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Ed Overbeek
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The GOP can’t decide if they want your kids to die from climate change or a mass shooting.
The number of things people have accurately added to the list is something else. Republicans have really covered their bases.
Wish this was an exaggeration.
This thread is why I wrote this. “What is taking away people’s health insurance, if not abuse? What is intentionally making our air and water less safe, if not abuse? Gutting the Voting Rights Act was an assault.”
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Republicans became obsessed with abortion because they think it’s a Get Out Of Hell Free card for all the ways they harm and kill us once we’re born.
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Ed Overbeek
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“The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world… is being destroyed.” - Hannah Arendt
Of all the articles written on Trump’s sharpie-altered hurricane map, how many will use the word “authoritarian”?

This isn’t just about his ego.
“Saying something obviously untrue, and making your subordinates repeat it with a straight face in their own voice, is a particularly startling display of power over them. It’s something that was endemic to totalitarianism.” - @jtlevy
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Ed Overbeek
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If the Second Amendment gives you the right to an assault weapon, why doesn't it give you the right to a nuclear bomb? They’re both “arms”.

Never heard a good answer for that.
The gun debate needs a lot more “Do you think we have the right to bear nuclear arms?” and a lot less “what does the AR stand for?”

But some people would rather talk about product names than the Constitution.

(AR stands for Armalite Rifle. It couldn’t matter less.)
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This got a lot of replies, and it’s pretty striking.

People on the left replied with dozens of other reality-based ways Republicans consign us to our deaths.

People on the right had three comebacks. Abortion, lies, and lies about abortion.
Democrats: don’t forget repealing the ACA, ICE detention centers, the opioid crisis, …

Republicans: but what about forced labor camps and fourth trimester abortions
GOP politicians don’t want real solutions to real problems anymore. They’ve got fake solutions and, increasingly, fake problems. I’m reminded of this line from Voltaire.
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Those I follow who are excellent sources on the carbon tax are
@trevortombe @andrew_leach, @EcofiscalCanada @kevinmilligan

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Just returned from Bangkok, where nations made little progress towards finalising the Paris agreement on climate change that aims to limit global temperature rises over the next 80 years.

It was my first @UN #climate change rodeo and there were a few things I wasn't aware of
Under Paris, countries agreed to a fairly detailed set of promises to keep global temperature rises under 2C by 2100.

It was the first time all nations - both developed and developing economies - signed up to the same set of climate rules. But they weren't binding
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Jason Mark
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Late last night veteran #climate journalist @Revkin asked some sharp questions about @Sierra_Magazine’s “The Case for Climate Reparations,” spurred by an appreciative post from NYC Chief Resilience Officer @dzarrilli. Here’s my response …
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