In March of 2017, Scott Pruitt, the Lord King of the EPA, was taking a regal nap in his lobbyist owned condo (we'll get back to that) when he was supposed to be at work. He wasn't answering his phone and apparently slept through the frantic knocking and doorbell ringing. So his ...read more
Continuing the pattern of Trump Cabinet appointees flagrantly using taxpayer dollars to live like rock stars, EPA Director Scott Pruitt has been getting raked over the coals for spending over $163,000 in first class, military, and charter flights in just one year. The right, ...read more
Looking forward to 2018 and 2020, the Democrats need to work together if they want to stop the Trump administration plunging the country and the rest of the planet into an ecological abyss, because shit just got very, very real. From the Atlantic: Since January, the Trump ...read more
While pretty much every Republican currently in office is awful, there are seven that stand out from the rest of the crowd. They exemplify everything that's wrong with the modern right wing and deserve a round of applause for their extraordinary effort to destroy everything good ...read more
For the last couple of weeks Republicans in search of a win have been working in good faith with Democrats (no, seriously) to put together a spending bill they could all sign off on. It does some of what Republicans want and some of what Democrats want. In other words, it's a ...read more
Part of creating a workable, practical resistance to Donald Trump is correctly diagnosing what we are up against. While the terrible news is often overwhelming, ignoring it will do nothing to change what is happening. Take for example, the Trump administration's announcement ...read more
No, this is not hyperbole. Five days into the Trump administration and America is officially transitioning into a fascist state -- and today was without a doubt the worst day since Donald Trump decided to run for president. According to the AP the Trump administration will now ...read more
Just four days into his presidency, Donald Trump has declared an all out war on our natural environment. In a frenzy of executive orders and directives, the Trump administration has frozen all EPA grants and ordered the agency not to talk about it, pledged to slash environmental ...read more
While president elect Trump has been busy sending the media into a tailspin over his incessant tweeting, behind the scenes he continues to amass a team of incompetent lobbyists, extremists and racists to run the White House in 2017. Latest in this ongoing horror show is the ...read more
Pointing to the barely mentioned World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report delivered at the international conference on climate change in Morocco on Nov. 8th, Noam Chomsky contrasted the findings with the platform of the Republican Party. "The WMO reported that the past ...read more
I follow American politics for a living and have a pretty good grip of how the game works. It is messy, corrupt and merciless, and those who survive it at the highest levels truly are a different breed of human being. Generally speaking, this means the majority are at least ...read more
One of the problems with sharing internet memes created by lonely bloggers from their parent's basement is that by and large, they are complete bullshit. Take this highly misleading photo that was shared by Sarah Palin on her facebook page, slamming the Environmental Protection ...read more
"Who has the right to take what God’s given a state?" -- Alabama Public Service Commission commissioner-elect Chip Beeker, standing against new national EPA regulations by extolling the virtues of God-given coal At a news conference yesterday -- because apparently Alabama's ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From AP: When a man in a Fort Worth suburb reported his family's drinking water had begun "bubbling" like champagne, the federal government sounded an alarm: An oil company may have tainted their wells while drilling for natural gas. At first, ...read more
