January 6 in History

Wrote this two years ago: “If the insurrectionist-in-chief returns to power without ever facing any real consequences and while explicitly declaring his intent to establish a vindictive autocracy, then January 6 will have been successful.”

And here we are.

https://steady.page/en/democracyamericana/posts/653e87bc-1625-42e1-8f00-141ca9602b91

Roumor:

In response to Trump sending a hospital ship to Greenland, Denmark is now sending a psychiatric hospital ship to Washington D.C.

More than 40% of insect species have declined in just a decade. They’re vanishing 8 times faster than mammals, birds or reptiles.

If insects go, so do the ecosystems that keep us alive.

Biodiversity is our life-support system — we can’t afford to let it collapse.

#WorldBiodiversityDay

Tormenting the turtle with tail bait

#Caturday

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26122023/state-of-denial-texas-polluters-evade-federal-law/

Well that's a fuckin' whirlwind of a story. Between this article, and the previous five in the six-part series ("State of Denial"), an (in my opinion) impenetrable case is made that TCEQ is a sham body, riddled with political and private-sector conflicts of interest that make it fundamentally unsuitable as an enforcement vehicle for federal environmental protection laws. It is a prototypical example of regulatory capture.

And the (federal) EPA's refusal to act in the face of that reality makes them complicit, if not downright duplicitous. As far as I'm concerned, the EPA is treating Texas as a Sacrifice Zone in order to allow out-of-state interests to continue accruing short-term returns, at the expense of the long-term health and well-being of Texans.

#TCEQ #texas #RegulatoryCapture #environmentalism #SacrificeZone #EnvironmentalRacism #ICN