Harry Callahan

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Well, do ya punk?

Civil Engineer. My professional life is from the ground down. We bring you water, transmit & treat wastewater & stormwater, & design safe roadways. There is a world of networked piping below the surface, all designed, sized & constructed per plans & calculations. That's my world.

Lifelong #Independent, but will never vote Republican again.

Go Bills! Go Sabres!

#fedi22
#environment
#Ukraine
#legal
#regulation
#climate
#music
#history
#journalism
#news

Pour one out for Gary Wright (‘Love is Alive,' ‘Dream Weaver’) dead at age 80 #music #GaryWright #DreamWeaver https://youtu.be/82DSEkHatpw?si=2c_QZl2JYHzNxOVi
When someone wants to get #republican voters worked up, they use rhetoric of being attacked. Their way of life, their country, their guns, whatever. When someone wants to get #democratic voters worked up, they claim some group needs to be defended. The environment, a minority, the disenfranchised whomever. #politics it's all the same.
Living in a southern red state likely means dying younger: report

Some of the world's best life expectancy outcomes, according to United Nations (UN) data, can be founded in "socialist" countries that MAGA Republicans despise — including 84 in Switzerland, Italy and Spain; 83 in Sweden, Norway, Canada and France; and 82 in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmar...

Alternet.org

Q: what kind of television network or news outlet has its hosts & analysts normalizing, excusing and defending white collar criminal activity all day, every day, for years on end?

A: a television station owned and operated by white collar criminals.

#politics #journalism

Here's a terrific concise summary by @grist on what Exxon knew in the late 1970's, into the 1980's about the effects of atmospheric​ CO2 on our shared planet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF9me_FYcEs
Exxon meant well during their research phase, but once they realised cutting emissions would impact their existing business model, the denial, delay, deceive efforts began. And, here we are today, decades later. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GlobalBoiling #Exxon #ExxonKnew #ExxonMobil #Climate
Here’s how much Exxon really knew

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"Who would Trump be if he withdrew from the race? A nobody —and a nobody with no protection from the law. The authoritarian playbook dictates that it’s precisely when you have serious legal problems that you are most motivated to run for office, so you can gain (or regain) power and domesticate the judiciary so your legal exposure will vanish."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Trump #Republicans #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #authoritarianism

https://lucid.substack.com/p/running-for-office-while-under-indictment

Running for Office While Under Indictment is What Strongmen Do; The Role of Co-Conspirators

And a roundup of U.S. and foreign reactions to the indictment

Lucid
Too hot now (supposed to get up to 106 today) but considering making a sandwich board that will go around my neck, made of foamcore or poster board, with some things I want to say, and going downtown to the town square with handouts. Something like
Trump
Con Man
Thief
Liar
Sexual Abuser
and then something else on the back, maybe a pic of Trump
For my own materials, I would have a printout of the indictments but the handout would have the URL of where to get them. Also would plan not to discuss other stuff THAN Trump (ie, no attempts to steer a conversation to abortion, etc. Also prepared with questions like "Do you agree with this" sticking to the topic.
Seems to me that, rather than just blabbing or reading about this on the internet, I'd like to be visible, even if only me, in my own town.
Saw an example of a sidewalk board here https://craftingagreenworld.com/articles/how-to-make-a-sandwich-board/ #Trump
How to Make a Sandwich Board

Here's how to make a sandwich board with materials that you can get for free.

Crafting a Green World

Dear #JillStein voters, independents, "middle of roaders" - ANYONE considering voting 3rd party in 2024 - RFK JR is a GOP pawn...fueled by his narcissism. #JillStein is a Putin plant.

If ANY election is not the time, this one is IT or it WILL be ur last real vote. ACT ACCORDINGLY. H. Clinton "lost" by less than total of Stein votes in swing states. 🔥 🔥

WARNING:

"Hitler was elected w/ only 43.9% of vote. He won because of multiple parties splintering the anti-Nazi vote."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-pledge-of-allegiance_n_64a2eca3e4b0dcb22c46c8dc?utm_campaign=share_facebook&ncid=engmodushpmg00000003&fbclid=IwAR0c0ZSHfkdeIAwjhlWy16SS6xmYDiTd6QwcBgW3Npwma3Gmski5QE9noW8

"Conservatives have always claimed in a rather obnoxious chest-pounding manner to own patriotism, love of country and the freedoms enshrined in our Constitution. Yet it is always the conservatives, be they lawmakers or citizens, either by word or by deed, who strive to deny the very freedoms they say they love and, in many cases, have sworn to defend."

I was in school in the 60s/70s. This sounds very familiar.
#USpolitics
#Freedom

The Freedom NOT To Recite The Pledge Of Allegiance

Why would anyone being marginalized pledge allegiance to a flag representing a country seemingly in the process of stripping away their freedoms?

HuffPost
Taxpayers are forced to fund charter schools that indoctrinate students with a far right Christian nationalist ideology. These indoctrination centers must be closed. https://tultican.com/2023/07/03/chartered-to-indoctrinate/ #indoctrination
Chartered to Indoctrinate

By Thomas Ultican 7/3/2023 Carol Burris and team at Network for Public Education (NPE) just published, “A Sharp Turn Right” (STR). NPE President Diane Ravitch noted there are several problems assoc…

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