dougiec3

dougiec3, 1 month ago to mtg

"Extremists Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) vowed to throw House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) out of the speakership, but Democrats Tom Suozzi of New York and Jared Moskowitz of Florida have said they would vote to keep him in his seat, thereby defanging the attack on his leadership."
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-18-2024?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#MAGA #MTG

dougiec3, 1 month ago to random

More financial fraud by Trump in Chicago.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-loan-appears-to-have-never-existed-watchdog-sues-trump-over-mystery-50m-hidden-debt-asks-fbi-doj-to-get-involved/
#BrandiBuchman

dougiec3, 1 month ago to climate

California is on the edge of achieving a goal that has the fossil fuel industry scared.
https://www.newsweek.com/california-milestone-renewable-energy-1890345
#Renewables #Climate #CleanEnergy

GottaLaff, 1 month ago to climate

🤦🏻‍♀️ “The potential change of plans comes as the administration faces fierce political headwinds, a conservative Supreme Court majority that has shown aggressive interest in curtailing the #EPA’s authority and questions over how fast electric utilities can pivot to the most innovative #ClimateCrisis solutions.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/climate/biden-epa-power-plant-rules-hydrogen-climate?cid=ios_app

GottaLaff, 1 month ago to random

#WompWomp

Via Kyle Cheney:

NEW: Judge Mehta has denied Donald #Trump's motion to pause the #Jan6 lawsuits against him filed by members of Congress and police officers.

Trump wanted them put on hold until his criminal case is resolved.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/18/jan-6-lawsuits-trump-00153133

dougiec3, 1 month ago to random

"The Democrats would respond not by moving in the direction of working for the people. They responded by scapegoating their losses onto the Green Party.
They’re great scapegoaters—they never look at themselves in the mirror.
I love that phrase. “This is not the time.” If you go lesser-of-two-evils every four years, you’re gonna go lower. A liberal Republican from the 1970s now would be considered a progressive Democrat. That’s how far the Republicans have gone."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/ralph-nader-third-party-politics-2024-interview/?utm_source=mj-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter-04-17-2024
#Nader

dougiec3, 1 month ago to hacking

Money talks and justice walks.
“My lawyers tell me that that is exactly what would most likely happen here. Rupert Murdoch’s lawyers are very expensive. So even if every allegation is proven in court, I would still be liable for something approaching £10m in costs. I’m afraid I am shying at that fence.”
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/apr/17/hugh-grant-settles-high-court-claim-against-sun-publisher
#Hacking #Murdoch #NGN #theSun

dougiec3, 1 month ago to random

Ruling sounds like something that should worry Trump.
"... the Fifth Circuit concluded that Claiborne’s 'three separate theories that might justify' holding a protest leader liable are a non-exhaustive list, and that the MAGA-infused court is allowed to create new exceptions to the First Amendment. It then ruled that the First Amendment does not apply “where a defendant creates unreasonably dangerous conditions, and where his creation of those conditions causes a plaintiff to sustain injuries.”

dougiec3, 1 month ago to money

An alert from that lefty rag, Forbes, about DJT stock.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntobey/2024/04/12/sell-trump-media-stock-djt-nowan-implosion-is-coming/?sh=34a058f219ef
#TruthSocial #Trump #Money #Fraud

StillIRise1963, 1 month ago to random

I’m reading about projected sea level rise by 2030. That’s 6 YEARS FROM NOW.

GottaLaff, 1 month ago to random

While moving is stressful in many ways (and exciting in even more), it’s a piece of cake compared to the stress I feel from politics.

Speaking of which, today is Pack More Stuff Day, Open House Day tomorrow… so I won’t be around much.

If news breaks— well, you know the rest.

dougiec3, 1 month ago to wildlife

A really fabulous collection of photographs in the Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2024/apr/12/the-week-in-wildlife-in-pictures-greedy-pelican-and-capricorn-rising
#Wildlife

dougiec3, 1 month ago to random

Making sure not to have another toilet incident, Mr. Wilson set his gun aside before he went.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/12/colorado-don-wilson-gun-capitol-building

dougiec3, 1 month ago to random

SCOTUS dragging out a decision on T****'s immunity just may be because it could cost certain justices and their wives hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
Another consideration is the justices' concern for their own safety after the reaction to the Dobbs decision. No justices were harmed at all, only fearful.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/apr/12/billionaire-leonard-leo-rejects-senate-subpoena-supreme-court-gifts
#SCOTUS #Bribery #ClarenceThomas #GinniThomas #JohnRoberts #JaneSullivan #SamuelAlito

dougiec3, 1 month ago to random

From The New Yorker-
Today’s cartoon, by Nathan Cooper:

dougiec3, 1 month ago to random

"... the Kurdish women and their children were singled out for particularly harsh treatment, allowed only an hour of outdoor exercise per week.
The conditions were dire—no sheets on the beds, just a mattress, pillow, and blanket...”
https://medyanews.net/irans-nobel-laureate-exposes-barbaric-abuse-of-imprisoned-kurdish-women/

dougiec3, 1 month ago to random

Now, who would you trust, The guy on the left or the one on the right- no pun intended?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/10/matt-gaetz-removed-kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker-ethics
#Grooming #Gaetz #McCarthy

dougiec3, 1 month ago to random

Don't believe it! The MAGAs don't want to take women's voting right. They want to end the vote.

dougiec3, 1 month ago to gardening

The first sign of spring in an unintentional garden the past three years- daikon radish sprouts. We scattered seeds as a soil booster and I discovered that I don't much care for the radish part, but the greens and seed pods are really tasty and make a great salad.
#Spring #Soil #Gardening

photo of daikon radish sprouts

dougiec3, 1 month ago to random

The "pro-life" extremists would have people think that having an abortion is something that women take as lightly as getting a drive through coffee.
It isn't. It never is. It is a physical and mental traumatic experience, no matter what the circumstances.
I am not pro abortion and I don't think anyone else is. I believe your healthcare is a private matter for you and your doctor and it's your choice if you want to share it with anyone else.

dougiec3, 1 month ago to random

Where in the US Constitution does it say you must have a permit for peaceful protest, no matter your number?

dougiec3, 1 month ago to random

Bill Day!

dougiec3, 1 month ago to science

"Higgs, 94, who was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 2013 for his work in 1964 showing how the boson helped bind the universe together by giving particles their mass..."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/09/peter-higgs-physicist-who-discovered-higgs-boson-dies-aged-94
#Science #Nobel

GottaLaff, 1 month ago to legal

Via Josh Gerstein:

JUST IN: DC Circuit upholds misdemeanor statute barring parading and picketing in Capitol, used to charge 1000+ #Jan6 defendants, rejects 1st Amendment overbreadth challenge. #legal

ADDED: ... ruling that the building — as opposed to the exterior grounds — is NOT, by law, a public forum.

dougiec3, 1 month ago to random

Trump kicks one of his dogs.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-furious-offensive-lindsey-graham-matters-rcna146969
#Trump #MAGA #Indictments