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Expensive gifts received by Justice Thomas

lundi 10 avril 2023 à 11:17

Justice Thomas received many expensive gifts from a billionaire over a period of decades, without reporting them.

*Demand Justice renews calls for Senate investigation into Supreme Court justices' ties to far-right donors.*

*AOC Says Clarence Thomas 'Must Be Impeached' Over 'Almost Cartoonish' Corruption.*

I agree he deserves to be removed from office, but it's useless to try to achieve that by impeaching him, because the Supreme Court is now thoroughly politicized — Republican senators won't remove someone who is on their side.

Republicans citing "parental rights"

lundi 10 avril 2023 à 11:17

Republicans have cited "parental rights" since the 1950s to oppose social changes such as racial integration.

*Idaho’s Abortion Travel Ban Shows Dangers of GOP’s “Parental Rights” Agenda.*

Facial recognition in New York schools

lundi 10 avril 2023 à 11:17

New York State banned facial recognition in schools, but schools install systems that can do facial recognition and other things, and use that as an excuse to bypass the law.

Oilfield in North Sea

lundi 10 avril 2023 à 11:17

*New oilfield in the North Sea would blow the UK’s carbon budget.*

Like the "Willow project" in the US, it shows a government that is letting Big Oil pull the world to disaster. But this one shows how the presupposition that "carbon capture and storage" will cancel out the carbon emissions is being used to excuse going further out on the limb.

Atlantic mackerel

lundi 10 avril 2023 à 11:17

Atlantic mackerel was considered a "sustainable fishery", but it seems that was not actually so — fish stocks are declining, which implies it fishing for them isn't really sustainable.