Archive for the ‘state government’ Category:

2023-07-06 What Might Have Happened If Trump Had Succeeded

This scenario is hard to grasp and understand: the plans Trump had to overthrow the 2020 presidential election, if they had succeeded, would have caused nationwide protests for ignoring the will of the people, and resulted in another massacre much, much worse than the Kent State Massacre of 1970. It would have been a coup

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2023-07-30 Democracy Docket: Judge Blocks Florida Anti-voting Law

The number of restrictive voting laws and Federal lawsuits challenging them has grown to a precipitous number. These Red state legislatures and governors are attempting to trample all over voters’ rights. It’s obvious that the intents of these laws are *not* to “reduce voter fraud” but to make it more difficult for voters, especially minorities,

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2023-07-23 Batteries Smooth The Duck Curve

Besides putting the duck to sleep, this puts the myth of “baseload necessity” to sleep. Myth: “You can’t have renewables alone. They need baseload to power the grid when the wind or solar isn’t enough.” Can Project Symphony Put The Duck (Curve) to Sleep?

2023-07-19 Jeff Goodell “The Heat Will Kill You First”

A 20 min. YouTube interview of Jeff Goodell on his book The Heat Will Kill You First”. He tells how your body dies from excessive heat. Right now high temperature records are being broken in most parts of the US. Heat kills more people than other weather events.

2023-07-14 Reproductive Coercion; Kansas Wind Turbines NIMBYs

Kansas is 4th in US in wind power generation. More pushback is coming from the rural areas when wind turbine utilities try to add more wind farms. Farm owners with less than 80 acres are not included in the possible sites to be considered – there isn’t enough acreage. The term reproductive coercion was used

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2023-07-14 GOP War On College Campuses

Manufactured outrage Ideologues hyperpartisan Reactionary kickback Anti-CRT Anti-Critical Race Theory “”There _is_ a crisis in free speech and academic freedom in publicly funded education, and the crisis is not coddled undergraduate students. It’s increasing political interference with what should be free, relatively self-governing academic affairs. As I mentioned in the book, for years, the Goldwater

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2023-07-13 Gerrymandering Court Win For N.Y.

After 9:40 he says “…the idea that the people choose their elected representatives rather than the other way around.” Partisan Gerrymandering is taking place in states and the court, as he says, is okay with that. He brings up section 2 of the Voting Rights Act was not invalidated by SCOTUS. SCOTUS invalidated some sections

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2023-07-10 Tesla Gigafactory Mexico Set For Construction

Th governor of Nuevo León says the permits are done. The new generation of low cost Tesla EVs will be made here. I wonder how many Tesla EVs are currently being sold in Mexico and other countries south of the border. I suspect not very many. They’re a lot more expensive than other cars there.

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2023-07-07 Republican Big Donors Stop Funding – BTC

BTC – Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about how some wealthy Trumplican donors are so fed up with the mess their party is in that they decided that they weren’t getting anything for their money and they stopped donating. Those many thousands of dollars added up and now they’re short of money. And at the

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2023-07-05 FF Lobbyists Are Double Agents

“”You shouldn’t be funding the people who are poisoning you.”” It’s obvious that these lobbying firms are not loyal to one side or the other; they are strictly mercenaries: they’re only in it for the money. I don’t think I would want to be represented by someone who is not sincere about their loyalty. Who

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