Climate Brief: Economic collapse is bearing down on us
Prices are going to rise, probably exponentially, over the next few decades. The reason for that's simple: everything, more or less, has been artificially cheap. The costs...
Minerva @ Midnight: Josh Hawley whines, “Help, I'm being repressed… by Big Tech.”
Because Hawley’s whines about Big Tech while promoting sales of his book on Amazon, the epitome of …. Big Tech. “Democrats are eyeing a comeback in...
FL-Gov: “It's him and Casey. But everyone else is like a disposable piece of garbage.”
Not surprised by this: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is a rising star in the Republican Party. But many of his former staffers told Politico they...
Google Earth 3D timelapse of Lake Mead shows just how screwed the American west is from megadrought.
The stress test is coming for states like Arizona as water levels likely to dip below 1075 feet in June. The mega-drought in the American...
Concurrent extreme hydroclimate events will pummel the Colorado river basin.
"Concurrent extreme events of more than one kind, rather than isolated events of a single type, will be the ones that actually harm people, society,...
Manatee County Florida. Mandatory Evacuations ! Catastrophic Leak
No. No. We don’t need infrastructure bills in America . We are fine according to republicans. Well, that state of mind is being changed I...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Are carbon markets like papal indulgences
Like Martin Luther objecting to Pope Leo X selling indulgences to raise money for a variety of excesses, the environmental costs of carbon markets far...
FL-Gov: St. Pete Poll Shows A Toss Up Race With Ron DeSantis (R) & Nikki Fried (D) At 45-45
Here’s some big news out of Florida: https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1375230872996229122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Should Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried run for Florida Governor, she starts in a statistical tie with Gov....
Minerva @ Midnight: eat pie under the covers
The week has started badly and tragically. Even the Suez Canal got blocked. but we should at least think about Spring Cleaning, even if we...
MO-Sen: PCCC Endorses Marine Veteran Lucas Kunce (D) In The Democratic Primary For U.S. Senate
Some big news this week out of Missouri: A Missouri Democrat who works at an organization that fights corporate monopolies on Tuesday became the latest...
PA-Sen: Fetterman (D) Keeps On Defying PA GOP “Banned Flags” Order With Bigger Weed, LGBTQ Flags
From The Hill: https://twitter.com/JohnFetterman/status/1364601280161869824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a Democratic Senate candidate, has replaced the pro-weed and LGBTQ rights flags hanging from his office balcony...
GA-Sen: After Losing To Jon Ossoff (D), David Perdue (R) Now Wants To Lose To Raphael Warnock (D)
Oh barf: Former U.S. Sen. David Perdue took the first steps toward a potential comeback bid by filing campaign paperwork on Monday to explore a...
Ecologists warn of a lethal, ghastly future, and they insist we stop sugarcoating it.
"In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous." ~ Aristotle It is a fact that the biggest threat to our species is...
Watch C-SPAN host's dispassionate reaction to claim that Dems eat babies
So I know C-SPAN’s whole shtick is to simply report the news without editorial comment, but maybe they could make an exception here and there? Like when...
Strip mining the eastern slopes of Alberta's rocky mountains threatens biodiversity and watersheds.
The Ermineskin and Whitefish Lake First Nations, along with ranchers, have filed two lawsuits against Alberta's government after the province rescinded protections for the eastern slopes of...
Bwah ha ha! Fox Business host welcomed animal rights activist, thinking he was a pork company CEO
Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo thinks Donald Trump is a great president. She also seems to think he was robbed of reelection through fraud. In other words,...
Tom Vilsack led USDA for both terms of the Obama administration. He's back.
Tom Vilsack returns to the position he held during the Obama administration at USDA. Why hasn’t the pandemic compelled a rethinking of factory farming. Changing...
Senator Grassley, 87-years-old, tests positive for Covid-19
xI’ve tested positive for coronavirus. I’ll b following my doctors’ orders/CDC guidelines & continue to quarantine. I’m feeling good + will keep up on my...
Senator Grassley, 87 years old, tests positive for Covid-19
xI’ve tested positive for coronavirus. I’ll b following my doctors’ orders/CDC guidelines & continue to quarantine. I’m feeling good + will keep up on my...
GA-Sen A & B: Joe Biden Is Coming Back To Georgia To Get His Senate Majority
I’m all in for this: President-elect Joe Biden will join the lineup of influential Democrats involved in Georgia's ongoing senatorial campaigns, according to his recently-named...
GA-Sen A: Climate Denier & Hypocrite David Perdue (R) Lives In Protected Beachfront Mansion
From The Intercept: IF SEN. DAVID PERDUE wins reelection in Georgia’s runoff in January, the Republican Party will almost certainly maintain its Senate majority. Perdue,...
“One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them?” part 4
This post in the Anticapitalist Chat supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx This covers chapters 15 and 16. Chapter 15...
“One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them? part 3
This story supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx This covers chapters 14, 15, 16. Chapter 14 will provide further...
Kathy Lewis, the Florida Democratic Senate District 20 Candidate the party snubbed speaks.
Kathy Lewis is the grassroots candidate the Democratic Party should be yearning for throughout the country. Yet they failed her. If Kathy Lewis wins, she will...
Are Florida Democrats sabotaging this critical state senate race?
For the past two decades, there’s one thing the Florida Democrats have gotten really good at: losing. Despite having many more registered Democrats in this...
Federal government is now mandating that food aid boxes include letter from Dear Leader
The irony here is rich. How the fuck am I supposed to keep government surplus food down if I’m continually reminded of Trump? Politico: The...
MS-Sen: Joe Biden Endorses Mike Espy (D) For U.S. Senate
Some big news today out of Mississippi: x.@JoeBiden unites and heals. He has dignity and empathy. He is the leader our country needs right now...
GA-Sen B: “Ultra-Rich Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s (R) Family Has Taken In $3 Million in Farm Subsidies”
From The American Prospect: Meanwhile, the Loeffler family farm continues to operate, and several of Loeffler’s family members continue to pull in significant sums of...
'Extinction denial' is the new thing for anti-science conspiracy theorists, warn Biologists.
"'Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind." William Shakespeare The evil of science deniers recently has been beyond the pale. Not content with killing...
The whole fu@king world is on fire – in Brazil, fires sweep into the largest wetland on Earth.
‘Mother Earth is angry’. Speaker Nancy Pelosi Earth’s most extensive tropical wetland engulfed in a wildfire since the beginning of January. Still, recently the fires...
IA-Sen: Climate Denier Joni Ernst (R) Is About To Face A Reckoning With Iowa Farmers
Inside Climate News has been doing profiles on the major races this year and how climate change has been an issue in these races. One...
RNC night three brings more lies, building Pirates of the Pancreas with Mike Pence
Marine props, naturalized citizen props, and tonight it featured a guy charged with insider trading, who also claims that Trump, unlike Bill Clinton, is “the...
MS-Sen: Sen. Cory Booker (D. NJ) Helps Mike Espy (D) Pull Off A Huge Upset Victory In The South
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D. NJ), in support of Mike Espy’s (D. MS) U.S. Senate campaign: Mike...
Greenland ice cap melt has reached the point of no return.
Devastating and scary news from the Arctic as Greenland has reached the tipping point. The melting of our northern freezer which allows our civilization to...
MS-Sen: Mike Espy's (D) Internal Polling Has A 5 Point Race Between Him & Cindy Hyde-Smith (R)
Here’s some encouraging news today out of Mississippi: x#Mississippi Senate Poll:Hyde-Smith (R-Inc) 47%(+5)Espy (D) 42%Garin-Hart-Yang / D Internal— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) August 13, 2020 An...
KS-Sen: New Poll Confirms A Toss Up Race Between Barbara Bollier (D) & Roger Marshall (R)
Here’s some good news today out of Kansas: xElection Twitter’s crowdfunded KANSAS poll resultsSurveyUSA/Election Twitter (8/5-8/9)MoE +/- 3.3% ________KS-SENMarshall 46 (+2)Bollier 44Presidential raceTrump 48 (+7)Biden...
Another Trump campaign speech, this time in Georgia because it's infrastructure week again in 1952
Trump went to another COVID "hotspot" and gave an infrastructure speech because it's that week again. CNN and MSNBC had the good taste not to...
Methane levels soar to record highs across the globe pushing us to a dangerous temperature threshold
Sapiens has trouble with timescales of planetary forces. Greenland Ice Sheet Fossil fuels and agriculture have driven methane emissions to record highs across the globe...
After Maria passed in 2017, Trump suggested selling Puerto Rico during its greatest moment of need.
“Quit being so emotional, Elaine, it’s not about the people, it’s about the money.” Mick Mulvaney to Elaine Duke, acting director of Homeland security in...
The Atlantic is rocket fuel for hurricanes; Heatwaves intensify across the World; 1.5C breach looms.
Most of us have been experiencing warm to hot temperatures. It doesn’t appear that the misery will go away any time soon. There is a...
Forests to go the way of coral reefs, unable to keep pace in a warming world.
“We have to be aware that climate change and biodiversity loss are stress factors for ecosystems, for humans, for animals, and for the microbiome. Our...
MS-Sen: Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) Helps Mike Espy (D) Pull Off A Huge Upset Victory In Mississippi
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA), in support of Mike Espy's (D. MS) U.S. Senate campaign: It’s...
A.G. Barr accused of 'politically motivated probes of cannabis mergers' & CA emission standards
A career employee at the Department of Justice was subpoenaed to testify by the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary chaired by Chairman Nadler of NY...
MS, SC, KY, GA & TX-Sen: Axios, “Black Senate candidates could make history in 2020”
From Axios: There are five black men running for U.S. Senate in the South as Democrats who could not only make history, but are using...
MS, SC & GA-Sen B: Sen. Patty Murray (D. WA) Helps More Black Leaders Get Elected To The Senate
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D. WA) in support of Mike Espy (D. MS), Jaime Harrison (D. SC) and Rev. Raphael...
The speed of Abrupt Climate Change accelerates upheaval in the Arctic. And, summer 2020 is coming.
I am sharing some of the stories from the Arctic that have not received the media attention that they deserve. We can expect increasing wildfires, a...
Slate Magazine's The Surge Lists These 7 States That Could Be The Path For Joe Biden's Victory
Received an e-mail update from Slate Magazine’s The Surge and they have released the top seven states that are now the most competitive for Joe...
GA-Sen B: Trump's DOJ Drops Investigations Into Corrupt GOPer's COVID-19 Insider Trading
Can’t say that I’m surprised. When you’re loyal to Trump, this is how you get rewarded: The Justice Department notified three senators on Tuesday that...
“Our Human Capital Stock is ready to go back to work” because social distancing at beach stockyards
The real problem is (human) capital flow. But it’s about referring to human capital as “stock” in a yard. Remember that Hassett’s model was the one...
GA-Sen B: Trump's Advisors Also Worried About Kelly Loeffler (R) Costing Him Georgia
Oh yeah: President Trump’s advisers are increasingly concerned about Senator Kelly Loeffler’s campaign in Georgia, a newly competitive state where the president’s own poll numbers...