#Climate threat not often discussed:
“Pound for pound, gallon for gallon, hour-for-hour, the two-stroke gas powered engines in leaf blowers and similar equipment are vastly the dirtiest and most polluting kind of machinery still in legal use.
“According to the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the two-stroke leaf blowers and similar equipment in the state produce more ozone pollution than all of California’s tens of millions of cars, combined.”
Trump threw Afghanistan back to the Taliban when he promised our withdrawal. He failed to assess the situation that caused our involvement to be a wasted effort. He failed to assess the weakness of Afghanistan's government and the strength of the Taliban.
Then, he dumped the whole mess on Biden.
‘Hunter Biden’ Disinformation has convulsed Republicans for 4-years now. It’s Putin's main Axis / Access of control over American politics.
Now we learn from an FBI indictment of a Russian oligarch spreading lies about Hunter Biden: Hunter has never even been to Ukraine.
America needs to Take Back Control by arming Ukraine.
Ukraine has been, unbeknownst to those falling for Putin's propaganda the epicentre of American politics for a decade.
Trump was impeached for withholding weaponry from Ukraine. The House traitor Mike Johnson forced vacations to avoid arming Ukraine. 2016 & 2020 elections were hacked by Putin delivering a Trump victory in 2016.
Putin's decades old ‘Don’t Poke Bear’ troll has haunted powerful policy, lawmakers for a decade - all aimed at helping Putin succeed in Ukraine by hacking the brains of powerful Americans.
Ensuring #Ukraine succeeds in expelling the Russian-Fascist from 100% of Ukraine is the means US of restoring Good Governance inside its own territory.
@mastodonmigration@TonyStark And yet the "polls" show Trump ahead of Biden in some key areas.
I believe that many Biden voters are holding back for a variety of reasons, none justifying a return of Terrible Trump.
@Sherifazuhur@palestine@israel Is Hamas just going to sit and wait for the Israelis to take them out, or will it simply blend in with the rest of the people and quietly leave Rafah?
Noticing a possible growing trend of right wing opinion writers attacking journalism as being completely infiltrated by liberal biases to the point of it being unable to produce unbiased reporting. Not just centrist or left of center publications, nor specific journalists; the entire institution of journalism.
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Looking back at the week, it just sunk in that a Supreme Court justice actually said that presidents need immunity from prosecution for staging a coup to stay in office...because if they don't have immunity, the fear of post-presidential prosecution could inspire them to stage a coup to remain in office.
Today is a rainy day in SF. As I was waking I thought I heard rain drops, so I asked, “Alexa, is it raining?” I was expecting the usual stock weather response that I’ve been getting for years. This time Alexa simply replied, “Yes, it is raining.”
This is a first. Next I want to see how much Alexa is able to adapt to unique requests. I could ask, “Alexa, will I need an umbrella tonight?” This would requiring connecting me to my location and umbrella to rain along with time of day. The stock response has just used the address set with my Echo device and responded with the forecast for the whole day. Connecting these dots from a spoken request would truly be a big step forward. #Alexa
Trump is poison, a fraud, a rapist, a bank fraud, tax fraud, business fraud, election fraud, abuser, insurrectionist, the biggest criminal in American history. Over the next five years, he thoroughly corrupted Graham’s party. Republican leaders had time to counteract the poison, but they never did. One reason was that the poison moved slowly. Graham and other Republican politicians lost the ability to see what they were becoming. They rallied around an authoritarian, excused authoritarian acts, and embraced authoritarian ideas.
The fascist monsters took their mask off - Americans see a criminal enterprise that is the republican- fascist party.
#SCOTUS is hearing arguments on whether hospitals must provide emergency #abortions in states w bans.
At issue is a nearly 40-yr-old fed law that requires hospitals that receive fed funds to stabilize or transfer all emergency patients, regardless of their ability to pay. Biden admin invoked the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act to argue that the federal government has the power to penalize hospitals that fail to provide emergency abortions even in states with strict bans.
Republicans were always, on some level, #MAGA: “Republicans didn’t purge the white supremacists & antisemites in the 1960’s. I think there’s a real danger in 2024 of nostalgizing the 20C conservative movement as “responsible,”respectable” & “about ideas.” The same features of what became of MAGAism were embedded in the movement from the very beginning, & were broadly tolerated by conserv. elites even if they found them to be slightly distasteful.” #GOPRacists#GOPFascistshttps://www.salon.com/2024/04/20/a-prehistory-of-maga-mainstream-conservatives-never-really-purged-the-fascists/
@KimPerales Most Americans are politically centrist. Although there are strong differences to be sure, the voting record has always favored the middle ground. Within that group are people on the left and the right but somehow we manage to come together when common sense prevails.
Trump feeds on the fringe and that is dangerous when he is willing to bend and break the rules and the law in order to prevail.
Never forget that Hillary got millions more votes than Trump but lost nonetheless. This is how easily our election system can be corrupted.
A 71st House Republican has signed on to co-sponsor Rep. Matt #Gaetz's resolution to formally express sentiment of U.S. House that Donald #Trump did not engage in insurrection: Del. James Moylan (R-Guam)
#SCOTUS in Bush v. Gore, which effectively installed Bush in 2000.
SCOTUS Intervention in a closely contested election: The Court's intervention in such a closely contested election did blur the line between law and politics. The court essentially called the election by blocking a recount of votes in Florida.
Disqualification of votes: The court for indirectly disqualifying a high number of African Americans' ballots in Florida through its implementation of uniform standards for legal votes.
Obnoxiously corrupt Scalia cited "irreparable harm" that could befall Bush, as the recounts would cast "a needless and unjustified cloud" over Bush's legitimacy. In dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that "counting every legally cast vote cannot constitute irreparable harm."
Note: Three lawyers who worked on the GW Bush vs Gore case are now on the #corrupt#scotus Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh (he also worked w Ken Starr).
@skykiss Clarence and Ginni have diminished the Court to the extent that confidence in impartial justice is no longer held by too many. Americans with a favorable opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to its lowest point in public opinion surveys dating to 1987.
Rot at the top cannot sustain a democracy.
