Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social

'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

This gets me. What was this critter dreaming I wonder

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

@GottaLaff @emptywheel

" 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.

https://t.co/PcEHkn4mOg

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

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

"Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”

Maya Angelou

#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]
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Rockefeller Foundation, with money from oil fortune, to spend $1 billion to fight climate change https://t.co/urtvUvtHZM