Clean energy money stays in clean hands, reproductive health is shielded from harm, Big Landlord takes a hit, and geothermal energy pumps up the heat.
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Oversight, His ass! Donald Trump, twice-impeached convicted felon and career huckster, spent the first week of his second term exacting revenge against current and former officials who as much as contradicted his frequent misstatements. He cancelled the federal security details for Dr. Anthony Fauci, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo and Brian Hook (The Hill): Fauci led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for almost 40 years, including at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bolton was Trump’s national security adviser, and Pompeo was Trump’s secretary of State. Hook was a key Pompeo aide. All four men have fallen out of favor with Trump, with Bolton in particular now a strident critic of the president. Fauci has long been the target of threats from anti-vaccine extremists. Iran has targeted Bolton for his role 2020 drone killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani. Friday night, Trump fired 17 federal inspectors general, internal watchdogs for multiple government agencies, including the Departments of Defense, State, Transportation, Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, and Energy, reports The Washington Post.
As progressive as Doctor Who is, it took a long time for it to employ more women behind the cameras and develop better female characters.
Asylum-seekers are being detained because they come from Russia and Central Asia, immigrants and attorneys told The Intercept.
The post They Flee Russia as Dissidents Seeking Asylum. The U.S. Locks Them Up. appeared first on The Intercept.
. A great poem. It helped one of the greatest men that has walked this earth keep hope alive during twenty-seven years in prison.
“Money and information are the twin tactical nukes of modern politics” according to Steve Bannon. But the the seeds for this tech dystopia were sown more than a decade ago
I find that I need animal soothers much more often than I used to. These are tough times. One of the sites that I look at every morning before I look at anything else is We Rate Dogs. I read it on Bluesky but you can find it on the other sites as well. The videos are fun and inspiring and heart warming. I think we all need a little bit more of that. Every day. Maybe twice a day… There are hundreds more and each one makes me feel just a little bit better. They also sell very cute merch which goes to helping dogs in medical need. Check them out if you need a quick soother.
New DNA studies reveal more benefits from our hominin friends
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Yesterday, Trump pardoned a whole bunch of people who had been prosecuted for violating the FACE act by obstructing people’s access to abortion clinics. Some of them assaulted workers and patients in the process. So it’s not surprising that the anti-abortion zealots are feeling their oats. Check this out: Dear Acting Attorney General McHenry: We are writing to urge the Department of Justice (DOJ) to enforce the anti-abortion trafficking rules in the so-called “Comstock Act” by (1) rescinding the Office of Legal Counsel’s (OLC) Memorandum Opinion, Application of the Comstock Act to the Mailing of Prescription Drugs That Can Be Used for Abortions (2022) and (2) taking immediate action to enforce the mail-order abortion prohibition within the Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1461‒62. These laws prohibit the distribution of abortifacient matter—including the abortion pill regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol—through the United States Postal Service, express companies, common carriers, and interactive computer services.
To believe things can get better, we must first accept they can get worse.
The US thru a kitchen sink of sanctions at Russia after the start of the Ukraine war, including freezing their foreign assets. The result?
The number is exaggerated, given Russian inflation, but even inflation adjusted, Russia’s doing fine.
Advocates say the bill will put domestic violence survivors who face false allegations from their abusers at greater risk of deportation.
The post Republicans Say This Anti-Immigrant Bill Will Protect Victims of Abuse. It Will Do the Opposite. appeared first on The Intercept.
We’re pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the second annual Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction, in honor of the extraordinary work and life of long-time McSweeney’s author Stephen Dixon.
The Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction recognizes an emerging fiction writer who is experimenting with form and expanding the boundaries of storytelling.
The submissions will be reviewed by a panel of editors and fiction writers, along with McSweeney’s editors. The winning piece will receive $1,750 and will be published in a forthcoming issue of McSweeney’s Quarterly. The runner-up will receive $750, as well as publication in a forthcoming issue of McSweeney’s Quarterly.
This year’s panel consists of Steven Dunn, Vi Khi Nao, Joseph Grantham
The award is made possible by the generous support of Stephen’s daughters, Sophia Frydman and Antonia Frydman.
Guidelines
— The piece must be original and not previously published online or in print
We’re pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the second annual Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction, in honor of the extraordinary work and life of long-time McSweeney’s author Stephen Dixon.
The Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction recognizes an emerging fiction writer who is experimenting with form and expanding the boundaries of storytelling.
The submissions will be reviewed by a panel of editors and fiction writers, along with McSweeney’s editors. The winning piece will receive $1,750 and will be published in a forthcoming issue of McSweeney’s Quarterly. The runner-up will receive $750, as well as publication in a forthcoming issue of McSweeney’s Quarterly.
This year’s panel consists of Steven Dunn, Vi Khi Nao, Joseph Grantham
The award is made possible by the generous support of Stephen’s daughters, Sophia Frydman and Antonia Frydman.
Guidelines
— The piece must be original and not previously published online or in print
Julia Sebutinde is a dedicated Christian Zionist who stood alone in rejecting South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. Now the court’s president, the Ugandan judge appears to have plagiarized sections of her dissenting opinion justifying Israel’s occupation of Palestinian Territories. With new countries joining South Africa’s case accusing Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, and a ceasefire potentially enabling war crimes investigators to gather fresh evidence of Israeli atrocities, a leadership shakeup […]
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