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Science reporter covering R&D in concentrated solar energy for solar fuels, CSP, and thermal storage for the IEA at SolarPACES.org
Kiwi obsessing over my adopted nation going fascist but trying to let it go. I like finding out ways to make things better
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Finally!!! I thought they had given up
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Isn't the deal that pardons are only for the final days of a presidency?
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That's incorrect. Congress approves weapons to support Israel, like congress did with Ukraine (less). We impeached Trump for threatening Zelensky that he'd stop assistance to Ukraine that congress had approved and budgeted. It is not up to POTUS with an EO. Courts overturn such EOs.
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wow. Great reccomendation. I just started it on Libby, but have an 11 week wait
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Such lawyers are this crisis's First Responders.
They deserve the same respect I gave Dr.s & nurses who worked covid wards, or firefighters in the wildfires, or cops who put themselves between treasonous thugs and our vote being ratified.
They are knowingly risking so much for the greater good.
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In creating the opportunity for anybody with sufficient wealth to purchase an audience, Trump risks falling foul of a part of the US Constitution—the emoluments clauses—that prohibit the president from accepting gifts or financial compensation from foreign and domestic state actors.
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Once he announced that the top 'donors' marks buying his crypto coin $TRUMP, look at the sudden rise (even crypto types had shunned it till now
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Well, yeah. But I wrote an encouragement to the reporter that she go through each one, and do each exposé like this. By the time all 200 have been given at least the basic amount of due process in indepth press investigation, even the most ignorant will be aware
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Considering lots of voters read at a 6th grade level, it's better to use vivid phrases like 'the rich and powerful' instead of 'the oligarchy'
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Didn't Putin do this to Ukraine before its invasion of Crimea
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Republican personal style is increasingly a kind of cisgender drag
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In New Zealand, most venues no longer accept accept cash. Ever since covid. Do actual stores and restaurants still accept cash in the US?
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That's still a few of the idiots who voted for him. Disturbing. He got 32% of the eligible voters who voted.
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I recall Superman preached DEI to a group of adoring middleschoolers
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Perplexity.ai is a much better searcher than google as it uses common sense - enshittification happens to all AI biz though and it could be just as bad in a few years