The House passed the climate/tax/drug price bill, so it will soon be law.

If Democrats increase their lead in the Senate, maybe they can get rid of the bad parts next year.

Shell is using every spare pound for stock buy-backs. Investing in renewables, it is not interested in.

Stock buy-backs used to be illegal in the US. There is no reason to permit them now. But we should not depend on fossil fuel companies to invest in renewable energy. We should charge them a lot of tax, and have the government fund investment in renewable energy.

To actually do that depends on electing more progressive legislators; talking about this is the way we get there.

(satire) *China Threatens To Retaliate For Pelosi's Taiwan Trip By Letting Her Return Safely.*

Despite the climate bill (which was passed), Biden must still declare a climate emergency and stop approving fossil fuel projects.

* [The author has] documented 61 cases from the years 2000 to 2020 in which people have been criminally investigated or arrested for self-managing their own abortion or helping someone else do so; the majority of these cases exclusively involved abortion medication.*