(satire) *NRA Narrows Search For New Leadership With Round Of Russian
Roulette.*
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After Exxon’s lawsuit against the shareholders’ motion made by climate defenders, they dropped the motion.
I suspect that defending the suit would have cost too much for those
climate defenders. For Exxon, with its billions, suing is cheap.
there is bipartisan support for a federal shield law to protect
journalists and their sources.
Forest fire has invaded the city of Viña del Mar, Chile, just north of
Valparaíso.
I asked a friend there if he is ok.
Much of what Putin says about Ukrainian prisoners is bullshit. Some
could be true, but we can’t be sure of any of it on his say-so.
Mississippi Republicans want to make it impossible to repeal abortion
restrictions through a vote by the public.
Reportedly, former president Do-Dirty of the Philippines is advocating
secession of the large island, Mindanao.
Do-Dirty was elected for the fame he got by running a “war on drugs”
in which official thugs killed people on the street, then claimed they
were drug dealers. Some were really drug dealers and some were not.
Without putting them on trial, the thugs had no way of knowing.
The article makes the error of describing Mindanao as a “town”. I am
not very confident about the rest of what it says, but I have no other
information.
*A 100km-long curtain moored to the Amundsen Sea bed in Antarctica could
prevent catastrophic flooding elsewhere, say scientists.*
I can see things that might fail, but it may be worth a try.
US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act.
This would not do as much good as raising taxes generally on high
incomes together with limiting the ability to shelter large amounts of
wealth from taxation. We should continue to push for that as what we
really want.
US citizens: call on the SEC to propose again the Stock Buyback Disclosure
Rule.
Stock buybacks used to be prohibited entirely, before a plutocratist
change in the law. We should undo that change and prohibit them
entirely once again. But this rule will be much better than no change.
Putin has launched intense persecution of gays in Russia.
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