Between two mass shootings that killed nearly a dozen people Kristi Noem, MAGAt Republican Governor of North Dakota — what were you thinking people of North Dakota — bragged at the NRA convention that her two-year-old granddaughter had already been given a shotgun and a rifle. The NRA MAGAts cheered her on, apparently not giving a thought to the devastation of 2022, which saw 44,340 gun violence deaths, the worst year in our history as a country, absent the Civil War which was an open war. Or that America has become a country where the leading cause of death for children is a bullet in their body.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem explained to an NRA audience on Friday, that her toddler grandchild already has several guns.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem explained to an NRA audience on Friday, that her toddler grandchild already has several guns.
The clip was from Friday’s NRA-ILA Leadership Forum in Indiana and the video quickly began circulating Twitter via The Recount.
During her speech, Noem talked about her grandchildren.
“Little Miss Addie, who is almost two, and Branch who’s just a few months old, they have brought us so much joy. They’ve brought us purpose,” Noem explained.
“Now Addie, who you know — soon will need them, I wanna reassure you, she already has a shotgun and she already has a rifle and she’s got a little pony named Sparkles too. So the girl is set up,” Noem added.
According to her office, Noem signed an executive order in the middle of her speech, designed to “further protect the 2nd Amendment rights of South Dakotans.” She was joined on stage by the NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre.
Here are the views on climate change of one of the current leaders of the Republican Party in the House. I hope the people of the 14th District of Georgia are ashamed of what they have done to America, and vote this horrible woman out of office in 2024.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, MAGAt Republican Representative of the 14th District of Georgia Credit: John Bazemore / Getty
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Saturday posted a scientifically illiterate tweet about climate change that left many of her followers stunned.
In trying to play down the threat posed by a warming planet, Greene wrote a lengthy, nonsensical post that did not even attempt to discuss the actual science behind climate change.
“If you believe that today’s ‘climate change’ is caused by too much carbon, you have been fooled,” she wrote. “We live on a spinning planet that rotates around a much bigger sun along with other planets and heavenly bodies rotating around the sun that all create gravitational pull on one another while our galaxy rotates and travels through the universe. Considering all of that, yes our climate will change, and it’s totally normal!”
In fact, scientists have found that the Earth’s climate was relatively stable for thousands of years until the end of the 20th Century, when human activity pumped increased the amount of carbon […]
You want to know why carbon power industries even in the face of mounting evidence that what they are doing is poisoning the earth just keep on doing what they do? Profit over wellbeing, of course. But how do they do it? Welcome to the 5.5 trillion dollar party.
An activist holds a sign in New York City on March 21, 2023 during a national day of action to pressure major banks to stop financing the expansion of the fossil fuel industry. Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket / Getty
Since 2016, the year the Paris agreement took effect, the world’s 60 largest private banks have provided $5.5 trillion in financing to the fossil fuel industry, contravening their pledges to put themselves and their clients on a path to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions as the window to avert the worst effects of the climate crisis rapidly closes.
That’s according to the latest iteration of Banking on Climate Chaos, an annual report that tracks how the financial industry’s lending and underwriting practices are enabling new coal, oil, and gas projects to proceed despite the international scientific consensus that fossil fuel expansion is incompatible with limiting global warming to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels.
Authored by Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club, and Urgewald and endorsed by 624 […]
I am beginning to see what I had earlier predicted coming to pass. An increasing number of Americans are now having to face dramatic climate change weather events. And this Gallup survey was released before Fort Lauderdale, Florida got two feet of rain — I have a hard time even imagining what that would be like — in 24 hours, affecting millions more.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — One-third of Americans say they have personally experienced an extreme weather event in the past two years, including nearly half of Southern residents. Those living in the Midwest are least likely to have been affected by extreme weather.
The latest results, from a March 1-23 survey, are consistent with what Gallup measured a year ago, the first time it asked about experiences with extreme weather. Southern residents have been most likely in both surveys to say they had been affected by extreme weather, with the 2022 figure slightly lower at 39%.
When asked what extreme weather they experienced, Americans overall most commonly say hurricanes (8%), extreme cold (7%), snow or ice storms (6%), extreme heat (4%) and floods (4%). Between 2% and 3% mention tornadoes, extreme rain, high winds and wildfires. The survey does not probe exactly how the person was affected by extreme weather, which could range from having their home destroyed to temporary evacuation or just riding out a storm.
Nearly one in five Southern residents, 18%, say they were affected by a […]
If you read me regularly you know I think this is exactly what is going on, exactly what the Republican Party is trying to do. The only thing that can end this is massive Democrat voter and independent turn out voting control of both houses and the presidency to the Democrats. This is also why the Senate should be reconfigured. and the Supreme Court should, in my opinion, be a 20-year term, and I think there should be eleven of them, and they should have a strict code of ethics. I think we are at a moment where we must reconfigure to accommodate what is happening to us. We must become a society of gender, racial and religious equality, not just by law, but by culture. And we must make fostering wellbeing at every level our top priority. It is the only way we are going to get through climate change. The alternative is enormous misery, suffering, and death.
Justin Jones carries his name tag after a vote at the Tennessee house of representatives to expel him. He was reinstated by his county commission within days. Credit: Cheney Orr / Reuters
We called for you all to ban assault weapons, and you respond with an assault on democracy.” These were the words of Justin Jones, a Black Democrat, to Tennessee Republicans after he and a colleague, Justin Pearson, were expelled for leading a gun protest on the state house of representatives floor.
A week later, Jones and Pearson were reinstated amid applause, whoops and cheers at the state capitol in Nashville. But few believe that the assault on democracy is at an end. What happened in Tennessee is seen as indicative of a Donald Trump-led Republican party ready to push its extremist agenda by any means necessary.
Opinion poll after opinion poll shows that Republicans are increasingly out of touch with mainstream sentiment on hot button issues such as abortion rights and gun safety. Accordingly, the party has suffered disappointment in elections in 2018, 2020 and 2022. […]
