@faab64@palestine As an #American#tax#payer I detest being the world's #ATM. American governments have done a lot of #evil over the decades on MY DIME!! I wish I could meaningfully influence my #government to mind OUR business and get out of geo-politics!!
But It is one thing for our own crooked politicians to be blood thirsty pigs, and another for foreign blood thirsty pigs to demand handouts from American tax payers!! I hope this Nov Americans WAKE UP!!
…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].
"A four-day working week, £15 an hour minimum wage and 10:1 pay ratios are exactly the type of policies needed to transform the workplace in #Britain.
#TheGreenParty can’t win the election but we wouldn’t be surprised if the policies they have announced today end up being taken up and adopted by the next #government.
#British workplaces are in desperate need of radical change and these policies lay the foundations for a better #future of work."
The National Diet Building, the legislature of Japan's parliamentary democracy, is located just south of the Imperial Palace in Tōkyō. Completed in 1936, its unusual architecture reflects elements of German, East Asian, and ancient Mideastern monumental architecture. From the outside it was surprisingly difficult to get a good photo of it, but I edited this one to get a closer view.
In central Tōkyō to help our younger son, security was very tight at the U.S. Embassy, and rather light around the Diet. The building is not gray like it usually appears in photos, but more like sandstone.
>> Depending on the response from #SCOTUS & Congress, Trump’s plans could upend the balance of #power between the 3 branches of the federal #government.
Nobody is going to let #Trump be a king if he is re-elected. His benefactors also have #GOP and SCOTUS in their pocket 👀
Once he is elected for a second term, he can't throw his weight around as he did in his first term. Trump has to be really careful with his VP choice, unless that choice is also made for him by someone else 😀
The federal #government is facing a dwindling window to #regulate the use of #ArtificialIntelligence in campaigns before the #2024election. The #FCC chair announced a plan last month to require #politicians to disclose #AI use in TV & radio #ads. But the prop is facing opposition from a #FEC top ofcl, which has been considering its own new rules on AI campaign use.
#MikeJohnson vowed to use House oversight powers while cutting funds in the #government appropriations process & taking other unspecified #legislative measures.
“We’re going to do everything we can, everything within our scope of our responsibility in the Congress, to address it appropriately,” Johnson said at his weekly news conference afterward.
8 #Republican senators announced Fri they would boycott #Democratic#legislative priorities & nominations as payback for #Trump’s #guilty#verdict.
In a joint statement, the senators said they would not “allow any increase to non-security related funding for this administration, or any appropriations bill which funds partisan lawfare.”
They also said they would refuse to vote to confirm President #Biden’s political & #judicial appointees & vowed to block “expedited consideration & passage of #Democrat#legislation or #authorities that are not directly relevant to the safety of the American people.”
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.
#Sentencing will come at a later date for those found #guilty, w/ #prison terms ranging from 3yrs to life for this offence. 31 defendants pleaded guilty, & 4 of them have become prosecution #witnesses.
The #US & some other countries have criticised the #trial as politically motivated, calling for the accused to be immediately released.
…The defendants are accused of a "vicious plot" to paralyse #government in the fmr British colony & to force the city's leader to resign through a pre-selection ballot in a July 2020 citywide election. The #democrats maintain it was an unofficial attempt to select the strongest candidates in a bid to win a historic majority in #HongKong's legislature.
How Residents in a Rural #Alabama County Are Confronting the Lasting Harm of #Segregation Academies
In Wilcox County, Alabama, many people say they want to bridge racial divides created by their segregated #schools. But they must face a long and painful history.
We’re witnessing a concerted effort by #Trump & #MAGA#politicians to cast doubt on the legitimate & strong #FultonCounty#ElectionInterference case by attacking the prosecutor. It’s an effort that takes advantage of every avenue of #government#power to which Trump’s allies have access. Their goal? #Delay#accountability for Trump’s alleged attempt to illegally overturn a presidential election.
Hockey rules aside, the refs set the tone of the game. When they allowed fighting - there were fights.
It seems the Speaker has finally drawn the line on what is considered acceptable MP conduct. Now, if he doesn't reign them in, #PP and his Cons will continue to make a mockery of the federal #government.