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Arizona, pro-life and worst state for child health

lundi 4 juillet 2022 à 16:03

*Arizona, the most "pro-life" state in America, "one of the worst states in the union" for child health.*

This is no surprise — the people who oppose abortion tend to reject the idea of systematically helping postborn fetuses.

Funds for poor or black urban neighborhoods

lundi 4 juillet 2022 à 16:03

Federal funds will be available for projects to undo the damage done to poor or black urban neighborhoods in the 1960s by building highways through them.

Sizewell C nuclear power plant

lundi 4 juillet 2022 à 16:03

Construction of the planned Sizewell C nuclear power plant would quite likely destroy an adjoining wildlife reserve.

That is in addition to wasting billions of pounds on inefficient decarbonization, rather than spending it on much cheaper solar or wind power together with temporary battery storage.

Nonfree software in ATMS and vending machines

lundi 4 juillet 2022 à 16:03

ATMs and vending machines in Russia run nonfree software — the machines' owners cannot fix them.

We might argue that it is ok for banks and companies in Russia to be attacked in this way, as punishment for Putin's invasion of Ukraine; but I expect the same attack vector exists in most or all other countries too.

Vacancies in federal courts

lundi 4 juillet 2022 à 16:03

Senate Democrats are likely to fail to fill all the vacancies in federal courts by the end of this year. If they lose control of the senate, those vacancies will go unfilled until 2024 and might be filled by Republicans instead.

Why do they not eliminate the rule that allows individual senators to block these appointments? The Republicans did. Could it be that Manchin or Sinema is sabotaging this?