John Doherty

Guess we’re lucky we live so close to the border. After all our friends are deported, we can just have them throw food across.
It’ll be aight. 😒
#Tucson

Lovely humans! Please amplify the signal if you can. Tomorrow, in 25 places across the Northern border of the US, people will gather to celebrate our Canadian friends & neighbors, to oppose the arbitrary tariffs, to refute a ginned-up crisis. elbowsupforcanada.us

#WeHaveFriendsEverywhere
#Never51

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Just when I thought I could never loath this sissy Trump more - I am thinking of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who put their life and limb in harms way to defend our country while he bathed in his daddy's money. Like most bullies, he's a coward at heart.

How come with so many wannabe autocrats we got a dumb one?

How come with all the autocrat wannabes in the world we got a dumb one. Not fair.

Urging Congress to defend the California waivers from unlawful attacks - this is primarily about the right of California and other states like my home state of Washington to set more stringent pollution laws than the Federal Government - MAGA wants to end that right. nwmd.social/s/copylink/6...

Tacoma?

I'm guessing that particularly in the next four years we'll need to get used to the Federal Government doing things without bothering to tell us why. Because they can.

Are there ways for ordinary citizens to express concern to an appropriate governmental agency regarding EPA environmental regulation rollbacks? Similar to calling your congressperson?

Is there a way for ordinary citizens to express concern to someone in government about EPA plans to rollback or eliminate environmental regulations?

So New Zealand joins the ranks of countries who fire people for telling the truth? Say it ain't so.

Tacoma WA folks in the rain supporting democracy, justice, respect for law, and the American way. 2-17-25 #50501

Scale up?

The present crop of Dem pols in Federal office were chosen in part because of the "government as usual" skills - that's not the world we live in now, and I fear (based on their non-action so far) most of them are not up to the job of representing us in this new political environment.

Take downs are fun - but Musk is calling the tune.

#50501 Hopefully this is the beginning of something. From the @apnews.com⬇️

"H-1B"
Give me your skilled, your learned minds, Never minding the huddled masses yearning to be free, Your tech-savvy souls eager to innovate, The driven and the dreamers of distant shores. Send these, the qualified, the expert, to me, I lift my petition beside the nation’s door!

We seem to be in an era where facts (like getting cut off at the ankles) don't matter to many of our fellow citizens. And his Madnesty is masterful at deflecting blame onto others. So while I hope that he will become seen for what he is by his adorers, I'm not holding my breath.

Washington too please.

I've heard plenty of MAGA faithful wishing that California would leave, so maybe there could be a way?

Someone getting angry when they are called to be merciful tells me a lot.

Short version: "let's make promises that we don't have to keep." Then it will look like we care when we really don't. In a perverse way I prefer "in your face" environmental denial and obstruction vs. this sleazy way of pretending while doing nothing. The result is much the same in both cases.

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Agreed - and I think that united message is key. I do worry that the denier message is united ("just say no?") and the "green" message is a debate.

neither do I but consumers have shown (in the recent election for instance) that given the choice between reducing emissions and having cheap gas they opt for the latter. Climate change is far down the list of priorities for most voters.

Understanding "externalities" is key to understanding much of industry's "polluting for profit" business model. And finger pointing is fun. The subject gets sticky when focus is turned from producers to buyers of polluting products who benefit from lower prices stemming from the externalized costs.

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Being a careful guy I like to be sure that something I come across is actually what it claims to be - this one is. monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/w...

@colonialoneship.bsky.social - succinctly points out the box canyon we are in. And not stated but perhaps implied is that the folks who make money producing those high carbon intensity items aren't inclined to stop producing them either.

Oh I think they were subverting it. Their response sounds shallow and unconvincing to me. A transparent effort to come up with a reasonable reason for accepting her resignation when there isn't one.