Timothy Lange

2 weeks ago | dailykos.com | Timothy Lange

This will be short and without my commentary because I would have to find some asbestos pixels to write it on. From The Guardian: Trump administration to send national guard to Los Angeles amid Ice protestsThe Trump administration will deploy the national guard to immigration protests in Los Angeles, border czar Tom Homan said on Saturday, as an immigration crackdown in the area erupted into mass protests with police in riot gear deploying teargas at bystanders. “We’re already mobilizing.

2 weeks ago | dailykos.com | Timothy Lange

Ralph Keeling, director of the Scripps CO Program, noted Thursday: “Another year, another record,” It’s sad.”In 1958, Scripps scientist Charles David Keeling, father of Ralph Keeling, began monitoring CO 2 concentrations at the NOAA weather station located at the observatory site. Keeling was the first to recognize that CO 2 levels in the Northern Hemisphere peaked in May, fell during the growing season, and rose again as plants died in the fall.

1 month ago | dailykos.com | Timothy Lange

Nine months ago I had prepared a list of a couple dozen articles and commentaries that I planned to write in 2025 after President Kamala Harris took office. Pieces that would focus on good policies that need accelerating, somewhat good policies that need tweaking, and wrong-headed policies that need discarding, like the climatically lethal “all of the above” federal approaches to energy of the past half-century.

1 month ago | dailykos.com | Timothy Lange

America has had itself a few rotten presidents over the centuries. Including some who should have gone to prison. But never before have we had a pitifully ignorant wannabe mobster with a grifter’s morals and a scoundrel’s heart behaving so hideously in plain site. And flaunting it. The John Gotti of presidents. This is not to say that Trump’s appalling performances in the new White House episodes of The Apprentice are the worst of what he’s been doing.

1 month ago | dailykos.com | Timothy Lange

Project 2025ers are determined to jeopardize people’s health care, people’s livelihoods, people’s educations, people’s freedoms and rights, people’s safety, and people’s futures. We all are (or know someone or are related to someone who is) negatively affected by what’s being shoved down our throats by the oligarchs in charge. So it’s understandable we tend to forget threats to species other than people.