Its almost like the manifest will of the White “Christian” Right as summoned the first false prophet from their “Rapture”.

If we weren’t a technological society, we’d barely notice it outside an increase in skin cancer and perhaps some local extinction events. The earth’s poles flip about every 250,000 years or so and take a thousand or so years to progress. What happens during this time is the Ozone layer is (usually) slightly depleted…

About the ozone layer... *sigh* There’s a magnetic anomaly that is building up. We seem to be in the starting stages of a pole reversal. They usually happen every 250,000 years or so. We’re around 750,000 years since the last flip. The southern magnetic anomaly is allowing ionizing radiation to dip within 150 miles of…

A small reminder that this is the new normal going forward. Even if things changed today and our net emissions dropped to zero, you’d still have several decades of these events to look forward to before the environment began to normalize and the frequencies reduced slowly to historical (as in earlier 20th century)…

Just to help you if you’re interested in how to make it clear to people wondering why climate change is so important... especially in relationship to this event. Its not the actual heat dome itself, but the chance of a heat dome forming increasing that is the appropriate tie into climate change. We had 1 heat dome…

History proves... no. This is a political statement because some of their base is appalled by what is going on and are annoying their staff with letters and phone calls about it. (The Rethuglans stopped listening to their phones and looking at their mail long ago) These senators are only saying this to appease their…

“AOC’s...” gets dismissed automatically. Has never said anything worthy of consideration and I like AOC so that name just won’t stand. 

Pence was seen on video clearly disturbed by what he was witnessing, although he did not denounce the conditions, instead praising the efforts of border officials.

However, if you are saying that beating up participants in a rally is your equivalent to beating up a particular ethnic, religious or social minority - then that becomes a hate crime because the attack was done without knowing the actual disposition of the people that were the victims. It is a grey area - but a grey…

2 years feels woefully inadequate as a deterrent to others who want to join up with these asshats. Even considering the horrors of our prison system.

The problem as you and I know is not the 95 good law enforcement officials out of every 100. Its the 5 bad ones. Life is a spectrum. And you only need to be in that 45-55 percent of people who are open to suggestion from colleagues to get ram-shafted by those 5 asshats into doing something extremely bad. And those 5…

I’m getting flashbacks to Stealth from this.  Maverick is going to be up against an AI drone.  “The end is inevitable Maverick, your kind is heading for extinction.”  Maverick: “Maybe so sir, but not today.” 

I’d be careful with that line of thought - the “XYZ won’t appear/disappear in my lifetime”. Same thing was thought by people with horses between 1900 and 1910 when asked about that new fangled horseless carriage and that whacky little thing Ford produced... The Model T.   And it doesn’t have to disappear completely to…

If we make it out of 2020 with 45, Pence, and all his cronies gone (and preferably facing long jail sentences for treason.) and not finding out there’s thousands (or more) of dead people in camps? I’ll be buying drinks if we’re ever in the same place. (Although I’ll have to pass because of my predisposition to gout)…

Every day a new horror. Eventually shit will come to a head. At some point soon 45’s going to say: “Well... I think we need to seriously consider that if we turn the government over to the Democrats, we’ll... like.... you know... not be able to Make America Great Again. So... I think I need to be President for Life.…

And people will still be saying: “But, but he can’t do that! The LAW!” or silently nodding along saying “He’s only doing it to the bad ones!” as his goons go door to door “to collect them” and his supporters wait salivating to claim anything they can for themselves in the aftermath.

We didn’t put enough progressives in place. A Centrist/Right-wing Democrat is politically indistiguishable from a Centrist/Right Wing republican - except for the kinds of business they get a happy over helping out. I’d be honestly surprised if Pelosi actually stopped attacking progressives in her own caucus for any…

Well, the primary is for voting the person your conscience wants.  And lets be clear, Unless something comes up, I’ll be voting warren right now too.  She has a plan and she has her shit together in ways I don’t think Bernie ever did.  But my point was more about the general election.  There’s an entire truckload of…

Centrists and Right Wingers are a crust of mold on society at this point. We need change to adapt to the various existential threats we face as a species and all these people want to do is pigeonhole things until after they’re dead... unless they can get some personal profit or profit for their corporate donors. We…

Where there’s a wrench there’s a way. Although keeping in decent octane gas or usable diesel is probably going to be a problem.