> “We aren’t foolish enough to believe that hope alone carries the day or soothes the soul. No, we believe it’s the other way around; we believe that actions driven by justice, solidarity, and compassion are what sustain hope. Small gusts of good will are acts driven by justice and compassion and solidarity, and they are what soothes our broken hearts.”
https://tomdispatch.com/king-donald/
#RebeccaGordon at #TomDispatch with #FaithfulFools #uspol

> .. A.J. Liebling’s classic observation that “#FreedomOfThePress is guaranteed only to those who own one.”.. in his 1960 New Yorker article about the disappearance of competing newspapers. more than 60 years later.. the billionaire owners of the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times preventing their editorial staffs from.. endorsements of Kamala Harris.. ABC’s abject $15-million surrender to Donald Trump’s patently frivolous defamation lawsuit.
https://tomdispatch.com/finding-hope/
#RebeccaGordon

> Less water in those giant lakes means less water for agriculture and residential consumption. But the falling water levels threaten a further problem: the potential failure of their dams to provide electric power crucial to millions. Last summer, Lake Mead dropped to within 90 feet of the depth at which its dam can no longer generate power. Some estimates suggest that Lake Powell’s #GlenCanyon dam may stop producing electricity as soon as July.
https://tomdispatch.com/rain-and-heat-fire-and-snow/
#RebeccaGordon #Drought

This visualization of drought in the #USA reminded me of a #TomDispatch article by #RebeccaGordon. Years ago Mike Davis talked about towns in Western USA (and Mexico?) disappearing because of drought.. The Climate Catastrophe is getting harder and harder to ignore.
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
/HT @rustoleumlove

> ... the trifecta: climate change isn’t real; or if it is, humans (and especially fossil-fuel companies!) aren’t responsible; and anyway it might be a good thing. Titled “Unsettled Science,” the piece falsely argued that scientists could not agree on whether climate change was happening. (By that time, 90% of climate scientists, including #ExxonMobile’s, had reached a consensus that climate change is real.)
https://tomdispatch.com/rain-and-heat-fire-and-snow/
#RebeccaGordon on #TomDispatch on #Climate and #California

> “In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true… Mass #propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.” #HannahArendt
https://tomdispatch.com/rebecca-gordon-confronting-alternative-facts/
#RebeccaGordon #TomDispatch