Tis the season for…fires. Lots and lots of fires along the west coast, and we start out this episode getting caught up on the season. One of the said fires was the result of corporate malfeasance (alleged). Is anyone being held accountable for that? Well…no. However many people are killed due to these fires, nobody in the company (name intentionally withheld) will be held accountable. Let’s look just a bit to the east: Texas. In Texas, the electricity outage during a severe snowstorm led to between 264 (official number reported by the state) and 700 (outside experts have said). Who was held accountable for that? Not a single damn person. Nobody was fired, and in the meantime, Texas folks were price gouged for whatever electricity they did get. You might think we’re complaining about Abbot again. We’re not. This week, we discuss how corporations don’t pay consequences, regardless of the fact that they kill people. Got to break a few eggs to make a healthy profit, amirite?

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As an environmental package finally has a chance at passing in the Senate through reconciliation, temperatures exceeding 100 degrees in Texas are likely to last until September. Oregon is seeing a stretch of hot days keeping San Antonion in competition, and fires burn in California. Globally, southern France and Spain are on fire as well and scorching temperatures are killing people across England. China and India are questioning why they should contribute to reducing climate change impacts if America won’t.

Meanwhile, a new political party is starting in America. Is that a good thing? A bad thing?