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silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Florida Just Banned Fluoride From Public Water. Here’s What to Know. | Medical experts have warned that ending fluoridation will have negative consequences for oral health.5·20 hours agoEvery kid who dies of an untreated dental infection is one who couldn’t grow up to vote for Democrats
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Schumer to Slow Trump Justice Dept. Nominees Over Qatari Jet11·2 days agoNah. Its that of any large group, there is a risk somebody is bought off. So having a few more legislators more than the minimum protects you from that.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Schumer to Slow Trump Justice Dept. Nominees Over Qatari Jet1·2 days agoOr…the actual problem is that every single republican is opposed to doing things that help Americans, so with a 50/50 Senate, it took buying off only one Democrat to force stuff out
The actual path to good policy is more and better Democrats. Enough that the failings of one or three can’t sink legislation
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Schumer to Slow Trump Justice Dept. Nominees Over Qatari Jet11·2 days agoEven there, Manchin was a major problem. Almost all the Democrats wanted stuff like an expanded child tax credit, but Manchin announced that if parents had money, they’d all go out and buy meth, so he insisted on its removal from the bill before he would vote for it.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Renewable Energy Is Booming in Texas. Republicans Want to Change That. Despite soaring power demand, Republican lawmakers in the Texas Legislature are pushing to rein in renewable energy6·2 days agoIt’s more that their constituents are exposed to a constant stream of propaganda which favors fossil fuels and the destruction they cause.
There is no real left-wing messaging machine that compares and can tell people about the harm they’re experiencing or the benefits of renewables.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Schumer to Slow Trump Justice Dept. Nominees Over Qatari Jet1·2 days agoThe Republican effort to repeal it is (rightly) going to to be a real disaster, costing us not just a liveable future, but a lot of jobs in the near term.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Schumer to Slow Trump Justice Dept. Nominees Over Qatari Jet13·3 days agoBBB became the Inflation Reduction Act. Its what Manchin would vote for.
The most conservative Democrat is far more conservative than you or I.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Schumer to Slow Trump Justice Dept. Nominees Over Qatari Jet31·3 days agoFor sure. But I’ll appreciate seeing it happen now instead of never
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Schumer to Slow Trump Justice Dept. Nominees Over Qatari Jet32·3 days agoUnfortunately gumming up the Senate is about the only tool a minority has
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Schumer to Slow Trump Justice Dept. Nominees Over Qatari Jet11·3 days agoThey couldn’t during 2021-2022 when Democrats had 50 seats in the Senate plus the VP. You could pass what the most conservative Democrat was willing to vote for then, so long as it was a budget reconciliation bill.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Schumer to Slow Trump Justice Dept. Nominees Over Qatari Jet63·3 days agoA bribe is a bribe is a bribe, even if we can only see one of the quid and the quo.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Schumer to Slow Trump Justice Dept. Nominees Over Qatari Jet32·3 days agoThere aren’t enough Democrats in the Senate to actually stop them. Just slow things down so much that the Republicans need to pick and choose which ones they care enough to push through.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Officials Are Denied Access to Library of Congress After Trump Names New Boss107·4 days agoThe magic here is that the Library of Congress has the Capitol Police backing them, and they answer to Congress, not the President.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•The Disturbing Rise of MAGA Maoism | Trump seems to be ceding the future to China while emulating its past.9·7 days agoContext for those who dont know it:
The absence of sparrows, which traditionally kept locust populations in check, allowed swarms to ravage fields of grain and rice. The resulting agricultural failures, compounded by misguided policies of the Great Leap Forward, triggered a severe famine from 1958 to 1962. The death toll from starvation during this period reached 20 to 30 million people
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Finally Drops the Anti-Semitism Pretext | The latest letter to Harvard makes clear that the administration’s goal is to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.122·9 days agoA large part of what they do is research. Taking away a couple billion a year that the government spends on that at Harvard is a big deal, even if the institution can ultimately survive it
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Trump administration plans to end Energy Star program for home appliances12·10 days agoOnly when they can performatively blow smoke in people’s faces. You can’t do that with a hot water heater.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•18 States Sue Over Trump’s Halting of Wind Power Projects | The halt threatens jobs and holds back energy production at a time the president has claimed an “energy emergency,” state AGs said19·10 days agoAll you have to do is click through to the lawsuit they link
STATE OF NEW YORK; COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS; STATE OF ARIZONA; STATE OF CALIFORNIA; STATE OF COLORADO; STATE OF CONNECTICUT; STATE OF DELAWARE; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; STATE OF ILLINOIS; STATE OF MAINE; STATE OF MARYLAND; THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN; STATE OF MINNESOTA; STATE OF NEW JERSEY; STATE OF NEW MEXICO; STATE OF OREGON; STATE OF RHODE ISLAND; and STATE OF WASHINGTON
In short, most of the ones with a Democrat as Attorney General
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked | TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.3·10 days agoThe concerns are big enough that Waltz is being shunted off to the UN instead of being allowed to stay where he is.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked | TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.91·12 days agoSignal makes it believable by providing source code and reproducible builds. It doesn’t rule out the possibility that they’ve done something clever with the random number generator, or have the app store you use give you a compromised app, or provide any protection against endpoint compromise, but it’s about as good as you can get.
Third party apps derived from theirs, which explicitly promise to log all your messages to a server somewhere, like TeleMessage, are, for obvious reasons, far less trustworthy.
You will be out of work and won’t be able to. Investor groups will buy them at auction instead