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We just came close to losing much of Europe when Ukraine’s nuclear plants were attacked by Russian forces. Yet the always-feckless Kerry has turned his post as special climate envoy into a shill for the utility companies. They want the government to rescue their investment in regressive, expensive, inefficient and hideously dangerous nuclear power plants.

Nuclear power could end humanity even faster than global warming.

Now the Department of Energy is saying it wants to convert ancient col plants into new nuclear plants.

WHAT? And where is the media on this?

Beyond Nuclear calls it out:

“Energy leadership in this country is either blind and deaf to the reality of the climate emergency, or completely captured by the powerful energy lobbies of yesterday. Mired in outdated thinking, they cling to failed and foolish energy plans that have long been supplanted by demonstrably better, faster, cheaper, safer and more workable options, ergo renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation.”

The White House is all in with Kerry’s piracy, as Kamala Harris glibly cheerleads the sale of three new nuclear plants to Poland.

To add insult to injury, Kerry is now embracing an oil executive to preside over the next U.N. “Climate Summit”–aka trade fair for nuclear and other deadly technologies.

They are appalled by his attempted takeover of Israeli democracy.

It’s time to defeat decisively the insidious equation that any criticism of far-right Israeli politics is motivated by anti-Semitism.

Of course Trump supported Netanyahu. Both are totalitarians. We’ve seen again and again how Trump truckles to autocratic personalities.

But that doesn’t make Trump any less of an anti-Semitic neo-Nazi.

Mehdi Hassan just reminded us of McCarthy’s since-deleted tweet attacking Jewish bankers.

The way they so calamitously refused to do after George W. Bush stole the 2000 election.
Deep-sixed committee members need to form shadow committees that will call out every corrupt machination that the GOP-led committees attempt.

First order of business for the Republican House: repeal funding earmarked to ensure that the wealthy pay what they legally owe.

Kyle Cheney of Politico has flagged one of the craven concessions McCarthy made to the sedition caucus: a green light for House committees to seize the right to monitor ongoing DOJ investigations–investigations that are inevitably targeting the likes of coup participants like Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

to prevent corruption in New York governance:

New York State Senator Jabari Brisport, who represents several Brooklyn communities, refuses campaign donations from the real-estate community–or, for that matter, from for-profit corporations.

I don’t care how close Ginny and Clarence Thomas are with Liz Cheney, we need to know about the criminality of the wife of a corrupt Supreme Court justice.

And ignoring MTG is not going to make her go away.

The Democrats must launch a daily rebuttal of her tirades, no matter how improbable they seem, because, yes, many Americans will believe her if she isn’t challenged.

For years, the Dems have made the disastrous miscalculation that Americans are more rational and informed than they really ae.

HE’S ASKED BY KARILYN PRISCO IN THE OCTOBER 2022 WEST VIEW NEWS:
“How does it feel to speak as a different age, gender, or member of a different demographic group when writing?”

“It feels scary but exciting. It feels like I’m stretching the limit of my craft. When I first started writing these stories the voices I knew well were the voices of the young thug and the sassy urban black female, but as I thought more and more about residents in a given building, I realized people can fit all kinds of different definitions. In order to portray them accurately, I had no choice but to go across age and gender. I took it as a challenge. This day and age it’s tough because everybody has their own idea of identity politics, but I think the beauty of fiction is inhabiting other people and swimming around in their skin.”

In other words, Fofana is functioning as a creative artist, as all writers should be allowed to.

Are the Own Voices agitators and the publishers they’ve bamboozled actually asking us to accept that writers of color should not be censored, but everyone else should be?

Do they not understand how this plays into the agenda of Republican party fascists?