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- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
If the filibuster is removed, it is also possible to get through with 50+VP as tie breaker or 51. The filibuster being removed is not as unlikely as you may think since Republicans right now are getting closer and closer towards defacto removing the filibuster. There currently are narrow ways around the filibuster (reconsideration is one big one) that are supposed to have a bunch of limitations, but they are testing the waters in ignoring violations of those limitations. The senate parliamentarian is the one who makes rulings about if something violates their clauses, but their opinion can be ignored by a strict majority via the “nuclear option”
A month ago, Republicans used the nuclear option to ignore the senate parliamentarian ruling that the Congressional Review Act would not allow them to skip the filibuster to remove California’s EPA waivers (see here).
As I write this Republicans are currently trying to play another different a different trick about some of the stuff in the Big Beautiful Bill. Dems have been challenging a bunch of provisions and getting the parliamentarian to most of the time rule they are in violation of the Byrd rule. But they are also trying to challenge the whole bill as violating the Byrd rule’s limit that a bill passed via reconsecration cannot increase the deficit over a ten-year period. Republicans are playing an accounting trick to claim it doesn’t. They know the parliamentarian is unlikely to agree with them, so they are currently trying to prevent dems from even being able to ask the parliamentarian about it
- Comment on Gen Z and young millennials battling ‘negative wealth’ as debt burden grows 2 months ago:
Even if any did, they would be part of voters abroad (US citizens can vote by mail if living outside the country) who are an even bluer voting block. If memory serves me right, it’s on the order of like D+60 overall
- Comment on Gen Z and young millennials battling ‘negative wealth’ as debt burden grows 2 months ago:
The margins dipped, but they didn’t flip to voting for Trump overall
18-29 year-olds voted Harris+4 overall and Young women in particular voted Harris+18
Headlines are often misleading about changes within group voting patterns
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 3 months ago:
Glad to hear my posts are going notice. Indeed, there are lot more than you might think. I’ll repost one of my long comments with details about protests here. Wrote this five days ago so mentally subtract 5 days from all the times
They are being suppressed in media coverage, but there are people protesting. Media coverage paints a false picture that no one in the US is fighting back
Here’s one from today [meaning five days ago] with 1000 people in Boise, Idaho
Here’s a super incomplete timeline with just a handful of the nationwide protests. I’m missing a lot, I’m just showing your the photos I had from recent memory
8 days ago there were national protest for science funding cuts. Here’s the main one in DC
11 days ago there were nationwide protests in all 50 US state capitols + DC + Many cities within those states. This was part of the 50501 movement
Portland, Oregon
Monroe, Wisconsin
San Fransisco, California
Albany, New York
Raleigh, North Carolina
Richmond, Virginia
Austin, Texas
Protests Outside Fox News in New York City
16 days ago there were large protest in the Iowa Statehouse
19 days ago, a protest in Cherry Hill, New Jersy outside Tesla Showroom as part of a nationwide movement protesting Telsas. There have been tons more than just this one and these happen basically every day
21 days ago, large protests in DC for Ukraine aid
And so on. There’s a lot more going on than just this
- Comment on FCC to get Republican majority and plans to “delete” as many rules as possible 3 months ago:
We can still fight back on the state level. States and local levels will lead the way for progress here
California got a state law to enforce net neutrality in 2018. This is a good part of what limited the damage of Trump overturning it the first time
- Comment on The right-to-repair movement is growing as wins stack up 3 months ago:
Local & state level is where a lot of the progress will live on in the near future. Call your local legislators & vote in every local election - they are way more frequent across the country than you may realize
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’ (read: multi billion contract with Musk) 3 months ago:
Or is he referring to GLONASS, the Russian version of GPS?
In any case, I guess it’s good the EU has the Galileo network specificaly to have an alternative to avoid depency on the US
Modern and newer phones will often use all three system (GPS, Galileo, GLONASS) + sometimes others at the same time since it improves accuracy
- Comment on All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation 4 months ago:
Don’t do Trump’s work for him by spreading apathy and dispair. He wants us complacent and to forget the power we have. He is far weaker than he seems so he has to project absolute power. Don’t give anything to him for free
- Comment on All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation 4 months ago:
Local and state officals can enforce laws on their own without federal involvement
- Comment on All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation 4 months ago:
The state and local is where most of the progress is going to happen in the next 4 years. They control a lot more than you think - even including running elections for federal office. Pay attention to all your local elections - they are going to matter a lot
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 4 months ago:
Still slows down some of their other goals. Attention and resources aren’t infinite. The more they wear themselves thin on things that don’t matter, the better
- Comment on YSK You can substitue blood for eggs in recipes 4 months ago:
Or instead there are also some good vegan eggs out there to give a try
If you want something that cooks and bakes like eggs there’s stuff you can by like Just Egg
For baking there’s a million things you can use that are pretty cheap. For instance, Aquafaba is the leftover water from cooking chickpeas or the water in the can if you buy it canned. Acts like egg whites and can be used as a binder for baking
- Solar Energy Surpassed Coal in the EU for the First Time in 2024: Report - EcoWatchwww.ecowatch.com ↗Submitted 5 months ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 0 comments
- Comment on Science Journalism 9 months ago:
In fairness sometimes small tiny differences like that do turn out to be significant. But measurement error usually wins out most of the time
