A Ticking Clock on American Freedom
It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.
“You think you can wait and see, and keep democracy intact? Wanna bet? “
23.04.2025 23:27
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Opinion | The Donald Trump Leap of Faith (Gift Article)
Angels for sale. Only $1,000.
I’m a nonbeliever who in my youth identified as an evangelical. I have struggled to understand why so many today’s evangelicals love Trump. This is the best analysis I’ve found. Longish but well worth it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
06.04.2025 16:48
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The day many feared would soon come is already here, with the White House openly defying direct orders from federal judges on deportation. I take us through what happened and why the stakes have been upped considerably once again in my piece: open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
17.03.2025 16:23
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BP to Slash Green Spending, Pivot Back to Oil
The struggling British energy company has seen its rivals streak ahead after it bet big on clean energy.
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
5 years ago, when BP pledged to go carbon “net-zero” by 2050, I called them on it in a blog post. They responded: “There’s no turning back!” Well, this just happened.
02.03.2025 19:02
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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
10.02.2025 15:26
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No, people who sat out the election (for all the good reasons you stated) aren’t villains. But I and many other Harris voters weren’t so much backing the Dems as desperately
trying to hold off the fascist disaster that was so clearly coming.
10.02.2025 17:26
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Tired of people excusing MAGA voters of being deceived into thinking their votes would just bring prices down. Maybe some did. But others acted of their own free will and made a choice. Even if they can’t articulate what facism is, they wanted it and chose it.
10.02.2025 16:16
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Postcard from California: The long-term public health toll of the LA fires
By Bill Walker The horrific fires that incinerated more than 40,000 acres in Southern California last month were still burning when newly-inaugurated President Trump flew in to view the devastation. At a Jan. 24 press briefing with local officials, he groused that he had heard people who lost their homes would not be allowed to rebuild for up to 18 months. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass pointed out that, first, burned lots had to be cleared of hazardous waste. “The most important thing is for people to be safe,” she said. “What's hazardous waste?” Trump retorted. “You're going to have to define that. Are we going to go through a whole series of questions on determining what's hazardous waste? I just think you have to allow people to go on their site and start the process tonight." Despite what Trump may think, federal regulators have established clear definitions of hazardous waste. When the Palisades and Eaton fires consumed more than 16,000 homes and other structures in the Los Angeles area, they left behind over 4.25 million tons of it. While the fires have been contained, exposure to dangerous toxins in that lingering waste and in the smoke that choked the region for more than three weeks will, over time, claim many more victims than the 29 lives lost in the flames. Heat, drought and the Santa Ana winds were the fires’ direct causes, but scientists say conditions were made worse by climate change. Park Williams, a hydroclimatologist at the University of California at Los Angeles, told NPR: “These fires are very likely more intense and dangerous … because of global warming." US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workers in hazmat gear are racing against a Trump-ordered Feb. 25 deadline to inspect each burn site and perform an initial cleanup. "We have to move five times the speed based on the directives we are getting," an EPA official told Reuters. "Normally, this takes months."
www.thenewlede.org/2025/02/post...
The Los Angeles fires took 29 lives, but over time the smoke and the hazardous waste left behind will claim thousands more. My latest Postcard from California for The New Lede.
06.02.2025 22:43
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When someone expresses genuine regret voting for Trump, the best thing we can do is welcome them into the fold. We're not gonna get anywhere with ridiculous gatekeeping and pettiness. Let's offer folks an off-ramp into the coalition of reasonable adults.
06.02.2025 15:52
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Jimmy Kimmel: Trump’s next tough negotiating tactic: “Force France to give us the Statue of Liberty.”
05.02.2025 16:46
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This is what it sounds like when you’ve forgotten you’re supposed to be the party of the working class ready to fight against the capture of our government by an authoritarian kleptocracy backed by oligarchs hellbent on leaving regular Americans behind. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
03.02.2025 17:13
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After serving as ambassador to Hungary, David Pressman: “Most alarming is just how easy it is to control people. It doesn’t take secret police, guns or gulags. If overwhelm the media ecosystem with lies, the cost of engaging in public debate becomes an existential one.” (NYT Magazine.)
02.02.2025 22:51
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Rebuilding and Malibu Fire History
YouTube video by The Lookout
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIWz...
Malibu has burned 9 times in 90 years. Yet Calif. wants to make it easier to rebuild. Fire expert Zeke Lunder: “Crazy. Just crazy.”
30.01.2025 16:29
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Opinion | Trump Has Something He Would Like to Bring to Your Attention (Gift Article)
Attention is the fuel of American politics, and Trump knows it
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...
@As powerful as money is in politics, attention is even more so. We have largely failed to regulate the role of money in politics. For attention, the problem is worse — and we have not even begun to attempt solutions.”
26.01.2025 16:30
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