The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Remember watching the election returns in November, 2020 as Georgia became the one state in the American South to go blue and help Joe Biden beat Donald Trump? The people of Atlanta, of all places, not only helped save democracy from corporate, capitalist fascism.…
Doom is Not Destined or Inevitable: Slap Yourself, Wake Up, Get to Work
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There are lots of people who deserve to be slapped these days. Maybe not so much Chris Rock on television at the Academy Awards. As a recent Photoshopped meme going around on Facebook depicts, Vladimir Putin deserves to be slapped by Volodymyr Zelensky for…
Biden Administration Announces New Vehicle Fuel Economy Standards to Require 49 MPG by 2026
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Spurred on by high gas prices and increasing evidence of climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels for transportation as well as energy, the Biden Administration moved quickly and aggressively to reverse Trump administration rollbacks in new car fuel economy standards and announced much…
National Park Service Adds New Listings to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Park Service has added 16 new listings to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom across 11 states, joining 700 sites, facilities and programs already in the network. They all provide insight into the diverse experiences of freedom seekers who bravely escaped slavery and those who assisted…
Reward Offered for Trump Supporter From Florida Involved in Capitol Insurrection
Virginia Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Felony Conspiracy – New Mexico Man Found Guilty – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A reward of $15,000 is being offered in exchange for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Jonathan Daniel Pollock, 23, of Lakeland, Florida, for his role in connection with the violence at…
Conservative Voter Opposition to Judge Jackson Ticks Up After Supreme Court Hearing
But Americans continue to favor her confirmation by a nearly 2-to-1 margin – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson appears to be bound for the Supreme Court after coming through last week’s four-day confirmation hearing relatively unscathed, but the latest Morning Consult/Politico poll suggests that some of the questioning she faced…
Federal Agency Leaders Respond With Enthusiasm to President Biden’s Budget Plan
Budget Includes Increases for National Park Service, EPA – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s hard to remember a time when a president’s budget plan was greeted with more enthusiasm than the $5.8 trillion budget proposal issued by the Biden Administration on Monday. The last time this happened was probably 1999, in Bill Clinton’s…
The Ideal of Justice on Trial: The Rise of Judge Jackson and the Fall of Clarence Thomas
Distracted by War and Crises, the World Sleepwalks to ‘Climate Catastrophe’
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — All you have to do is glance at what people are paying attention to on social media and television to see that United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres was right on Monday when he said the world is “sleepwalking to climate catastrophe.” “There is no kind way to put…
President Biden Designates Amache National Historic Site as America’s Newest National Park
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As many students of history know, after the Japanese attacked Peal Harbor on that day of infamy, Dec. 7, 1941, and the United States declared war and entered World War II, the federal government forcibly removed many Asian Americans from the West Coast to the Granada Relocation Center in…
Wisconsin Trump Supporter Arrested and Charged for Assaulting Police During Capitol Insurrection
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Trump supporter from Wisconsin was arrested last week for assaulting police and using a deadly or dangerous weapon during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which disrupted the peaceful transfer of power by delaying a joint session of Congress in the process of certifying…
Somehow We Made It to the First Day of Spring 2022: Get Outside
Senate Sherpa Doug Jones Says He’s Confident of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — At 11:33 a.m. Sunday, we cross the vernal equinox from winter into spring, and it feels like it’s about time, y’all. The Japanese cherry blossoms are blooming along the Tidal…
Summer Global Warming Trends Expected to Continue Across U.S., Along With Droughts, Fires in the West
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the Earth turns toward the first day of Spring on Sunday, March 20, climate scientists are forecasting the continuation of a trend from April to June of higher temperatures across most of the Unites States, from the Desert Southwest to the East Coast and north through the Midwest…
Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Biden Administration and Considering Climate Change When Forming Federal Policy
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden Administration received a favorable ruling from an appeals court Wednesday that overruled a local Louisiana judge who had tried to ban the federal government from considering climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels when making policy decisions on such things as…
In An Emotional Plea for Help From the World, President Zelensky of Ukraine Asks Biden to Lead the World To Peace
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine delivered an emotional plea for help from the world and America in a live video address to Congress on Wednesday as the Russian army proceeded to pound much of the country to rubble, destroying a place Russian dictator president Vladimir Putin says he wants…
Louisiana Company and President Plead Guilty to Clean Air Act Violations for Tampering with Truck Emissions
PPEI and President Kory Willis Plead Guilty and Agree to Pay $3.1 Million in Criminal Fines and Civil Penalties for the Manufacture and Sale of Illegal Delete Devices and Tunes for Diesel Trucks By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – People concerned about the environment often wonder why companies, presidents and owners are rarely held…
To Be or Not to Be, That is The Question: Zelensky Addresses UK Parliament
Thoughts On Life and Social Media During a Snow ‘Bomb Cyclone’ – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thick, wet white snow covers the ground again. The wind out of the northwest continues to howl outside, causing the RV to shake a little sometimes. The tall pine and hardwood trees…
Trump Supporter from New York Arrested and Charged With Assault During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Trump supporter from New York was arrested this week for assaulting police during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which disrupted the peaceful transfer of power and delated a joint session of Congress in the process of certifying the electoral votes that showed Joe…
Voter Enthusiasm for Democrats Surges After Biden Appoints First Black Woman to Supreme Court
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the news with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, dwindling Covid cases and the lifting of mask requirements, the trial of the first Trump supporter convicted for the Capitol insurrection, President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union speech and the appointment…