🆘🔥FULL EXTENT OF WILD FIRES IN THE WESTERN USA ISN’T BEING REPORTED. Full range is much bigger than WA. OR. & CA. All western States are ablaze. We are just a season away from wildfires raging across Great Plains States. There are 2041 ACTIVE 🔥 fireweatheravalanche.org/fire/
Soon the wildfires will be raging across the Great Plains States. Soon the Mordor orange skies seen in CA & OR will cover N/S Dakota, NE, KS, OK & TX. fireweatheravalanche.org/fire/
Montana. “With record heat and a wildfire season that in western Montana is 75-80 days longer (some say up to 105 days for the west!)...” missoulaclimate.org/active-fires.h…
Wyoming: “Has it been smoky where you are? Parts of I-25 in Wyoming have been closed due to all that smoke. smoke might be with us for a while, causing visibility and breathing problems...”
Texas tinderbox: “Wildfire activity has increased in TX, & accelerated drying has elevated the potential for new wildfire ignitions, ...new wildfires will become increasingly difficult to put out if the current temperatures & drying conditions continue” nbcdfw.com/news/local/tex…
Wildfires: is at Preparedness Level 5–the highest level warning—
“Potential for emerging significant wildland fires is high and expected to remain high in multiple geographic areas.” #ClimateChange#ClimateCrisisnifc.gov/fireInfo/firei…
The wildfires are a serious existential threat to all life. We have a potus who cannot deal with these problems. He denies and ignores ANYTHING that might actually require working out National or worldwide plans. #ClimateChange#ClimateCrisis#COVID19
WHAT THE TEXAS GOP and conservative SCOTUS have done to women’s healthcare is unforgivable and even scarier than just an across the board ban on abortion.
BOUNTY HUNTERS NEXT: Pharmacists and their clerks across the country earning min. wage or $15/hr will not be able to…
…resist reporting *every* woman who gets a:
Morning after pill,
Birth control pills,
An IUD,
Shots,
Implants, etc.
Has a miscarriage
IMAGINE: the monetary value of such client databases. Wow.
IMAGINE: getting databases from healthcare providers of all women who’ve had…
…miscarriages.
These databases are now worth a boat-load of bounty money.
CONCERNED CITIZEN’S ORGANIZATIONS: will now *demand* and sue for databases from pharmacies, insurance companies, employers, healthcare companies, hospitals, contraceptive...
… guttmacher.org/antiabortion-a…
MY GRIPE: An authoritarian minded minority GOP has forced upon the majority a violent theocratic far right-wing swing to fascist hell in a hand basket.
Texas, where I live, is certainly leading the way. Killing and rigging voting & elections. Anti-masking & vaccines. Passing…
laws to hurt LGBTQ people.
Now women have lost agency over their own bodies as the state attacks health/abortion rights.
I was just a little guy in 1973 when Roe v. Wade was decided—so I didn’t completely understand it all. But I do recall (but for the religious right wing)…
women cheering and crying for JOY bcuz *all* of them had either had some horrifying experience or had a girl friend, or a daughter who had taken some terrifying drive out of town under cover of darkness. A midnight run.
My childhood community was mostly Catholic. Many of these…
POLITICAL JUNKIES GUIDE TO ELECTION NIGHT: HOW STATES COUNT THEIR VOTES AND EXPECTATIONS
Source: National conference of state legislatures • (1): Expanding eligibility refers to states that normally require an excuse to vote by absentee/mail ballot but have expanded eligibility in 2020 temporarily. States tagged "N/A" did not require an excuse prior to COVID-19.
(2): Refers to states that are mailing applications for absentee/mail ballots to voters proactively. (3): Refers to states that are mailing ballots to all eligible voters, no request needed.
@glennkirschner2 We are in a constitutional crisis. Now that it’s obviously happening the pundits don’t even mention it. Before they excitedly speculated “will x, y, z lead to a constitutional crisis?” As amazing as the constitution and subsequent institutions are...it pretty much all been...
@glennkirschner2 gutted by a confluence of motivations that share the end goal of power, domination by any means. The constitution was founded, in part, on an idea of shared values and honor. In the end, the Constitution has not survived the norm-breaking and lawlessness. All three branches...
@glennkirschner2 of government and stoic institutions have failed. Even the press has failed we’ve allowed the dominance of something like a FoxNews. Rather than shake our heads at the idiots who swallow this swill, we should instead wonder how the fcc, govt. etc. could allow Fox to continue...
Both Democrats and Republicans have basically killed the filibuster rules on all judicial nominations. All that’s left of the filibuster is the ability to obstruct legislation. The so called “soul of the Senate” is basically dead already. There’s nothing Ds can do to stop Rs...
from filling the seat. Nothing. When Ds take the Senate on Jan. 3, there’s no reason for them to hold onto this last vestige of the filibuster—which was essentially a mistake to begin with. Although, sure do wish Ds had it now to block Trumps RBG SCOTUS replacement. I think...
the structure of the Senate need to be drastically changed because it is *not* a democratic institution. Why should the senators from Wyoming with a population of just less that 600,000 have the same vote as the senators from California with a population of over 39,000,000.
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🚨BOOK REVIEW: .@MichaelCohen212 Disloyal
Recommendation: Don’t bother. An utter waste of time and money. He reveals absolutely nothing new or noteworthy. As a reader, I hoped to finish the book having learned a few new things. MC writes this to declare Trump is an abhorrent...
immoral character all the while fully embracing mea culpa. We know all that. But his apology is the rich man’s journey to heaven through the proverbial eye of the needle.
The writing is breezy but wholly sloppy and disorganized as to time, place, and event.
In spite of...
all Mr. Cohen has gone through and all the mea culpas he writes, it’s crystal he still fails to accept responsibility for the criminal actions he took. Like Trump he mitigates his despicable crimes and clings to a pathetic liturgy of victimhood. Page after page, Cohen...