Classified Dum-Dums

On Trump making "unbridled push to block renewable energy projects"

The administration of Donald Trump is making an unbridled push to block renewable
energy projects—including last week halting the placement of 54 wind turbines in the ocean
south of Long Island, New York—and is pushing fossil fuels, among them coal. The burning of
fossil fuels is the leading cause of climate change. Trump has repeatedly called climate change a
“hoax.”
Meanwhile, a Long Island resident, Lee Zeldin of Shirley, who Trump named
administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is cancelling on a sweeping basis
environmental regulations, discharging EPA employees and, last week, stopping the collection of
greenhouse gas emission data.
Further, on April 8 th Trump issued an executive order directing the U.S. attorney general
to identify “illegal” state and local climate, energy and environmental justice laws that “impede”
domestic energy production and use and “take all appropriate action to stop” their enforcement.
The order is titled: “Protecting American Energy From State Overreach.” It opens: “My
Administration is committed to unleashing American energy.”
To End Homelessness, Invest in Harm Reduction

Homelessness and substance use disorder often occur simultaneously — but many people struggling with both are unable to get the help they need. That puts homeless service providers on the front lines of the battle for reversing overdoses while also trying to end homelessness, one life at a time.
As the CEO of a large homelessness service provider, I’ve seen first-hand how helping someone overcome substance use can lead directly to helping them overcome homelessness.
Ending homelessness is a long process. It isn’t all about lifting someone off the streets and finding them a job and a place to call home. There’s a spectrum of steps and successes along the way to help someone build confidence and independence so they can make long-term positive lifestyle changes.
Overcoming substance use is one of those steps. We have a number of strategies to approach substance use that have offered positive results. The first is the overarching principle of harm reduction, which we use because it saves lives.
With Congress Preparing a “Fiscal Tsunami”, States Can Choose Differently

Tax policy experts and lawmakers have long circled 2025 as a year to prepare for. What makes it so significant?
For one thing, Federal COVID money to states is expiring, straining state budgets at the same time the economy is starting to weaken. For another, Republicans in Congress are working to increase and extend President Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations — while cutting trillions from health care, housing, and education programs for everyone else. And it all up and you get a fiscal tsunami.
While major tax policy changes are being made and discussed in Congress, this is also happening in the states.
Benito Cheeto

War Dust and Collateral Inhalation: Israel Breathes in Gaza’s Dust

Over 100,000 tons of bombs have been dropped on Gaza, an area slightly smaller than the City of Detroit, Michigan, resulting in the recorded deaths of at least 60,000 Gazans and injuries to hundreds of thousands.¹
It is impossible to overstate the effects of the abominable bombing war on Gazans, their lives, their families, their health, and their communities.
What has escaped attention up until now is the undeniable environmental and health effects of the bombing of Gazans on Israelis, as well as on citizens of neighboring states, and the potential harm to U.S. military personnel in the region.
A study of explosion physics based on declassified Department of Defense data, as well as blast temperature data and consequent emissions; a review of wind patterns, together with publicly available data of health effects from 9/11, as well as data gathered from U.S. veterans of the Persian Gulf War, yield a shocking conclusion.
Classified Pete

Pope Francis RIP, attack on Christians, Jewish critique, JFK, Google and more

“We are Here to awaken from our Illusion of Separateness” Thich Nhat Hanh
[I have not posted much last week as I was traveling in protected areas in
Jordan to learn and collaborate on issues of conservation. Please excuse
the length of this but you can open links you like]
All Palestinian are saddened by the death of Pope Francis. He spoke
repeatedly against the ongoing genocide and destructionof our people and wa
attaked for this by te Zionist movement. He kept touch with the church
inGaza regularly even from his hospital bed. He cared for people regardless
of their religion and made peace a key feature of his tenure. He built
respectful and good relations between people of all faiths in a time when
right wing white fascists are taking control of governments around the
world (Orban, Netanyahu, Trump etc). We at Bethlehem University are also
especially sad because of the fact that this university was established by
the Vatican to serve the Palestinian people in 1973.
On Palm Sunday Israel bombed a church run hospital with U weapons amd US
taxpayer money. Western media was silent and money for the aparheid
Trump dumps on Earth Day

Introduction
With Trump and his cronies in power, the climate crisis will worsen.
In a Nov. 14, 2024 post, after Trump was reelected to a second presidential term, there was good reason to worry about Trump’s plans for dealing with the climate crisis. He is a well-known climate-denier.
Here’s a few paragraphs from that post.
“Trump, a climate-crisis denier, will undoubtedly as president exacerbate the problem and give open-ended support to fossil fuel production and consumption and the industries that benefit from them. Rising emissions and the rising temperatures they produce represent an existential problem that will likely threaten to generate massive dislocations of people and threaten the survival of millions, if not billions, of people in America and around the globe.
Rope-A-Pope
