News flash-Jan6 defendants ask SCOTUS to overturn their convictions because they were not trying to obstruct proceedings at the Capitol by storming it. 🙄 This could effect Trump’s prosecution. I guess we’ll find out just how Broken Bad the high court has become.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/09/17/trump-capitol-attack-jan-6-supreme-court/70830675007/
Drone display in front of the United Nations in New York ahead of the March to #EndFossilFuels and #UNGA.
@MHowell @Huntn00
Unconscionable, but still a small fish. Cf:
Elon Musk, $269.3 billion USD net worth 2023-09-11
* If Musk spent $1 million/day would take 736.5 CENTURIES to deplete wealth
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111049297750914546
@persagen @MHowell that much money has an adverse effect on individual human beings. And in any society that is not corrupted, the majority of that money could be used to fix many of our problems, name it, Infrastructure, public education, social welfare. Sadly the rumor which is not hard to believe is that Capitalism needs a slave class to keep the tycoons rolling in obscene wealth. ⚡️
@TheOldGuy Two bad boys rubbing elbows, probably…🔥
Will Russia buy Kim's rocket artillery
https://mil.in.ua/en/articles/dprk-rocket-artillery-as-a-prospect-for-russia/
#UAW #SupportLabor #UnionsHelpDemocracyThrive
Obama on UAW strike: Time to 'do right' by workers that keep companies 'on their feet' https://thehill.com/business/4208144-obama-puts-supports-behind-uaw-strike/
@JillWineBanks it was like expecting the GOP mafia to hang one of their Capos…👹
I wasn't expecting this. I believed there was bipartisan support to impeach TX AG Paxton. What do you think?
Https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/16/texas-attorney-general-paxton-impeachment-verdict/?utm_source=alert
'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.
#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.