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The Minneapolis “Dirtbag Lawyer” Challenging ICE Detentions—and Winning | “It’s all hands on deck for the legal community.” (www.motherjones.com)
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Democrats Hammer Trump on ‘Energy Affordability’ as Iran War Continues | A new Senate report argues the Trump administration has also pushed costs up by stifling clean energy. (www.nytimes.com)
 

About 1/10 of people trying to read NYT gift links like this one are now getting asked to register. You can still use archive.is if that happens.

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Report: Minnesota to see billions in costs from impacts of climate change (www.mprnews.org)
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SEC Prepares Proposal to Eliminate Quarterly Reporting Requirement | Trump and others have said public companies should have to report earnings only twice a year (www.wsj.com)
 

This advantages insiders over investors quite significantly.

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SEC Prepares Proposal to Eliminate Quarterly Reporting Requirement | Trump and others have said public companies should have to report earnings only twice a year (www.wsj.com)
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This advantages insiders over investors quite significantly.

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[Trump] Administration to Convene ‘God Squad’ With Power to Override Environmental Law | The meeting, planned for this month, will focus on oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. (www.nytimes.com)
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Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies (www.nytimes.com)
 

Ruling on a lawsuit brought by several prominent medical organizations, a district court said the federal government did not base its decisions on science in limiting Covid shots and changing the childhood immunization schedule.

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Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies (www.nytimes.com)
 

Ruling on a lawsuit brought by several prominent medical organizations, a district court said the federal government did not base its decisions on science in limiting Covid shots and changing the childhood immunization schedule.

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Border Patrol official Greg Bovino to retire, reports say (www.ms.now)
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University of Florida moves to deactivate College Republicans after report of antisemitic behavior (www.orlandosentinel.com)
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Change in Data Sources Led to Lower Inflation Reading | A methodological change contributed to a better-than-expected inflation report, prompting questions from some economists. (www.nytimes.com)
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'This place broke something in us': Kids languish in ICE detention long past 20-day court limit (www.nbcnews.com)
How billionaires took over American politics in c/politics@lemmy.world
In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 7 months ago

Sure, but the choice in recent decades has been to leave it as is, or to completely gut it.

Trump’s peace plan is a demand for Ukraine’s surrender in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 7 months ago

Quite literally:

The plan was negotiated by Steve Witkoff, a real-estate developer with no historical, geographical, or cultural knowledge of Russia or Ukraine, and Kirill Dmitriev, who heads Russia’s sovereign-wealth fund and spends most of his time making business deals

How billionaires took over American politics in c/politics@lemmy.world
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 32 points 7 months ago (3 children)

About 40% of Republican staffers have gone full Nazi at this point, and the rest (and their bosses) are ok with this. Just making sure their buddies can get military training is all

Justice Department sues to block California laws requiring ICE officers to show their faces, badges in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'd prefer to toss the klan in the clink

Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 12 points 7 months ago

They're using it to fill out regulatory paperwork instead of making sure they satisfy the requirement that you establish actual knowledge about the plant to be built to show that it is safe

Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

From xkcd

Judge rules mandatory detention of Chicago day care teacher by ICE is illegal in c/usa@midwest.social
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 months ago

She gets a bail hearing

Trump Is Said to Propose Opening California Coast to Oil Drilling in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's not legal. What's much more likely is denying permits for onshore infrastructure which would support offshore oil drilling.

Deal to end government shutdown in reach in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Me looking at cspan screenshot during the vote.

And there is no way Schumer wasn't coordinating this; he held a caucus meeting right beforehand, and the Yea votes were all Democrats who have 4+ years to their next election

Deal to end government shutdown in reach in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Schumer coordinated the Yes vote among Democrats

You also missed King

It wasn't on the Senate website yet when I posted

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