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It didn't stand
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
But to all union members please sign up for e-Dues!!
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Questionable editing as I think the remarks are taken out of order. I like Gore but this was a speech about the climate crisis and, yes, how it relates to attacks on democracy. It was not quite what it is being presented as.
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Link to full text of speech
algore.com/news/remarks...
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The Last Gasp
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Appreciate the journalism it takes to establish the facts--yet the direction this was going was made pretty clear from your Wired articles in 1st weeks of DOGE. This won't be limited to immigrants. Too bad it's not making big news; not as politically saleable as vet benefit cuts, but more important
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Can you provide a link to this information? I am a researcher and have published or tried to -- I forget just now -- in CHEST. Wondering what topics are not in "alignment"... COVID perhaps?
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Which epidemic were these graves from? Small pox?
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Big thanks to all federal employees and contractors risking their careers and personal safety to document DOGE activities. I do believe, despite the way it feels now, many of these DOGE folks will be prosecuted.
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IDK they didn't seem to notice in Feb when Trump said we "May have less debt than it seems" -- ie, plans to default.
The financial wizards voted for him and still can't accept that they fucked up
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Is it better to have a big crisis now, rather than later, in hopes of derailing the Trump train to autocracy? What does history suggest? flip side is possible the crisis becomes excuse to expand power. But right now I don't think Trump is in position for that with, eg the military. Thoughts?
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This amounts to a Fox News cover for the administration --"Oh they had the right to file habeas they just didn't do it correctly. We followed the law."
Conflating legalism for justice is an old trick.
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Perverse. Individuals must go 1 by 1 against the legal might of the govt, and because it's a "civil matter" the burden to prove they should be released rests with the prisoner. The govt casually alleges criminal conduct in civil filings and yet never has burden to prove anything. Can't be right.
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In case you forgot
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There is a legal rationale for every injustice
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Suggestion for administration, try contacting our embassy to El Salvador as a place to start
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Administration has already admitted to paying El Salvador to hold these prisoners. So the administration likely has power to stop payments until one is released, at minimum. Obviously the administration is not acting is good faith.
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What does "WA Dem Executive Director" do? Describe a typical workday. Help us better understand how the WA Dem party staff functions in support of our shared values and political goals. Thanks.
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and used marked vans with accurate names of the agencies doing the arrests.
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I still always say "hold my beer" so I guess I am in the 17%
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Here's an idea: pass a state law that all law enforcement officers conducting arrests must uncover their faces.
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Problem with the "price of eggs" strategy - the price of stuff can drop for whatever reason. Perhaps the admin decides to pump money it steals from USAID, VA, NIH, etc into food subsidies. What then? hammering grocery prices is a great strategy for the previous election but likely fail the next
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About 200 people marched through downtown Seattle shutting down main streets midday of Friday. We went about 1.5 miles chanting and singing.
Not mentioned in local news as far as I can tell.
But random Tesla burnings are making news -- to show how irresponsible protest is.
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Thank you for voting No.
What now?
Waiting for some strong leadership to engage with us in action against this tyrannical administration.
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"Wishing that people on either side of this could articulate what the D's will do next."
Apart from cutting off our own noses
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I'm also sorry to hear that.
I don't agree with Schumer but there's so much uncertainty it's hard to know which position is best.
Wishing that people on either side of this could articulate what the D's will do next. It's one thing to vote now, another to have a coherent long-term strategy.
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Would love to see a vote for new leadership
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Well damn go to the store and by the time I get back I guess they caved. Huh
I dunno much about messaging but finding anyone with emotions would be a good start
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Agree D's need a good offense. Another point would be, well-- blame D's for what? Taking away all the good things government does. Ok blame us if that feels good -- then tell the GOP to restore those things. They are the majority after all.
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fwiw I wish a lot of folks would quit dunking on our own team. Doesn't make sense.
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Yeah it's not a good situation. Those are fair points. I am a fed but I prefer a shutdown to conceding to this CR. It's a risk. Possible they RIF all non-essentials especially if shutdown goes 30+ days. But they're doing that anyway and CR does nothing other than make Ds complicit.
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Murray is no.
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Great work. My q is, who's conning who? If the surveillance db is the goal, whose idea was that? Is that more, or less, important than a de facto line item veto, or political retribution against specific agencies? Possible to have >1 goal-- but which goal comes from which WH cliques?
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Madness
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I would like to see judges make immediate/very fast rulings -- the key part of government strategy is delay.
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Isn't it true that when a defendant refuses to testify in a civil suit then -- unlike a criminal trial -- it can be assumed that it is because the testimony would be unfavorable? That is the judge can assume Ezells testimony would be adverse to the government and rule against them immediately
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This federal employee agrees in my personal capacity.
Brace for bullshit onslaught blaming D's and unions for everything but what else is new.
Too bad we are not allowed to strike.
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Republicans also explicitly say that the CR is to give more time for Elon to ransack the government. Easy vote.
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Thank you for voting NO!
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I agree and I am a federal employee (for the time being). A temporary shutdown is painful. But people must be made aware of what is going on by showing them what it looks like to have no government services-- before DOGE inflicts an irreversible shutdown. Because that is their plan.
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Question, these were federal pumps located in CA? Or CA pumps? Big difference. Because I keep wondering when the state level DOGE begins. Especially blue states with a red statewide office holder who could let them in to hack the state in the same way they hacked the federal government.