idk this feels like a worthy time to remind some folks that Project 2025 calls for the demolition of NOAA and the National Hurricane Center
At one point in a recent conference with environmental agency heads across the US, I was at a table with leaders all from red states. We got to talking about how every film from the 1970s has a certain smoggy look that you never see any more, thanks to the Clean Air Act & individual state efforts
It doesn’t make daily news, the long plodding work of actually implementing environmental policy, since all the positive effects occur over stretches. But over time, and across the country in relatively non-partisan fashion, America’s air really improved tremendously – see this EPA chart
One of the worst habits of the Environmental Movement and the Left as a political movement is we don't brag & publicize our successes. We have a style of "critique" about the current conditions, so as to argue for change. The Conservative Movement "says we tried change, it did not work" in response.
Public policy works! We can change our behavior and improve things! Pass it on!
Growing up as the token Democratic family in a Goldwater Republican suburb outside Chicago, I lost my faith in humanity at an early age.
That was actually Eisenhower who took the tax rate that high.
I think Leonard Leo, Adrian Vermeule, and Patrick Deen have made the case.
BlueSky ain’t perfect but no social media site is perfect and this site’s reaction to breaking news is so much more enjoyable than anywhere else. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/is-bluesky...
A few thoughts on the existence of social media thought silos.
Beautiful scene in Scotland. By Mary Ethel Muir Donaldson, ca. 1920s. www.anart4life.com/mesmerising-...
