SCRAPINGS OF THE DAY – 03/24/23

On The Daily from NYT, the discussion concerns a chapter in the Annual Economic Report Of The President about how the government, through policy and programs encourages and incentives behavior that is bad in view of the changing climate, and how it might change to do the opposite. Conclusion: It will be expensive, and socially and politically hard.

This is the chapter of the report they are talking about.

A judge has decided that Mark Meadows and others who were close to Trump around Jan6 cannot claim executive privilege to avoid testifying to the grand jury. This will, of course, be appealed, possibly all the way to SCOTUS.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/24/2159999/-Judge-orders-Mark-Meadows-and-other-former-Trump-aides-to-testify-in-special-counsel-s-investigation

The Governor of Kentucky (a Democrat) has vetoed a bill aimed at trans kids.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kentucky-transgender-kids_n_641dbb51e4b01ea5cd9421bd

Surprise! Traffic noise can raise your blood pressure.

I wonder how much sense it makes to build land on sea coasts when the sea level is rising, but people have been doing it.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/22/humans-have-reclaimed-land-size-of-luxembourg-since-2000

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