In my opinion the further in the future a story is set, the more inexplicable fantasy whatthefuckery there has to be, because the future SHOULD have many weird and unknowable things that are not related to technology and are instead related to things we cannot explain right away
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🚨 BREAKING: The European Commission has urged people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the Gulf.
Full story: www.politico.eu/article/euro...
![Excerpts from 1919 American Federation of Labor report by Jackson Ralston that called for eliminating horizontal review while maintaining vertical review: "[O]ur first proposition would be: The Supreme Court of the United States and state and national courts generally shall have no power to pass upon the constitutionality of congressional enactments. . . . Our second proposition is: The Supreme Court shall retain its jurisdiction to declare unconstitutional any acts of executive and inferior judicial powers in excess of legislative authority . . . ."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2r7ljryv4mdb7e4svonbhugk/bafkreihxrulxonioe2dg77vw55ot65lxtgyb7asylcn2quw7db2hqyc44y)
Excerpts from 1919 American Federation of Labor report by Jackson Ralston that called for eliminating horizontal review while maintaining vertical review: "[O]ur first proposition would be: The Supreme Court of the United States and state and national courts generally shall have no power to pass upon the constitutionality of congressional enactments. . . . Our second proposition is: The Supreme Court shall retain its jurisdiction to declare unconstitutional any acts of executive and inferior judicial powers in excess of legislative authority . . . ."
Assistant Attorney General (and future Justice) Robert H. Jackson testifying before Congress in 1937: "The responsibility upon Congress for seeing that the American people have a workable, harmonious, and cooperative judicial system is so usually overlooked by those engaged in building up the tradition of judicial supremacy that the burden of constitutional responsibility on Congress deserves examination."
NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorney Constance Baker Motley in a memo for Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, describing how Congress enforced the Fourteenth Amendment with the Klan Act of 1871, which asked courts to enforce the Constitution against states. "The terms of this provision, still on the statute books, and now frequently invoked, are broad enough to cover every denial of constitutional right which a state might conceive."
Courts have a vital role: they must *enforce* federal law against states, corporations, and presidents who violate it. But to make "vertical" review work, courts must not *defy* federal law by holding themselves above Congress. Curbing this "horizontal" review is crucial for us to govern ourselves.
After years of research, Daphna Renan & I are thrilled to announce preorders of SUPREMACY. Why is US democracy so broken? One reason is we've wrongly accepted that 9 justices have the final say over the Constitution. This book traces how that happened—& how we can reclaim power to govern ourselves.
What if every newspaper did this?
Let's implement mandatory retirement ages for courts, Congress, and the presidency in the U.S.
WHAT IF WE GET IT RIGHT?!?!
Preordered at the local independent bookstore that ships FAST:
Green Apple Books in San Francisco
Today's word is 'Waldeinsamkeit' (German).
How to say it: VAHL-d-AYN-zahm-kite
Meaning: The profound sense of solitude and contemplative peace experienced when alone in the forest.
Have you seen this word before?
Tell us how you use it.
#WordVoyage #LearnGerman #WordOfTheDay #Langsky #Language
I always feel weird about saying "Happy" Trans Day of Visibility, but I do ferociously wish happiness for trans people, and with that comes an unshakeable commitment to doing what I can to ensure safety, dignity, and full rights for all trans people. Civil rights are for EVERYONE.
Trans friends, thank you for being you, and for, when you can, sharing yourselves with a world that is so frequently undeserving of the light you bring to it. I love and support you, always. 🏳️⚧️🫂🫶
Calling all Blacksky Business owners! 📣 I made a custom feed so yall can promote your businesses! Just use #BlackskyBiz in your posts!
Shoutout to @breadbae.blacksky.app for the idea!!!
Protest sign says ONLY DRAG KINGS in black marker with colorful child-drawn tracing and augmentation
From my kid’s markers to god’s eyes
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
Great thread for today:
reporter who only covers really big protests and never covers local organizing: why is this protest I'm covering so big and where is all the local organizing
"In the first seven months of his second term, authorities arrested and detained parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children — a number that, if the pace held up, will have roughly doubled by now. That’s an average of more than 50 U.S. citizen kids a day with a parent pulled into detention."
Blacksky is excited to announce Acorn, a platform for growing and managing communities on decentralized infrastructure.
blackskyweb.xyz/introducing-...
one maddening thing about all of this is the conservative idea that "election day" has always meant a single day until recently, which is nonsense. 19th century elections often took place over the course of an entire month, with results trickling out over time.
Heart wrenching for everyone especially the folks living downwind of this toxic death plume who have been fighting for a just transition for decades.
The IEA’s “Sheltering from Oil Shocks” pamphlet reads like a Degrowth manual
It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight.
As a Cuban, I'm devastated.
a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off
Important research into the atmospheric conditions that create stronger atmospheric rivers—and consequently increase extreme winter rainfall and flood risk in California, Oregon, and Washington
About one in ten people who got coverage through the Affordable Care Act last year said they had to forgo insurance this year.
And most returning ACA enrollees say they will have to pare back on other household expenses to cover health care costs.
More takeaways from a KFF poll released today ⤵️
electrified public transit, heat pumps, home weatherization all make life easy for people and hard for fossil capital. here's some recs from @cplusc.bsky.social
climateandcommunity.org/research/blo...
"The more homogeneous the social fabric of a community, geographers found, the less likely the neighborhood would have a biodiverse range of plants. In other words, the economic and racial diversity that American communities fail to cultivate is reflected in the plant-scape."
Starfleet Academy maybe?
The enriching stuff is in the background; the main action is nice and soapy
