Bowser To City: Play Dead

PRESENTED BY KINGBIRDS NOT KINGS

The Big Balls Goon Show occupation of Washington, D.C., is led by the neo-Nazi Stephen Miller, the Washington Post’s Emily Davies and Natalie Allison report. They claim that violent crime has decreased, even though armed abductions and carjackings by masked gangs have exploded. The regime is “encouraged by D.C. officials’ enthusiasm and collaborative tone,” led by Mayor Muriel Bowser, who speaks with Trump AG Pam Bondi “sometimes daily.” Bowser is finding new ways to collaborate with Trump’s forces every day.

There’s about as much evidence for Bowser’s claim that the people of DC are “trusting my judgment” as there is for appeasement being a winning strategy with fascist dictators.

Free DC’s activists attended the House markup of the Financial Services and General Government approps bill that attacks climate and DC on Wednesday, held a press conference with Reps. Glenn Ivey (D-Md.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and several members of the DC Council outside the Capitol yesterday, have a mass rally and march on Saturday, and are lobbying Congress next week, is encouraging residents to send in letters of no confidence:

Free DC is the anti-authoritarian autonomy movement in the city co-founded by international climate policy organizer Keya Chatterjee.

“The United States has told countries to reject a United Nations' marine fuel emissions-cutting deal or face tariffs, visa restrictions and port levies, U.S. and European officials and sources told Reuters.”

OOPS: The fossil-fuel industry claims the Earth has the capacity to store about 14,000 gigatons of carbon dioxide underground in geologic storage. This vast potential reserve is a required component of any climate scenario that includes the continued burning of fossil fuels (and limits global warming to possibly survivable levels). A comprehensive review published in Nature finds that the actual geological storage capacity is about 1,400 GtCO₂. Carbon capture and storage is a cooked-up fantasy.

Thea Rionfrancos writes on Trump’s misadventures in extractive fascism, taking a stake in rare-earth mining while killing the renewable-energy market for rare-earth minerals: “On July 10, the Department of Defense became the single largest shareholder in the only rare earths mine in the US. . . This form of resource nationalism is the worst of all worlds.”

It’s a very good idea to avoid plastics during pregnancy, Shannon Osaka writes. But in today’s plasticized world, it’s easier said than done—the toxic phthlates in processed foods, lotions, and plastic products are known as “everywhere chemicals.”

Molly Taft reports that “technologies installed to remove forever chemicals from drinking water are also doing double-duty by removing harmful other materials”—but the Trump regime has already moved to scrap Biden’s PFAS drinking-water limits.

Yesterday, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee interviewed two Trump nominees to be members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: fracking-company lawyer Laura Sweet and Project 2025 contributor David LaCerte. Trump wants Swett, a Vinson and Elkins lawyer, to be chair. Nutjob Laura Loomer is going after LaCerte because he filed suit on behalf of big banks hit by a Louisiana law barring business with them because of their stances on guns, but he’s a hard-right ideologue, so he’ll do fine. During the wan hearing, the Democrats fretted about FERC independence. Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) obliquely noted the problem of global warming in the form of “extreme heat and other weather disasters,” but failed to note that fossil fuels are the cause. Under questioning from Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.), LaCerte pledged allegiance to coal.

Climate Hearings:

• 12 PM: House Natural Resources Committee
     Federal Lands Subcommittee
  Field Hearing in Grand Teton National Park on The Great American Outdoors Act

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