…the #judiciary is an equal branch of #government & congressional #Democrats have limited opportunities to enact concrete changes.…
#Republicans, who control the #House, oppose legislation to tighten ethical guidelines for the justices & have portrayed overhaul as a political effort to damage the legitimacy of a #conservative#SCOTUS that has delivered them major victories on #abortion & other issues [+ they worked decades to install this court].
Alex Aronson, exec dir of the oversight group #CourtAccountability, said in a stmnt that #Senate#Judiciary Chairman Dick #Durbin (D-IL) has taken a less confrontational approach on the ethics controversies because he has wanted to speed through the appointment of #liberal#judges to lower courts, so he has tried not to ruffle the feathers of #Republicans who could hold up that process.
#introduction I couldn't stay away from @stux so I'm back here on mstdn.social.
You know me- I like #retrogaming and #retrocomputing even more than making new fedi accounts. Modern #gaming? Sure it's ok, but the old stuff is where it's at.
I watch a minimum of one #horror movie a week. Saturdays are my horror movie and popcorn day.
Birds are precious and are to be protected at all costs. They're the barometer for our planet.
Importantly, it touches not just on the value of the presence of #information from from election campaigns, it reflects on the (negative) value of the absence of information.
Verdicts in Hong Kong’s biggest trial against democratic opposition come >3 yrs after police arrested 47 #democrats in raids at homes across the city. They were charged w/ #conspiracy to commit subversion under a #NationalSecurity law imposed by #China.
Beijing in 2020 imposed the sweeping #NationalSecurity#law that led to a spate of #arrests of democratic campaigners as well as closures of #liberal#media outlets & #NGOs. Hong Kong's democratic opposition had sought for decades to pressure Beijing to allow full #democracy in the city.
This seems like an act of revenge on the part of #KristiNoem because some of the tribes in South Dakota have banned her from their lands. Personally, I think the faculty members have a good case for violation of #FreeSpeech...
"The policy is billed by the board as a simple branding and communications policy. It came only months after Republican Gov. Kristi Noem sent a letter to the regents that railed against '#liberal ideologies' on college campuses and called for the board to ban #DragShows on campus and 'remove all references to preferred pronouns in school materials,' among other things."
By MARGERY A. BECK
Updated 5:40 PM EDT, May 24, 2024
"A new South Dakota policy to stop the use of gender pronouns by public university faculty and staff in official correspondence is also keeping #NativeAmerican employees from listing their tribal affiliations in a state with a long and violent history of conflict with tribes.
"Two University of South Dakota faculty members, Megan Red Shirt-Shaw and her husband, John Little, have long included their gender pronouns and tribal affiliations in their work email signature blocks. But both received written warnings from the university in March that doing so violated a policy adopted in December by the South Dakota Board of Regents.
"'I was told that I had 5 days to remove my tribal affiliation and pronouns,' Little said in an email to The Associated Press. 'I believe the exact wording was that I had ‘5 days to correct the behavior.’ If my tribal affiliation and pronouns were not removed after the 5 days, then administrators would meet and make a decision whether I would be suspended (with or without pay) and/or immediately terminated.'"
@rbreich but he won't, nor will any other liberal. Just throw a dart at western liberal parties. Each one burries their heads in the sand and hopes they can just wait out Palestine, like their existence is a quiet annoyance.
This means not only the US #liberal parties, which includes socially #conservative liberals (i.e the #republicans), but also the #tories, #labour, as well as #høyre and AP in Norway, and the ruling liberal parties you got in Germany.
The biggest challenge in 2024 is to get enough people to actually listen to what Trump and those around him are openly, consistently, and explicitly promising to do once they get back to power.
It is utterly deranged, and discounting it as just rhetoric would be a disaster.
and if we weren't keeping the local #MAGA cops of every major city #police department fully paid and well-trained at things like destroying #homeless encampments then the neighboring state's #NationalGuard wouldn't stand a chance, but #liberal governors and mayors are doing exactly that
The classified documents case will make use of a recording which indicates that #Trump had a highly sensitive document which he knew was NOT declassified.
The chain of evidence looks strong and while there is much news media spinning, a court of law is more rigorous environment where focus on fact is primary
We all have #liberal friends who have expressed misgivings about the upcoming election #Biden is too old etc.
#Democracy will only be preserved in #Election2024 if the #Democratic base turns out in big numbers and we manage to persuade enough of the middle 1/3 of the country to see things our way
So when you see a liberal friend vacillating about #voting, have them watch this viedo from @DavidPepper