When you want to go forward, you put it in ‘D’ Something David Roberts (@drvolts) tweeted Monday is worth your attention: As I say over & over, there’s no clearer way to understand the contrast between America’s two political parties than by looking at what they do when they control state gov’ts. Dems solve real problems; Republicans gang up to visit cruelty on vulnerable out groups. Roberts cites the transportation bill the DFL just passed in Minnesota as an example of Democrats solving real problems: Added to an already passed metro-area 0.25% sales tax for housing programs and projects, the seven counties of Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington, Dakota, Scott, Anoka and Carver counties will see a 1% sales tax increase. Taken together, the transportation tax and fee increases would raise an additional $1.48 billion for roads, bridges, transit and other transportation needs in the next two-year budget period and $2.22 billion for the following two-year budget. Memory of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse is still fresh in Minnesota. Rep.
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Are you worried about the rising political power of violent white nationalists in America? Well, you’ve got plenty of company, including U.S. national security and counterterrorism officials. And we’re worried, too — worried enough, in fact, to feel that it’s time to take a look at the experience of India, where Hindu supremacist dogma has increasingly been enforced through violent means. While there are striking parallels between both countries, India appears to have ventured further down the road of far-right violence. Its experience could potentially offer Americans some valuable, if grim, lessons. As a start, let’s look at two recent incidents, one in India and the other in the United States. Laws passed in most Indian states against the killing... Read more
The U.S. does it if they’ve been elected to Congress While President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy do the debt-ceiling two-step, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen cautions that the government is “highly likely” to run out of money as early as June 1, reports Axios: MAGA Republicans holding McCarthy’s short leash demand cuts to the federal budget, or else. Or else they’ll set fire to the country they failed to on Jan. 6 and likely revoke his speakership, Politico suggests, because “any single disgruntled member [is] empowered to orce a vote on ousting him.” The American Prospect sees the debt limit as an unconstitutional congressional veto on the Executive branch’s responsibility to authority to fulfill existing U.S. obligations: The Constitution gives Congress the power to make contracts. It does not give Congress the power to renege on these contracts. Once Congress has committed the United States to perform a promise, the president’s duty to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed” requires the executive branch to perform.
Congratulations, you’ve made it to the end of the year. Here are a few tips to help you move out of your dorms:
Log on to your housing portal and click the button marked “Express Checkout.” This will immediately cut the power to your room and disable your key.
Be sure that previous step is the last thing you do. We probably should have mentioned that.
Have your parents try and find the designated parking lots since our student volunteers made the signs out of the brown bathroom paper towels, and they all blew away.
After driving a few laps around the entire campus, find the only remaining spot next to a large grass field you’ll have to carry all your stuff across.
There are three rolling bins to be shared between the thousands of students leaving today. If you’re lucky enough to find one, your stuff will constantly fall out of the large holes in them. They also will absolutely not roll over grass.
Even though it is ninety-two degrees, please wear jeans and long-sleeve shirts since our grassy field is riddled with ticks.
The annual display of Jewish Supremacy in Palestine, known as the Flag March, is part of a campaign of intimidation in cities around the country that have a significant Palestinian population.
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Rachel Donald talks to scientists and activists who are turning to protest because of the gate-keepers in the media who refuse to cover their research
Corporations are opposed to a California bill that would make it harder for companies — including fast-food giants — to hide their climate emissions.
If you are a migrant in the UK, asylum seeker, refugee or working on this issue, you must read this carefully. The new Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (DPDI Bill) is returning to parliament for its second reading; the changes in DPDI Bill will: 1. More Home Office Powers Give the Home Office the […]
If you are a migrant in the UK, asylum seeker, refugee or working on this issue, you should read this carefully. The new Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (DPDI Bill) is going through parliament and is expected to be passed into law later this year. The changes in this Bill will exacerbate the existing […]
On this week’s MVC, Rivka and Frank discuss Bong Joon-Ho’s 2019 masterpiece Parasite.
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Tygart Technology was founded by Manchin’s daughter in 1991, and it’s headquartered in the same building as his coal company.
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The Parliamentary Standards Commissioner, Electoral Commission and Cabinet Office will not be looking into remarks by a former member of the Government that introduced the controversial policy
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Concerns swirl in Whitehall around retired senior British officers looking to advise foreign governments – conflicts of interest persist even if there is no wrongdoing, writes Iain Overton
Jon Bloomfield examines the similarities between the 1905 Aliens Bill and the current Illegal Migration Bill and inflammatory rhetoric around refugees
Box office bombs coming your way this summer.
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While appeal to R squared is a common rhetorical device, it is a very tenuous connection to any plausible explanatory virtues for many reasons. Either it is meant to be merely a measure of predictability in a given data set or it is a measure of causal influence. In either case it does not tell […]
If you haven’t caught an episode of “White House Plumbers,” the new HBO series on Watergate, I highly recommend it. For people my age, Watergate will always be connected to All the President’s Men, not the book by Woodward and Bernstein but Alan J. Pakula’s 1976 film. I can’t think of Ben Bradlee without thinking of Jason Robards, Deepthroat without Hal Holbrook, or Hugh Sloan without Meredith Baxter Bierney, who played Sloan’s wife in the film. The point of the film, and those actors, was to supply a sense of gravitas to a country stricken by the sordidness of the affair. No matter how criminal Nixon may have been, his criminality was redeemed by the feel of the film, with […]
