“It is the greatest privilege that exists in the world, and that’s what makes it irreparable harm.” New Hampshire judge blocks Trump attempt to end birthright citizenship, grants class action status. From @ethandewitt.bsky.social #NHPolitics
Governor DeSantis is building “Alligator Alcatraz” with little oversight – and this big campaign donor is set to reap millions from it #DefendDemocracy floridatrident.org/governor-des...
In a perfect world, the decision to drag our country into war with the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism isn’t made by a draft dodging former reality tv gameshow host “president” and his day drinking former weekend tv “news” host Secretary of Defense.
contact your representatives when you're happy with their actions as well as when you're unhappy
stopping the Governor's office from shaking down Lobbyists for campaign contributions and a bad bill written by car dealerships has been gutted and good bills giving People the power to fix broken tractors, wheelchairs and cell phones nearly there
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He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him.
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
Maybe now politicians will talk about the 6,707 square mile dead zone in the Gulf of America.
Do we think there’s any chance SCOTUS justices will seize the opportunity to cover themselves in glory as the protectors of democracy and America against the trump regime?
Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.
Ancient woodland make up only 0.04% of N. Ireland, according to the Woodland Trust. In the Irish republic, less than 2% of woods are native and an even lower percentage predate the brutal Tudor and Elizabethan clearances of the 16th & 17th centuries. Which is why they need protection: from trees.
If each Treasury payee is a separate record, and there are, say, 68,000,000 social security payees (as is estimated), then at $5000 per violation, it seems like Elon could be penalized $340 billion if he unlawfully accessed their Treasury records...
"This is a list of political appointments of officeholders made by the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politic...
Seems like a legitimate argument, even an imperfect pleading might get some kind of injunction and stop the bleeding (? not a lawyer)
Fragments of the asteroid Bennu, carefully collected and ferried to Earth by a robotic spacecraft, contain the building blocks for life says NASA. Fred Hoyle speculated that life started in space and not on Earth, and he was ridiculed for years. Ironic.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.
Meta's top lawyer on AI will no longer be defending the company due to Zuckerberg's decent into "neo-Nazi madness."
"Mark Zuckerberg is, of course, free to do whatever he wants to do," Mark Lemley says, "but I decided that that wasn't something I wanted to be associated with."
Exclusive w/ WIRED:
Five elephants are not human so they do not have the legal right to pursue their release, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled
The worst problems of the 21st century stem from the fact that a handful of greedy individuals and corporations have chosen to sacrifice the public good for their own private profit.
It's time to frame the problem in clear, simple, moral terms.
www.theframelab.org/joe-bidens-f...
In her State of the Judiciary speech, Kansas Supreme Court Justice Marla Luckert makes a "grim prediction" about the future integrity of the rule of law #ksleg
The Supreme Court has ruled against the oil industry, refusing to block lawsuits from California and other states that seek billions of dollars in damages for the impacts of climate change. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
In a first, the U.S. saw wind and solar supply more power than coal last year.
But even as renewables made gains, U.S. emissions stayed flat.
Read more: bit.ly/3WeT1Gt
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine will veto a provision that would prevent the Department of Health and state medical and pharmacy boards from disciplining licensed health care professionals for spreading health misinformation.
Via @ohiocapitaljournal.com
Glad the temperance movement didn’t succeed, but the same fight continues in America, as do the tactics.
“which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause really be a just one.”
Astute observations by a young Lincoln, he underestimated the power winning the emotionreason heart of the people though.
