Notices by Kevin Leecaster (greenfire@mstdn.social)

Few countries are as dependent on U.S. aid as Haiti. The United States is the Caribbean nation’s largest donor, having provided about 60 percent of all humanitarian aid last year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/16/haiti-usaid-trump-foreign-aid-cut/

Please look at the fuel mix powering the Texas electricity grid yesterday and you'll see why even if you don't have your own PV system it can still be a climate action to install a battery backup system.

You can program it to charge when the grid is the cleanest and to power your home when the grid is the dirtiest.

This is a terrific tool from Grist for mapping how much the local economy was going to get from Democratic policies prior to the American electorate's choice to reelect a climate science denier.

For example, Total funding across 203 projects in my rural TN search radius is $380,000,000!
https://grist.org/accountability/climate-infrastructure-ira-bil-map-tool/

Low Carbon Heating Technician is a career in construction that can help deploy green energy solutions.

They work with technologies like heat pumps and solar thermal collectors.

A military fighter jet has just crashed into San Diego Bay.

This is the 6th plane collision (and 2nd military collision) since Trump took office.

Just imagine what the Republicans would now be saying if Kamala were POTUS and how our legacy mainstream corporate media would take their cues from them and cover it nonstop too.

Hopefully the Associated Press won't cave into the fascist demands from this Republican adminstration.

U.S. records most whooping cough deaths since the first Trump administration.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whooping-cough-deaths-us-most-since-2017/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Unearthed, the investigative journalism outlet sponsored by Greenpeace, has found that Shell bought at least five 70,000-tonne cargoes of gas from Russia and that the vessels carrying it were escorted through frozen Siberian waters by sanctioned icebreakers.
https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/02/09/sanctioned-nuclear-icebreakers-help-export-gas-from-the-russian-arctic-bought-by-shell/

I hesitate to share this to my followers since they already know how racist our elected Republicans are, but I think that this reporting could be useful towards convincing more of our friends on the left side of the aisle to change their minds and decide to go vote the next time they get that opportunity assuming that it's not too late for quaint civic duties like that to save us and allow us to get some progress again.

@StillIRise1963
It's so sad that the WaPo believes, probably rightly, that in order to potentially get more Americans to care about Beijing and the Kremlin's efforts to get USAID out of their way that they focus their story on how much it will cost U.S. farmers rather than on the children and other vulnerable people around the globe that will die because of Republicans' cruel actions.

The WHO should declare that there is a window cancer pandemic in Russia.

Honestly, the freak out on social media about the implementation of #Project2025 seems quaint to me considering that so many of us posted so many warnings about not allowing it to happen before the election.

It would have been a lot better if y'all had of freaked out before November 5th #JustSayin

@ChrisWere
Yes, I get it. You want to blame the people who tried to stop the spread of fascism and give a pass to the people who did nothing towards stopping it.

I think that explains why we can't see eye to eye on the subject. Good luck in the UK over the next few years anyways, cheers though since we've clearly come to an impasse on the subject on the civic duty of casting a vote in a democratic society.

@ChrisWere
Why should I be empathetic to people who aren't even empathetic enough to cast a vote in order to help protect the planet and people I care about?

You just want to put all the blame for everything onto us Democrats and give everyone else a pass which should seriously cause you to do a lot of introspection.

@ChrisWere
For your information because you say I'm so rude that it's not surprising so many Americans didn't vote blue, I haven't asked anyone to vote for me for decades.

@ChrisWere
It would be funny to get lectured from foreigners about how my government and politics works were it not for all of the damage y'all have done to my country and potentially to many, many people around the globe.

You can hate Kamala Harris all you want to, but to consider that Trump is better at being POTUS than she would have been because she wasn't nice enough to the rioters and such yelling at her just has to be described as being stupid.

@ChrisWere
Sure, but that just demonstrates an ignorance of the American political and legal system since mandatory voting would require a constitutional amendment which is just not in the cards now while the actual voting electorate is so evenly split and the GOP, who do not want all Americans to vote, have the advantage.

So, bringing up these impossible "solutions" only further encourages people to not vote blue and that's the only possible route we have to get progress on so many issues.

@ShredderFeeder @ChrisWere
Ignorant people can be taught so I shouldn't have called them ignorant since they really don't seem to want to learn.

And Chris, we've long ago learned that the hard left will never like us Democrats because every time we manage to get progressive policies passed into law they still do not vote for us. Rather they then just move the goal posts once again.

@ShredderFeeder @ChrisWere
It is the responsibility of every American to choose which of our two political parties is the lesser evil one.

@ShredderFeeder @ChrisWere
He's just an ignorant foreigner that has not a clue how U.S. laws are made.