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US citizens: call on Biden not to nominate antiabortion crusader Chad Meredith for a federal judgeship.
The Democrats should deny Republican senators veto power over judges from their own states, just as Republican senators did before. To insist on fighting according to rules that your enemy blatantly ignores is to be a chump.
US citizens: call on Congress to reform the Supreme Court.
I intentionally signed this petition as well as the more specific petition to expand the court, because other forms of reform would also do the job.
US citizens: call on Transportation Secretary Buttigieg to protect passengers and crack down on airline malpractice.
It's much less painful to find, in advance, that no space is available for your trip, than to get a ticket but learn, at the airport, that you can't actually travel. Fining airlines for the latter will teach airlines not to schedule more flights than they can actually operate.
A politician who openly defies norms of honesty and gets away with that permanently erodes those norms. Especially when he gets away with it because his party chooses to sacrifice the norms to keep him in office. His eventual defeat does not restore the lost practices of honesty, nor the lost trust that depended on those practices.
This, for example, the persistent and unlimited falsification of the wrecker taught most Republicans to support lies when they lead to victory.
Unilever treated the moral objections of the human Ben and Jerry to selling "Ben and Jerry's" ice cream in Israel's colonies in Palestinian territory as an inconvenience and found a simple fix: selling the business, in Israel (including its colonies), to another company.
Ben and Jerry are suing Unilever to stop this.
I agree with them in supporting Israel but not its occupation of Palestine.
It is not unusual for supporters of Israel's occupation policy to accuse "antisemitism" when anyone criticizes that policy. This was used to return the UK Labour Party to plutocratist control by kicking out Corbyn and his supporters,
and AIPAC, the pro-Israel-occupation lobbying group, is now funding the campaigns of insurrectionist US politicians.