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  1. #georgia #caucasus #Democracy #election

    After the Georgian legislature passed the #foreignagentlaw over the president’s veto, the elections in four months are the last chance to save their democracy and their EU ambitions. The authoritarian #GeorgianDream party which is supported by an oligarch with ties to Moscow will try to disrupt the election and falsify results. It’s a critical time for Georgia.

    podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/

  2. @Aminorjourney

    To me, the flaw in this measure is that the payments aren’t targeted to the people who need it the most. Wealthy Oregonians don’t need these payments.

    #Oregon #Taxes #basicincome #measure118

  3. My relatives in rural #Yancey county #NorthCarolina just got cellphone service. (Yay!)

    Roads are still a mess, one lane washed away in many places. Easier to get through with ATV’s than regular vehicles.

    Lots of folks in #Burnsville right now, both the displaced and aid workers. About triple the normal population of 1600.

    The post office in #Micaville is totally gone.

    #Helene #NC

  4. Some post-#Helene news from #Yancey County, #NorthCarolina:

    - Many bridges washed out so only limited travel possible.

    - Local construction crews are clearing roads where possible.

    - Fallen trees and debris are stacked up 10 feet high along the banks of most rivers and streams.

    - Much of the county will have no utilities (power, water, cell) for at least a month.

    - WiFi available in #Burnsville, if you can get there.

    - At least 30 people are missing in the county, Homes washed away

    #NC

  5. “A new gun violence study that looked at deaths among children in America since a pivotal Supreme Court decision 15 years ago has a troubling finding: Children are more at risk of dying from firearm violence in states with more permissive gun laws than in states that maintained strict gun ownership laws after the court decision.”

    “Firearms are now the leading cause of death among children and teenagers in America.”

    #gunviolence #scotus #childdeaths #thecontrarian

    contrarian.substack.com/p/we-a

  6. Lawrence Freedman’s recent Dallin Memorial Lecture at Stanford University. He covers #Russia, #Putin, #Ukraine, #nuclearescalation, and so-called #redlines. Long read but worth the time.

    “I believe it is the case that Putin would prefer to keep this war going rather than face the reckoning of admitting that he has failed in his quest to subjugate Ukraine or consolidate his hold over Ukrainian territory. “

    open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/e

  7. @SFRuminations

    “The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction” edited by Robert Silverberg. Published 1975. It’s a collection of three novellas by Gene Wolfe, Ursula K. Le Guin, and James Tiptree Jr.

    #scifi #sciencefiction #books #GeneWolfe #UrsulaKLeGuin #JamesTiptreeJr #RobertSilverberg

  8. @knotfeed

    #Zelenskyy should NEVER apologize for defending his country and Trump should be the one apologizing to #Zelenskyy for his rude boorish behavior.

    #StandWithUkraine #FuckTrump #FuckVance #FuckWitkoff

  9. @cdarwin

    #JanelleBynum is the better candidate against the incumbent Republican in District 5.

  10. @SteveThompson

    I think that #scotus has crossed the line of their legitimate authority. Only Congress has the power to make laws, so when #scotus does it, it’s not really legal. We desperately need a way to keep them in their lane. Right now they’re asserting power that they don’t really have.

    #ReformtheCourt #ScotusTermLimits #ExpandTheCourt #JurisdictionStripping

  11. @SteveThompson

    I think that #scotus has crossed the line of their legitimate authority. Only Congress has the power to make laws, so when #scotus does it, it’s not really legal. We desperately need a way to keep them in their lane. Right now they’re asserting power that they don’t really have.

    #ReformtheCourt #ScotusTermLimits #ExpandTheCourt #JurisdictionStripping

  12. @SteveThompson

    I think that #scotus has crossed the line of their legitimate authority. Only Congress has the power to make laws, so when #scotus does it, it’s not really legal. We desperately need a way to keep them in their lane. Right now they’re asserting power that they don’t really have.

    #ReformtheCourt #ScotusTermLimits #ExpandTheCourt #JurisdictionStripping

  13. @SteveThompson

    I think that has crossed the line of their legitimate authority. Only Congress has the power to make laws, so when does it, it’s not really legal. We desperately need a way to keep them in their lane. Right now they’re asserting power that they don’t really have.

  14. @SteveThompson

    I think that #scotus has crossed the line of their legitimate authority. Only Congress has the power to make laws, so when #scotus does it, it’s not really legal. We desperately need a way to keep them in their lane. Right now they’re asserting power that they don’t really have.

    #ReformtheCourt #ScotusTermLimits #ExpandTheCourt #JurisdictionStripping

  15. @kyivindependent
    Johnson is still playing games with #ukraine aid. He should not be trusted. We need a #dischargepetition asap.

    #uspol

  16. @stancarey

    “Anarchism’s principal target is the authoritarian state (capitalist or socialist); its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). It is the most idealistic, and to me the most interesting, of all political theories.”
    -Ursula K. Le Guin

    #UrsulaKLeGuin #TheDispossessed

  17. @stancarey

    “Anarchism’s principal target is the authoritarian state (capitalist or socialist); its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). It is the most idealistic, and to me the most interesting, of all political theories.”
    -Ursula K. Le Guin

    #UrsulaKLeGuin #TheDispossessed

  18. @stancarey

    “Anarchism’s principal target is the authoritarian state (capitalist or socialist); its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). It is the most idealistic, and to me the most interesting, of all political theories.”
    -Ursula K. Le Guin

  19. @stancarey

    “Anarchism’s principal target is the authoritarian state (capitalist or socialist); its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). It is the most idealistic, and to me the most interesting, of all political theories.”
    -Ursula K. Le Guin

    #UrsulaKLeGuin #TheDispossessed

  20. CW: spoiler, the eye of the heron, old scifi book

    @outi
    “They had learned that the act of violence is the act of weakness and that the spirit’s strength lies in holding fast to the truth.”

    #TheEyeoftheHeron
    #UrsulaKLeGuin

  21. CW: spoiler, the eye of the heron, old scifi book

    @outi
    “They had learned that the act of violence is the act of weakness and that the spirit’s strength lies in holding fast to the truth.”

    #TheEyeoftheHeron
    #UrsulaKLeGuin

  22. CW: spoiler, the eye of the heron, old scifi book

    @outi
    “They had learned that the act of violence is the act of weakness and that the spirit’s strength lies in holding fast to the truth.”

    #TheEyeoftheHeron
    #UrsulaKLeGuin

  23. @w7voa

    From page 18:
    “Please—that dog won’t hunt!”

    From page 19:
    “…this argument [by #DOJ] is absurd!”

    Page 33:
    “The [Executive] Order shouts through a bullhorn: If you take on causes disfavored by President Trump, you will be punished!”

    Page 68:
    “The intended and actual effect of the Order’s sanctions is to drive clients away from WilmerHale!”

    #WilmerHale #EO #lawfirms #ruleoflaw