Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
Retired
Former nonpoint source pollution project coordinator at TCEQ
Former executive director of Ecology Action
Knitter
Environmental science
43%
Geography
12%
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Sep 1
Donbas = Sudetenland
But with different results so far
But with different results so far
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Jun 21
Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran
The American people do not want to enter Netanyahu’s war with Iran. American involvement would not only put our troops into harm's way, but risk escalating an already volatile situation into all-out r...
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Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Jun 11
Like any analogy, the parallel is not accurate in all respects. The imminent threat of mass killings is still low. Extrajudicial incarceration is still mostly outsourced. In other respects it’s more apt. Much of the direction of events was still unclear in 1934 Germany — as it is today.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Jun 11
There’s consensus that on the Nazi timeline we’re at about 1934. On the Harry Potter timeline it’s worse — Voldemort’s return is unmistakable, the Ministry has fallen, and the Snatchers are operating openly.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· May 30
What if millions of US flags were flown upside down on June 14, Flag Day and 47’s birthday parade day?
Financial Times
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· Apr 14
Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Apr 8
The Republican Party has hitched its wagon to a horse loose in a hospital. For its sake and the nation’s, it had better unhitch in the next few days.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Apr 3
47’s control of tariffs depends on his bogus emergency declaration, which Congress could revoke and prevent disaster if the rubberstamp Republicans would break ranks. Thank you Heather Cox Richardson.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Apr 2
Heather Cox Richardson’s most recent posts disappeared from Facebook yesterday. I pray there is someone caretaking every vital part of our governmental and cultural information resources — maintaining secure and authenticated backups.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Apr 1
Crazy idea: draw on the injunctions against unconstitutional DOGE directives and executive orders dismantling and disrupting statutory agencies & issue a wholesale injunction against all such unconstitutional orders and mobilize rapid response units to halt these actions before the damage is done.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Mar 29
If a federal employee physically blowing a whistle on DOGE would be too high a risk of individual retaliation, use remotely activated whistles near likely DOGE targets, as tamper-proof and untraceable as possible to protect the innocent and to waste as much DOGE time as possible.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Mar 29
Crazy idea : Whistleblowers for democracy. Employees of DOGE-threatened agencies carry whistles. If DOGE arrives, everybody whistles to call attention to where it’s intruding, and to interfere with it.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Mar 28
Redirecting...
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The US is about to get a master class on economics—the value of having the global reserve currency, risks of trade wars & whiplash policy changes, and the fragility of the goodwill of allies built up over generations. You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.
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Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Mar 27
Correction— not policeless, but incapable of policing itself.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Mar 27
I watched the Watergate hearings in real time, it is utterly baffling that this time, accountability and news coverage of far worse abuses of power are completely muddled; a nakedly corrupt and incompetent administration is skating by all our constitutional safeguards as though they weren’t there.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Mar 26
EXTRACTING A POUND OF FLESH WAS NOT A WEIGHT-LOSS PROGRAM. GUTTING PUBLIC SERVICES IS NOT AN EFFICIENCY PROGRAM.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Mar 19
Irony: We are in a POLICELESS STATE. Not a police state, yet. No one around to enforce court orders, it seems. News articles about orders which Trump ignores are silent about what branches of law enforcement are abandoning their posts.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Mar 17
We are demonstrating how a nation with impregnable outward defenses can collapse overnight by internal deception and betrayal.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Mar 17
Never thought I’d know the inside of a blitzkrieg — allies slowly wakening to the need for much quicker communication and coordinated countermeasures while the opponent isolates and encircles them and refuels itself at their convenient gas stations with the sleepless urgency of crystal meth.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Mar 17
Might be a good time to remember that not long ago, a totalitarian regime that valued party discipline and “efficiency” over accountability and science brought us Chernobyl.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Mar 16
I’m guessing there’s a lot of soul-searching in many law enforcement agencies about what to do when courts and this administration issue conflicting directives.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Mar 15
Eventually, we need it acknowledged that DOGE is illegitimate and that everything done solely under its authority is fruit of the poison tree, and must be ruled null and void.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Mar 14
Crazy idea: organize teams to accompany reinstated federal employees back to their work sites, documenting whether records and equipment etc. are still in place, status of work in progress, anyone interfering with their resumption of work…
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Mar 13
SCOTUS is in a long retreat from the notion that government should prevent concentrations of private wealth & power to rival that of government, free of the restraints & accountability of government. Goodbye anti-trust & campaign finance regulation, hello corporate personhood & money as free speech.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Mar 13
Over our history, private enterprises developed massive corporate empires that began to dwarf government and dominated political processes to enlarge their power.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Mar 13
Most private enterprise was family or partnership-based with unlimited liability. Corporations were agents of a government, chartered by the crown for limited purposes, usually with expiration dates.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Mar 13
CIVICS REFRESHER
America desperately needs a history lesson regarding US policy on public vs. private power. The constitution focused on limiting government’s powers and protecting private rights because governments of the time had near-total power.
America desperately needs a history lesson regarding US policy on public vs. private power. The constitution focused on limiting government’s powers and protecting private rights because governments of the time had near-total power.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Mar 8
Has anyone calculated the ratio between Trump’s lifetime earnings and the total debts written off in his bankruptcies at his creditors’ expense?
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Mar 7
ANTI-DOGE STRATEGY IV
At USADF, the board, administrators and staff are all setting example for legal and procedural resistance. These agencies need accompaniment — witnesses, and perhaps human blockades and sit-ins to obstruct DOGE brownshirts— until cease-and-desist court orders take effect.
At USADF, the board, administrators and staff are all setting example for legal and procedural resistance. These agencies need accompaniment — witnesses, and perhaps human blockades and sit-ins to obstruct DOGE brownshirts— until cease-and-desist court orders take effect.
Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
· Mar 7
ANTI-DOGE STRATEGY III
Provide comfort and support and a public forum to federal employees being fired, suspended, or ordered to violate their agencies procedures and protocols for managing access to records and data systems, etc.
Provide comfort and support and a public forum to federal employees being fired, suspended, or ordered to violate their agencies procedures and protocols for managing access to records and data systems, etc.