From The Huffington Post: x YouTube Video NextGen America, which focuses on turning out voters under age 35, is expanding its target list to include Senate races in Alaska and South Carolina, and House elections for Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District and Kansas’ 2nd and 3rd Congressional districts. The group, funded almost exclusively by former Democratic…
Category: ClimateChange
KS, MT, NC, IA, SC, GA-Sen A & B: Paul Simon Helps These Climate Hawks Flip The Senate Blue
Received this e-mail from sing-songwriter Paul Simon on behalf of the League of Conservation Voters: The upcoming election presents us with an opportunity to preserve and conserve a habitable planet. That's why I'm hosting “Green The Senate, Save the Planet” on Thursday, October 8 at 8pm EST to support pro-environment champions running for Senate. I…
WA-Gov: Loren Culp (R) Echoes Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory About Wildfires Being “Coordinated Arson”
Fuck him: Loren Culp, the Republican nominee running to unseat Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D), is pushing a conspiracy theory that many of the wildfires raging in the Pacific Northwest are the result of a coordinated arson campaign. In a 13-minute campaign video posted to Culp’s YouTube late Wednesday, the gubernatorial candidate talks with two…
NM-Sen: GOP Meteorologist Claimed That Climate Change Doesn't Cause Wildfires
Oh boy: Political clashes about the role of climate change in catastrophic West Coast infernos are spilling into a U.S. Senate race in New Mexico, where a Republican meteorologist is campaigning for an open seat. U.S. Rep. and Democratic Senate nominee Ben Ray Luján accused rival Mark Ronchetti on Monday of engaging in “irresponsible and…
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 have accelerated due to climate change and human stupidity and greed. Plantlife and iconic wildlife are paying a devastating price in this human-made ecological calamity. The Pantanal is a massive…
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 of the big races they’ve been following is the Iowa U.S. Senate race between U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R. IA) and businesswoman Theresa Greenfield (D. IA): The state has been…
ME-Sen: Former Olympia Snowe Top Aide, “I can no longer support Susan Collins (R)”
This happened earlier this week: A former top aide to former Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said in an op-ed published on Sunday that she would not back Sen. Susan Collins’s (R-Maine) reelection bid, arguing that the longtime incumbent has proven unwilling to break ranks with her party and President Trump. “Sadly, I can no longer support Senator Susan Collins,”…
BIG BABY Trump Says AOC has 'the Mind of a Child'
In another demonstration of pure projection, Donald Trump is maligning Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a manner consistent with his well documented misogyny. His notorious disrespect for strong women who have the audacity to challenge him has been aimed at political opponents, journalists, and those who have been unfortunate enough to crossed paths with him in…
Anti-Capitalist MeetUp: Post-COVID's post-capitalism may create an International Green New Deal
“(T)erminating labour and share markets, along with the type of commercial banking taken for granted today, is a prerequisite for a post-capitalist society with functioning markets, authentic democracy and personal liberty.” Left accelerationism seems tempting in a time when markets, democracy, and liberty are in peril. but Yanis Varoufakis is hinting that with an upcoming book, that…
Mass evacuations in the Gulf Coast as Category 4 beast bears down on the COVID ravaged region.
In a scene that may eerily replicate the mass evacuations that occurred with Hurricane Rita in 2005, residents in the same area are warned to flee the coasts of Texas and Louisiana as a powerful Category 4 hurricane will soon barrel over the area. Hurricane Laura, now a major Category 3 windstorm is expected to intensify…
MT-Sen: Steve Bullock (D) Pushes To Remove Trump's Illegally Appointed Public Land's Chief
Good: Montana's Democratic governor asked a federal judge Aug. 20 to take swift action to remove the Trump administration's chief steward of public lands, as the former industry attorney hangs onto the post despite the White House saying Aug. 15 that his nomination would be withdrawn. Gov. Steve Bullock said William Perry Pendley's continuing leadership…
MA-Sen: DFA Keeps Up The Momentum For Sen. Ed Markey (D) To Win His Primary On September 1st
Received this e-mail today from Democracy for America in support of U.S. Senator Ed Markey’s (D. MA) re-election campaign: x YouTube Video When I first reached out last week to share DFA’s endorsement of Ed Markey, the response was overwhelming. So many of you pitched in to send this progressive champion back to the U.S….
Robin Williams Daughter OWNS Eric Trump Over Idiotic Tweet Of Her Father Roasting Joe Biden
First off, I want to say that Robin Williams has been and will forever be my all time favorite comedian. I grew up loving and idolizing Williams as both a performer and a person and the day he took his life and I teared up heavily. He truly was a wonderful man who brought the…
AZ, IA, ME & NC-Sen: Data For Progress Poll Has Democrats Leading In All Four Races
Here’s some very good news today: NEW @DataProgress Poll (7/24-8/2):#AZsen:Kelly (D) 50% (+10)McSally (R-inc) 40%.#NCsen:Cunningham (D) 49% (+8)Tillis (R-inc) 41%.#MEsen:Gideon (D) 48% (+3)Collins (R-inc) 45%.#IAsen:Greenfield (D) 45% (+2)Ernst (R-inc) 43% — Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) August 6, 2020 Here’s some more info: The surveys also show former Vice President Joe Biden leading against President Donald Trump…
Activism help persuades Deutsche Bank to promptly end the financing of tar sand and Arctic projects.
Good news for the Arctic, and the entire planet, as Deutsche Bank announced that they were ending financing fossil fuel projects at the tar sands in Alberta, and projects of fossil fuel extraction in the Arctic. Burning the filthy dirty tar sands for energy is far worse than crude oil. The difficulty in exploiting these resources requires enormous…
MA-Sen: New Poll Has Sen. Ed Markey (D) Pulling Ahead Of Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D) In Dem Primary
Some good news today out of Massachusetts: x *7/29-30— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) July 31, 2020 Click here to read the full results. Past polling showed Kennedy pulling ahead of Markey and out raising him in fundraising. Both Markey and Kennedy have been racking up endorsements: Per tradition over here at Boston, the usual disclaimer: Endorsements…
MA-Sen: AOC Makes The Case For Re-Electing Sen. Ed Markey (D) In New Ad
I appreciate Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D. NY-14) doing this for U.S. Senator Ed Markey’s (D. MA) re-election campaign: x YouTube Video Ocasio-Cortez, who endorsed Markey in his reelection fight against Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III in September, narrates the entire 30-second spot, describing the 74-year-old Markey as the progressive “champion” that America needs to solve…
Physicists find deforestation has 90% chance of causing irreparable catastrophic societal collapse.
Human consumption and climate change have sent humanity on a steep, dangerous, and deadly spiral spin toward a “catastrophic collapse” warn researchers. The dire warning is published in the scientific journal Nature Scientific Reports. Physicists Mauro Bologna and Gerardo Aquino layout in their research that there will be a ninety percent chance of upheaval and collapse of…
SC-Sen: Jaime Harrison (D), “The racial disparities in marijuana enforcement is just unacceptable.”
U.S. Senate candidate, Jaime Harrison (D. SC), did an interview CNBC this week where he mainly discussed issues younger voters cared about. One of the biggest issues he discussed was legalizing marijuana: I think we should legalize, regulate and tax marijuana like we do alcohol and tobacco. There is simply no medical reason to lock…
WA-Gov: Gov. Jay Inslee (D. WA) Builds Momentum & Public Support For Joe Biden's Climate Plan
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Gov. Jay Inslee (D. WA), on behalf of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee in support former Vice President and Democratic Nominee, Joe Biden’s climate plan: Joe Biden Every day under Donald Trump feels like the world is falling apart. Sadly, when it comes to climate, the scientists…