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Our Relatives Are EV Pioneers - in Israel (#1 of 2)
NOTE: to avoid falling into a tl;dr trap, I am splitting this story into two parts.I have written here a lot about EVs, and a lot about Israel-Palestine — but very little about the two of them...
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(UPDATED) EV Tuesday: Our Relatives Are EV Pioneers - In Israel (#2 of 2)
Previously, in Part 1…A decade ago Israel made an early start into the EV Revolution, but placing all bets on the Better Place (BP) fiasco turned it into a false start. So EVs became dead to most...
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GA-Sen Data Analysis: Early Voting Gave Dems a Net 3-7% Boost
First, a huge Hat-Tip and Thank You to m247 for relentless ground reporting (and equally relentless fundraising… heh) making us all feel like honorary progressive Georgians for a few weeks. m247...
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EV Tuesday: Europe Jumps Straight into ICE Disruption Territory
* ICE in this diary means Internal Combustion Engine.Shortly after leasing our first EV (a 2012 Nissan Leaf), I started looking into EVs’ impact beyond individual footprint and towards the bigger...
View ArticleThe Letter I Just Wrote to Kroger - Why I Won't Be Shopping There
My deepest thanks to mt41w for waking me up yesterday with their diary. I’ve been conveniently shopping at Fred Meyer, thinking “well, the workers there are unionized so they probably have good...
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Israeli Election Circus 2021, Act 2: Art of the Deal
Israel’s political instability continues its march into uncharted territory. An unprecedented 2 general elections in 2019 were followed in early 2020, completing an unprecedented 3 general elections in...
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2020's Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution
Welcome to the 7th Annual Top 10 EV Countries list — my own very personal version of March Madness!Seriously, this is always my busiest month of the year and to make things even more chill I do this...
View ArticleW/UPDATE: DKos, Want to Have AOC's Back? Then Start Writing - and Doing -...
In the last couple of days we’ve had rec-list and front-page diaries about that sicko wannabe Nazi rookie House member’s stalking of AOC. One popular diary suggested to “Get AOC’s Back” by sending her...
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EV Saturday: Electric Vehicles - Your Best Protection from Fuel and Cost...
Hi there!I’ve just had one of my extended — and unplanned — blogging breaks. Usually that means s**t is hitting the fan on the home front (work, family, etc.). Well everything’s ok over here, roughly...
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Israeli Regime Gaslights again, Declares Prominent Palestinian NGOs...
H/t LaFeminista who first reported this here in a short diary with the concise and accurate title: “The Methodical Silencing of Palestinians.” Here’s The Guardian’s description (this happened on...
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Election 2021: Will Seattle's Municipal Politics Lurch Suddenly to the Right?
It may be Seattle 2021, but there’s a smell of 2016’s and 2020’s national elections in the air. Perhaps fortunately, that stench is rising mostly from a rather down-ballot race, for city attorney. Most...
View ArticleMY Definitive Guide to Addressing High Gas Prices
On Friday, there was a reclist diary explaining why gas prices are up again, and how global supply quantities (which still haven’t “recovered” to their pre-pandemic peak) are beyond the control of the...
View ArticleAre you Leaving Twitter? (Poll)
Hi all,Wow. Breaking one of my longest diary silences for this (I’ve written ~300 in 15.5 years here). Main reason for the silence is it’s been quite the crazy few months for me. Will try to keep it...
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2021's Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution
Welcome to the 8th Annual Top 10 EV Countries list! (as well as a revival of Daily Kos EV Tuesday… on Wednesday, heh) Sigh. Nowadays there’s always chance for breaking bad news to overshadow any...
View ArticleIsrael falling into ANOTHER General Election - solely to protect its...
Sorry to interrupt an odd July 4th, with the rogue SCOTUS drama, and war in Ukraine. You might be interested to know that on Nov. 1, Israel is going to have its 5th general election in 4 years.Before...
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This Unending PNW Heatwave Feels like a New Normal
Disclaimer: I’m using the Metric System’s Celsius temperatures, and IMHO sticking with degrees F is yet another silly+unhelpful form of American Exceptionalism. That said, the graphs from UW are...
View ArticleThe Best Joke You will hear Today
We’re all here recovering from our first-ever bout of Covid. While nominally “mild” under the official definitions, it’s been an entire week of anything but fun. So I’ll take any smile and laughter I...
View ArticleGQP Disarray: Good News from WA's Congressional Primaries
Last week our state had its primaries. Like in other places, the media has been projecting Doom and Gloom onto Democrats here for months, both at the state and Federal levels. Seems like the outcome is...
View ArticleBanality of Apartheid, #1: Israel's Sick Obsession with Palestinian NGOs
Since 1967, Israel has controlled the lives of Palestinians inEast Jerusalem, West Bank, and Gaza, without giving them citizenship.IOW for the past 55+ years, Palestinians have been forced to live...
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Climate-fueled Tinderbox: Huge Flash Wildfire in Seattle's Back Yard
I’ve written here occasionally about how the historically mild ocean-facing (west of the Cascades) Pacific Northwest climate is becoming more and more like its southern neighbor and sibling, the...
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