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Why have ignorance when you can have *willful* ignorance

January 15, 2014 By Mr. Lynne 8 Comments

Just alerted to this RMG post from a FB friend: A Pledge: This Website will FOIA Deval Patrick's New State Climatologist's Records Every Week Yesterday, Deval Patrick stated that he is appointing at $100,000 a year a state … [Read more...]

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What’s a Public Information Officer for?

November 13, 2013 By Mr. Lynne 2 Comments

I was alerted from Ed Brayton about a nasty bit of work going on with the Boston PD. All the details are here. Here's the story: So there's a video out there of some police intimidation against someone videoing them. The site photography … [Read more...]

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Charity Concert for Boston

April 21, 2013 By Mr. Lynne 9 Comments

(cross-posted at Left in Lowell) I'd like to invite you all to a special event. Details and links below the fold. … [Read more...]

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A quick note about BMG profiles

October 3, 2012 By Mr. Lynne 4 Comments

A couple of years ago I contacted some users here through email by using their contact information that they provided in their profiles. I recently wanted to contact someone again and I've noticed that many (most) people who had contact … [Read more...]

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When does ‘I had no active role’ really mean “… making decisions involving the operation or management of the activity, performing services for the activity, and hiring and discharging employees.”?

August 29, 2012 By Mr. Lynne 18 Comments

Answer - when it affects your taxes. But according to his 2010 tax return, when the Internal Revenue Service comes calling in April, Romney has a different answer: The presumptive GOP nominee reaps lucrative tax breaks for "active" … [Read more...]

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“Enriching investors by taking leveraged bets isn’t a qualification for a job requiring long-term vision and concern for public welfare.”

July 19, 2012 By Mr. Lynne 36 Comments

Just passing along a noteworthy Bloomberg article. Noteworthy because the author, Anthony Luzzatto Gardner, is Managing Director for Structured Finance at Palamon Capital Partners (a private equity fund). He points out in Bloomberg the … [Read more...]

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Mitt miffs another one.

December 20, 2011 By Mr. Lynne 10 Comments

Romney desperately needs to gain some 'empathy traction'. But it's funny to watch as he tries. (hat tip Ed Brayton) A day after being labelled “out of touch” for casually offering a $10,000 bet to a rival candidate, Mr Romney told … [Read more...]

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Warren Polling analysis at Hufpo

October 10, 2011 By Mr. Lynne 5 Comments

Mike Mokrzycki has some 'in the weeds' polling and analysis in Huffpo concerning Warren vs. Brown. Offered here without comment. … [Read more...]

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Mr. Lynne’s Corner

June 22, 2011 By Mr. Lynne 1 Comment

(Cross posted at Left in Lowell) OK, it seems that the blog [LeftInLowell] has been a little slower as of late. Thankfully, Jack has added his own special blend of herbs and spices to our recipe. But it still feels like it could use … [Read more...]

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So when?

November 5, 2010 By Mr. Lynne 38 Comments

So when's the get-together we should have and at what establishment dedicated to the imbibing of the fruits of fermentation?  After the election, but before the holidays turn up the crazy again, seems a natural temporal LaGrange point. … [Read more...]

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Great threaded summary by @ssteingraber1 of remarks by @howarth_cornell relating fracking to rise in quantities of methane released into the atmosphere. https://twitter.com/ssteingraber1/status/1205901002467106816

Dr. Sandra Steingraber@ssteingraber1

1/ FRACKING THREAD. I’m here at the Ithaca Community School for Music and Arts to hear world methane expert @howarth_cornell present new science on #fracking and the climate crisis. Will try to live tweet. Full house! Lots of legendary grassroots leaders here.@MothersOutFront

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Curt_Nordgaard⛰🏔⛰@Curt_Nordgaard·
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The Massachusetts coastline flooded yesterday.

What happened? A high tide around the full moon. That's all.

Tell people around you that the global humanitarian and ecological crisis of climate change has already started. https://twitter.com/dotmalo/status/1205936919944847363

Dot Malone@DotMalo

It’s fine, I’ll wait til low tide to leave the house #Dorchester

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AlexSteffenAlex Steffen@AlexSteffen·
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Our entire public debate is decades behind the realities we know we face now, and as we understand those realities better, most of our findings will reveal our problems to be even more pressing than we thought they were.

That's just what the 2020s are going be like. https://twitter.com/DrNoelHealy/status/1204204976953626624

Noel Healy@DrNoelHealy

This final slide from @MichaelEMann is devastating. The time for incremental climate policy is over.🚨He estimates annual emissions may have to drop by 15% a year (rather than 7.5%)🚨. In other words we have zero years to tackle climate change. We need a #GreenNewDeal now #GND

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Terrible, Terrible, Terrible https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/terrible-terrible-terrible

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TheViewFromLL2Susan Simpson@TheViewFromLL2·
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The take away of this story doesn't seem to be that impeachment is bad for Democrats. It's that opposing impeachment is so bad for Democrats they can't remain Democrats. https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1205949264515481600

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NEWS: Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a Democrat who opposes impeachment, plans to switch parties and become a Republican.

Staff were informed today. Question now is when, not if, he makes it official.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/14/jeff-van-drew-change-parties-085036

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