American lady (Vanessa virginiensis)
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
2017-07-16 359aaa
“Corrupt Republikkklan Court Packing
"In an grim column for The Atlantic, American University Law Professor Kimberly Wehle warns that the current Supreme Court with its 6-3 conservative majority has become "a threat" to the country as it runs roughshod over previous rulings while usurping the powers of the executive and legislative branch unchecked.
As Wehle explains, using recent rulings including the highly controversial overturning of Roe v Wade last year, the court, bolstered by three far-right justices appointed by former president Donald Trump, has taken on cases that expose "the right-wing majority’s appetite for asserting massive power under the auspices of judicial review."
Noting that Stanford Law School Professor Mark A. Lemley recently wrote that the court, as it stands now, is engaged in “a radical restructuring of American law across a range of fields and disciplines,” Wehle agreed, writing that what the court's conservative wing is doing runs, "...along two lines: substantive changes to the Constitution made under the guise of interpretation, and procedural power grabs executed despite traditions of deference. This has pushed our constitutional system dangerously off balance, with little opportunity for correction."
Case in point, she notes, is how the court ruled on the two hot topics of abortion, in its controversial Dobbs ruling, and guns.""”
“The Supreme Court Just Keeps Deciding It Should Be Even More Powerful
Whatever conservative ethos of restraint there once was has vanished.”
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“Monocultures don’t occur in nature, that’s why TruGreen and the other lawn companies spray a lot of dangerous herbicides to kill all the tiny flowers and biodiversity that would naturally appear. Biodiversity is out of style and spraying carcinogens is in style...in my neighborhood at least. More info here:”
“Bee Considerate This Spring: Forgo Fertilizers and Pesticides and Go Au Naturel On Lawn”
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“What is Ecological Overshoot and Can Capitalism Correct It?”
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“The FDIC decision on Silicon Valley Bank isn’t a typical bailout — but it’s not a typical bank resolution either. Here’s what just happened.
It’s a huge amount of support for the whole banking system.”
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Just like the so called “protections” Biden enacted at the time of inking the Willow oil project – they lie.
“Yellen Said "No Bailout" But It's a Huge Bailout of the Banking System
I must have lost my mind to think there actually might be haircuts. Apologies offered.”
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Our global biosphere is dead. The death is a process and it is currently irretrievably in motion:
“Wildfire Smoke Stands to Deplete The Ozone Layer, Scientists Warn”
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“The Politics of Extinction”
“Today’s Republican Party is practicing the politics of extinction, pursuing activities and policies that will lead to its destruction — unless and until the decent but cowardly majority members of the party rise up against the minority of evil and stupid people who have declared themselves to be its leaders.”
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“Companies and institutions that need to be bailed out by the government when they fail should be owned by the government.
You can’t privatize the profits and socialize the losses.”
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Democrats and Republicans are the worst. They should not be allowed to participate in ANY further elections:
“The obsession with privatization isn’t just about turning public goods into profit generators for a small handful of wealthy people. It’s also about trampling on democracy.”
“Destroying Democracy Is Central to the Privatization of Public Goods”
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“WEEKLY ATMOSPHERIC CO2 REPORT
MAR 05 TO MAR 11, 2023
DOWN 0.81 ppm from last week
UP 2.58 ppm from 1 year ago (above average of 2.4)
UP 23.61 ppm from 10 years ago (slightly below average of 24)”
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“It’s 2008 again. While crushing student debt is keeping young generations from buying homes and forcing them into outrageous rentals, greed has consumed the banking industry once again requiring the only institution big enough, US Government, to bail them out.
Ralph Nader:
“Once again, government socialism bails out reckless capitalist banks with GOP and Democratic party support. So far, three capitalists banks saved and counting. Tougher regulation needed from Congress to control large bankers’ greed. “
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“Strawberry fields and agriculture flooded and devastated in Watsonville, CA as early as January. With the levee breached in Pajaro/ Santa Cruz the farmworkers have lost their homes and livelihoods! ”
“Ag industry reeling from floods”
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TERM LIMITS NOW:
Pocan a champion of the children? Let me put it this way, ask him how big the bunker is that he can use.
And if you really want to impress, get washington to give the check, instead of subscribing to the conservative koched up philosophy that the little people have to rely on each other for help because the resources of Govt are for the rich
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