"Can you imagine a former President of the United States saying that? The whole world heard it. The worst thing is – he means it. No other president in our history has *ever* bowed-down to a Russian [or Soviet] dictator. And let me say this as clearly as I can: I never will. For God's sake – it's dumb, it's shameful, it's dangerous, it's un-American."

President Joe Biden

At the risk of flogging a dead horse, here're some storm-wrecked high-tension power line towers as another reminder that the argument that renewable energy is bad because it's unreliable is deeply flawed.

Nothing's perfect, and a sensible, diversified renewable energy generation and storage strategy is no less reliable than what we have now.

It also won't contribute to boiling the oceans so, you know, there's that.

#Climate #RenewableEnergy

Today Michigan is officially no longer a "right to work" state.

Michigan is now the first state in nearly 60 years to ditch the union-busting law.

Public school workers can now collectively bargain
The ability of pubic school teachers to collectively bargain was won through separate legislation, another great move among a host of Democratic victories since the party swept into power across the Michigan legislature and governorship.
https://chalkbeat.org/detroit/2023/7/26/23809053/michigan-teachers-bargaining-rights-governor-gretchen-whitmer-signed/

This man is a lying sack of shit

He blocked a bill from getting to the floor which was the largest Immigration bill since Reagan, and the bill was backed by the US Border Patrol, AND immigration analysts

But he blocked it to help Trump in '24, he does not give a shit about Immigration, or anything else for that matter