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I'll be taking a bus to a swing state to help elect Harris this coming weekend. You don't need to do quite that much; there are actions hosted near you to join.

The reason is that while Harris isn't in absolute 100% agreement with me on every detail (unless I run for office, no candidate will be), she's the candidate much closer to taking adequate climate action. The Biden/Harris administration did a lot, starting with Harris casting the deciding vote for the Inflation Reduction Act., a key piece of climate legislation. We even saw major cuts to the leasing of federal lands for coal, as well as big cuts to oil and gas leasing

By contrast, Trump appointed a coal lobbyist to run the EPA and took steps to increase not just greenhouse gas emissions, but a wide variety of human-impacting pollutants, and surrounded by people who want to eliminate any effort to address the climate problem

 

This would almost surely get front-page treatment and words like "dementia" and "Alzheimer's" if a Democrat did the same

 

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14260782

William Jacob Parsons was arrested and charged in North Carolina after he was found with a handgun and a rifle at a supermarket where a federal aid vehicle was parked.

 

William Jacob Parsons was arrested and charged in North Carolina after he was found with a handgun and a rifle at a supermarket where a federal aid vehicle was parked.

 

Don't try to be Kennedy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't have a great answer other than removing Musk and the rest of the management he put in place, and the only way to impact that as a consumer is to commit to never buying their products.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Unfortunately, the Tesla assembly line is also a wildly racist environment, most likely encouraged by management.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

That's the thing about wind and solar; they look like a series of smaller projects instead of a mega-project. So you don't have that problem in the same way.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The main reason you don't see a lot of new nuclear power plants going up is that it's more expensive than any other way to generate electricity, and the recent experience in the US has involved massive budget overruns for nuclear.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Look at something like this and it's pretty clear that the impact of this year's events aren't obvious like that. Not impossible, but I don't think I've seen what you're describing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

His late ex-wife described how Trump would read an anthology of Hitler's speeches before bed:

Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Trump seems to have actually picked up a copy of Hitler's speeches:

Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I don't think I've seen studies of any kind of teleconnection between Gulf of Mexico conditions and European weather, though higher temperatures tend to mean both more intense rain and more intense droughts.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I believe the state insurer there (Citizens) is undercapitalized. There's a very good chance that Florida will be forced to collect supplemental assessments from everybody who has any kind of insurance policy there.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Yeah, was looking at stats on housing in the Tampa area; most of it is older then the hurricane resistance building codes, and large areas are going to be inundated.

There is going to be a lot of suffering from this one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

The Senate is absolutely a very tough lift; it's going to be really tough for the Democrats to get even 50 seats.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

He could back in 1990. It's far from clear that he still can.

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