If you want to put an end to the abuse of the Senate Rule which requires a 60 vote majority to pass, you want to End Cloture. Not the harmless filibuster which requires no votes to use or end — because it is NOT a U.S. Senate rule.
I’ve said this a million times over the past decade and I don’t understand why I have to keep saying it.
Everyone in this country continues to demand an end to “The Filibuster”, sure that ending it will end the obstruction of the U.S. Senate. Which is exactly what president Woodrow Wilson demanded of the Senate back in 1917… and which resulted in the creation of Senate Rule #22, the Cloture Vote.
The cloture rule–Rule 22–is the only formal procedure that Senate rules provide for breaking a filibuster. A filibuster is an attempt to block or delay Senate action on a bill or other matter. Under cloture, the Senate may limit consideration of a pending matter to 30 additional hours of debate.
Why is everyone so determined to continue to call for something WHICH CANNOT HAPPEN? There can be no ending of Filibuster, because there is no Senate rule about the Filibuster, only one about Cloture. It’s true, read through that linked section of the Senate website and inform yourself.
I realize that I am on a one woman campaign to inform here, but by god, I’m not going stop saying it until everyone else stops calling to END THE FILIBUSTER and starts calling to #EndCloture.
Which will end those 60 vote requirements and return the U.S. Senate to a simple majority of 50+1 to pass any motion, as it should be.
y'all know testosterone isn’t a contraceptive, right? it is Very important to me y'all know testosterone is not a contraceptive.
even if testosterone stops your menstrual cycle, if you were able to conceive before starting hrt, there is still a chance you can conceive while on testosterone!!
this is not a universal experience. it has never been brought up at any of my HRT appointments and - judging from the amount of people reblogging and saying that they didn’t know this at all - it’s not exactly basic knowledge either.
trans health care is getting better, albeit slowly, but it is not something that has been spread out evenly. until it is, the best thing we as a community can do is try to educate one another and ensure the harmful “T as a contraceptive” myth is no longer in circulation.
March 23, 1931: Martyrdom of comrade Bhagat Singh, a young communist revolutionary leader of India/Pakistan.
Singh and two comrades, Rajguru and Sukhdev, were executed by the British colonialist regime.
Born in the Punjab region of colonial India (now part of Pakistan), Singh is a legendary revolutionary role model throughout South Asia and the world. Like Che Guevara, he has become a symbol of resistance for revolutionary youth.
OMG I saw this galaxy brained libertarian tiktok that said the US doesn’t have capitalism because there’s greedy monopolists and corrupt politicians. hate to break it to you buddy but that’s the logical conclusion of a profit-motivated, hierarchal economic system called capitalism
thats literally the definition of crony capitalism my bro
which is the logical conclusion of the incentives and structure of capitalism (:
also, the term you’re looking for is “regulatory capture”. it’s a form of corruption, not an economic system.
On March 18, Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Nakamura (who must have a seriously keen eye) spotted something within the constellation Cassiopeia that did not show up on any star maps. In fact, at magnitude +9.6, it was at least 20 times brighter than anything ever spotted at that location.
It was confirmed shortly afterwards by the University of Kyoto, and by the spectrum of it, it is most likely a classical nova. Now it’s called Nova Cas 2021.
At last check, late on March 19, it had brightened to magnitude +7.5. That’s a quick increase in brightness of 6 or 7 times since its discovery less than 48 hours earlier. That means it can be spotted quite easily with binoculars and is approaching the point (magnitude +6.0 or so) where it can be spotted with the naked eye. I haven’t seen any data posted over the weekend on it, but I’d imagine we’ll see some more early this upcoming week. …
