices are involved along the way, the more furor will arise, the more violence will come as a result, the further the nation will be divided, and the greater the number of Americans will walk away convinced that the entirety of U.S. election processes are fraudulent.
Trump is quite aware of this, but he couldn’t care less. The disgrace of getting clobbered pales in comparison to the criminal prosecution that is about to ensue. Even if the stakes weren’t so high, the idea that Trump has any loyalty to or affinity for anyone but himself is a cruel joke.
From the MIT Technology Review:
Then earlier this year Jagdeep Singh, the chief executive of QuantumScape, claimed in an interview with The Mobilist that the heavily funded, stealth Silicon Valley company had cracked the key technical challenges. He added that VW expects to have the batteries in its cars and trucks by 2025, promising to slash the cost and boost the range of its electric vehicles. (more…)
