“The United States has the authority and responsibility to ensure that Texas cannot evade its obligations under the Constitution and deprive individuals of their constitutional rights by adopting a statutory scheme designed specifically to evade traditional mechanisms of federal judicial review,” the lawsuit states.
The Justice Department is seeking a declaratory judgment declaring the Texas abortion ban invalid, as well as a “preliminary and permanent injunction against “the State of Texas” — including all of its officers, employees, and agents, including private parties who would enforce the abortion ban.
Report Disney, Report Universal, Knotts, the Large Golf Courses.
Report them en mass and force their business behavior to change.
If you want to report water waste by Disney, Nestle, Universal, Palm Springs Golf Course, etc., go here and select “multiple types of waste”, because nothing else actually fits real wasters like them. (The other nine options are about ratting out your neighbors [7], complaining about cleanliness in hotels [1], or complaining about restaurants serving water unasked [1]. Fuck all of these.)
“Multiple types of waste” requires a comment, but somehow I don’t think anyone on Tumblr will have any problems sharing their opinion. In vast detail, if necessary.
You can also take photos of Disney’s, Knotts’, Universal’s, etc. water waste and attach it to the report.
Hey in case you forgot most of the anti-vax rhetoric has always been and will always be DEEPLY rooted in ableism and outright hatred of the disabled.
We see that here on display pretty bald faced, as well as a complete misunderstanding of what tics and seizures are. (It is pointed out in the article that one is far more likely to get blood clots that would cause seizures or strokes from covid itself rather than the vaccine.)
Maybe we need to despair just a little bit rather than rely on these headlines about a silver lining.
The silver lining is that it isn’t as bad as it could be, and that if we radically change our society & global economy that we can slow down the warming enough that in a couple of centuries the climate can heal.
Carbon (in the form of CO2) stays in the atmosphere for a VERY long time. Well, not by the standards of the Earth’s age, but longer than any human’s lifespan. So the carbon we add today compounds what has been present since before we were born.
The “silver lining” that all of these articles would like us to pin our hopes on is that someone somewhere who has the power to make policy changes will do so.
Will the CEOs of fossil fuel companies read the 3500 page report and then close their refineries? Will automobile manufacturers finally let alternative fuel cars become the norm? Will our governments let us stop relying so heavily on fossil fuels, end the fossil fuel lobby, dedicate resources to research and cleanup, welcome climate refugees, and educate hostile populations about the grim realities of climate change?
We can hope. We can pray, I guess. Silver linings don’t mean much if anyone who can make a difference on a large scale doesn’t or won’t see the clouds.
It’s funny that so many Americans think we are free. Even before September 1, but especially now.
Things you can do in America: take horse medicine that is not proven to have any effect on covid symptoms and has no benefit to society. All because some idiot on the radio told you to do it in the middle of a deadly pandemic.
Things you cannot do in America: have a medical procedure that’s proven to be safe, as well as having long-term positive effects on quality of life. Denied medical access all for having the audacity of being born with a uterus.
