From FB comment Paddy Mendez The money spent on fusion research is wasted because thermonuclear fusion is *already* available, free of charge, to anyone who wants it. That wasted fusion money could have instead been spent on “pure scientific research” and “a great many advances [could] have come from them and many more to follow”
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Republican Adam Kinzinger joins Republican Liz Cheney on the House Select Committee on Jan 6th. Both He and Cheney are among the very few Republicans who are responsible and forward thinking members of the Republican Party and willing to forgo the dogma of the GOP in order to follow their conscience and join the Select
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Biden’s nominee to head the Bureau Of Land Management, Tracy Stone-Manning, is getting flak from Republicans. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23072021/tracy-stone-manning-confirmation-senate-vote-bureau-of-land-management/?amp
As of this date, there have been at least 500 people arrested in the Jan 6 Capitol insurrection. From a comment on PBS Newshour on this date.
Trump using traditional media now that he has been banned from social media. https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/jul/14/suspended-social-media-donald-trump-turns-traditio/ The thought occurred to me that Trump has been trying to push the false narrative as far as possible to see how far he can go with his cult of Trump followers and right wing extremism.
The complete article, including Panetta’s interview is in today’s PBS Newshour. https://youtu.be/t11udJFfDlY New revelations show Trump’s threats against democracy are ‘still very real’ says Panetta. He says that Trump’s refusal to concede that he lost the election implies that Trump may try to attempt another coup d’etat (they actually called it a coup d’etat) like
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The Florida Trumplicans passed a law that fines social media companies $250,000 a day for suspending accounts of politicians. This law violates the social media companies’ First Amendment rights to control what users agreed to when they signed up. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-judge-blocks-florida-law-targeting-facebook-twitter-over-politician-bans/ What should be of great concern to everyone is that a law that is this
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This ‘history’ article makes me feel sad – over 400 people have been charged for being a part of the attempted coup d’etat at the capitol on Jan. 6th. Hundreds of people will spend time in jail and millions of dollars will be spent prosecuting these people. Why? Because then-president Trump and his Trumplican cult
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This article is about the proposal to build distribution and transmission infrastructure to allow renewables to get to the consumers. But it’s obvious that the electric utilities are promoting this because the utilities are afraid that rooftop solar will take away the utilities’ control of where the electricity comes from. The rooftop solar plus battery
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Federal Trade Commission said Broadcomm bullied its customers into exclusive contracts in order to buy Broadcomm chips. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/broadcom-is-a-monopolist-ftc-orders-chipmaker-to-stop-illegal-tactics/?amp=1
