'Something is rotten in Texas': Experts pounce on Ken Paxton corruption acquittal #FuckTexas #GOP #Texas #KenPaxton https://www.rawstory.com/ken-paxton-reactions/
After years of deliberating, California sues oil companies for climate damages https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/16/california-sues-oil-companies-00116398?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
@persagen Quote: Autoworkers are not the problem. Corporate greed is the problem. I’ll add, “Capitalism is the problem; CEO made $17M last year”. Case closed…⚡️🤔
A6 cont'd 4
UAW President Shawn Fain: “It Is Long Past Time to Stand Up for the Working Class”
https://jacobin.com/2023/09/shawn-fain-speech-uaw-stand-up-strike-working-class-unions-uaw/
* speech to United Auto Workers members, Shawn Fain laid into the Big Three
* explained the UAW's new “stand-up strike"
* [Oy! 🤨 ] invoked Bible to declare their battle a righteous fight for justice 🤦♀️
#UAW #TradeUnions #capitalism #corporations #CorporateGreed #DefundCorporations #DefundBillionaires #ShawnFein #populism
Limited chars to 500 but I want to spell out -- hyperreductionistic tendency of a simple (Right Wing) mind to link Gender:Sex:Identity as 1:1:1 pathway is inappropriate established BY science as early as ... insert case of congenital adrenal hyperplasia here.
Hell, by Gregor Mendel.
It dismisses the unpredictability of a complex system emerging from genes, epigenetics, time sensitive developmental periods, hormone messengers, concentration of hormones, thermal temperature, ETC ETC.
@GottaLaff @emptywheel this is how he's escaped accountability his entire [grotesque] life.
Whenever he's in trouble he throws legal tantrums - to show the courts he'll waste an infinite amount of time and money to settle something that would be far less expensive to just admit to. One of the many ways he squandered his half-billion inheritance.
Being unreasonable is his superpower
" It’s extremely unlikely to work for a number of good reasons."
I'd feel more optimistic about that statement if not for Trump's history of evading culpability iin New York?
Via @emptywheel:
#Trump has been staging a wildly cynical gimmick in an attempt to stave off trial for his eponymous corporation, and most of the press is too busy squealing that a private citizen was indicted for owning a gun for 11 days ago in 2018 to report on it.
Jose Pagliery:
By suing the judge overseeing his bank fraud trial, Donald Trump is creating the pretext to potentially seek his removal.
Will they actual go for it? https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-trumps-gambit-to-get-rid-of-judge-arthur-engoron-by-suing-him
#standWithSarahConner and say hell no to armed robots. They will be misused and will threaten democracy. The police always are trigger happy. No one needs this. https://gizmodo.com/massachusetts-gun-robots-ban-bill-boston-dynamics-1850838417
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) joined United Auto Workers members on the picket line Saturday after the union launched an unprecedented strike against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis.
Whoa: Jack Smith Just Threw Down at Donald Trump in Big Way — The special counsel would like the former president to please stop talking already.
https://newrepublic.com/post/175611/jack-smith-gag-order-donald-trump-trial
#NewRepublic #JackSmith #DonaldTrumpTrial #SpecialCounsel #GagOrder #StopTalking #Politics #News
@uspolitics Trump Jr… 👹
Ramaswamy wants to end the H-1B visa program he used 29 times
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/16/ramaswamy-h1b-visa-gop-visa-00116383
#RamaswamyH1Bvisa #endH1Bvisa #GOPvisa #immigrationreform #workvisa #USjobmarket #Politics #News
#California Attorney General sues major oil companies and the American Petroleum Institute for allegedly causing "statewide climate change-related harms." https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-announces-lawsuit-against-oil-and-gas-companies
You may say I’m a dreamer, but just imagine…
#Imagine #Peace #AntiWar
See -- https://worldbeyondwar.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/3militaryspending.pdf [PDF]
☮️
#Texas State Attorney General, top law enforcement official, Ken Paxton acquitted on 16 articles of impeachment. It’s like asking for a conviction when over half of the jury is part of the GOP Mafia. Look up this guys history. Can’t let a fellow crook go down! 🔥 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/texas-ag-ken-paxton-acquitted-on-16-articles-of-impeachment/ar-AA1gMgMK
Rockefeller Foundation, with money from oil fortune, to spend $1 billion to fight climate change https://t.co/urtvUvtHZM
@raymondpert Corporatist vested in the max profits are known to have issues with fairness. This is a general statement.🤔
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.