Ross Macfarlane
@rossmacfarlane
Advocate for democracy, climate action, & environmental justice. Board Chair with Way to Win Action Fund & Director with Sierra Club Foundation & Clean Energy Transition Institute, but takes here are only my personal views.
Equal parts idiocy and villainy -- Trump Admin bulldozes environmental laws to build entirely unneeded border wall in the heart of Big Bend National Park. @sierraclub.org www.sierraclub.org/bigbend
Don't sleep on Mississippi! @scolom.bsky.social is a terrific candidate who will be a great Senator. Was honored to co-host an event for him in Seattle tonight. scottcolom.com
Roy Cooper will be a terrific Senator and we all need to do everything can to help him win in NC. There is no path to a Dem majority in the Senate that doesn't involve North Carolina. Great event in Seattle tonight. Let's go! @roycoopernc.bsky.social
Thinking of this spectacular area as the Little Giant fire rages.
This tracks, except for me it would be "my ability to remember folk song lyrics that I learned in the '60's far exceeds my ability to remember why I walked into the kitchen "
Just visited Macfarlane country on Loch Lomond today, including the two ruined island castles! Loch Sloigh!
Mostly off off-line for a while -- enjoying the Scottish Highlands.
On second thought, maybe having a woke President isn't such a bad thing ...
Although Trump is claiming that he is determined to revive coal, it seems significant that he couldn't stay awake for his own press event announcing these subsidies. 6/
Trump's efforts to prop up the dying coal industry won't be any more successful in his second term than in his first. 1/
This is a great cover reflecting a terrifying reality. Trump is indeed losing it, and he still has the nuclear codes, a weaponized justice department, and a team determined to cause as much havoc as possible while he spirals deeper into dementia. @newrepublic.com
Nice to see the steady trend as more people disapprove of the Orange Felon's job as POTUS. Starting to question whether the hard floor of MAGA fanatics who will never leave him is as large as the conventional wisdom has claimed. @fiftyplusone.news fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...
How I am starting to process Trump's periodic announcements that he is "so, so, close" to a deal to end the Iran War.
He's saying that like it's a bad thing.... House Speaker, Mike Johnson: "Heaven forbid, if we lost the majority in the house it would be the end of the Trump Presidency..."
How low can he go? Trump's net approval (-23%) has reached historically low numbers and is dropping weak by weak. As @gelliottmorris.com notes, you can't gerrymander your way out when this many people hate the job you are doing and your party is entirely supine. open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
Trump should go ahead and get himself Melania's jacket to show what he thinks about voters.
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert … and on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings..." @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social conjures up Shelley in describing Trump and his cultists in sunsetting despot mode. newrepublic.com/article/2102...
Great town hall tonight in Seattle with @jayapal.house.gov focused on the need for continued action on the climate crisis. Co-sponsored by Climate Action Campaign, @sierraclub.org, @lcv.org , & many others. Time to end climate silence
Increased polarization and incessant attacks by Trump and his allies in the MAGAfied Republican Party on clean energy have resulted in diminished support for renewables and more for fossil fuels. Q: will the price spikes resulting from Iran War change this? @pewresearch.org
Fascinating that stocks for green technology companies have significantly outperformed fossil fuel companies since Trump's return to office. 3/
The grift that keeps on giving. It is accurate but completely inadequate to call this Administration the most corrupt in US history -- it is self-dealing on an industrial scale that extends to every aspect of Trump's government
Bessent: "as we know, the natural habitat for Earth is actually water"
Not to mention that the design looks like something Albert Speer would have cooked up for Hitler's Berlin
Vivid illustration of what we are up against. Billionaires are spending huge sums to control elections, and the vast majority of the $ supports Republicans. @rbreich.bsky.social robertreich.substack.com/p/the-money-...
The investigation by @wyden.senate.gov uncovers stunning interference with a Senate investigation. "Given Blanche’s close personal ties to Donald Trump, this reeks of a continued coverup to protect key names in the Trump administration.”2/