The National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, is an annual must-pass piece of spending legislation. But this year, extreme Republicans in control of the U.S. House of Representatives have gotten their dirty hands on it, and turned it into a fossil fueled fascist wish list. Fortunately, the Senate took a different path. But they’re still …
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Private jet travel is killing the planet. So let’s tax the bastards responsible (as a start). For years, we’ve all be told that the climate crisis is our fault. That all the little decisions we make, from what we eat to whether to take a trip by plane or car, are what is driving demand …
Read more “Private jets are killing the planet. Pass the FATCAT Act and tax the bastards.”
In case you missed it – President Biden gave an interview to the Weather Channel, released yesterday, in which he first seemed to forget whether he’d declared a climate emergency, and then when asked to clarify if he has issued an emergency declaration, Biden said: “Practically speaking, yes.” This is a lie. Biden has not …
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By this point, you probably know that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and now Threads, spends a lot of time spying on you. Chronicled in books like The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and the Netflix docu-drama The Social Dilemma, the problem of social media spying on us, selling our personal information to unscrupulous …
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Aug 7 update – President Biden’s EPA has proposed new rules to limit global warming pollution from power plants, and if done right, they could eliminate up to 90% of global warming pollution from the electric sector! But, as usual, the Biden Administration is paying more heed to corporate profits than they are to cutting …
August 15 Update – Former President, and current leader of the fossil fuel fascist party, Donald Trump was indicted along with 18 co-conspirators in Fulton County Georgia. This is a state-level case focussed on the coordinated racketeering to change the outcome of the 2020 election in that one state. It’s also the fourth indictment to …
Read more “New ¡Indictment!, same demand: Ban Trump from office under the 14th amendment.”
July 31 update – It’s official: July 2023 is the hottest month on record and this is clearly a climate emergency. World leaders are all calling for action – from the United Nations to the US Congress. But President Biden is stubbornly refusing to act, perhaps out of fear of offending the powerful and rich …
For more than 2 years, we’ve marched, rallied, protested, and risked arrest all to demand the Biden administration end the era of fossil fuels. Instead, the Biden Administration has approved permit after permit, pipeline after pipeline — all to the befit of the fossil fuel industry that’s raking in record profits and literally destroying the …
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It’s no secret that, for years, climate denial has been running rampant online and in the media. Newspapers, cable networks, and especially social media companies, have been taking huge sums of money from the fossil fuel industry to spread disinformation and misinformation on climate change. In exchange, policy gets stalled, voters are confused and misled, …
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I have another quick action, with another holiday weekend deadline, this time about all the cars in America. Transportation accounts for nearly a third of total US climate pollution, and is the biggest individual source of climate pollution in US right now. Fortunately, the EPA is finalizing new rules for car and truck pollution right …