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Former County Clerk [Republican] Gets 9 Years in Prison for Tampering With Voting Machines (www.nytimes.com)
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Helene Knocked Out a Key Facility for Monitoring the Global Climate (www.nytimes.com)
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Helene Knocked Out a Key Facility for Monitoring the Global Climate (www.nytimes.com)
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The U.S. Election Is a Choice Between Climate Action and Retreat (www.worldpoliticsreview.com)
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Africa’s famous Serengeti and Maasai Mara are being hit by climate change – a major threat to wildlife and tourism (theconversation.com)
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If Trump Wins, Could He Really Use the Justice Department to Jail His Rivals? (www.nytimes.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13912889

But only norms and precedents, not laws, prevent this. In our system, the attorney general and the director of the F.B.I. sit within the executive branch and answer to the president.

How might a politically motivated prosecution actually unfold? The steps below show exactly how Trump could make his threats real — all while staying within the constitutional limits on presidential power.

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If Trump Wins, Could He Really Use the Justice Department to Jail His Rivals? (www.nytimes.com)
 

But only norms and precedents, not laws, prevent this. In our system, the attorney general and the director of the F.B.I. sit within the executive branch and answer to the president.

How might a politically motivated prosecution actually unfold? The steps below show exactly how Trump could make his threats real — all while staying within the constitutional limits on presidential power.

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An ‘Elegant’ Idea Could Pay Billions to Protect Trees | Brazil is proposing a fund that would pay countries to protect tropical forests that are crucial to curbing climate change. (www.nytimes.com)
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An ‘Elegant’ Idea Could Pay Billions to Protect Trees | Brazil is proposing a fund that would pay countries to protect tropical forests that are crucial to curbing climate change. (www.nytimes.com)
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Scientists have emotional responses to climate change too | When scientists’ opinions about climate change and their own fears are seen as irrelevant, it suggests that science is separate from society (www.nature.com)
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How solar geoengineering could disrupt wind and solar power (www.carbonbrief.org)
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ADM pauses carbon injections after potential fluid seepage discovered in second well (herald-review.com)
 

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In an effort to "not show bias" Trump's sentencing is delayed till after the election. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

Gift link giving everybody access. You can edit this into the original post.

A new kind of chaplain is helping people deal with 'climate grief' in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Per the article, they'll go where people want; not automatically down into "it's God's plan"

It’s Been the Hottest Summer on Record, European Officials Say: The excessive heat worldwide suggests the full year will also be a record-breaker, according to the EU agency that tracks global warming in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks. I somehow missed the copy-paste

Trump vows to pull back climate law’s unspent dollars in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Two ways:

  • If Republicans control both houses of Congress, they can simply change the law via reconciliation
  • He can tie up the spending in pointless bureaucratic procedure indefinitely
Surprising New Research Links Infant Mortality to Crashing Bat Populations | Without bats to eat insects, farmers turned to more pesticides, a study found. That appears to have increased infant deaths in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Or, in this case, not being batty enough.

U.S. Announces Plan to Counter Russian Influence Ahead of 2024 Election in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They did just act; a bunch of Republican activists got outed as Russian tools in the process.

U.S. Announces Plan to Counter Russian Influence Ahead of 2024 Election in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just one smallish outlet where the founders were Russian agents and the staff had a very flimsy pretext about who was paying them

Liz Cheney Says She Will Vote for Kamala Harris in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

She's a Republican, and has close ties to a whole bunch of the pre-Trump Republican establishment.

Trump's rambling is getting worse | His speech is becoming harder and harder to understand. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago

People with access to healthcare can hang on while deteriorating well beyond where he is over the course of many years.

U.S. Announces Plan to Counter Russian Influence Ahead of 2024 Election in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it's blindingly obvious who "US Political Party A" is if you pay the slightest bit of attention.

A Democracy With Everything but a Choice | A new analysis of American elections finds that in half of all races for partisan offices, a candidate runs unopposed. Democrats are the biggest no-shows. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The donation form for the Harris Victory Fund literally describes how the funds you contribute are divided between the Harris campaign, the DNC, and the state parties.

A Democracy With Everything but a Choice | A new analysis of American elections finds that in half of all races for partisan offices, a candidate runs unopposed. Democrats are the biggest no-shows. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

You're grumbling about how things were in 2017. Not how they are today. The increased limit is because the state parties joined in and get part of those larger contributions.

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