A bit, for ones where they could find a legal reason to do so

No idea, but the US actively exports a fair bit of coal

Because election day is a postmark deadline in California, a fairly large fraction of votes are still uncounted, and the distribution of yet-to-be-counted votes likely skews well to the left of those already counted. It’s also a primary election, with the top two vote getters going on the ballot in November.

About 2/3 of voters in California are going to end up choosing somebody who is not MAGA in the fall.

The suppression effort didn’t stop. You can’t organize something like what you hint at without having an infiltrator by the time you’ve got a half-dozen people involved.

It’s not about meek; the recruitment pipeline for left-wing saboteurs and such was substantially disrupted by the security services.

Pretty much: he’s taken a lot of oil industry money.

We don’t actually know if Steyer will make it through the primary yet.

The immunity isn’t some absolute rule; I don’t seriously expect that the Republicans on the court think it applies to Democrats.

Since Democrats hold a minority in both houses of Congress, noise is the one thing they can actually do. It works occasionally

Been a standard argument of theirs for a long time. Eg: the fact that human decisionmaking limited acid rain and ozone depletion is seen as a reason to not need to address any other environmental issues

It’s more that Trump solicited and took a billion dollar bribe from the fossil fuels industry

It probably won’t look quite like that because cheap solar is going to power air conditioning at a scale which gets most people through it

What’s actually happening:

In this case, I used a gift link to the article. So access was free even without needing to use archive sites

About 1% of people have done something like turn off JavaScript or remove the gift token from the URL, which breaks that access

It’s about demonstrating support for white supremacy. In the context of wanting to do that, this makes perfect sense

Far far less than if you keep on driving a gas car. It’s better to not drive at all, but we’re not going to get everybody out of cars.

Proper scrapping does mean destroying the old car and not merely selling it

It actually makes sense to replace a gas car that is still running in a lot of cases

Yeah. They don’t have authority to end the contract. Local officials can do things to interfere with utility hookups.

But sending in the local police to attack protesters and the press is just an asshole move

Batteries do wonders for letting people keep on cooking. So does putting power lines underground.

The point is that in many places, it makes financial sense sense to scrap a still-running gas car.

He’s informally helping to coordinate stuff like this even if not part of his official duties