patrickcanning.bsky.social
Climate law & litigation. Lawyer, husband, girl dad.
Every inch of the Earth is worth fighting for, as are democracy & human rights.
Work: https://patrickccanning.com/
Climate law blog: https://feeltheheat.blog/
LLM (Lewis & Clark). Never legal advice
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Yeah, I wish people would get past absolutist tribalism, and be able to criticize people they may generally support.
Biden effd that up, and the whole nation, the world, is paying for it.
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Or Sally Yates. The tiger who stood up to trump over his Muslim ban
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those rounds can still kill. and they know when they go to full rounds on an armed population it's pretty much civil war and the dice are in the air..
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me too - I'm Irish (mostly).
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yeah that's true. I hope people are as prepared as they can be
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that's history.
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Yeah, we need an equity in lobbying act - for every act of lobbying by one side of an issue the other side gets one too..
My enviro clients can't even get in the door.
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I should really do a follow up post on new oil and gas and how countries continue to double down on this.
Thanks for reposting!
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feeltheheat.blog/2022/10/09/t...
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Yeah, I wrote a whole blog post on it! I've been criticised for saying it too. Glad you also see what I see.
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That said, I don't really believe in EA processes at all, it is now openly what it always was: a means to assess and mitigate selectively chosen impacts while allowing projects to go ahead.
We need a completely different model.
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And quickly
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And I guess it was another unspoken Carney concern, that, as an economist, he considers the law secondary to his "ideas."
Not sure why Canada likes economists for pm.
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I didn't, but yeah, better free up some time.
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Yup. I see he apologized, Trudeau style; "I'm sorry your feelings were hurt by that thing which I'm not going to change my mind about.."
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It's like the cover of The Omen, in the non-fiction/horror section..
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I keep saying people need to rewatch The Great Hack.
It's small potatoes to what's going on now, but explains what this is really about: data as the most valuable resource, for its power to control, in business and governance
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Hasn't that been the sales pitch since, like ... 2005?
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And now here we are.
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Garland waited TWO YEARS (Nov 2022) before appointing special counsel, only after he was embarrassed into it by the testimony of one of Trump's former staffers.
The broader reasons are better explained by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
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In my view the narrow reason is that Biden appointed Garland instead of Sally Yates. There was plenty of reporting at the time that Garland was a 'moderate', a wet noodle, not a go-getter.
Yates was/is a tiger, who stood up to trump at the start of his first term over his Muslim ban..
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Yuh, exactly. It's great he's waking up, but they made it this way - why wasn't trump arrested after trying to overthrow the government in Jan 2021? Rhetorical.
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Nice!
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Needs to!