A couple of things before I’m unable to continue sitting:
First, thank you all for the “get well” messages. MUCH appreciated.
Second, the outlines of the MAGA/Trump war are becoming clearer every day. It isn’t just an assault on democracy and the constitution–it’s an assault on modernity: on human knowledge and especially science. All science, not just medical science.
As the New York Times (among others) reported yesterday,
In Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding
The proposal is President Trump’s most consequential step yet to derail federal climate efforts and appears to represent a shift toward outright denial of the scientific consensus.
We’re fighting a war for civilization and a habitable planet.
EPA is now opa, oligarchs protection agency
It’s notable that the EPA, having been sued over risk of neurological damage to children arising from fluoride added to municipal water supplies, rather than follow the Northern District of California’s 2024 order to EPA to revisit the allowable level of fluoride in drinking water, is reportedly challenging the order in court.
As a Kentucky dentist put it, “We can fix cavities, but we can’t fix brains.”
Good one, Gordon. The brain that is deeply diseased and holding way too much power is the one sitting behind the Resolute Desk. There is only one way to “fix” that psychopathic organ.
The administration is fighting climate science on two fronts; they killed funding for solar and wind projects approved under the IRA. Even as data shows that solar is cheaper than coal. Idiocracy.
Kkenna and Gordon are spot on this morning. I rode many miles on my motorcycle about a decade ago to show that Ohio and Indiana’s DOE were the most corrupt in the country.
Ohio’s DOE threatened to sue me if I wrote my article, but I wrote it anyway with pictures. No lawsuits ensued. LOL
That was the same tactic used by the local oligarchy and their controlled Gannett newspaper. Lawyers would call and threaten lawsuits all the time, but they never followed up. I can still remember JoAnn Gora from BSU threatening to sue me for printing a legal case in the Southern District of NY, which had Mitch Daniel’s name all over it and his sister.
Like Trump, the oligarchy loves to threaten ordinary people – the oppressed – with lawsuits because the jurists are in their pockets. Oh, the stories I could tell about the legal system and its judges.
First, Congress, then the Executive, and finally the Judicial.
The DNC is no longer competing with a political party, but a cabal centered in the Silicon Valley, where the nation’s wealth has gone.
There is a transcontinental money pipeline connecting Right Coast Power to Left Coast Wealth with the mission of making the country a corporation.
Project 2025 is just the present node on the network. The Left Coast Wealth is not in a hurry, but they are methodical.
We have to not only out-smart them but out-strategize them, just as corporations compete.
The Right Coast Power’s contribution is for Trump and Musk to distract while Steven Miller and J D Vance (both agents of Left Coast Wealth) destroy government from within so a central node on the Left Coast Wealth Plan can be executed. Miller is now DOGE.
Our mission is to re-implement the principles in the Founders of the liberal democratic Constitution. Now we have to work for re-installing our own Board of Directors sustainably, to balance Right Coast Power with Left Coast Wealth.
Yes, Kkenna, it’s payback for the fossil fuel folks for supporting the Trump-thing.
It is a very sad thing, this jettisoning of the accomplishments of science, but I think, it is just a side issue for Trump, who needs the world around him to conform to his delusions. And this is not helped by the presence of that idiot woman who reportedly keeps whispering conspiracy theories into his ears.
Out here where they are building on the northern edge of Indianapolis there is a definite heat island effect with the building of new sidewalks, stores, and housing etc. They are just bulldozing natural areas to put up housing which makes me sad. We don’t need more expensive housing. The traffic out this way has become horrendous. Additionally, they keep putting up stupid roundabouts that people don’t know how to drive in. The put one in at Allisonville and 96th and its really scary.
I would have thought that a change like this one could be challenged under the court’s very own “major decisions” policy, that the EPA does not have the right to make such a major change without approval from Congress.
Oh…wait. That rule only applies to changes that MAGA Republicans disagree with. Sorry, I even brought up such a silly idea.