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silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Postmaster General Confirms Plan to Hold Back Mail Ballots Under Proposed Rule
28·17 hours agoRepublicans don’t care much about legal unless it’s Democrats doing it.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Postmaster General Confirms Plan to Hold Back Mail Ballots Under Proposed Rule
19·20 hours agoIt’s supposed to prevent them from holding elections so they have no representation in Congress
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Refuses to Sign Housing Bill Until Unpopular Voting Restrictions Pass Congress
31·1 day agoI’d Congress stays in session it goes into effect. If Congress leaves town it doesn’t.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Keeps Immunity from I.R.S., a Victory in a Long-Running Feud
12·4 days agoThe odds for most people if being swatted are really really low. The odds of somebody you know wanting to mysteriously drop off cupcakes are many orders of magnitude higher.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Keeps Immunity from I.R.S., a Victory in a Long-Running Feud
22·4 days agoJudges face a lot more active threats from people who have gotten out of prison. For most of us, being easily found is an advantage. For judges it’s life-threatening
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Keeps Immunity from I.R.S., a Victory in a Long-Running Feud
22·5 days agoJudges tend to be very protective of info like home address, and for good reason. Data brokers and background checks tend to expose it.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•ICE Spent $700 Million on 7 Warehouses. Now It Wants to Get Rid of Them.
21·6 days agoThe published design from Social Circle had a shooting range next to the cages for people, not a gas chamber.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional
191·7 days agoIt was inoculation, which used live smallpox virus, and predated vaccination. George Washington required it, as it was far less likely to kill you than getting infected with smallpox naturally. And yes, it was one of the reasons the American Revolution succeeded.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects | It’s the third such deal the Interior Department has struck to pay firms to abandon plans for offshore turbines.
61·8 days agoThe renewables energy industry tends to be really good for consumers but not so great at producing the kind of concentrated wealth that enables bribery
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects | It’s the third such deal the Interior Department has struck to pay firms to abandon plans for offshore turbines.
81·8 days agoBut the fossil fuels industry can rake in profits in the meantime
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•How Republicans Are Breaking Up Majority-Black Districts
61·8 days agoYes, but not by enough to matter. It’ll still take more than 60% of the votes going for Democrats to change who holds power. Gerrymandering has gotten really effective, and the peolle drawing the maps know in advance which way most households are inclined to vote.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•D.O.J. Seeks to Halt Air Pollution Lawsuit Against xAI Data Center
71·8 days agoThey’re doing it because Musk put the polluting turbines in a mostly black neighborhood, so that’s who suffers the most from them.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Read the 14-Point Draft Memorandum Between the US and Iran
31·8 days agoPretty much. It’s a total failure for US military power.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Celebrates While America Capitulates | The peace deal with Tehran is an Iranian victory.
32·11 days agoThey don’t get harvested then, but I think stockpiles will be empty then or sooner
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Celebrates While America Capitulates | The peace deal with Tehran is an Iranian victory.
322·11 days agoIt’s possible for us all to lose. Good chance of a famine six months from now because so much of the northern hemisphere couldn’t get fertilizer during planting season and the US decided to make food for cows and cars instead of for people
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Gee, whiz: elephant relieves itself on floor of Texas Republican convention | Four-ton Paige, brought in as surprise for attenders, made gushing debut after governor finished keynote speech
111·12 days agoThey appear to have been using electric shocks to get the elephant to go where they wanted.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
News@lemmy.world•The world’s first trillionaire is a killer / Elon Musk’s empire of wealth is built on suffering.
59·12 days agoIt doesn’t have to be, but those are the incentives we have set up
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•President Trump roundly booed by New York crowd at NBA Finals Game 3 at MSG
31·15 days agoHe wasn’t mingling with the crowd.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
News@lemmy.world•Solar Surpasses Coal in Historic Shift For US Electricity Mix
21·15 days agoThe coal industry bribe money is clean after laundering.








Except that it involves actual ICE agents showing up at the polls on election day