Yesterday, I tripped over many interesting articles … so many I may have Wednesday finished and be into Thursday, though I can always delay something for breaking news. Videos were a bit sparser, but I managed. I’ll have two posts tomorrow. I got my next appointment to see Virgil confirmed for October 17 (a Sunday.)
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DOJ Accuses ‘Subversive’ Texas Legislature of Passing ‘Terrifying’ Anti-Abortion Law to ‘Outflank’ Supremacy of U.S. Constitution
Quote – U.S. Department of Justice attorney Brian Netter argued in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas that the state had enabled a regime of “vigilante justice” in direct contravention of the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of the right to a pre-viability abortion. He said the DOJ considered the state’s “ploy” to be an “open threat to the rule of law.” Netter later said Texas was “appointing vigilante bounty hunters” to enforce an anti-abortion measure that state actors would be immediately be blocked by a federal judge from enforcing on their own under the color of law.
Click through for story. We knew they were going to file this suit, but we didn’t – at least I didn’t – know they were going to use such inflammatory lahgiage in it.
The Guardian – ‘There’s tar everywhere’: large California oil spill fouls beaches and kills wildlife
Quote – The oil created a miles-wide sheen in the ocean and washed ashore in sticky, black globules along with dead birds and fish. Crews led by the US Coast Guard deployed skimmers and floating barriers known as booms to try to stop further incursion into the wetlands and the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve.
Click through for the scope of the problem, Of course this is Orange County. Plus Californi still has fires as well as CoViD.
Vox – When the world actually solved an environmental crisis
Quote – “Projections suggested that the ozone layer would collapse by 2050,” the Future of Life Institute’s Georgiana Gilgallon told me. “We’d have collapsing ecosystems, agriculture, genetic defects.” The sudden plunge in atmospheric ozone heralded a coming disaster. But the world responded. With consumer boycotts, political action, a major international treaty called the Montreal Protocol, and a huge investment in new technologies to replace CFCs in all their commercial and industrial uses, new CFC production was brought effectively to a halt over the 1990s and early 2000s. It took a while to phase out existing devices that used CFCs, but CFC emissions have been steadily falling since the protocol went into effect.
Click through for details. Of course that was then. This is now. And to solve a problem one really needs to admit that it exists.
Food for Thought –
