Notices by Kevin Leecaster (greenfire@mstdn.social)

PRO PUBLICA is reporting on Scott County, TN trying to keep women safer by actually forcing domestic abusers to tell the court who is holding their guns.

Other TN counties don’t even do that much.

This is cool they're covering Tennessee.

Is ProPublica turning into one of our new best journalism organizations in the USA?
https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-scott-county-domestic-violence-guns

The Biden Admin is working with the EU on a ban for subsidies to foreign oil and gas projects.

It’s consistent with the COP28 agreement, frees up funds for the clean energy transition, and is key to long-term climate safety.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/europe-and-us-push-for-oil-funding-curbs-deal-to-outlast-trumphttps://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/europe-and-us-push-for-oil-funding-curbs-deal-to-outlast-trump

Restoring native grassland at solar farms on former corn and soybean row croplands, increases pollinators, sequesters carbon, reduces sediment loss, and retains water in soils.

Restoring native vegetation
at solar projects on marginal or retired farmland can double soil carbon, increase nitrogen and other micro & macro nutrients, and reduce plant water stress.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041620301698

@wdlindsy
I don't think that we're giving the Kremlin as much credit as they are due for creating so much division in our society personally.

This is big news:

Federal prosecutors in New York charge the Gautam Adani of India, one of the world’s richest people, with multiple counts of fraud, accusing him and associates of bribing Indian officials and later lying to investors about the scheme.

You can join @kathhayhoe tonight at 9:30 PM E for a free webinar with the Episcopalian Diocese of LA. Their "Now Is the Time for Urgency and Hope" initiative focuses on how advocacy, legislation, solar energy, and resilience can create a more sustainable + equitable future.

This event is open to all—register here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckfuiqqTIoHtbn1nqShMzZCWgY2R55sYGi#/registration

A Trump supporting, anti-trans, anti-gay Republican was elected commissioner of the county in Nevada. He won despite being in jail on election night for a sexual assault in Vegas.

It’s now come out that the woman he assaulted was his daughter.

This is almost a perfect metaphor for our modern Republicans.
https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/politician-pleads-guilty-in-sexual-assault-case-after-being-elected-to-hancock-county-council/amp/

God, the White House gift shop is going to be so disgusting isn't it?

He's going to have his press secretary modeling his latest MAGA merchandise weekly or more frequently I fear.

Okay, I've been trying to not freak out about the growing electricity demand by data centers, but this new Georgia, USA forecast is just fucking insane!

There are plans for 69 data centers with an average of about 450 MW.

I really think that they should be required to provide their own clean electricity. They're going to double the size of the grid almost just by themselves from 16 to over 31 GW in less than ten years!

It is projected that global energy storage cell shipments will reach 270 GWh in 2024, a year-on-year increase of 37%.

https://www.ess-news.com/2024/08/30/global-energy-storage-market-h1-2024-installation-figures/

NYC DA Alvin Bragg is refusing to throw out the 34 felony count conviction of Trump but is putting the case on hold for now. He indicates he will fight any Trump motion to dismiss.

@notroot
Good way of putting it. I don't know and I'm not trying to be a Trump-whisperer, but I'm not so sure that a populist like him will follow through with the tariffs after/if he accepts that they're going to be unpopular.

I don't know though. His true goals may be more nefarious than I'm willing to acknowledge perhaps.

Yay or Nay?

I won't be surprised if there are no new tariffs during the next administration personally.

He'll probably run into a few issues and then move onto some new project towards trying to dominate the news cycles I suspect.

Only 36 votes between the Democrat and the fascist in this race as a note to anyone who has ever said that their votes don't matter.

@notroot @Ultraverified @meidastouch
He successfully put Trump into the White House in 2016 though so maybe you're selling that grifter short.

"Trump won because of us and we're not happy with his Secretary of State pick and others," said Rabiul Chowdhury, a Philadelphia investor who chaired the Abandon Harris campaign in Pennsylvania and co-founded Muslims for Trump.

One of the terrible consequences of what they have done is to reduce how much a former supporter like me can have empathy for Palestinians, American Muslims, and anyone else who attacked Biden & Harris to help make Trump POTUS.

I love this new bike, you?

This new distinctive cargo scooter is set to begin deliveries in January 2025, the Lightfoot is now available for purchase with an MSRP of US $4,995.

With a 20 mph (32 km/h) top speed, the scooter is said to be “bike lane legal” without requiring any additional license or registration.

Developed by Otherlab, the Lightfoot electric cargo scooter features a pair of 120W solar panels on either side, hiding a large 45 L lockable storage compartment.

The Department of Defense has close to three million employees.

The orange chump has nominated a Fox News cohost who only achieved the rank of major in the Minnesota National Guard to be their boss.

Will McConnell vote to confirm that choice?

@HistoPol @jackofalltrades
Jack has room to criticize that post of mine to be honest except what I was suggesting was not to make the people already concerned about climate change so fearful that they shut down and stop trying like the doomers do.

What I was thinking about was to pay to put accurate climate messaging into the rightwing information bubbles I suppose.

Regardless, my post was probably ill-conceived reflecting my post-election coping or something.