Energy cannibalism is happening so fast that the collapse of the oil industry will derail renewables
There’s no time to lose. The new research led by the French team confirms that whether we like it or not, human civilisation is in...
Report finds Trump used federal COVID-19 food program for political gain, ran it incompetently
Most people would—quite rightly—assume that “fresh produce” and “Donald Trump” have no business being in the same sentence unless there’s some secret Russian kompromat Christopher Steele...
Chevron, not the DOJ, prosecutes a human rights activist, successfully sentencing him to prison.
"Today's sentencing of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger should be front-page news ringing alarm bells anywhere people are concerned about democracy, abuses of corporate power,...
Rep. Katie Porter took no prisoners: Schools 'fiscally irresponsible' Joe Manchin on $3.5T bill
California Congresswoman Katie Porter made a case for the $3.5 Trillion human infrastructure bill as she schooled Joe Manchin on fiscal responsibility. Rep. Katie Porter...
Joe Biden and Newt Gingrich: the Unlikely Comparison that will help us respond to a more polarizing climate
Before 2016 if you told most Americans that Donald Trump would become president, they would have laughed or thought you were joking. The outspoken businessman...
Previous guy's an alien, “…because when you're a star they let you do it”
Former President Trump ordered the Pentagon to release all of its information on "unidentified aerial phenomena" (UAP) within 18 days in his last coronavirus relief bill...
The Renewable Boom is here! A challenge to the GQP.
The Boom is underway The global energy watchdog revealed that the delivery of renewable energy projects, including windfarms and solar power projects, grew by 45%...
Happy 4/20! Almost 7 in 10 Americans want cannabis legalized
The problem with having Christmas every day, as the folks behind these weird Christmas-themed attractions surely know by now, is that when Dec. 25 actually...
Minerva @ Midnight: Economy Deficit Disorder
More attention should be paid to an economy that might be in trouble this summer especially as there will be something, something military that will...
Minerva @ Midnight: April Fools – Baylor U. conservatives think slavery was good
Change as a rising tide seems to be falling short as history’s stream is not as mighty. Apparently slavery is still “ordained by God for ultimate...
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...
Minerva @ Midnight: fungible space and fungible time
The stuck ship does tell us something about the fragility of global trade and the flow of capital. Fungible Space Logistics, that concept popularized by...
the stupid… it burns, Sarah Palin floats a trial balloon for a return to relevance
More like stupid being bigger than evil, a few trial balloons for Sarah Palin have emerged as Trump makes official his promise to campaign against Lisa...
Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: the Climate Crisis has weak carbon markets and lagging technology
The sparse number of actual carbon capture and sequestration projects plus weak carbon markets amplify the problems of the climate crisis yet to be revisited, post-Trump. Two heartland examples in...
It is all Biden's fault.
Look, say Republican Senators. “Biden wants respect and bipartisanship, so all we are asking for is that his nominees show us the respect we so...
The Texas Electric Grid collapse is Republican governance in action like COVID & Healthcare
Don’t be fooled by lying Republican Texas politicians & their Right-Wing media mouthpieces. They are responsible for the electric grid catastrophe. TX Republican Politicians to...
PA-Sen: John Fetterman (D) Signs Pledge Rejecting Donations From The Fossil Fuel Industry
Here’s the latest news today out of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), who announced a 2022 Senate bid earlier this month, said in a statement...
I don't need lectures from Billionaires about climate change.
In particular Bill Gates pontifications under his label of the “Good Billionaire”. Yes he does keep to the science in a way, but please stop...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – happy lunar new year with your instant pot and your go bag
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t...
Krugman: stagflation as ambitious macroeconomic policies and conservative ideas was wrong?
Let real wages (of $15+/hour) grow faster than labor productivity for some years, undoing the wage repression of the last decades. We have been misled...
Will the Republican Party ever return to reality? UK's Boris Johnson may hold a clue.
We analyze the Republican Party for what it is as opposed to what they imply they are. It’s why they are losing registered members. This...
Siberia's peat climate bomb is burning despite minus fifty-eight degree Fahrenheit temperatures.
I keep vigil. Last summer, record-breaking wildfires in Siberia, “in and around the Arctic circle,” continue to smolder and burn; the fuel feeding the fires is peat,...
State of Oklahoma Tries to Recover $2 Million Wasted on Hydroxychloroquine
www.msn.com/… The Mike Hunter, Attorney General. of Oklahoma is trying to get back $2 million the state paid to acquire a supply of hydroxychloroquine, one of the favorite...
President Biden on the hardships facing everyday Americans: 'This cannot be who we are as a country'
This feels like your parents coming home after asking Hannibal Lecter to babysit and then leaving nothing for him in the fridge but fava beans and...
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will become President and Vice President in 19 days.
Don’t listen to any lizard people this year. xGreetings from the White House.Trump appears to be tweeting and watching OANN from the Oval Office this...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Pascal went to the races, then gets mugged because he kept his carbon credits
The neoliberals’ “free market” is not going to sequester enough carbon to save the environment. Even Warren Buffett isn’t willing to take a bet on...
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...
Exxon's Green Sheen and asymmetric information (and media bias)
Is the Market for Lemons like the market for lemonade or even Don Lemon. Asymmetric information is everywhere, the example of the used-car salesman synonymous...
Skin disease is killing dolphins worldwide and is linked to increased rainfall from climate change.
One of the weapons of a warming climate is changing rainfall patterns. Atmospheric changes and changes in the Jet Stream are causing more hurricanes to...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – procrastination versus amateur-crastination
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t...
The only coral reefs predicted to survive climate change are now threatened by an enormous oil spill
Yemen’s Houthi rebels in Yemen finally gave the United Nations access to a disintegrating oil tanker that threatens the northern Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba's...
The rich want to steal our abundant water and then sell it back to us, another economic fraud.
Our economic system transfers your and the masses' wealth and money to the rich using techniques described here, making water falsely scarce. Making everything, even...
US Appeals Court rejects Trump's attempt to create a dead zone in the Beaufort Sea.
Donald Trump has been plotting to screw our climate and kill off the diversity of life for four years. This isn’t hyperbole; he has devasted critical...
The Daily Bucket–Forgive My Trespasses
For starters, this “No Trespassing” sign isn’t on private property. It’s on Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation Lands that are open to the public as the Rock...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – Lady Death, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Woody Guthrie
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t...
Fools and their money are soon parted.
Conman in Chief Donnie “Pass the Snake oil” Trump and his psychotic sycophantic shyster Rudy “preemptively pardon me please” Giuliani know all to well and...
'The transition jokes will continue until morale improves', as Trump now invites PA to another stunt
Failing in Michigan, Trump seems to have moved on to Pennsylvania with the same stunt, meant largely to excite state-level resistance by RWNJs pressuring political...
Whitmer orders shut down of oil pipeline that threatens the fresh water of the Great Lakes.
“Most importantly, Enbridge has imposed on the people of Michigan an unacceptable risk of a catastrophic oil spill in the Great Lakes that could devastate...
GA-Sen A & B: Beto O'Rourke Jumps In To Finally End Moscow Mitch's Senate Majority
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX), in support of Jon Ossoff (D. GA) and Rev. Raphael Warnock’s (D....
Australian DNA study finds two new species of Greater Glider, and they're adorable.
The Greater Glider, one of many marsupials that evolved in Australia, is three species and not one as had been previously thought. The findings from...
Despite McConnell and a hostile Supreme Court, Joe Biden will be known as the climate president.
The crises facing the country are severe — from a pandemic to an economic recession, climate change to racial injustice — and the transition team...
[Updated] Is the American Experiment Over?
Back in 1787, as the Constitutional Convention ended, a woman came up to Ben Franklin and asked him what we got. He replied, "A republic,...
The last stronghold of the African elephant to be smothered with oil wells; possible fracking.
Jo Biden had offered 20 billion to preserve the Amazon. It was ridiculed denied by the Trump of the Tropics, Jair Bolsonaro. Perhaps a similar...
Equity firm forgave 130,000,000 Trump loan in exchange for LNG rail cars up the SE Coast of Florida.
“It would only take 22 tank cars to hold the equivalent energy of the Hiroshima bomb,” Jordan Luebkemann, a lawyer for Earth Justice. Florida Bulldog is...
I voted for by far the lesser bullsh1t
Admittedly I had a choice of two The snake-oil-salesman from New York Crazy Uncle Snowflake Joe Biden I certainly didn’t vote for the narcissistic sociopath/psychopath...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Après moi, le déluge. Schumpeter's gale, herd immunity as 'dangerous fallacy'
Larry Kudlow continues the underlying theme of Trumpian nihilism and its trickle-down contagion of pixie dust and pseudoscience. Trump continues to see his numbers decline...
AK-Sen: Mother Jones, “The Unspoken Reason the Alaska Senate Race Is So Close”
Mother Jones has a great piece about the Alaska U.S. Senate race between incumbent U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R. AK) and Dr. Al Gross (I....
mixed messaging: “unlikable communist monster” versus the fly on the lying guy
Condescending or patronizing, how we forget until people get talked over. Tupac Shakur didn’t show up last night in Utah for the VP debate, but...
The Daily Bucket–Today's Shocking Discoveries.
A backyard pond turns oily. A DIY oil test confirms it’s more than iron oxide, I found tiny broken eggs and cat-sized poop nearby (not...
not a 5G antenna or data port but perhaps a french fry interface, as Borat praises Trump
The Trumpist idiots pushed all the 2016 conspiracy theories prior to the debate, as if one would assume Trump would play fair or act normal....
