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Mike Smith Apr 25, 2023

Hi everyone -

I've been doing some blogging about the intersection of business and climate action. I would appreciate your thoughts on what I've been writing and a follow / share if you like it.

https://aclymate.com/blog/climate-is-strategic

Small Business Climate Solutions

Mike Smith Mar 14, 2023

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Brandon Mar 13, 2023

@kairyssdal I hear “This is nonsense” in the voice of “This…….is Marketplace”

Mike Smith Mar 10, 2023

It takes an amazing lake of introspection for Jim Jordan to compare himself to the late Sen Frank Church, but then we already knew that Jim Jordan was a moron.

https://www.thebulwark.com/jim-jordans-weaponization-subcommittee-keeps-firing-blanks/

Jim Jordan’s Weaponization Subcommittee Keeps Firing Blanks

Jim Jordan’s premise as chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government is apparent: If at first you don’t succeed with political stunts dressed up as “investigations,” change the subject and try again. After an initial February 9 hearing airing old grievances, yesterday Jordan tried what had already backfired for his […]

The Bulwark

Mike Smith Feb 24, 2023

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Sister Helen Prejean Feb 14, 2023

Tears of joy today after hearing that Lamar Johnson has been freed after almost 30 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Too, too long.

Hail to the Midwest Innocence Project, and all those who worked so hard to see this day of justice finally arrive.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lamar-johnson-conviction-overturned-st-louisan-to-be-released-from-prison-after-30-years/article_7dbf605e-d341-5062-95cd-1071af6cdf14.html

#LamarJohnson #innocence #justice

Lamar Johnson walks free after murder conviction overturned

Lamar Johnson walked out the courthouse Tuesday afternoon, hours after a judge vacated his murder conviction and completing a decadeslong quest to prove he was wrongly imprisoned early 30 years

STLtoday.com

Mike Smith Feb 14, 2023

That dude nominated me to the Naval Academy. I’ll never not find that funny.

Mike Smith Feb 12, 2023

Things are going well for the man-baby and the bird site.

#NeedsAttention #IronMan

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Mike Smith Feb 7, 2023

Even when it is financially attractive to create renewable energy, those with financial interest will fight it. Conservatives, despite their claims, don’t favor a free market or innovation, they favor the entrenchment of existing power structures. It’s what they’re conserving.

Mike Smith Feb 7, 2023

What we’re up against:

“Jane Harf, executive director of Green Energy Ohio, a nonprofit that promotes sustainable energy, said solar has to clear a bar in Ohio that other land uses don’t have to meet. Whereas neighbors could stop a farmer from adding solar panels, “if he suddenly wanted a hog farm, they couldn’t stop him — and a hog farm is a lot more offensive to neighbors.””

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-07/solar-power-booms-in-coal-dependent-republican-us-states

Mike Smith Feb 2, 2023

Sister Helen Prejean Feb 2, 2023

I keep looking at this photo of #TyreNichols holding his baby aloft, joy and pride written across his face.

Usually the images we see when a person, more often than not a young black man, has been killed by the police, is of their beaten body. It is someone we can sympathize with but not necessarily connect to.

This photo of Tyre the joyful father cuts deeply because it helps us connect to him and begin to understand the depths of who we have lost.

Spend time here.

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