A host of the nation's most seasoned and sober experts on environmental law are writing increasingly hair-on-fire takes about the damage that BAAJA could do to core federal regulatory powers and it somehow isn't penetrating the discourse.
Brad Johnson@climatebrad.hillheat.com · 7d agoIncredible letter: David Bookbinder, who used to be chief counsel for @niskanencenter.bsky.social and @sierraclub.org and ran a legal consultancy with a former Exxon lawyer, excoriates #BAAJA.
#BAAJA will kill jobs and sideline core Democratic constituencies. How are we supposed to line up behind the party in the future when they’ve destroyed our livelihoods?
#BAAJA is a terrible deal that fast tracks fossil fuel development, sidelines tribal nations, and opens our public lands up to speculation and exploitation.
He did not, in fact, know what would happen in Michigan.
Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3mo agoI know what’s going to happen in Michigan and I just assume that the Senate is now out of reach
Choosing to tell myself that Pinkins mostly pulled Hyde-Smith voters.
ALABAMA UPDATES Allison T. Montgomery, House District 25, is the first trans person elected to public office in the state’s history. I am proud that she is my representative at the State Capitol in Montgomery.
ALABAMA UPDATES Madison County (my home county) has elected the first gay sheriff in the state’s history.
This was faxed to Alabama Democratic Party headquarters today. No mercy, no amnesty, no compromise.
One year for Halloween I just put a bunch of old canned goods outside my door and left a note telling people not to knock.
My kids watch A LOT of Bluey, and Bandit is an archaeologist. But there’s only ever one dingo character. The rest are all Eurasian dog breeds, and I feel like this has Serious Implications about this Daugstralia.
John McPhee with an aux cord. “Please,” they beg, “not another 700 page narrative rant about geology.” *Annals of the Former World blares into existence*
Tuberville campaign making Doug Jones look cool as hell here.
I once tried to open a can of beans with a meat cleaver and sliced most of the way, horizontally, through my left index finger when it slipped. Rather than going to the ER I (foolishly) wrapped it duct tape for about a year until it healed.
Nick (derogatory) ✨@slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2w agoI appear to have created a permission structure for posting your most horrible accidents. Whatever, go crazy. Let’s hear it. In what obscene ways have you maimed and impaled yourselves?
