“'...the majority has rendered the people actually detained in the facility and Florida’s cherished environment protected by no one, and vulnerable to the whims of anyone,' [Judge Nancy Abudu] wrote."
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If not for Trump, what's the emoluments clause for? What's impeachment for? What's the 25th Amendment for? What's section 3 of the 14th Amendment for? What are checks and balances for?
The baddies are cherrypicking the Constitution the same way they do the bible: for their own benefit.
NEW: Years into heated debates and discussion, California has released its latest "Zone Zero" proposal, outlining what kind of landscaping residents in high fire risk zones can do within the first five feet of their home. Let's unpack what it says: www.latimes.com/environment/...
A new report sheds some light on the development of NASA's next-generation spacesuits, and for those interested in the agency's aggressive lunar timeline, it’s worth noting what the brief did and did not say.
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all of this would be hilarious if it were happening in some small, powerless third world banana republic, where some tinpot’s disastrous decisions would have no effect beyond its own borders — but this is the United Goddamned States of America. everything we do affects the whole planet. all it took were the reckless actions of one moron to destabilize the entire world’s economy. how is that even allowed to be a thing? ‘what if the leader of a country were a fucking moron?’ is a great premise when it’s a movie like Duck Soup. not so much, however, when you have a real-life Donald J. Firefly in command of a nuclear arsenal.
it's insane that we live in a world where the impulsive actions of one thin-skinned imbecile can fuck shit up for the entire planet. big, strong readers with tears in their eyes are saying to me, "sir! sir! thank you for your angry post about it, sir!" link is here: bit.ly/3QkGa5v
lmao rare to see someone so easily baited in a congressional hearing, but RFK jr is a sucker
Pete Hegseth ending the mandatory flu shot for our troops is intended to make our military less ready. This is TREASON!
🚨 Talks with Iran have collapsed before they even began.
Iran refuses to negotiate under a U.S. naval blockade and threats, and Trump says he expects bombing to resume once the ceasefire ends.
Iran is warning it will retaliate if attacked—and planned talks in Pakistan appear dead.
#OtD 17 Apr 1950 NYC teachers began to boycott extracurricular activities in protest at low pay. The boycott eventually spread to 54 schools in the city, and 10,000s of schoolkids walked out of class in support. In Sep 1951 a compromise was reached stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7782...
#OtD 17 Apr 1944 members of the militant machinists' union Lodge 68 in San Francisco began an overtime ban in pursuance of a new contract. They ended up fighting the employer, the government and even the Communist Party stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8852...
#OtD 17 Apr 1943 Black students from @HowardU staged a sit-in at a segregated restaurant in Washington DC. One of the organisers of this and other sit-ins in the city at the time was Pauli Murray, who identified as part male and part female stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8851...
#OtD 17 Apr 2014 Spanish machinist, anarchist and Civil War fighter, Concha Perez Collado, died aged 99. She took part in jail breaks, insurrectionary strikes, the Civil War, the May Days and helped rebuild the @CNTsindicato after Franco's death stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8855...
#OtD 17 Apr 1920 dockers in Dublin refused to load foodstuffs destined for England. The action helped relieve severe food shortages in Dublin, which had been dire since 1917, while huge quantities of food were shipped to Britain stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8849...
#OtD 16 Apr 1999 a bill to require that military action by the UK against Iraq be approved by parliament, rather than launched unilaterally by the govt, was scheduled for debate. But on advice from the Labour govt, the debate was blocked by the Queen stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8753...
#OtD 16 Apr 2010 all professional footballers in Spain went on strike in support of colleagues who had not been paid by the football clubs which employed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8754...
🌏 En expédition en Antarctique, des scientifiques découvrent par hasard une île qui n'apparaît sur aucune carte
Democrats should get louder in championing clean energy’s affordability and resilience from global shocks, according to some of the party’s leading voices on the climate.
From our friends at @theguardian.com:
It should be noted that Bovino is actually describing mass ethnic cleansing, not mass deportations.
The president called on Virginians to vote against the redistricting referendum that, if accepted, would lead to the redrawing of the state’s congressional maps.
here's today's post: "four seasons total dumbfuckery: Donny blows up Iran negotiations with his own reckless mouth" — Dear Leader always makes things worse for himself.
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