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5 April 2023 musings on climate change

A piece in Counterpunch by Stan Cox, Tinpot Legislators, details a problem worthy of note:

Republican state politicians, wielding a lot more than mean tweets, are intent on waging all-out war against private companies that don’t cater to the oil, gas, and coal industries.

Here is the substance of Cox's complaint:

Graupel attack!

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Always exciting to learn new words to describe the world around us. Who could forget the "Polar Vortex" introduced to us a couple of years ago to describe a cold front dropping down out of Canada and extending its frigid fingers all the way to Galveston?

Up to 15 to 20 million poor are losing Medicare insurance

This started on April 1. Congress decided to stop the subsidies created for the
pandemic in their $1 trillion budget in December. This will also effect the CHIP
program.

Hey, thanks congress for thinking of the little people.

15 million people were casually thrown off medicaid this week 

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