"We continue to call for Venezuela’s electoral authorities to release full, transparent, and detailed voting results, including by polling station. This is especially critical given that there are clear signs that the election results announced by Venezuela’s National Electoral Council do not reflect the will of the Venezuelan people as it was expressed at the ballot box on July 28." - White House
Federal #Law Thwarted Chicago’s Attempt to Sue #Gun Makers. But Now It Has a New Strategy.
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Taking advantage of a new state law, Chicago's lawsuit accuses Glock of manufacturing pistols with designs that allow modification and failing to make changes that would protect the public.
#News #Chicago #Law #Guns #SecondAmendment #Government #Courts
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-glock-lawsuit-guns-auto-sear-modifications-3d-printing
Extreme heat is making schools hotter — and learning harder https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/073024_heat_schools/extreme-heat-making-schools-hotter-and-learning-harder/
Children have a harder time thermo-regulating and take longer to produce sweat, making them more vulnerable than adults to heat exhaustion and illness, and now the effect extreme heat is having on schools and child care is starting to get the attention of policymakers and researchers.
#Tucson #Arizona
Iowa is the latest to ban abortion > "six weeks"
In fact: "six weeks since last menstrual period ended". Ovulation only happens 7-10 days later.
"Six weeks" is just enough time to be "a bit late" … if one's cycle is regular, but most are not.
Things that can delay the cycle include:*
▪ exercise
▪ travel across time zones
▪ stress
So it's effectively a 0-to-4-week abortion ban.
Or, a Total Abortion Ban, for short. 😭
Perhaps the women in M∆G∆'s ideal world never deal with these?
@MiriShuli Evangelicals are globalists, they organize internationally, as does all of the far right. They talk a lot about "evil globalists" and "patriotism" to distract everyone from the fact that they're the evil globalists (a bit like the Catholic church starts satanic panics to distract from their systemic enabling and protecting of pedophiles).
And corporations love this narrative too because it distracts from their evil global machinations. This is also why they hate the UN and international socialism, global organizations that can bring people (and nations) together to get in the way of their exploitation of the world. The evangelicals are very handy for oil and mining corporations because they convince people that a climate catastrophe is a good thing and will only harm the rest of us "evil" people.
@KimberlyN
Trump's statements about ending elections could disappear down the memory hole, buried by his next nonsensical boast or outrageous lie. Don’t move on. Don’t let this go. Or Project 2025 either.
https://digbysblog.net/2024/07/28/trumps-contract-on-america/
It’s the Ted Cruz fraternity.
https://mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper/112855601324097317
Alabama’s bass-ackward politicians are always a step ahead of America’s demise. Leading the way backwards is what we do here in this environmentally beautiful, absolutely friendly but politically oppressive deep red state.
https://www.al.com/news/2024/07/dei-is-the-gops-new-not-so-secret-racial-slur-thanks-alabama.html
According to #JDVance, people who have #biologicalChildren should have greater #votingPower than people who don't. Would the votes of parents of biological children count doubly? Or would those of us without children count as 3/5ths? Whatever the hell this guy is thinking is both insane, and practically unworkable. So, why did he say it? It's 100% virtue signaling, and promoting the "#traditionalFamily" fetish that thrives in the #GOP.
💪🏼 #WhiteWomenForKamala
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