Eunice Lehm....

32 people died in ICE custody last year — the agency’s deadliest year in over two decades.

Meanwhile, private prison corporations that are building and overseeing ICE detention centers are raking it in.

Cashing in on cruelty.

Eunice for SC Eunice Lehmacher is a 2024 candidate for the South Carolina House of Representatives from District 3 (Central, Clemson, Norris, Six Mile).

www.euniceforsc.com

www.euniceforsc.com

Way to go Robin. Glad you were there!

Yes, I'm running for US House of Representatives District 3 in SC.

The president who wants a peace prize invades a country?

Can the war on coal still be won? Ten years ago, the U.S. was on track to phase out coal by 2030, thanks to the Sierra Club. Now Trump and AI are delaying the fuel’s decline.

"The costs of wind, solar, and batteries made up 94% of the U.S. grid’s new capacity in 2024. They now generate more than a quarter of the electricity in California — and a third in Texas. And battery storage is expanding even faster...."

www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Smart phones and cell phones in kids hands before age 12 has health risks....

"...I want to see America being the leader of the free world, standing up for what’s right, not for who can make a buck…. I don’t want to see a foreign policy based on greed. I want to see it based on doing the right thing.” Rep. Don Bacon, R-NE

one hand opens in grief
the other in gratitude
pressing them together to pray

— Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, “One on Thanksgiving”

The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.

The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.

Where is the MAHA outcry?

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Black Out Friday. Info here. weaintbuyingit.com

Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.

I preferred the America where churches were safe places. thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...

The US pays on average $187.48 for immigration detention per bed per day (ICE 2023 numbers). Thats more than $7 million per DAY for over 50,000 immigrants in detention.

And we can find $8 billion to feed the hungry?

$7 million doesn’t count the cost of deporting immigrants.

The Department of Agriculture says it cannot spend its $6 billion in reserves to address the $8 billion needed for SNAP in November. The administration did easily found $20 billion to prop up Javier Milei in Argentina.
Shell game.

A scene I would not have seen in Chicago when I lived there....I'm not comfortable with armed troops in our cities.

Let's get this up in SC (and all states). I like the name of the act: The Ratepayer Protection Act.

Here Comes the Sun Day

The New York Times covers Sun Day... and interviews the person organizing Portland's waterfront celebration extravaganza... where there will be giant puppets.

Solar adds more new capacity to the US grid in 2024 than any energy source in 20 years The US installed 50 GW of new solar capacity in 2024, the most new capacity added in a single year of any energy technology in over two decades.

electrek.co/2025/03/10/s...

The Sun Shone Across America Rhetorically, anyway

Our little Sun Day event made it into Bill McKibbon's newsletter. I encourage you to read The Crucial Years (not just today), and follow some of the pictures and reports from Sun Day. I'm excited to see more solar all across America.

The Sun Shone Across America
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

People across the US celebrate the power of the SUN yesterday on SUN day. What did you do that made use of the sun this week? (I used my electric bike and car.)

Wonder why EVs are so much mor efficient than ICE?

Trump is trying to kill solar power—here's how to fight back Rooftop solar is a clean power miracle. Why are we killing it with red tape?

www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Looking for ways to lower energy costs in your home? Here are some changes you can make to save the climate and your wallet with cheap, clean energy. #SunDayofAction @sundayofaction.bsky.social

Missed a Sun Day event today? You can watch this film (today or any other day...).

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

Solar is the energy of the future, most countries using more than US. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Solar Is Liberation Solar is the only scalable way to slow down the climate crisis — and it will free us from the power of billionaires too.

Solar is booming...just not in the US. Learn more here.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

We need to pre-bunk, not just de-bunk misinformation.

8 in 10 Hispanics in the US are US citizens. The 9th is a permanent legal resident.

I find Latinx people are excellent neighbors: generous, kind, helpful, tax-payers, and law abiding.