It’s important to note that each country’s primary motivation is national security, not concern about climate change or protection of the environment. Trump wants US “energy dominance” to avoid dependence on foreign powers. Directly and indirectly subsidizing the fossil fuel industries has top priority. He’s willing to drill everywhere, most recently opening huge areas of the Tongass and other national forests while at the same time eliminating hundreds of environmental protection regulations.
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Dubbed Alligator Alcatraz, it’s nothing more than a collection of tents on an old airstrip in a swamp. It has already flooded. It cost $450 million. For reference, that’s what it costs to build a skyscraper in New York City. While the State of Florida paid out for it, they plan to get refunded from FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security. In other words: you’re paying for it.
They call it the “Big Beautiful Bill.” They market it like a cure-all—grand, patriotic, and promising prosperity for all. But beneath the polished language and political theater lies a bill that betrays the very people it claims to serve adding $2.4–$2.8 trillion added to national debt (2025–2034)
Republican Congress members, with the backing of billionaire benefactors, have long deceived their own white constituents through a strategy that weaponizes racism. Echoing former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s insight, they push racist rhetoric to convince MAGA voters to accept the gutting of social programs—programs largely designed to help them.
For many, this passage describes the ancient Israelites’ journey. But for those of us who carry the blood memory of ships, chains, plantations, and rebellion—it resonates deeply with the African American experience.
The recent Colombia County Board of Assessor’s 2025 property tax notice did little to convince the property owner they were not being gouged.
Too many softies, that’s the problem. Too many people in America are still infected with the mind worms of lefty brain rot. Too many still think it’s good to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, heal the sick, and care for the stranger, the immigrant, because those people might be the son of god in disguise and he may judge you based on how you treat those migrants and refugees. What bunk!
On the Fourth of July, Donald Trump signed his “megabill.” The law boosts the dying fossil fuel industry with tens of billions of taxpayer dollars. It invites an additional 470 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year by 2035 – that’s the equivalent annual emissions of more than 100 million gas-powered cars. And it aims to stop dead in its tracks the clean energy transition and the green manufacturing jobs boom the Inflation Reduction Act was already starting to create.
Congressional passage of Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” provides the latest evidence that human greed, despite its primitive nature, remains alive and well.
When Robert Oppenheimer, the civilian head of the program, informed his boss, the Nobel Prize winning physicist Arthur Compton, about the test’s apocalyptic risk, Compton was appalled. According to Toby Ord in The Precipice (2020), Compton decided, “Unless they came up with a firm and reliable conclusion that our atomic bombs could not explode the air or the sea, those bombs must never be made.” In his memoir Atomic Quest (1956) Compton recalled thinking, “Better to accept the slavery of the Nazis than to run a chance of drawing the final curtain on mankind!”