How the U.S. Just Handed the Renewable Future to China

Trump’s big beautiful bill takes away money from growing renewable energy that employs more jobs than coal and toward dying coal. It’s not just bad for the environment, it’s bad business. The bill makes it difficult to use components from China, even though China is one of our key suppliers. This will limit U.S. production.

The bill expands fossil fuel subsidies. Subsidies are essentially giving money to companies. This should be done when certain industries are important to emphasize above and beyond the incentive for profit-making, like environmental benefits. Considering fossil fuels cause deadly air pollution as well as contribute to global warming, subsidizing them makes no sense.

Fossil fuel industries are already built out, so subsidies pay such companies for doing stuff that they were doing anyways. Renewable industries are still developing and growing, so subsidies actually create new business. Once you consider the environmental impacts, fossil fuel subsidies net a negative return.

Trump’s bill has led to a lot of fired scientists. Foreign countries are offering bonuses to hire these scientists. These nonsense policies are producing American brain drain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tNp2vsxEzk

A strange GOP divide is forming over Trump’s gerrymandering plans

“These strange divisions underscore the complex political dynamics of the president’s latest power play. It’s become a loyalty test that could boost Republicans’ chances of keeping their trifecta in Washington, but one that also carries significant electoral risk for several of their own members in Congress and potential for broader voter backlash.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/14/gop-redistricting-00508626

California’s self-own on wind and solar

“A wind power farm in the mountains of far-Northern California was the first through the door of a new permit streamlining program that came with a lofty promise to renewable energy developers: Once a permit application was complete, the California Energy Commission would make a final ruling on the project within 270 days.

It’s been more than 650 days since Fountain Wind completed its application. But the agency still hasn’t made a final ruling, after fierce local opposition successfully derailed the permit review.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/17/california-promised-wind-and-solar-developers-a-270-day-permitting-process-theyre-still-waiting-00510674

Opinion | The Sydney Sweeney Saga Shows Why Republicans Keep Winning

“Meanwhile, in another corner of the internet, a bunch of conservative women started doing what appears to be actual Nazi salutes on Instagram (though some deny it). In many ways, it highlighted how ridiculous the “good genes” controversy was; as we saw during Medhi Hasan’s Jubilee episode, when right-wing influencers want to say they’re Nazi sympathizers, they don’t exactly use invisible ink. But it also served as a reminder: Here were people doing an actually egregious thing, and Democrats didn’t have the tools to make it stick. Indeed, Democrats have tried for years to tie the genuinely extreme, not-just-irritating views of the far right to the rest of the Republican Party, and most of the time, it fails.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/08/08/sydney-sweeney-republicans-win-media-ecosystem-00497761

The ‘Day After’ Plan for Gaza That Netanyahu Doesn’t Want to Talk About

“Netanyahu insists that these initiatives “reward” terror. On the contrary, they make his espoused goal more likely: a regional deal in which Hamas is isolated by the Arab world, and the Palestinian Authority, which long ago agreed to the two-state solution, takes the lead in legitimizing and helping to buttress a new Gazan administration.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/08/09/gaza-palestinian-authority-west-bank-business-00492175

MELTDOWN: Fox News finally LOSES IT over Newsom | Another Day

Republican and right wing media hypocrisy and dishonesty on gerrymandering is outrageous.

Their responses to Newsom make this hypocrisy and/or dishonesty clear as day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MetueJ_uelQ

Trumpflation Squeezes Parents; Populist Dem Runs In Maine w/ Liz Pancotti, Graham Platner | MR Live

Trump’s Federal police action in DC is costing one million dollars a day.

Right wing media uses a deadly car accident where an illegal immigrant with a driver’s license made a driving mistake and people died…as evidence of illegals killing people. JD Vance refers to this deadly car accident as murder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDncNEBydPI