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That's not legal. What's much more likely is denying permits for onshore infrastructure which would support offshore oil drilling.

If I lived in a congressional district gerrymandered to be under Republican control, I'd vote for the less bad Republican in their primaries. Its a question of doing the best that you can, rather than waiting for the unattainable perfect candidate who agrees with you 100% on everything

Here's the thing: He's way better than any plausible Republican. Work to get somebody better in the primaries, but vote for him in the general.

I suspect them of occasionally changing their own underwear

Other countries have pulled off the same. And they are in fact doing massive wind and solar deployments, so it makes sense

Theyre exempting the Atlantic side of Florida I think, but doing more on the gulf side

FYI you can easily reshare gift links off other platforms; at this point it's super-easy to camp out on the BlueSky gift link feed

Nothing wrong with showing up at their local office in person with a crowd. Ive done that before

Calling Congress tends to result in a report from staff about constituent sentiment. It's a meaningful thing which can sometimes shift things on the margin — it's rarely enough on its own.

Hes not your enemy. If you're a constituent, he is your employee. Give his office a call and let them know how you expect him to perform.

He's 78 years old. Decent chance hes in poor health. This is an opportunity to try and make a difference that he might not be able to make if he stays in office until he dies

I think a lot of people would be happy to return food to Trump after they're done digesting it.

Main problem is that its very ineffective when the army is better trained and equipped than you are

No, its about being unwilling to build electric transmission to bring wind and solar power into NYC. This would avoid the need for gas-burning power plants to handle increased peak electric use as home heating shifts to heat pumps

Part of the plan was also offshore wind near NYC, but Trump blocked that for now

This post claims to have an educated guess:

In a world in which Justice Jackson either knew or suspected that at least five of the justices would grant temporary relief to the Trump administration if she didn’t, the way she structured the stay means that she was able to try to control timing of the Supreme Court’s (forthcoming) review—and to create pressure for it to happen faster than it otherwise might have. In other words, it’s a compromise—one with which not everyone will agree

I'm thinking she may also have timed things in a way that results in Democratic-run states, which largely attempted to rush money into peoples' debit cards after the appeals court ruling, having a month of SNAP, while Republican-runs states, which did not, having some very hungry people.

A whole bunch of Democratic-leaning states made an attempt to load peoples debit cards between the appeals decision and the Supreme Court stay. I have no idea to what extent they succeeded. If they did, we may end up with a month of Democratic areas being less hungry than Republican-majority ones

This post is an educated guess, but it sounds like she figured that if she didn't, the Republicans on the court would, and by granting the stay, she could keep it short

They have now issued a temporary block on requiring that people be fed, which means that folks will go hungry

He actually read one book: an anthology of Hitler's speeches

Donald Trump appears to take aspects of his German background seriously. John Walter works for the Trump Organization, and when he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, "Heil Hitler," possibly as a family joke.

Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

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