Tag Archives: Jason Chaffetz

What did Trump know, and when did he know it? We need to demand an investigation into Russia’s ties to Trump and his associates.

By Mark | February 14, 2017

I’m hesitant to write anything more about the situation unfolding right now in D.C., as things are happening so quickly. I did, however, want to share this timeline with you from today’s Washington Post, as I think it might be something that we return to in the future as we try to determine what Trump […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged CIA, Don McGahn, Donald Trump, FBI, House Oversight Committee, James Clapper, John Brennan, John Cornyn, Justice Department, lies, Logan Act, Michael Flynn, Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell, National Security Council, Obama, oil, Rosneft, Roy Blunt, Russia, Sally Yates, sanctions, Sean Spicer, Senate Intelligence Committee, Sergey Kislyak, Sid the Science Kid, Vladimir Putin | 22 Comments

Stop Pruitt before he can kill the EPA for Big Oil

By Mark | February 2, 2017

Calling your Senators works… By all accounts, Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski [Alaska] and Susan Collins [Maine] are going against the wishes of their party to vote in opposition of Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos because of the pushback they’re received from their constituents. Earlier this week in Anchorage, there were reports of over 200 […]

Posted in Environment, Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-science, Betsy DeVos, big oil, Bill Moyers, Christie Todd Whitman, confirmation hearings, Devon Energy, environmental protection, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, fracking, Lisa Murkowski, methane gas, Oklahoma, public land, Richard Nixon, Scott Pruitt, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Sheldon Whitehouse, Susan Collins, those anti-science Republicans | 6 Comments

“Grab ’em by the pussy” …my thoughts on the hot mic confession of sexual assault that may change the course of human history

By Mark | October 9, 2016

Earlier this summer, we talked here on the site about the possibility that Trump might have a Dead Zone moment – a moment in which, in front of the entire nation, he would reveal to us something so absolutely shocking about himself that we could not help but to turn away collectively in disgust, once […]

Posted in Environment, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 99%, A Face in the Crowd, abandonment, Access Hollywood, Amanda Duarte, assault, Bill Clinton, campaign funding, China, Climate Change, conspiracy theories, Dead Zone, Donald Trump, Elia Kazan, Female Collective, Feminist Fight Club, global climate change, Global Warming, hot mic, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, income inequality, Jean Henry, John McCain, Michelle Obama, misogyny, Mitt Romney, Obama, Paul Ryan, Peter Larson, poverty, Presidential politics, pussy, Pussy Grabs Back, Republican National Committee, sexism, sexual assault, Stella Marrs, The Apprentice, women, women's rights | 57 Comments

In an ironic twist, House Republicans, who, up until a few weeks ago, wanted to see the EPA dismantled, argued this morning that what happened in Flint was due to the agency not being aggressive enough

By Mark | February 3, 2016

Several people testified before the House Oversight Committee today about the poisoning of Flint’s citizens, including Virginia Tech Professor Marc Edwards and Flint resident Lee Anne Walters. While most of the local coverage, I suspect, will focus on Congressman Jason Chaffetz’s forceful promise early in the proceedings to have the U.S. Marshals “hunt down” former […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Environment, Uncategorized | Also tagged corrosion control, Dan Kildee, Darnell Earley, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Flint, House of Representatives, House Oversight Committee, irony, Joel Beauvais, Keith Creagh, lead, Lead and Copper Rule, Lee Anne Walters, Marc Edwards, MDEQ, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Miguel Del Toral, water | 18 Comments

Now that Flint Emergency Manager Darnell Earley is facing the prospect of a year in prison for contempt, one wonders if he might be persuaded to work with prosecutors

By Mark | February 2, 2016

Yesterday, retired Michigan 36th District Court Judge Gregory Ellis “Greg” Mathis came right out and said what a lot of us have been thinking for a while now… that what happened in Flint has all the makings of a criminal case. The EMU-grad-turned-television-personality put it his way: “It appears that there’s criminal negligence here,” he […]