Trump wants big oil to give him a billion dollars.
From the Washington Post:
Methane emissions jumped by record amount in 2021
Carbon dioxide emissions also rose more than 2 parts per billion for the 10th consecutive year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/04/07/methane-emissions-jumped-by-record-2021-noaa-says/
Trump Probably Committed a Crime
Trump ‘more likely than not’ committed a crime in trying to block congressional confirmation of Biden’s win, federal judge says U.S. District Judge David Carter ordered the release of emails from John Eastman, an ally of former president Donald Trump, to the select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In his ruling, the judge wrote, “Based on the evidence, the Court finds that it is more likely than not that President Trump and Dr. Eastman…
Supreme Court Wife Supported Jan6 Coup
According to the New York Times, Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife is said to have repeatedly urged President Trump’s chief of staff to try to overturn the 2020 election. In the weeks before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent a barrage of text messages to Mark Meadows, imploring him to take steps to overturn the vote, according to a person with knowledge of the texts. The text messages, most…
Is Trump For or Against Election Integrity?
According to The Atlantic: Before he lost the election fair and square, “Trump established a Presidential Advisory Commission onElection Integrity, an ostensibly bipartisan body designed to uncover ‘those laws, rules, policies, activities, strategies, and practices that undermine the American people’s confidence in the integrity of voting processes used in Federal elections.’” https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/magazine/pdfs/202201.pdf What a joke! DJT–the attempted Fascist dictator–did more than anybody in the last 250 years to destroy our democracy so that he could be permanent king.
Half of Americans own no assets
Half of all Americans have no assets. We need free community college or something so that people can learn useful life skills. Here is an article from today’s Washington Post. The death spiral of an American family After generations of stability, a son reckons with an inheritance of debt, desperation and a fall from the middle class https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/20/intergenerational-wealth-middle-class-spiral/
Let’s All Be Friends
Georgia Republicans Are Organizing Election Fraud
Since the 2020 election, the state’s GOP legislators have introduced 14 bills reorganizing county election boards that oversee election offices. So far, eight bills have been signed into law, resulting in a purge of longtime election board members, an exodus of election staffers and the installation of Republicans who have proposed measures to reduce poll locations and cancel Sunday voting. In the case of Floyd County, the result was the abrupt dissolution of the nonpartisan election board that had been…
Republican Plan to Terminate all Federal Programs.
Right-wing Republican Rick Scott has a new plan that could eliminate the EPA, Social Security, Medicare and maybe even the Defense Department. “All federal legislation sunsets in 5 years. If a law is worth keeping, Congress can pass it again.” It will of course be impossible to pass all federal legislation every five years, and that is his plan. Addressing pollution and climate change is a long-term problem and can’t be completed in a few years. For more on Rick…
Book Review…Anointed By Oil
Anointed by Oil Author: Darren Dochuk Professor of History, Notre Dame Published by Basic Books http://www.basicbooks.com/contributor/darren-dochuk. Dochuk’s book examines the relationship between capitalism and religion as it pertains to the petroleum industry and several divergent faith communities. The author examines the way in which the American industry bifurcated into large multinational companies and the smaller independent producers. The major producers included the Standard Oil companies that were under the umbrella of John D. Rockefeller Sr. and controlled 90% of oil…