Crooked Media - Ain't green nuthin yet

Friday, August 9, 2024 BY CROOKED MEDIA

- Fox News anchor Julie Banderas, taking a strong stand against presidents cooking things.

Vice President Kamala Harris put climate change front and center in her presidential campaign when she tapped Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) as her running mate. Advocates are hailing his green credentials.

“Walz is a really strong choice for vice president,” Stevie O’Hanlon, the communications director for the youth-led climate organization, The Sunrise Movement, told What A Day. “I think on climate and other issues, [Walz] is someone that can really appeal to young voters, to working class voters — people Harris really needs to win over that Biden was struggling with.”

Walz earned a reputation as one of the country’s most climate-forward governors during his two terms as Minnesota governor. He inked more than 40 climate initiatives into law last year. Perhaps the most notable requires Minnesota to get all of its electricity from wind, solar and other carbon-free sources by 2040. Other measures include tax rebates for electric vehicles, support for E.V. charging stations, new green energy production facilities, and investments in green job creation. In 2019, Walz established a climate change sub-cabinet in his administration. In Congress he also voted for a sweeping climate bill in 2009 (though the plan later died in the Senate).

Walz promoted climate-friendly policies in part by touting their economic benefits, O’Hanlon said. “When he signed the 100% renewable or carbon free by 2040 bill, he did so at a labor center, and had a wide range of labor unions there, including some that often are skeptical of climate action,” O’Hanlon said. “He won them over by making the case that this is actually going to help workers.”

Other climate advocates declared themselves similarly psyched about his addition to the ticket.

“Tim Walz had the best climate record of any of the VP contenders and has been unafraid to take on Big Oil,” Jamie Henn, of Fossil Free Media, wrote on X. “I am all in for Walz,” Gina McCarthy, former Biden White House national climate advisor and current co-chair of the climate coalition America Is All In, told NPR. “He can't be bought by the fossil fuel industry.”

“It's a whole different ball game right now,” O’Hanlon said. “Harris has an opportunity to actually have genuine enthusiasm for her campaign in a way that I don't think that young people have maybe experienced in our adult life.”

The Trump campaign, by contrast, has pointed at Walz’s green credentials as a sign that he’s a far lefty lawmaker with dangerously progressive views. “Walz is obsessed with spreading California’s dangerously liberal agenda far and wide,” Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for the Trump campaign, told the New York Times.

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A twin-engine prop plane carrying 62 people crashed in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo on Friday. Authorities said there were no survivors on board.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan granted a delay request from special counsel Jack Smith in Trump’s election interference case. Smith and his fellow prosecutors asked for additional time to craft their case in light of the "new precedent set forth" in the Supreme Court’s ruling last month that gave former presidents broad immunity from criminal prosecution.

Scientists estimate roughly 400 million people worldwide have long Covid, according to a new report. The global economic cost may be $1 trillion per year.

A Capitol rioter who repeatedly attacked police with flagpoles and other weapons during the January 6th coup attempt has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. It’s one of the longest sentences issued to a Capitol rioter yet. You know, we’re usually not huge fans of the carceral system, but we’ll make an exception for that guy.

White House national security spokesperson John Kirby confirmed Friday that the U.S. shared intelligence with the Austrian government to foil planned attacks at since canceled Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna. Three individuals have been arrested in connection with the failed plot.

Donald Trump lost the endorsement of white supremacist and far right pundit Nick Fuentes who thinks Trump is headed for a “catastrophic loss” in November. “This is about living up to the AMERICA FIRST credo put forth by Trump in 2016 which will ensure VICTORY in 2024,” Fuentes wrote on X. It is a bad sign for the Trump campaign when it's even lost the confidence of the Neo Nazi Beta trolls.

Trump also lost podcaster Joe Rogan, who said RFK Jr. is “the only one who makes sense to me,” while stopping short of endorsing the Kennedy family scion. Trump fired back on Truth Social, posting: “It will be interesting to see how loudly Joe Rogan gets BOOED the next time he enters the UFC Ring??? MAGA2024” Apparently RFK Jr. is really making waves after revealing his brain worm and that freezer full of roadkill meat.

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Crooked Media and its Workers Union reached a tentative contract deal Thursday night after a year of negotiations. The Union will also be withdrawing its unfair labor practice charge filed with the NLRB that was filed last week. Yay Crooked! Yay unions! So now we can all get back to doing what we do best: making jokes about RFK Jr.’s brain worm.

Gov. Maura Healey (D-MA) signed a sweeping housing bill into law authorizing $5.2 billion for the construction and repair of new and affordable housing. It also legalizes accessory dwelling units (ADUs) statewide. The bill is meant to meaningfully address the housing crisis at the state level.

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