EARTH FIRST!

Perseverance Is On Mars, But We’re Still On Earth

February 23, 2021

The Senate is holding hearings on a number of Joe Biden’s cabinet positions this week. Once Senate Ratpublicans finished fucking up Turmp’s second impeachment trial, the calendar opened up for other business. Neera Tanden, Biden’s pick to head the Office of Management and Budget, is facing stiff opposition because she said and tweeted mean things about a number of politicians – on both sides of the aisle, mind you – and lord knows, we can’t have someone in a position of authority in DC who once said mean things. Unless of course, that person is a racist, misogynist, Ratpublican president who bragged about grabbing women by the pussy and tweeted insane, vicious bullshit about every five minutes. For the record, most of Tanden’s mean tweets and comments were accurate. Anyway, that’s not exactly what I came here to talk about today.

Congresswoman Deb Haaland

In a decision that is more than 200 years overdue, Deb Haaland, who along with Sharice Davids, became one of the first two Native American women ever elected to the U.S. Congress in 2018, is Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of the Interior. Haaland is an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo from New Mexico. Haaland likes to say that she is a 35^th generation American. Rather that the customary white male, most of whom were – sometimes literally – in bed with the fossil fuel industry, America might have our first Interior Secretary who will fight to the death to keep the Earth from being murdered instead of so many who believed the Earth was nothing more than a giant litter box for humans – one which they never quite explained or cared about who might periodically empty it out, or how.

Ratpublicans are upset at the thought of Haaland becoming Interior Secretary because, according to a tweet by Texas Sen. John Cornyn, “Interior secretary nominee has joined pipeline protests and opposed fracking.” Damn fucking straight, you motherfracking asshole.  

The time for seriously addressing the climate crisis that is well underway, and already causing billions of dollars of damage, not to mention deaths. The climate crisis is also implicated in providing more fertile ground for the type of virus pandemic are currently face. we need a strong unwavering voice, the type that seemingly can only come from someone whose family has lived in North America before the original "illegal aliens" arrived here. There is simply no time to lose in turning things around and disconnecting our mindset and our economy from our obsession with fossil fuels and all other technologies and practices that are causing such significant damage to our planet and our personal health and survival.

Please consider going here to sign the petition, or maybe make some phone calls to your senators and pass the petition along to help see to it that Deb Haaland is our next Secretary of the Interior. You, your children and their children for seven generations will be glad you did.

I. Mangrey requesting. No compromise in defense of Mother Earth!