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| 6:03a |
(Satire) Vacation photo
(satire) *Local Mom Wants Just One Nice Vacation Photo Where Family
Isn't Running From Gunfire.*
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| 6:03a |
Unions and the labor movement
Unions and the labor movement have great capacity to support democracy
and human rights, and have done so throughout history. |
| 6:03a |
Powerful evidence
The Jan 6 committee has presented powerful evidence that the wrecker
intentionally built up and directed the attack on the capitol, and
chose intentionally to keep it going until he concluded it had failed.
*How the January 6 panel set the stage for a criminal case against Trump.* |
| 6:03a |
California models gun control law after Texas's anti-abortion law
California has passed a law that parodies the Texas law authorizing almost
anyone to sue whoever helps someone get an abortion. California's law
does that same thing to people who do anything with illegal guns.
Is this a good idea?
I think that the "anyone can sue you" approach to enforcing a law is
cruel and repressive, regardless of what actions are being prohibited.
Using this to enforce anti-gun laws is bad for the same reason
that using this to enforce anti-abortion laws is bad. |
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| 6:03a |
Graham Mansfield
Although Graham Mansfield was not convicted of murdering his dying
wife, he was convicted of manslaughter. His sentence was suspended so
he probably will not go to prison for this.
I don't know whether he cares about that question. He did not want to
outlive Dyanne, but having survived his suicide attempt, he is stuck
with it. Can he find meaning in life now?
I believe that the right to die should not be limited to people who
are going to die soon anyway. People who are incapacitated, whose
prospect is many years of helpless boredom and futility, should have
the right to help in dying, too, if that's what they want. |
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| 6:03a |
Codifying marriage equality
Same-sex couples organize to stop right-wing fanatics from ruling same-sex
marriage invalid in the US. |
| 6:03a |
Regulators urged to block Amazon's terrifying medical clinic company acquisition
*US Regulators Urged to Block Amazon's "Terrifying" Purchase of [the
medical clinic company] One Medical.*
Large companies like Amazon should not be allowed to acquire any
other companies. |
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(Satire) Homeownership
(satire) *More Young Americans Achieving Homeownership By Changing
Locks On Airbnb.*
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IMF and US
The IMF could provide funds for food for starving countries, if the US
gives the ok. |
| 6:03a |
Republicans against contraception rights
*Nearly Every House Republican Votes Against Codifying Right to
Contraception.
"If they had the chance they would ban it," said Rep. Ilhan Omar
(D-Minn.).* |
| 11:18p |
Effect of stronger winds on fire in London
If there had been stronger winds, fire might have engulfed much of London
last week.
*These soaring temperatures have given Britain a taste of the dystopia
to come.* Other parts of the world, too.
The planet-roasters, and the officials they have bought influence with,
are responsible. Let's rub their noses in their mess. |
| 11:18p |
Oil and gas permits in endangered gorilla habitat
*DRC to auction oil and gas permits in endangered gorilla habitat.*
Global disaster will push many people to the brink, and before
actually dying, they will try desperate schemes to survive.
Many of those schemes will involve destruction. This is a foretaste. |
| 11:18p |
Urgent: Pass the Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act
US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act.
The Department of Hostility and Suffering currently buys lots of surveillance data. This law would prohibit that, but it wouldn't eliminate the resulting
injustice. It is a small step forward, but not a true solution.
Governments could buy other kinds of data which would enable them to
find out what sort of places you have been, and then use parallel
construction to attack you.
The Capitol Switchboard number is +1-202-224-3121.
If you call, please spread the word! |
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| 11:18p |
Urgent: Replace Senator Manchin as Energy Committee Chairman
US citizens: call on the Senate to replace Senator Manchin as Energy
Committee Chairman.
The Capitol Switchboard number is +1-202-224-3121.
If you call, please spread the word! |
| 11:18p |
Urgent: Create sustainable options now
US citizens: call on investment fund companies to create sustainable
options now. This refers to companies such as Vanguard, Fidelity, and BlackRock. |
| 11:18p |
Cruise missile strikes on Ukraine's main port
*Barely 12 hours after Moscow signed a deal with Ukraine to allow
monitored grain exports from Ukraine’s southern ports, [Putin]
targeted Ukraine’s main port of [Odessa] — through which grain shipments
would take place — with cruise missile strikes.*
*Airstrikes on ports could derail grain export plan, warns Ukraine.*
I had a feeling that this deal was too good to be true. Cheating is
Putin's way; you can't expect him to keep a deal sincerely.
Putin has been using food effectively as a weapon, and he would hardly
let go of a weapon.
I support Ukraine in this war, but "Odessa" has been the English name
of that city for much more than a century, and I don't see a reason to
change the way we write it in English. |
| 11:18p |
Opponents of masks bully officials to resign
In Shasta county, ideological opponents of masks bullied many county
officials into resigning, and removed some officials from office,
demonstrating how they wish to harass anyone who doesn't bow down to them. |
| 11:18p |
Dip in UK woodland’s ability to capture CO2
*Dip in UK woodland’s ability to capture CO2 [because] felled trees not
replaced.*
I would guess that other countries have the same problem, if they don't
take care to grow new trees as fast as they cut trees down. |
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Schedule F
The wrecker made a plan, called "Schedule F", to enable him to
arbitrarily purge the employees in 50,000 federal civil service jobs
and replace them with people personally loyal to him. This could corrupt
the whole federal bureaucracy.
Any Republican elected in 2024 might put this into practice.
Reportedly Republicans in the Senate support that plan, and will block
the efforts to legislate against it. |
| 11:18p |
Bannon's defiance of subpoena
Why Bannon's defiance of a subpoena to testify in Congress goes hand in hand
with insurrection.
Bannon claimed that the wrecker still has the "executive privilege" to
forbid Bannon from testifying, even though the wrecker no longer holds
an executive office. This could be the basis of an appeal.
It seems pretty obvious to me that ex-officials must not have any
power to block testimony about what they did while in office. |
| 11:18p |
Who do you trust about the climate emergency?
*Do you trust the people in suits downplaying this [climate]
emergency, or the activists lying in roads in an attempt to ward
off catastrophe?* |
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