Subpoenas, indictments, and trials, oh, my! Fox caught lying to Dominion; Lordy, there are tapes of Giuliani and Bartiromo; Bragg sues Jordan (gets another death threat, too); Fani Willis; Dark Jack Smith; the rape and defamation trial...Also more Putin war crimes, more military idiocy, economy cratering, more weapons for Ukraine, more mysterious explosions and deaths...Finland! Renewables! EVs! All in one day!
Are we having fun yet? What’s not to like, eh? Note: You will be excused if you can’t keep up with it all. There will not be a quiz, but there will be a test—voting, GOTV, issue advocacy, getting woker.
Oh, yes. Also more screaming from the Usual Suspects, which means, you guessed it, we get to do more of whatever that was.
Lightning Round: The TN Three, Idaho, Mifepristone, calling out Dog Whistle and Denialist Disinformation, voting, getting woker (Sorry, no link to toxic anti-woke propaganda)…
We’re going down the road of karma this morning, to all our yesterdays that lighted fools the way to dusty death.
The Beatles - Yesterday
Regular Good News
You know, it’s a good sign when there is nowhere near enough room for all of the Good News of the day.
The Carpenters - Yesterday Once More (INCLUDES LYRICS)
Finland!
Finland’s Turn
Finland is gripped by wartime mania. News reports show mothers baking celebratory NATO cakes, online sales of NATO flags are soaring, and a Savonlinna-based brewing company has recently rolled out a NATO-themed beer, Otan olutta (the first word is a play on the French acronym for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; the full name means ‘I’ll have some beer’ in Finnish). The outgoing Social Democratic Prime Minister Sanna Marin has repeatedly emphasized the similarities between the 1939 Finnish–Russian War and today’s conflict in Ukraine. Hundreds of Finns, including the former chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, have paid to have personalized messages inscribed on Ukrainian artillery shells fired at Russian forces.
Renewables!
FEMA is sued over rebuilding Puerto Rico's power grid without focusing on renewables
Interior OKs massive power line key for West’s renewables
Texas bills call for renewables to help save declining fossil fuel sector
The Texas Senate on Wednesday passed a package of bills that would cut support from wind and solar power and force renewable electricity producers to help pay for new fossil fuel power plants.
The five bills are part of a larger campaign by the Republican-controlled body to redirect growth in the states’ flourishing renewable energy sector — by far the largest in the country — toward oil and gas.
The effort seeks to establish the long-term primacy of “dispatchable” electricity — in practice, gas powered plants — over renewables.
Boo! Hiss! But note that TX now has to pretend to support renewables, and that coal is out of the mix.
EVs!
EPA proposes new tailpipe rules that could push EVs to make up two-thirds of new car sales in US by 2032
To get from 7% to 75% in 9 years requires a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 30%, far above recent growth. That is to say, 1.39=10.6. I like it. We’re getting real now.
Repellent Wrong-Wingers Rushing to Wretched Ruin
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down—Johnny Cash
Every Dog Whistle from Decades Past
From States Rights to Grooming. I’ll spare you the sordid details, and my personal list from a few years ago of hundreds of examples.
Fox Caught Lying to Dominion
Analysis: Fox News has been exposed as a dishonest organization terrified of its own audience
Judge in Dominion case sanctions Fox for withholding evidence, plans to appoint special master to probe possible misconduct
Lordy, There are tapes of Giuliani and Bartiromo
Caught on Tape: Trump Official Told Fox News Dominion Voting Machines Were Legit
The release of the audio comes in the throes of Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit over Fox’s attempts to link the company to nonexistent election fraud. Earlier on Wednesday, Delaware Judge Eric Davis sanctioned Fox News after the company was caught withholding evidence from Dominion’s lawyers, including recorded conversations with Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.
Abby Grossberg, a former Tucker Carlson producer who has claimed the network coerced her testimony regarding the lawsuit, provided the recordings to the court.
“I’m going to be asking you for as much evidence as you can tell us about these lawsuits. Whatever you can tell us in terms of evidence would be really helpful,” says Bartiromo.
“I can tell you exactly what we have,” says Giuliani, who admits when asked about Dominion’s software, says “that’s a little harder.”
After Bragg Sued Jordan He Got Another Death Threat
Manhattan DA Sues Jim Jordan Over House GOP Trump Case Probe (2)
Georgia prosecutors considering racketeering and conspiracy charges in probe of effort to overturn Trump's 2020 loss, source says
The Fulton County probe expanded beyond the Trump phone calls to include false claims of election fraud to state lawmakers, the fake elector scheme, efforts by unauthorized individuals to access voting machines in one Georgia county and threats and harassment against election workers.
Willis previously said their far-reaching investigation included potential "solicitation of election fraud, the making of false statements to state and local governmental bodies, conspiracy, racketeering, violation of oath of office and any involvement in violence or threats related to the election's administration."
A Fulton County judge approved the district attorney's request to document testimony by all 75 witnesses who appeared before the special grand jury, so the full record of transcripts could become public record, according to a source familiar with the investigation. Although, timing details of when this treasure trove of information could be released is still unclear.
Dark Jack Smith
Why It Seems Like We’ll See Charges in the Mar-a-Lago Case Next
Rape and Defamation Trial
Trump Tries to Derail Rape Defamation Trial With Indictment Excuse
News Flash: Loser Loses Again
Trump loses last bid to keep key evidence out of rape trial
A federal judge ruled that key witnesses will be allowed to testify and that misogynistic remarks Trump made about women in 2005, when he apparently didn’t realize he was being
recorded, can be played for a jury.
More Putin war crimes, more military idiocy, economy cratering, more weapons for Ukraine, more mysterious explosions and deaths
Russia risks becoming an 'economic colony of China' following its invasion of Ukraine, says CIA director
No, I am NOT going to give you all of the gory details. Here is a link to all recent DK Ukraine stories, about a hundred of them.
Science! Animals! Weirdness!
Here is an earlier X-ray image, from Chandra, of this same Tycho supernova, SN 1572.
In My Life (Remastered 2009)
Let’s start with Real Gnus, as opposed to the terminal weirdness of Faux Gnus.
Denialists have gotten #ClimateScam trending on Twitter. This Tweet uses the tag to debunk them. They claim breathlessly that this volcano, Mt. Etna, puts out 3 million tons of CO2 each year. The problem is that we have 3 trillion tons of excess CO2 in the atmosphere and oceans.
New findings that map the universe's cosmic growth support Einstein's theory of gravity
"We have mapped the invisible dark matter across the sky to the largest distances, and clearly see features of this invisible world that are hundreds of millions of light-years across, says Blake Sherwin, professor of cosmology at the University of Cambridge, where he leads a group of ACT researchers. "It looks just as our theories predict."
Funny or Cry
No, not the JWST. A joke.
And electric trucks, donchaknow?
Yesterday When I Was Young...Glen Campbell
Every conversation that I can recall
Concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all.
And so on in that vein.
Says it all, dunnit?
OK, friends, have at it. Them.