It takes time for a lawsuit to fix it. In the meantime, a bunch of postdoc go hungry and a whole generation decides that they can't become researchers unless independently wealthy
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Stanford scientists detect new COVID variant in California as U.S. moves to tighten vaccine access
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One more controller on duty means they can spot instructions not being followed instead of having to pay attention to something else. Both are important to look at, as an event like this is not because one person messed up; it's because multiple people were not able to spot the problem before it turned deadly
You're assuming that the plane crash is a full count. I'd be really surprised if some of the other things he's done this week (eg: limiting access to reimbursement for health care) haven't killed people.
You don't want to create situations where pilot error causes loss of multiple aircraft. They did it in part because air traffic control had one person doing two jobs. Doing that is a political decision in the name of "efficiency"
The announced plan is to build new facility with a capacity for 30,000, on the other side of the Guantanamo Bay from the existing prison.
There have actually been a lot of strongly worded letters. If you're not hearing about them, it's because you're listening to press which doesn't tell you about it.
What they can't do: win any vote in either house of Congress. Not enough Democrats for that.
What they can do:
- Vote 'no' on everything. Every cloture motion. Every confirmation. They're still not doing that.
- Reject any kind of unanimous consent
- Stop doing military promotions until they go back to building a military which looks like the US as a whole
- Ask for a roll call on every vote, every amendment. It slows things down.
What you describe is a big part of it, but it's only part. The other big thing that happened is the near-total loss of ad revenue. Facebook built really good microtargeting, so that it became more cost-effective to advertise on their product to reach a local audience than to advertise on local news outlets, and Craigslist did the same for classifieds.
The result looks like this for most outlets:
Subscriptions are only a partial workaround for some news outlets; you can't actually charge a subscription for most local news — not enough people can pay it to result in a viable publication.
In any case, this loss of revenue means that the typical local outlet can't afford anything like the level of reporting they had 20 years ago.
The biggest problem is that people aren't paying attention to the news at all, and get their "news" via social media. The informed populace went for Harris
Because the US has a history of buying islands form Denmark — that's where the US Virgin Islands come from.
Link to article with source in a comment due to Washington Post links getting dropped a lot in inter-server messaging when attached to posts