Bill Carter
@bbillccarter.bsky.social
Retired
Former nonpoint source pollution project coordinator at TCEQ
Former executive director of Ecology Action
Knitter
Former nonpoint source pollution project coordinator at TCEQ
Former executive director of Ecology Action
Knitter
Donbas = Sudetenland
But with different results so far
But with different results so far
September 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Donbas = Sudetenland
But with different results so far
But with different results so far
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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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June 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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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.
June 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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.
What if millions of US flags were flown upside down on June 14, Flag Day and 47’s birthday parade day?
May 30, 2025 at 3:16 AM
What if millions of US flags were flown upside down on June 14, Flag Day and 47’s birthday parade day?
Reposted by Bill Carter
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...
April 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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...
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.
April 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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.
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.
April 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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.
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.
April 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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.
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.
April 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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.
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.
March 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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.
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.
March 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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.
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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March 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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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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.
March 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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.
EXTRACTING A POUND OF FLESH WAS NOT A WEIGHT-LOSS PROGRAM. GUTTING PUBLIC SERVICES IS NOT AN EFFICIENCY PROGRAM.
March 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
EXTRACTING A POUND OF FLESH WAS NOT A WEIGHT-LOSS PROGRAM. GUTTING PUBLIC SERVICES IS NOT AN EFFICIENCY PROGRAM.
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.
March 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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.
We are demonstrating how a nation with impregnable outward defenses can collapse overnight by internal deception and betrayal.
March 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
We are demonstrating how a nation with impregnable outward defenses can collapse overnight by internal deception and betrayal.
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.
March 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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.
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.
March 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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.
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.
March 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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.
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.
March 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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.
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…
March 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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…
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.
March 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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.
Over our history, private enterprises developed massive corporate empires that began to dwarf government and dominated political processes to enlarge their power.
March 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Over our history, private enterprises developed massive corporate empires that began to dwarf government and dominated political processes to enlarge their power.
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.
March 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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.
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.
March 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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.