Impressive video from historic floods in Germany.

https://youtu.be/WBuqQuTfYPo

Over the weekend, the outrage machine cranked the volume up to 11 over Biden’s new climate change requirement to cut red meat consumption by 90%. Upon hearing the news, right wing social media, fed by Fox Noise, went to DEFCON 4 and began launch sequence.  All the usual characters threw wall-eyed fits including Greg Abbott:

Not gonna happen in Texas! pic.twitter.com/zqYS9kH8CU

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) April 25, 2021

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert both followed suit with Greene even calling Biden the “Hamburgler”.  The only problem?  The story is complete bullshit, fabricated by the London rag The Daily Mail, which then metastasized into a trending story on social media.  Snopes did a full report on the claim and rated it False. I wish these clowns would spend the time spent on fake outrage on more important things like education, Medicaid expansion, and avoiding power blackouts, but that’s way too much too expect.

AOC tore up the GOP yesterday on climate change.  This warms my heart.

https://youtu.be/MMfWD2fHiYI

The White House has announced that Trump is setting up an ad hoc panel of “scientists” to argue against scientific consensus on climate change.  Of course, actual scientists know that science doesn’t work that way – first you study and test hypotheses before you come to a conclusion…not the other way around.  Apparently, the panel is deemed “ad hoc” in order to skirt transparency regulations about advisory panels.  It figures.