John Alexander, who will be familiar to regular readers, has written an important take on Project 2025, with which I very strongly agree. I am leading with this because I particularly note the point he makes about how the corrupt majority on the Supreme Court has already laid the groundwork for the implementation of Project 2025. Should criminal Trump win and the MAGAt Republcians win a majority in the House and Senate, given they already control the Supreme Court, Project 2025 is your future. And it is a very unpleasant one. Let me also suggest that you take a few minutes, 17 exactly, and look at the podcast I posted Friday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKYsbzhK-gU&t=7s. I suggest this because I have done a lot of research about what would happen in the MAGAts were to win, and what I discovered was people who live in democracies live healthier lives and they live longer than people in the kind of authoritarian world Project 2025 would create.
All women should understand the consequences of the Trump/GOP/Heritage Project 2025 that they plan to fully implement if Trump wins the 2024 election. Their vision is to take the country back to the 1920s/1930s to the halcyon time that never was (especially for women). Unfortunately, too many people have no recollection of life before Roe, and assume their autonomy is assured. It is not. Even things such as freedom to travel from one state to another or birth control are not guaranteed.
Can’t happen? That is what everyone thought about Roe v Wade, until the liars on SCOTUS took that right away. There is much more to the agenda and return to overt male dominance of American society is the objective. As the old adage and GOP vision goes, “keep them barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen.”
Dobbs was only the beginningof the oppression/suppression that the anti-abortion activists have in mind. Do not be deceived by the SCOTUS decision on mifepristone. Remember, the court only declined the case because they stated the plaintiff had no standing. There are other similar cases in the mill. If you think the previous abortion laws moves were draconian, you should assume […]
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Stephan:
I think this is the beginning of an important trend, and I think we should pay close attention. The fossil fuel industries have been pouring tens of millions of dollars, maybe hundreds of millions in total over the last few years, into the coffers of corrupt politicians and governmental officials at every level from local to Federal. Criminal Trump made it as clear as it could be. He told the petroleum oligarchs when they came to Mar-a-Lago, “give me a billion dollars” and I will do what you want. The Supreme Court is also in their pocket, but lower level courts still have honorable people on the bench. It will be interesting to see how this develops.
Activists deliver a letter from thousands of climate disaster survivors urging the DOJ to investigate Big Oil for climate crimes, in Washington, DC on Aug. 15, 2024. Credit: Kevin Wolf / AP Content Services for Chesapeake Climate Action Network / Public Citizen
More than 10,000 survivors and loved ones of survivors of “climate-driven disasters” have signed an open letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) urging an investigation into fossil fuel companies for “climate-related crimes.”
Of the signatories, more than 1,000 were survivors of these disasters and more than 9,000 were loved ones. Public Citizen said they, along with Chesapeake Climate Action Network, delivered the letter to the DOJ.
The letter comes at a time of increased public pressure against the fossil fuel industry and during which climate-related civil lawsuits have increased at an unprecedented pace, and have been mostly successful.
“The burning of fossil fuels has racked up enormous profits for fossil fuel companies while stoking the fire of climate change and driving increasingly lethal extreme weather events that have destroyed […]
Day after day the stories come out about what criminal Trump plans to do with the military to assure his authoritarian rule. Like his corruption he makes what he intends very clear. What amazes me is that millions of Americans are still willing to vote for this cretin. They don’t seem to understand what he is about, or maybe they do, and this is what they want. What is certain is that we need to have a election that is so overwhelming for Democrats that there is no way for the MAGAt Republicans to cheat.
Criminal Trump standing in front of military personnel. Credit: AP
Painting a grim portrait if Donald Trump is re-elected, the New York Times is reporting there is every reason to believe the former president will make use of the Insurrection Act to deploy the U.S. military against American citizens during protests he finds objectionable.
In a deep dive from the Times’ Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan and Charlie Savage, they write that close associates of the former president have been hard at work bolstering their case that the newly elected president can trample civil liberties without regard for the Posse Comitatus Act that “generally makes it a crime to use regular federal troops for domestic policing purposes.”
As they wrote, during his one term, the former president argued on multiple occasions to deploy military personnel to shut down protests and take control of the border. During a second term, he is not expected to have advisors pushing […]
And here we see what the Chevron decision of the corrupt MAGAt majority on the Supreme Court is doing to ordinary Americans. This is the world the corrupt justices have in mind. What I do not understand is why Biden has not stepped in? Why the Secretary of Defense is silent? Also, why isn’t this getting more media coverage?
Several air force bases are largely responsible for trichloroethylene (TCE) – volatile organic compounds – and PFAS contaminating drinking water sources in Tucson. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty
The US Air Force is refusing to comply with an order to clean drinking water it polluted in Tucson, Arizona, claiming federal regulators lack authority after the conservative-dominated US supreme court overturned the “Chevron doctrine”. Air force bases contaminated the water with toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” and other dangerous compounds.
Though former US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials and legal experts who reviewed the Air Force’s claim say the Chevron doctrine ruling probably would not apply to the order, the military’s claim that it would represents an early indication of how polluters will wield the controversial court decision to evade responsibility.
It appears the Air Force is essentially attempting to expand the scope of the court’s ruling to thwart regulatory orders not covered by the decision, said Deborah Ann Sivas, director of the Stanford University Environmental Law Clinic.
“It’s very odd,” she added. “It feels almost like an intimidation tactic, but it will be interesting to […]
