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Thanks for this article about Jamie Raskin (an old family friend) and taking on SLAPP suits. And for sharing the hilarious and apt ad about banks being in bed with fossil fuels.

I’d like to suggest an article for you to write: in the latest issue of the AARP magazine is an piece on five reasons to be choosy about where you bank. I’m picturing you writing about the crucial “sixth reason,” namely, finding a bank that doesn’t fund climate catastrophe. AARP has a very wide base and I’m sure plenty of members would change banks to protect the planet.

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Raskin is indeed a terrific politician and a great human being (I say that having watched him on the Jan 6 committee, and read his book, Unthinkable). I knew his mother a bit, from writing circles in DC when I lived there, and I'm sorry she didn't get to see all he's become, although maybe it was worth it to avoid being around for her grandson's suicide (major theme in Unthinkable).

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When the 2010 Supreme Court ruled that corporations have a first amendment right to spend unlimited money on elections and as they have done so, often funding dangerously large super pacs both foreign and domestic with dark money, this sort of dangerously corrupt political environment was expected. Jaime Raskin has had to stand up and fight for so many of us, without acknowledging the futility of this fight against our own Supreme Court justices that apparently don’t even have established rules of ethics binding them to anything but their own sense of superiority. It’s a hard fight and Congressman Raskin deserves our support.

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Nice piece on Raskin, an altogether decent human being. But I don't understand the bit on solar. If aesthetics were important there would never have been a coal-fired power plant, refinery or smelter. As Mies said, "Form follows function". On top of that, hopes for fusion power are misplaced. Since the 1950s it's always been 50 years out. The current storm of enthusiasm overlooks the ca 10000-fold improvement in efficiency and the 100 000-fold increase in duty cycle required to make it practical. But hey, what's a factor of a Billion among friends? (And: expect surprises regarding radiation safety.)

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Just started reading and noticed an inserted phrase that is off just a single space, splitting the innocent “out” down the middle:

“Most of those claims have been thrown ou in the course of the caset; ...”

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