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NowsTheTime's JournalVideos MSNBC: NY Times article " Trump & Allies Plans to Increase Pres Power 2025" but not elsewhere
On Deadline White House, on The Beat, on Rachael Maddow, and on the ReidOut........
all had rather disturbing videos about the threat to Democracy in Trump MAGA Plans.....
Did anyone see video on any other networks concerning this article?
Robert Harrington editorial on Scotus "refuse to serve" ruling
"Think It Through"
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/think-it-through/50993/
Just ran across this!Love It! Khruangbin
Republican controlled Tex State Gov. to eliminate auto safety inspections. I don't get it?
It never bothered me, seemed like a good idea.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/01/texas-car-safety-inspection-changes/
Cars registered in Texas after 2025 will no longer need to pass a safety inspection, but owners will still pay the fee
Most Texas drivers will no longer be required to have their cars pass an annual safety exam after state lawmakers removed the rule from Texas code.
Texas is one of 13 states that mandate annual inspections for cars. That will change in about 18 months now that the Texas Legislature has given final approval to House Bill 3297.
Supporters of the bill called the safety inspections time consuming and inconvenient. Opponents of the bill say it could set Texas drivers, and future Texans, on a dangerous path.
“The majority of our business is centered around making sure people’s vehicles are safe,” said Charissa Barnes, owner of the Official Inspection Station in San Antonio, to lawmakers earlier this year. “We need to make sure that their cars, the people joining us in Texas, are safe.”
What did the Legislature change?
The Legislature repealed provisions in state law that mandate annual vehicle inspections. However, the $7.50 fee remains intact under a new name: the inspection program replacement fee.
Almost a quarter of the people surveyed in the study were asked by a mechanic to fix slick or defective tires during an inspection, potentially preventing more accidents. Another report found that defective cars in Texas were more than three times as likely to be involved in a crash that resulted in a fatality.
Texas highways are notoriously dangerous. At least one person dies on a Texas highway each day. According to the most recent state data, 4,489 people were killed in auto crashes in Texas during 2021, or about 1.56 deaths per 100,000 miles traveled by drivers. That’s up from 1.36 deaths per 100,000 in 2017.
We really need a Department of Climate.... even a Cabinet position..just throwing this out there...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_United_StatesWhy, because leaving everything to corporate incentives or tax credit incentives doesn't lead to research that could prove ground breaking. We give a tax incentive to purchase electric vehicles that are priced at levels many or most Americans cannot afford, and corporations raise their prices. Corporate motivation isn't the same. We often speak of all the innovations related to NASA.
Some regulations by themselves have worked, such as mileage and emission requirements for vehicles.
There are so many aspects to this: USA solutions, poorer country solutions, aspects of energy efficiency and types of energy, transportation, buildings, solar, nuclear, all forms of energy, emissions carbon and methane, the list is huge.
.......Yet, where is the focus by our government on climate?
Please tell me this is fake news! Repubs plan expanding Corp tax cuts if debt ceiling resolved...
https://truthout.org/articles/house-republicans-plan-to-unveil-deficit-exploding-tax-cuts-for-the-rich/https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-tax-cuts-debt-limit
The gas stove hearing and one point I'd like to make...
Republicans think that since other counties may not comply with green energy policies, we should not try to do something about climate change. As least some republicans are not denying global warming is a thing.
The part of this testimony(at 4 minute mark of the attached)
by Republican Donalds , (beyond probably that there is no proposed ban on gas stoves) is that Republicans care more about the current year than about the next 5, 10 or 15 years. Instead let's do nothing about the planet's future and the excuse is that other countries are not doing anything (not absolutely true).
When they don't support changes to fight global warming, they are condemning the futures of their (and my) children and grandchildren.
That is what pisses me off...paraphrasing: "they say the problem is difficult, so let's do nothing".
Thinking abut the Supreme Court...
We discuss expanding the court, and realize this may not be a good choice for various reasons like the other party then expands it more. But what is really wrong is it being a political body and it shouldn't be.
I'm not really knowledgeable as to what alternatives there might be (with the exception of passing new laws), I'm only asking in a semi ideal world how things should be.
In an ideal world, on might think that there would be a mandate requiring it to be as politically balanced as possible (I think it has proven to be impractical to assume all justices would not be politically biased and that they would not act on that bias).
From a practical point of view, Democrats have a problem right now. SCOTUS is ruling on the EPA, potentially giving excessive power to State legislatures in the presidential election, and maybe the FDA in the future,(not to mention overturning Roe), and all of these with strong political bias.
I'm only just thinking out loud, but this is really a fight and there will be little help from Republicans in making justice at least as blind as it theoretically could be.
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