silence7

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Even as they rebelled against a $1.8 billion fund for President Trump’s allies, Republicans looked the other way as his administration granted him potentially lucrative tax protections.

 

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Beto Coral’s criticism of a presidential candidate in his home country of Colombia undermined U.S. foreign policy.

 

The forty-fourth president’s library dedication speech was a powerful explication of liberal patriotism—and a much-needed repudiation of the Trump-Vance fascist variant.

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Basically he's trying to reinstate the white-officers-only policies that characterized the Jim Crow era

 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to sell or give away most of the 11 warehouses it bought to detain migrants, reversing course on a signature initiative.

 

A trainee in his sixth week of basic training died after falling ill on Friday and being taken to Brooke Army Medical Center, the Air Force said in a news release. It was not immediately clear whether the death of the trainee, Keon McDaniel, was related to the flu outbreak.

Barracks and military training are known for being incredibly effective environments for the flu to spread. Having a big chunk of your military get sick at once is a very real problem.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But the fossil fuels industry can rake in profits in the meantime

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

Yes, but not by enough to matter. It'll still take more than 60% of the votes going for Democrats to change who holds power. Gerrymandering has gotten really effective, and the peolle drawing the maps know in advance which way most households are inclined to vote.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago

They're doing it because Musk put the polluting turbines in a mostly black neighborhood, so that's who suffers the most from them.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

Pretty much. It's a total failure for US military power.

 

The department cited national security concerns, saying Elon Musk’s company had played a crucial role in the Iran war. It also argued it has the authority to stop environmental lawsuits brought by citizens.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They don't get harvested then, but I think stockpiles will be empty then or sooner

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 30 points 1 week ago (8 children)

It's possible for us all to lose. Good chance of a famine six months from now because so much of the northern hemisphere couldn't get fertilizer during planting season and the US decided to make food for cows and cars instead of for people

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They appear to have been using electric shocks to get the elephant to go where they wanted.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

He wasn't mingling with the crowd.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

He was up until he started doing things to wreck the long-term economic growth of the US

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

They had a huge security zone around the game to prevent that

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

A bit, for ones where they could find a legal reason to do so

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 weeks ago

The immunity isn't some absolute rule; I don't seriously expect that the Republicans on the court think it applies to Democrats.

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