Jim Chaney

@barackobama.bsky.social: "When I was POTUS, I suppose I could have simply unilaterally ordered the military to go into some red state and harass and intimidate a governor or cut off funding for states that didn't vote for me... but that is contrary to how I think our democracy is supposed to work."

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Exxon's Own Models Predicted Global Warming--It Ignored Them Scientists working for the oil giant Exxon in the 1970s and 1980s estimated temperature increases with remarkable accuracy. Those findings could now be used as evidence in climate litigation

Warm air masses in the atmosphere rise upward, causing cooler air from neighboring areas, sometimes from the arctic, to rush in. This is how atmospheric heat powers storms. In other words, global warming causes colder, more intense winter storms. www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxo...

Better question: where did Argentina get it from? Oh wait, the US.

I pray that we all get to watch it on TV when it does!

This! This purity test is why we lose. No candidate is perfect, but if he can take the fight to the GOP and win, he gets my vote. I am so tired of hearing people say “Oh, I’ll never vote for him b/c he had this person on his show” or “he made a comment about ___ once, so can’t support him”

“Be Jerry Falwell” means be Jerry Falwell Jr.’s father. No thanks!

Dude, we’re trying!

Was looking at acid rain charts, and this “Years from Peak Emissions” chart is an interesting way to compare how fast different countries have reduced SO2 emissions… whatya notice?

He’s not the only Tennessee university professor to get fired for similar social media post on personal accounts. Let’s see what happens with those let go at University of Tennessee and MTSU.

STEWART: “Trump removed a dangerous foreign dictator from power — not THAT one, they’re actually friends (and quite frankly I think business partners)… not that one either…” 😬

Should have supported the Green New Deal.

I second this. Rivians are great.

Maybe where you live. Not all of us have access to realiable/extensive public transportation.

I agree with not buy a tesla, BUT if you’re still driving a gas car you are supporting right-wing agendas. The oil industry dumped almost 500 million last year to elect GOPers. Think about that every time you pump gas in your car.

While I am no fan of Maduro (or Chávez before him), what the Trump administration has done in Venezuela will legitimize in Putin’s eyes what Russia is doing in Ukraine and what China plans to do in Taiwan in Xi’s eyes.

While I am no fan of Maduro (or Chávez before him), what the Trump administration has done in Venezuela will legitimize in Putin’s eyes what Russia is doing in Ukraine and what China plans to do in Taiwan in Xi’s eyes.

Hope you consider a Rivian R2 if you haven’t already.

Nearly one million more Americans are unemployed today than when the year started. The Trump economy: fewer jobs, higher prices, slower growth. Americans deserve better.

Trump’s racial profiling ICE goons to 🇺🇸 citizen: “Turn around or you’re gonna get the dog.”

Sign reads: Free Nobel Peace prize with an order of shrimp tacos.

#peaceprize
#tacos

The same idiots who believed that tv station believed the administration....
It's a classic propaganda ploy....take the people who are believed/familiar to by the masses (GOP) and put them in positions of power...no one (GOP) will question what they do....

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

Interesting

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.

At first, I thought this was AI.

War on the environment

Excellent new episode of PBS Terra Weathered has just been released.

This episode discusses hurricane rapid intensification and hurricane strength and how these relate to climate change.

The effects of AMOC strength fluctuations and aerosols / sulphur emissions are also covered.

Worth watching:

Ya think…