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GottaLaff , 13 days ago to random

#SCOTUS rules gun 'bump stocks’ ban is unlawful

The ban was imposed by the Trump administration after the accessory was used during the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-gun-bump-stocks-ban-unlawful-rcna154651

GottaLaff , 2 months ago to random

👀Via Emptywheel:

I'm with 'paw.

Not a single participant in a Trump-related case (or Hunter Biden's) has avoided life-altering threats. You can't do this to people serving their civic duty.

nycsouthpaw:

Another Lawfare editor has posted a thread—based on pool reports—compiling copious personal identifying information for all six seated jurors. It’s so dangerous, at least as I perceive the character of the #Trump movement, I don’t even want to link it. WTF are we doing?

GottaLaff , 2 months ago to random

Via Emptywheel:

I wish there were a way to report on this such that once it all crashes the cult members will realize they've been had.

Hugo Lowell:

New: #Trump Media — the parent company of Truth Social — recorded $58m in losses against $4m in revenue in 2023, per SEC filings. The merger to take the company public last week unlocked new capital but the business fundamentals don’t justify $7bn valuation.

GottaLaff , 3 months ago to random

"#Trump is even or ahead in the polls because millions of swing voters have no idea just how authoritarian a 2nd term would be

Blame the media's massive failure to pound the drums about 1/6 pardons, 'retribution' and looming dictatorship."

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/...

https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/trump-47-second-term-dangers-authoritarianism-20240314.html#loaded

breadandcircuses , 3 months ago to random

Is degrowth the answer?

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Global consumption of raw materials is set to rise 60% by 2060.

Already, the technosphere, the totality of human-made products, is heavier than the biosphere. From the 2020s onward, the weight of humanity’s extended body — the concrete shells that keep us sheltered, the metal wings that fly us around — has exceeded that of all life on Earth.

Producing this volume of stuff is a major contributor to global heating and ocean acidification, and to the rapidly accelerating extinction of plants and animals.

The extractive activities that lie behind the concrete, metal, and other materials we use are disrupting the balance of the planet’s ecosystems. The mining industry requires the annexation of large tracts of land for extraction and transportation; its energy consumption has more than tripled since the 1970s.

Is degrowth the answer? The insufficiency of engineering and green growth programs has informed the waxing interest in “degrowth” strategies. This term is not intended to suggest that all economic sectors should shrink, but that for society-nature relations to regain some balance, the unsustainable global use of materials and energy must radically reduce, and in an egalitarian manner.

As the scale of the environmental crisis grows more daunting, even moderate voices — not degrowthers — have recognised that certain sectors, such as shipping and aviation, will have to be cut to virtually zero over the next 20 or 30 years. What does this mean for critical minerals? According to degrowth advocate Jason Hickel, political means should be forged through which to plan priority sectors.

Reducing luxury and wasteful sectors such as SUVs, aviation, and fast fashion would free up critical materials for the green transition. “Factories that produce SUVs could produce solar panels instead,” suggests Hickel. “Engineers who are presently developing private jets could work on innovating more efficient trains and wind turbines instead.”

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FULL ARTICLE -- https://theecologist.org/2024/feb/22/there-nothing-green-about-urban-mining

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Degrowth

GottaLaff , 4 months ago to random

People, please stop telling me how to write my threads.

I number each toot and hashtag the first one and occasionally subsequent ones. All you have to do is click on a toot to see which thread it is.

The reporters also name the judge and lawyers in each toot, so how hard is that to figure out?

If you can’t follow my simultaneous threads, and think you can do better, try writing your own. Let me know how that works out.

GottaLaff , 5 months ago to random

Omfg.

Via Aaron Rupar:

Newsmax host: Donald #Trump is an old man just like Joe Biden…

#KariLake: I think that's a derogatory way of referring to President Trump…

Donald Trump is not an old man. He’s a very sharp man. His cognitive abilities are unlike anything I’ve ever seen [😂, same here, Kari]…Benjamin Franklin was 81 when he… There’s a lot going on up here (points to her head) with Pres [sic] Trump…”

FediTips , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

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