Karl Coplan

I limit meat consumption to lower impact meats like chicken or pork, and save beef for special occasions, no more than once a month. If a frequent flying vegan colleague calls me to task, I point out that one round trip transcontinental flight is the equivalent of about 150 hamburgers of GHG impact.

also, “keys to the kingdom.”

Trump hounds Bondi to prosecute adversaries in now-deleted social media post: 'They're all guilty as hell' President Donald Trump deleted a Truth Social post demanding Attorney General Pam Bondi prosecute James Comey, Adam Schiff and Letitia James, calling her 'all talk, no action.'

Even FauxNews is covering it on their front page with uncharacteristic honesty (if you bother to read it).
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Thanks for posting - just registered!

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Yes, and one round trip transcontinental flight (about 1T CO2E) is as bad for the planet as 200 hamburgers (~28 lbs CO2E/lb hamburger). So vegan frequent fliers are really in denial.

You go, @emilyjaynef.bsky.social ! Upholding the family tradition.
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a private corporation chartered by the US gov’t. Exxon Mobil is a private corp chartered by NY State. Trump’s EO directing CPB to stop funding NPR is the equivalent of Governor Hochul issuing an order to XOM to stop pumping fossil fuels out of the ground.

COVID was the only YOY decrease in global emissions. I think we are going to see a bigger hit to the global economy than COVID. And the new deal that eventually takes us out of the Trumpcession could (hopefully) a green new deal built on the ashes of the fossil economy.

On the other hand, wrecking the global exonomy will do more to reduce carbon emissions than all of the policies of the Obama and Biden administration combined. Would be better to do it with a just and planned energy transition.

One thing people seem to forget about Geier’s bonkers thimerosol-causes-autism theory is that thimerosol was never in the MMR vaccine, and has not been in any childhood vaccines since 2001, yet autism rates continue to rise. So thimerosol can’t possible have anything to do with autism rates.

Gee, you’d think the article might mention that thimerosol was never in MMR vaccine, and has not been in any childhood vaccine since 2001, pretty much negating Geier’s thimerosol-in-vaccines-cause-childhood-autism falsehood.
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Gee, you’d think the article might mention that thimerosol was never in MMR vaccine, and has not been in any childhood vaccine since 2001, pretty much negating Geier’s thimerosol-in-vaccines-cause-childhood-autism falsehood.

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Yes, I know. Canada is committed to preserving sovereignty and will call Trump’s tariff bluff! My point is that the whole “51st State” framing is BS.

Might be to impeach and convict Trump for violations of international law.

So whenever Trump or one of his toadies says “cherished 51st State” they should be corrected to “States 51-60.” I, for one, would appreciate twenty new senators and fifty or so representatives with a Canadian perspective. Given Canadian outrage to the whole idea, the first order of business might

Or, at a minimum, each of the ten existing self governing provinces should get individual statehood on the same theory of respect for state sovereignty that underlies US constitutional jurisprudence. Even Canada’s population of 40M would be the equivalent of 6 US States.

I mean, Canada’s land mass is larger than the US, so on the same theory we have both North and South Dakota, Canada should get as many states as the existing US.

Drives me crazy that the media accepts the whole Trumpist “51st State” framing for a hypothetical annexation of Canada. Violation of sovereignty and international law aside, Canada should be at least ten and arguably 50 US states.

Trump Orders Permanent Govt Shutdown – No, Really … It hasn’t gotten a lot of attention but Donald Trump’s February 11th...

This the reasons Congressional Dems would be crazy to provide a single vote for a CR “avoiding” a government shutdown. Trump’s going to shut down the government anyway. Let the GOP take full blame.

Trump Orders Permanent Govt Shutdown – No, Really … talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

Yes, but how about a promise not to provide one democratic vote for the continuing resolution keeping government open without getting Musk out and putting guardrails on Trump? That is the Dems real leverage, and I haven’t heard that promise yet.

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This is distressing, but the chart is arctic sea ice ANOMALY, not arctic sea ice coverage. This does not show that current sea ice extent would be a record low for June.

Is it only blue districts that still have funding cut off?

Somehow not getting a warm fuzzy feeling to learn that the 25 YO tech bro who may have taken a hard drive with SSNs and banking info for most Americans got kicked out of DOGE for a history of racist social posts.

Reading it now - what a wonderful, engaging, compelling and heartbreaking story.