Please, Please, It’s Too Much Winning. We Can’t Take It Any More.

[discobot]

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[austin_dave]

[austin_dave]

President Pro tempore, Senate of Virginia

[austin_dave]

[austin_dave]

Date stamp this.

[austin_dave]

I’ll post more after other people get some licks in.

[ralph_vonholst]

A whole other pollution.

Texas produces twice as much methane as better regulated neighbor, study finds

Oil and gas production in Texas is spewing out double the rate of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, than in the more regulated state of New Mexico, new satellite data shared with the Guardian shows, prompting calls for tougher curbs of “super-emitter” sites that risk tipping the world into climate breakdown.

Satellite imaging of methane leaks across the Permian basin, a vast geological feature at the heart of the US oil and gas drilling industry, show that sites in Texas have emitted double the amount of the gas than in New Mexico, per unit of production, since 2019.

Environmentalists have pinned their hopes, therefore, on the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which is finalizing a new federal rule for new and existing drilling sites that it says will slash methane emissions from these sources by 87% by 2030, compared with 2005 levels. The regulation is expected to be unveiled later this month.

[A big shout out for Senator Coalgas]

The oil and gas industry, and its political allies, have complained that new regulations would be too onerous and risk pushing up fuel costs. “The current administration has made its intentions clear – it is determined to target our flourishing oil and gas sector, despite its substantial progress in reducing methane emissions, irrespective of how it might impact American energy security, reliability, and consumer cost,” Senator Joe Manchin, a centrist Democrat and coal company owner, wrote to the EPA leadership recently.

[billymac]

I joyously recycle this meme and celebrate the ongoing ReBrandonization of America’s voting booths

[josephebacon]

Dear GOP:

You Reap What You Roe And It Will Bring you Endless Woe!!!

[theghostofeustacetilley]

ALL the LIbtARds will DO aboRtions! Conservative MAGA will be ascendant! If Lilith HAd aborTED, there WOUld be no PUPPY!

[austin_dave]

[psyclone]

Amazing that Dems have to be reminded of this so constantly, but I guess old handwringing habits die hard

[austin_dave]

[communistagronomist]

The election is the poll that matters.

[txlawyer]

So maybe slightly above expectations in VA, and pretty much right in line with them everywhere else, yes?

[josephebacon]

Hey NBC!

Why did you partner with a company pushing election denials for tonight’s debate?

Inquiring minds want to know!

'A major mistake': NBC’s partner for tonight’s GOP debate platforms election...

[theghostofeustacetilley]

THe only POLLS that MAtter are THe polls that SHows MAGA wiNNING. You can RIGG elections but NOT poLLS!

[jinnj]

“Democrats are trying to scare women into thinking Republicans don’t want abortion legal under any circumstances.”

Ok class, and how are the Democrats doing this “scaring”? Humm ?.. anybody ?
Yes, that right … they are playing recordings of Republicans actually saying that they "don’t want abortion legal under any circumstances.”

[austin_dave]

[debg]

Hannity is such a maroon. I can’t believe he said that out loud on national television.