Notices by Kevin Leecaster (greenfire@mstdn.social)

@davetroy
Yes, there may be an underlying direct purpose for making Canada, Denmark, and Panama upset with the USA, but I do think that it is intended as a distraction to deflect Americans' attention from looking to hard at the transition process, his nominees, campaign financing, and legal issues too.

Two things have stuck out on how our National Public Radio is now dealing with Trump in their attempt to get on his and MAGA's good side.

They refuse to state that his NY conviction is for interfering in 2016 election. Plus, when Ryan Lucas specifically reported on the cybertruck suicider he asserts that the ex-green beret did not do it at Trump Tower out of any reason related to Trump.

He did it at a Trump hotel in a cybertruck for a reason. Treating that as random is gaslighting so badly.

BREAKING: China is witnessing a surge in human metapneumovirus (HMPV) cases, sparking concerns of another health crisis after COVID-19 pandemic, per NDTV news.

HMPV causes flu-like symptoms and lead to severe respiratory issues, especially among children and vulnerable groups.

Is international travel worth the risks?

Good night and leave you with this tidbit of good news about some of all of the climate action we've gotten done:

As of January 1, every single one Chicago's 400+ municipal buildings — including 98 fire stations, two international airports, and two of the largest water treatment plants on the planet — is running on 100% renewable energy!

@Karen5Lund
This current battle on the right side of the aisle in U.S. over immigrants providing cheap labor for the oligarchs is so much like the equivalent of last century's Italian vs German fascism for the 21st century.

Laura Loomer's face is being eaten by one of the face eating leopards that she helped put into power I see.

Yesterday, a member of the AfD German far-right political party drove his car into a Christmas market killing many and injuring many more.

Here's our vice president-elect and unelected president-elect praising the AfD in case you still don't know what we're up against over the next few years.

We could invest less in automobile infrastructure and have better lives.

A lot of people complain about the slow pace of justice in the USA.

Well, France's former president just got sent to detention (actually just wearing a monitor if I heard correctly) for the crime he committed in 2012, #JustSayin
@rameshgupta @HistoPol et al

Depending on the cost, this looks like a good way to store extra production from your PV system especially if you have hydronic heating, but just for domestic hot water it seems great too.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/12/12/fhe-group-presents-thermal-battery-for-solar-power-storage/

@HistoPol @homohortus
There is no good reason for Joe Biden have forced his son to suffer at the hands of the corrupt Republican judges and prosecutors that were persecuting him.

I would like to amend our constitution to reform presidential pardon power though as well too.

@HistoPol @homohortus
Yes, the Kremlin's successful enshitification of Twitter really shut down how much the public was getting informed about just how much interference they've managed to accomplish in Western democratic societies for sure.

Once again I'll highlight that @emptywheel also did a good job trying to inform them especially in regard to Hunter Biden.

@homohortus
Hunter Biden was a victim of a Kremlin plot to manufacture kompromat.

It's the fault of our media that so few Westerners are aware of what is so obvious to us historians of the Muscovites.

As part of my monitoring of NPR's coverage of Democrats versus Republicans, they are spending another big part of a program today to bash Joe Biden over him pardoning his last surviving son.

That Mark Osler sure is willing to sacrifice Hunter Biden to the corrupt GOP judges and prosecutors in order to push his pet projects.

I should have gone into solar rather than HVAC after I left the Ivory Tower I now know with the benefit of hindsight although the current landscape might be better for green HVAC engineers perhaps here.

Anyways, just noticed openings with the company managing the largest utility scale agrivoltaics portfolio in the USA.
https://www.siliconranch.com/careers/

And speaking of Silicon Ranch #Agrivoltaics one of their engineers is asked about the transformer shortage in this article.

Hitachi Energy, Siemens Energy, and Virginia Transformers have announced plans to scale up production with new facilities in Australia, China, Colombia, Finland, Germany, Mexico, the United States, and Vietnam. But those efforts won’t ease the logjam soon.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/transformer-shortage

The orange chump just called Erdogan a genius for invading Syria just like he did for Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-trump-speaks-to-reporters-at-mar-a-lago

Trump just whined about the UHC CEO shooting calling it despicable after bringing the murderer of the homeless man on the New York up to his suite at the football game last weekend.

@darnell
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the ABC decision was made upstairs at Disney in order to try to keep Trump from going after them again as a business decision.

A business decision to kowtow to a fascist I'll add, but wouldn't expect any better from Disney sadly.

ABC News has obeyed in advance:

ABC has agreed to make a $15 million contribution to Trump presidential museum/foundation and air an apology for mischaracterizing the E. Jean Carroll verdict.