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,”…
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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…
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as the former industry attorney hangs onto the post despite the White House saying Aug. 15 that his nomination would be withdrawn.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…
Full of rage and spite, Trump ordered FEMA to withhold funds from California wildfire victims.
Climate change denier Donald Trump has been credibly accused by his former DHS Chief of Staff (Miles Taylor) of ordering FEMA to withhold funds for California climate change victims during the aftermath of devasting wildfires in 2018. The personification of cruelty, Trump reiterated the same threat to the state of forty million people once again…
Let's not let the perfect be the enemy of the good: fossil-fuel subsidies are still in trouble
Trump has pimped for the fossil fuel industries because it’s still about money, just like dialing back some election promises in order to reinstate them after election day. Because the Trump recession needs to be fixed, and taking back Congress will move re-regulation back to the clean energy agenda, rather than the fracking fakery of…
Eagle, drone killer of Lake Michigan demonstrates air superiority
Nature rules, because there are naturalism arguments. Hunter King, a drone pilot at the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), was monitoring an area of the lake near the state’s Upper Peninsula. Then bad stuff happened. Bald eagle attacks $950 state drone, drops it into Lake Michigan https://t.co/Pl0fAeJzeR pic.twitter.com/o7BtuF0jix — The Hill…
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…
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: government deficit is a myth in the eyes of Modern Monetary Theory
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) can (but not will) save the US economy. What with the White House Council of Economic Advisors now reduced to one economist, it’s worth noting that one of their econometric models (Hassett) influenced the prediction that COVID-19 infections in the US would go to zero by June. That is after all,…
Trump “lobsters” Maine, even if it's not affected until 2023
Trump’s going to have to do more than “lobstering” proclamations to save Susan Collins. Actually, Trump’s tariff war with China has damaged the Maine fisheries. x How to lobster pic.twitter.com/PZTlomCi5T— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) June 9, 2020 x The BDN Editorial BoardJune 8, 2020: “Trump didn’t save Maine’s fishing industryâ€Âhttps://t.co/Nzch8M4FbX https://t.co/AkYih5FHEP — HG Tomato ðŸÂÂ… Wash Your…
Joe Biden & LCV Kick Off Virtual ClimateVote2020 Launch Event On Tuesday, June 16th
Received this e-mail from the League of Conservation Voters: At this moment, it is imperative that we elect candidates up and down the ballot who will act on climate change and work to dismantle racism. Today, we're reaching out to you with a special invitation to see firsthand how to make that happen. LCV Victory…
Humanity's footprint on the earth has lightened, nature rebounds but also takes turn for the worse.
We are getting a pretty good look at what a rapid transition to green energy would look like if we ever act to slow down the looming apocalypse. Of course, we are in one now because of the trifecta of coronavirus, climate change, the sixth mass extinction, and predictions of both the flu and coronavirus…
After economy sheds 701,000 jobs, Trump brags about Keystone pipeline, which will add 50
First, the bad news. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. hemorrhaged 701,000 jobs in March, and since jobless claims are currently in the millions per week, that’s likely a vast understatement of the true picture. Now, the “good” news. Grampa Rage Diapers just let us know that the Keystone XL Pipeline is going…
Joe Biden Builds Momentum For His Clean Energy Revolution & Environmental Justice Plan
Received this e-mail today from former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign: Last week we asked for you to tell us which of Joe Biden’s plans you want to hear more about, and we got thousands of great responses! But our top response, from more than 21,000 of you, was that you want to hear…
Trump May Aid Oil Fracking Companies Facing Bankruptcy
Two years ago the United States became the world’s largest petroleum producer due to oil extracted by fracking oil shale deposits. Monday, the oil fracking boom came to an end as petroleum prices plunged 30% when Russia and Saudi Arabia entered into a oil price war. http://www.nytimes.com/… Crude lost as much as a third of its…
‘Invisible oil’ from Deepwater Horizon crisis spread to the Florida Keys, Cuba and North Carolina.
The massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 was an environmental calamity of epic proportions. Two hundred and five million gallons of crude oil and two hundred and twenty-five tons of methane spilled into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast. Now a new study by the University of Miami found…
Earthworms consume microplastics in the soil. That may lead to a worrying collapse of biodiversity.
From Antarctica to agricultural fields, plastic waste is everywhere across the globe. We should be very concerned as this is yet another threat to our ability to feed ourselves. We consume these plastics from our food and water. We don’t know what effect it is having on our bodies though one study from Singapore did…
The “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done So Far” Omnibus (Week 157)
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the Trump Administration has done this week. ____________________________________________________________________________ 1762. Lied when he claimed that no US troops had been harmed in the…
The 2020 “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done” Year End Summary Report
Overview Since the earliest days of Donald Trump’s Presidency, we have attempted to catalog all of the harmful actions committed by his administration. Furthermore, by categorizing these actions by policy areas and scoring their relative impact, we have attempted to understand how the Administration operates and measure where it’s done the most damage. Trump’s third…
eponymous ground-meat dish calls Greta Thunberg brainwashed
I have just always liked that the NY Times refers to him as “Mr. Loaf” x Meat Loaf says Greta Thunberg has been 'brainwashed' over climate change https://t.co/8A5Csm6Xbd— The Independent (@Independent) January 4, 2020 x I see Meat Loaf is trending because he is publicly disparaging a 16-year-old girl trying to make the world a…
The “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done So Far” Omnibus (Week 154)
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the Trump Administration has done this week. Substantially increased DACA renewal fees 1732. Shutdown a Federal database that tracks pollution 1733. Rolled back…
