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It's a per curiam decision, we don't get to know.
We do get to know that Coney Barrett recused herself, which is what allowed an even split (and by extension the upholding of the lower court's decision).
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The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in American History
The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in American History
House Republicans voted to advance a bill that would offer lavish tax cuts for the rich while slashing benefits for the poor.Jonathan Chait (The Atlantic)
No politicians, no problem.
...I can't use a /s for this. Because, honestly, we might have a shooting war within a decade. I think most of our politicians don't understand why the social contract was a thing.
The swing voters in the US is dumb as a brick.
They care a lot more about "culture war" issues.
Of course, this is going to affect the working class first and worst. But stay with me here.
My wife and I are what you'd call upper middle class. Thanks to our college education, union jobs in public agencies, and mostly being smart with money, our assets are not meager.
Are you like me? Don't think you're exempt. They're coming for our assets too. They want all of us living paycheck to paycheck, begging our employers to not fire us.
What I'm saying is, the class struggle is everyone's struggle. If you're not a billionaire, you're at risk. Act like it.
It is, but the narrative they want it “us vs immigrants”. Think of how long they’ve been rage baiting people with this, it’s nuts.
Keep focus, it’s the 1%.
Right, we need to be careful about defining class struggle globally when we’re in the 99% locally but most of us may be in the 1% globally
This is one of the many reason we need to help our fellow humans, it’s our duty to increase support through agencies like USAid, global public health initiatives, global emergency response, global food aid, global development, education, outreach. We’ve never done enough to support our fellow humans, and now that’s the first place they’re cutting. Do we credit them with the intelligence to call it an intentional part of the strategy to divide us from our fellow exploited class?
I'm glad they're coming for your assets.
You have more than enough and should not receive even more while others have less, just like the billionaires you're criticizing.
Edit: All the people getting mad at this reality are the reason why we have to choose between clintons and trumps. As soon as someone threatens the wealth of neo-liberals, they immediately agree with conservatives.
Greed and consumerism are the worst issues we face as a species. It makes sense most of you will react the way that you do when being forced to acknowledge your contribution to the problem.
Now, who's excited for the switch 2 and gta 6?
There's a massive difference between well-off, or even wealthy (think a practicing doctor/dentist or small business entrepeneur) and billionaire.
Saying 'screw your savings' to people like that is the conflict the billionare class wants, instead of everyone focusing on them.
We should be starting at the billionaires and working our way down, but I also don't care when consumerists and neo-liberals get theirs early.
You have more than enough and should not receive even more while others have less, just like the billionaires you’re criticizing.
This is the important part that you're conveniently ignoring. Why should the person with a $400,000 house in suburbia be exempt from the redistribution of wealth while children starve? How much are they really contributing to the world to deserve that?
You mention doctors and dentists, and I'd agree with you. They can keep their assets within reason.
What about everyone else who isn't in medicine? What about the people that aren't easy for you to hide behind to justify your greed and consumerism?
It’s in our best interest to do things to stay in the “should be higher taxed” group, rather than the guillotine group. And I don’t think it’s as simple as wealth, but how you got it and what you do with it.
- Do you cause misery in your wealth accumulation, or support better jobs for everyone: better health and safety conditions, better benefits, higher pain, share in profits/efficiency, etc
- Do you hoard your wealth or spend on excessive luxury, or do you direct more to uplift those who didn’t catch the same bus?
I’m under no illusion that I have anything in common with working poor here, much less in less developed countries, but I do know I side more with them than the wealthy. I do know that giving even the least fortunate access to the same bus stop helps us all. I do know that there is a lot that can be done by taxing me more, more of what I have should be redistributed to provide the basics, to start building a more level playing field
I hope to deserve being in “should be higher taxed” group
Leftier than thou; regardless of the damage to the movement.
Completely true.
Do you know what the difference is between a millionaire and a billionaire?
A billion dollars.
There is really no comparison. Doctors, lawyers, tenured professors, even most CEOS are working class compared to the investor class.
No it's not. A well off doctor in the U.S. has more disposable income and assets than ~97% of the worlds population, and is able to sustain their resulting material wealth as a function of economic labor exploitation of "developing" countries
Y'all are just mad because Trump is kicking you down to hang with the rest of us poors.
And I suppose you live in a yurt off-grid, and don't own a mobile device?
Thought so, hypocrite. Fuck Trump.
No, just live at or below a standard that is attainable for us all.
Thought so, hypocrite.
Sad watching you be so sure of yourself while also being clueless.
Finally someone else who gets it. I kinda hoped lemmy would have a crowd that would at least be able to talk about this calmly but it looks like it's no less rabid about this topic than reddit.
They don't have to agree with conservatives. They just have to go so far as establishment Democrat. The "moderate" who keeps kicking the can down the road. 'Wait till midterms'. Wait till the next red line so we can move the red line to some time in the future.
The dream is not to become a billionaire. The dream is to become upper middle class. So you can sit in the middle and expound on virtues of those beneath you while reaping the benefits of those above.
That is simply not true. Violence is the last resort, and many movements were successful before that. Violence can be effective, but needs to be measured. You must get people on your side, and you won't achieve that through murder.
Of course it's more complicated, but in general, to effect lasting change, you need widespread support and a good narrative, just look at MAGA. They didn't kill people to get into power, they were elected. Now that they are in power, they have legitimacy and can start disposing of the undesirables however they want, slowly turning up the heat.
You will rarely achieve love through hate.
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It's called false consciousness. The workers are socialized through media, religion, and other social institutions, to identify with and support the ruling class. You see this in the way they adore Elmo Skum. I've known IT workers who bragged about the fancy car they basically bought for their manager.
Yes, it's a Marxist perspective. But Marx wasn't wrong.
So what do you propose? What are the logistics of it? How do you organize to take out enough systems to take over? What do you do afterwards?
Life isn't some fantastical action story, it's the incredibly complex reality we all live in where a single person cannot fathom all the variables therein. You are not trying to understand, you are not trying to be effective, you're just circle jerking in your fantasy world. And as long as many people keep doing that, living in some kind of hyper-real abstraction of reality, the people actually smart enough to organize and get into power will be able to do whatever they want. You're just another enabler.
All you have is “organize” or “awareness.” Your action plan is as circle jerky as ours. My guess is you like the direction the country is going in.
My personal solution is to get out of the house and watch it burn from the neighbor’s yard.
Idk, it's easy to get depressed about it, but I think that there's another interpretation. It shows that Gen Z recognizes how fucked everything is, and recognize the urgent need for drastic change, which is what Donald promises, even if he's a colossal piece of shit and the changes he promises are pure grift. Yeah, they've been taken in by the right, but only because the right has seized on the populist moment while the institutional left is still fretting about decorum, rank, seniority, process, and literally anything else before results. If the left gets out there and starts swinging for the fences, I think we can turn things around. So, of course, the democrats are preparing to rise to the occasion by offering Gavin Newsom and his plan to build the biggest bulldozers on earth for bulldozing the homeless.
I think this is part of why Bernie was yelling at people to run for office. We need more options, more people who are willing to turn their back on the establishment, on the left.
That's okay.
We'll take the futures from their offspring.
This will not go unpunished.
Left populism is a winning strategy too.
Not if its surpressed in (social) media, unfortunately.
As horrific as it sounds, the US very much needs a 'Democrat Trump.' But even that can't happen in the current media environment. There are all sorts of proposals to address that, but the problem seems to be that people can't help themselves and keep using Twitter, watching Fox, stay glued to Facebook or whatever.
Not exactly.
The American political system turned into a gaggle of Mafias some time ago, France isn't quite there yet.
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Not that that's what is being said precisely, but it hits the same notes. And DicJacobus, this isn't aimed at you, but at the original comment in this thread. Unless you agreed with them and I misread your tone
I don't live in your fash country and no, I absolutely despise the way your country is going in and pulling the rest of the world into hell :)
What I have is political activism in a leftist party where I am helping get new members and organizing various events teaching about democracy and its tools, amongst other things, as well as supporting other groups and bettering the local community.
What you have is fear and a desire to feel good about yourself whilst doing and achieving nothing. You'd rather fuck off than pull through on your mighty words - that's also called cowardice.
- Someday soon, America will burn.
I think about this almost daily. I have young kids and I'm terrified of the world they are growing into.
There is an option in your settings so you don't see upvotes or downvotes on individual comments.
None of these imaginary points matter.
(Lemmy is rad)
...the sad part is that perhaps half those MAGAs aren't necessarily bad people, but they're so profoundly indoctrinated by its disinformation sphere that they legitimately believe their support serves a greater good...
...the other half are outright evil, though...
Must be nice to live in a country that isn’t fascist. Must be nice to mock people suffering through fascism while you don’t have any idea what it’s like. Must be nice to sit in Austria and OBSESS about a country being taken over by fascism and blame everyone for it.
You’re so fucking pathetic.
Crypto Bill: These 16 Democratic Senators Deserve a Primary
It’s official. As my colleague David Dayen and I both predicted, enough Democratic senators have voted for a crypto “regulation” bill (called the GENIUS Act), basically written by the industry and Donald Trump’s minions, that it passed easily on Monday. If anything, it was even worse than I expected—just nine Democrats were needed to get to the necessary 60 votes, but 16 voted for it. (Two Republicans, Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Jerry Moran of Kansas, voted against it.)
This vote was technically for cloture, meaning the bill couldn’t be halted by a filibuster, but it’s the only vote that mattered. The official vote, now scheduled for Thursday, is only a formality, and I expect several of these senators to vote against it so they can pretend they aren’t monumentally corrupt.
The Crypto Sixteen are the following: Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), who co-sponsored the bill, Adam Schiff (D-CA), Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), Mark Warner (D-VA), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), John Fetterman (D-PA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE). Every one of them ought to be primaried in their next election.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who has more experience in financial regulation than anyone in Congress, outlined the problems in a speech on the Senate floor. First, the bill gives a clear green light to Trump’s world-historical corruption. “Passing this bill means that we can expect more anonymous buyers, big companies, and foreign governments to use the president’s stablecoin as both a shadowy bank account shielded from government oversight and as a way to pay off the president personally. For crooks, it’s a two-for-one,” she said.
These 16 Democratic Senators Deserve a Primary
Allowing yourself to be bought by the crypto lobby is unforgivable.Ryan Cooper (The American Prospect)
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I expect a few traitors in the house, but 16 senators is next level Benedict Arnolding. And they got both of the California senators too.
Theres only 45 dems in the senate right now so thats ~36% of the dem senators being turncoats on this issue. Many other Dem turncoats on other issues. I think they get together and decide who is going to take the hit this time while the others pretend to play defense.
Those shit coins aren't even privacy coins, right?
So I dont see your point. You seem to be quite ignorant of this technology
“The Worst It’s Ever Been”: U.K. Surgeon in Gaza Warns Kids Are Bearing Brunt as Israel Widens Assault
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“The Worst It’s Ever Been”: U.K. Surgeon in Gaza Warns Kids Are Bearing Brunt as Israel Widens Assault
May 22, 2025“The Worst It’s Ever Been”: U.K. Surgeon in Gaza Warns Kids Are Bearing Brunt as Israel Widens Assault
We speak with Dr. Victoria Rose, a British plastic and reconstructive surgeon who has been on three medical missions to Gaza since the start of Israel’s war on the territory.Democracy Now!
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(Ireland) Government U-turns on EU pharma reforms after lobbying
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- Proposed EU reforms would cut a minimum eight-year window companies have to exclusively sell new drugs they produce before cheaper generic competitors can enter the market.
- Pharmaceutical companies have fiercely opposed any reduction in the minimum eight-year window, where they have “protection” over their research and data from clinical trials.
- Minister for Enterprise Peter Burke said the Government now supports the position pushed by the pharmaceutical industry that there should be no change. “We are prepared to accept eight years,” he said in Brussels on Thursday.
Government U-turns on EU pharma reforms after lobbying
EU had sought to cut time pharmaceutical companies could exclusively sell new drugs, to make generics available soonerJack Power (The Irish Times)
Senate passed a surprise 'no tax on tips' bill. Here's what it could mean for workers
Senate passed a surprise 'no tax on tips' bill. Here's what it could mean for workers
Senate passed a surprise 'no tax on tips' bill. If enacted, here's how could qualify for the deduction.Kate Dore, CFP®, EA (CNBC)
If enacted, workers could deduct all “qualified tips” from 2025 through 2028. Tips must be reported to qualify for the deduction.In 2023, there were roughly 4 million U.S. workers in tipped occupations, representing 2.5% of all employment, according to estimates from The Budget Lab at Yale University.
“This is a very narrow subset of the workforce,” said Alex Muresianu, senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation.
“For the lowest income tipped workers, it provides no marginal benefit” Muresianu said. “It would benefit moderate to middle income workers substantially.”
also from another article:
limited to cash tips that workers report to employers for withholding purposes on payroll taxes.
So many caveats it's practically worthless.
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So many caveats it’s practically worthless.
For normal workers who make tips...
For a 14 year old masseuse who works at a golf course getting a "tip" to stay quiet...
Well, they'll get less from the person tipping them than they used to, but value it as more because they don't pay taxes now.
Rich people are going to tip less, and get treated better for it. That's the savings they've always meant, they'll be able to tip less and still get the treatment they want.
Who gives a fuck about that, it's tied to making the executive branch immune to contempt charges for ignoring the courts, retroactively no less
And it has a soft abortion ban (and maybe birth control too?) by banning any health plan that gets government assistance from providing it
And then there's weird shit... Like indoor tanning is getting a tax cut, as well as gun silencers
Also, there's the stuff on the label... Stripping food and medical care from the most vulnerable people. Which also fucks over farmers, because food stamps are a farming subsidy
This whole bill is really, really bad
What it means?
Absolutely nothing because the upcoming One Big Beautiful Bill will absolutely destroy the economy for the people who get tips on a regular basis.
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I am not familiar with any of the tipping laws, but what prevents an employer (now) to withhold the tipping jar from employee's wages, especially now, under the norm of non taxed, in effect non official, incomes?
So, before one would get (income+tips) - taxes; and now only Income - Taxes because on paper the tips don't exist?
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Instead, how about we pass a law that guarantees a living wage, so that workers don't have to depend on tips?
Silly me. That would be COMMUNISM.
Legal scholar: GOP budget move could undermine judicial power 'framers knew was essential'
The measure would limit courts’ ability to enforce contempt findings, a move that could blunt one of the judiciary’s most powerful tools for ensuring compliance with its rulings.
Would love another source, but this was all I could find.
As if there weren't enough bad things in this budget Bill
Legal scholar: GOP budget move could undermine judicial power 'framers knew was essential'
A provision tucked deep inside the House GOP's sprawling budget bill would limit courts’ ability to enforce contempt findings - a measure that is raising constitutional red flags among legal experts.Hilary Golston (FOX 2 Detroit)
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The Hidden Provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump King
... the Big Ugly Bill is enacted with the following provision, now hidden in the bill:
“No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued….”
Translated: No federal court may enforce a contempt citation.
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Actual translation: no court may enforce an injunction or temporary restraining order against the Trump administration.
Now let's see how the Supreme Court rules.
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5-4
"Neil drew the short straw, so he gets to be the irrelevant dissenting vote today."
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If you're wondering about "if no security was given":
To require a security or bond to be given in civil proceedings seeking to stop alleged abuses by the federal government would effectively immunize such conduct from judicial review because those seeking such court orders generally don’t have the resources to post a bond.
They want to require plaintiffs to post a bond (security) as a prerequisite to an injunction being enforced.
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Courts NOT being Able to Rule AGAINST the Administration? THATS the Law And Order I WANTED!
-Someone whose FAMILY is in an El Salvadorian Concentration Camp!
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Greek PM calls on Israel to halt 'unjustifiable' Gaza campaign | dpa international
"What is happening there is unjustified and unacceptable. Israel must stop these operations immediately," Mitsotakis told Greek broadcaster Skai.
Trump tax bill clears the House in a victory for Republicans, advances to the Senate
Trump tax bill clears the House in a victory for Republicans, advances to the Senate
The early morning vote along party lines came after 48 hours of furious negotiations to win over warring factions in the Republican conference.Christina Wilkie (CNBC)
Self-hosted Tools, Dead Tech, Papercrafting (Linux Prepper Podcast on Fediverse)
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Epson Ecotank Printers. Can be converted to Sublimation
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Kill Doctor Lucky - A print and play boardgame
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Root as a Print and Play game. Insanely popular as a modern, commercial board game
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Skull card game. Classic bar game, played on napkins, etc.
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- Pinecil Soldering Iron
- Soldering is Easy web comic by Mitch Altman
- Fine Soldering Tip Set
- Large Soldering Tip Set
- PinePower Travel Charger w/ International Adapters
- PinePower 120w Desktop Charger
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- Paperless-NGX - digitize that paper
- Kavita
- Komga
- Codex
- Calibre-Web
- LibreOffice Suite
- pdfarranger.
Fork of pdf-shuffler: a small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. It is a front end for pikepdf. Available on Windows, as flatpak, snap, in repos, etc.- pdftk - terminal app for universally password protecting pdf files.
- pdfbook2 - terminal app to convert your pdf document page layout into a printable book, or zine.
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Ronin Solo RPG
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Notorious Solo RPG
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Snake Acid web browser game
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- Lutris, which includes Itch support, Steam, GOG, Epic, local games, etc.
Pinecil v2 Soldering Iron
The Pinecil v2 is a smart mini portable soldering iron with a 32-bit RISC-V SoC featuring a sleek design, auto standby and it heats up to an operating temperature in just 12 seconds! KEY FEATURES Dual power input design: USB-C supports both PD and QC…ameriDroid
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Trump’s tax bill to cost 830,000 jobs and drive up bills and pollution emissions, experts warn | Bill will unleash millions more tonnes of planet-heating pollution and couldn’t come at a worse time
Trump’s tax bill to cost 830,000 jobs and drive up bills and pollution emissions, experts warn
Bill will unleash millions more tonnes of planet-heating pollution and couldn’t come at a worse time, say expertsOliver Milman (The Guardian)
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I think of the scene from Love, Death and Robots.
"After the hydroponics failed they had to resort to... Extreme Democracy."
Fury as Republicans go ‘nuclear’ in fight over California car emissions | Newsom issues rallying cry as GOP-controlled Senate moves ahead with plan to revoke key environmental rule
In particular, they're ignoring the Senate rules requiring a supermajority vote, and planning to claim they've taken away California's ability to regulate tailpipe pollution with a mere majority.
If you're an American, it's worth calling your senators and asking them to vote to preserve California's ability to impose stricter pollution controls — much of the country has historically adopted California's rules.
Fury as Republicans go ‘nuclear’ in fight over California car emissions
Newsom issues rallying cry as GOP-controlled Senate votes to reverse EPA waiver and prevent state setting own rulesGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Anti-Hamas protests in southern Gaza enter third day
Anti-Hamas protests in southern Gaza enter third day
Protesters were seen in videos calling for an end to the war and the removal of the armed group from GazaNaomi Scherbel-Ball (BBC News)
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Speaking out against Hamas can be dangerous in Gaza
Probably not the only dangerous thing in Gaza at the moment.
We just want our children to live in peace, and we deliver a message to the whole world, to try their best in pressuring Israel and Hamas so we can save us and our children from this war."
These are protests against Israel too. Something that is often not making it into the headline. However people are naive to believe that any protest inside Gaza would stop Israel or its enablers.
Israels leadership as made it abundantly clear that they will finish the annihilation of Palestinians in Gaza unless stopped by force.
Japan taxi driver suspected of raping 50 women, reports say
Japan taxi driver suspected of raping 50 women, reports say
Reports say that the police found about 3,000 videos and images of him sexually assaulting around 50 women in his taxi or his home.The Japan Times
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Greenland signs lucrative minerals deal with Europe in blow to Trump
Greenland has allowed a Danish-French consortium to mine a rock which is key to the production of aluminum.
The permit granted to Greenland Anorthosite Mining (GAM) to extract anorthosite follows interest in the Arctic territory from Donald Trump in acquiring the island.
GAM, which is backed by French company Jean Boulle Group and real estate investment firms bodies from Denmark and Greenland, was granted a 30-year permit, Reuters reported.
Greenland Signs Lucrative Minerals Deal with Europe in Blow to Trump
The Arctic territory has issued a 30-year mining permit to a Danish-French consortium.Brendan Cole (Newsweek)
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i'm canadian - a bit too proudly so. our family moved to nashville back in 1993 and then back to canada in 1999, so you could say i spent most of my formative years down there. i went to Overton HS, and i had some of the best teachers i could ever have wished for - even looking back now.
and canada isn't as friendly as they say it is, either. it's more passive-aggressive than friendly. matchbox 20 is horrible, and the tragically hip is overrated. i even saw them live in studio from like 20 feet a way. good band, but not national treasure territory.
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Greenland has allowed a Danish-French consortium to mine a rock which is key to the production of aluminum.
It's called aluminium.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorthos…
The primary economic value of anorthosite bodies is the titanium-bearing oxide ilmenite. However, some Proterozoic anorthosite bodies have large amounts of labradorite, which is quarried for its value as both a gemstone and a building material. Archean anorthosites, because they are aluminium-rich, have large amounts of aluminium substituting for silicon; a few of these bodies are mined as ores of aluminium
Aluminium is found on Earth primarily in rocks in the crust, where it is the third-most abundant element, after oxygen and silicon, rather than in the mantle, and virtually never as the free metal. It is obtained industrially by mining bauxite, a sedimentary rock rich in aluminium minerals.
But these guys are getting it from anorthosite, which is an interesting variation of industrial trends.
Isn't Greenland just part of Denmark? Why would Europeans doing mineral exploration in Europe hurt America?
I mean, would Alaska's governor opening up more of the wildlife refugee for US industrial exploitation be a "blow to Olaf Schultz"?
You just don't understand the fart of the deal.
Whoops, I meant art of the steal.
Oh, ffs. I meant Angry Old Orange Rapist TurdNugget is a fucking imbecile. Phew, finally got there in the end.
China's BYD outsells Tesla in Europe for first time, report says
Chinese automaker BYD sold more electric vehicles in Europe than Tesla for the first time, according to a report by JATO Dynamics, as an aging model lineup and CEO Elon Musk's politics hurt demand for the U.S. EV maker's cars.
BYD, which also makes plug-in hybrid vehicles, registered 7,231 battery-powered electric vehicles (BEV) in Europe in April, while Tesla registered 7,165 units, the market research firm said.
"This is a watershed moment for Europe's car market, particularly when you consider that Tesla has led the European BEV market for years, while BYD only officially began operations beyond Norway and the Netherlands in late 2022," JATO Dynamics' global analyst Felipe Munoz said.
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That is why Europe has tariffs to make the price of Chinese EV cars equal to locally produced cars.
They are now looking to replace tariffs with minimum prices instead.
China & EU Explore Replacing EV Tariffs with Minimum Prices
China and the EU will look at replacing tariffs on EVs with minimum prices as tariff-exempt plug-in hybrid sales grew and the EU looks to tackle emissionsJasmin Jessen (Bizclik Media Ltd)
House passes Trump's budget in razor-thin vote after dramatic all-night session
The House narrowly passed Trump's domestic policy bill Thursday following a dramatic all-night session and days of negotiations.
In a 215 to 214 vote, all but two House Republicans supported the massive budget package — the centerpiece legislation of Mr. Trump's second-term agenda — in a vote that came hours after unveiling an updated version of the legislation that GOP leaders hoped would satisfy enough holdouts.
The measure cleared a critical procedural hurdle in the wee hours of the morning, teeing up the vote on final passage after days of consternation among the House Republican conference.
The bill will now go to the Senate, where some Republicans have already voiced some opposition. Congressional leaders have said they want to get it to Mr. Trump's desk by July 4.
House passes Trump's "big, beautiful bill" in razor-thin vote after dramatic all-night session
The budget package addresses President Trump's tax, defense and energy priorities. It now heads to the Senate, where hurdles remain.Caitlin Yilek (CBS News)
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Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver charged with assault after skirmish at ICE center, New Jersey prosecutor says
McIver denounced the charge as "purely political" and said prosecutors are distorting her actions in an effort to deter legislative oversight.PBS News
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Awww, you think elections and votes still matter. Cute.
Casual reminder that nobody has ever voted themselves out of an authoritarian regime.
This is far from an authoritarian regime, stop being a drama queen. These histrionics are frankly pathetic.
Courts have stopped like 90% of the shit hey are trying to do. In fact it’s not really clear that they’ve actually achieved anything on the short or long term, other than sending people out to foreign gulags and that may yet have repercussions for them.
Courts have stopped like 90% of the shit hey are trying to do
Tell that to Kilmar Abrego García. I bet he feel really good about the remaining 10%.
That doesn’t mean we have to pretend that we’re literally living in North Korea
Again, ask yourself if Kilmar Abrego García or any of the other Trump deportees in CECOT feel like they're living in North Korea.
Stop thinking everybody's experience is like yours. It's North Korea bad in the US right now, just not for everybody yet like in North Korea. You haven't been impacted yet: when you are, you'll change your tune.
Courts have stopped like 90% of the shit hey are trying to do.
Have they, though? They've ruled against things, sure, but the majority of those things haven't stopped or changed, so what effects have the rulings actually had?
Look at the numbers, they aren’t really deporting people in the numbers they should be according to their agenda. He capitulated on tariffs with China. Every week it’s a different fumble from his cabinet. Even the worst gifters of the MAGAspehere are starting to speak out against Trump’s corrupt behavior.
All their policies are being enacted via EO so they can and will be stricken down the moment another democrat takes power.
The biggest concern I have with this administration beyond the obvious human right violations of sending people to foreign gulags, is not the actions it’s taking by themself but rather the precent they are setting. The next democratic president, if they are really worried about fascism as they say, needs to give priority to dismantling the power of the executive and returning it to congress. But that probably won’t happen because they’re all power grubbing greedy assholes.
I think democrats need to look back and realize that the pre maga GOP was absolutely right when it said that state sovereignty should be preserved above all things. It is the strongest bulwark the US has against authoritarianism.
Would like to point out that part of this bill includes a provision that makes it illegal for Courts to hold the Government in contempt for not complying with their past, present, or future injunctions:
H.R. _____, Title VII § 70302:
No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c), whether issued prior to, on, or subsequent to the date of enactment of this section.
In fact it’s not really clear that they’ve actually achieved anything on the short or long term
Literally what are you talking about? The U.S as we know it has been dismantled. If this administration somehow explicitly ended today we'd have still lost over 100 years of social progress, not to mention Russia and God only knows who else has all of our data, Intel, and government secrets. They've already accomplished everything they've set out to. The bribery and big beautiful bills and everything else from here on out is just gravy to them.
what? Obama ran opposed to same sex marriage. Obama, just a few years ago. Literally what 100 years of progress are you talking about? Trump has done nothing that cannot be reversed the moment another president walks in because everything is a fucking EO.
You’re literally hysterical.
What do you mean by you lunatics? I’m not a MAGA tard. Im only saying, Trump has done nothing that cannot be undone very easily. Civil rights, as enshrined in the laws are pretty much still strong with the exception of immigrants and the Supreme Court seems to be taking the side of immigrants on this.
I don’t know that Russians have had access to any information, I think we should stick to what we know instead of making wild assumptions based on suspicions.
Sure there are concerns about the dismantling of federal agencies but at least the state agencies are still there.
I don’t like Trump, I don’t like MAGA but I almost dislike the hysterical faction of the democrats as much. And I say democrats because I’ve found many of you are not actual leftists but people who treat politics as team sports, not very different from MAGA though thankfully much less dangerous.
making wild assumptions based on suspicions
Last month directly following DOGE's access to the National Labor Relations Board, users with Russian IPs were blocked from logging in to their systems with valid credentials. The attempt was only thwarted by geo blocking, meaning we only caught the ones who couldn't be bothered to use a VPN. And we only know about this incident because of a whistleblower at the NLRB.
The only person who's made an assumption here is you, my dude. And the fact that you would blatantly accuse me of making an assumption and call me hysterical without even the slightest attempt to confirm the information is exactly what I mean by "you lunatics." No you're not MAGA 'tard', you're worse because you're fighting their battles and you don't even know it.
And don't you dare call me a fucking Democrat. That crosses the line. In fact I think you've got a few things backwards.
And what? You couldn't possibly miss a story you have a clear and obvious bias against? Your fingers clearly work, but sure let me look that up for you.
Chile, late '80s, Pinochet scheduled a referendum and was voted out. He tried to backtrack, but no one would help so he ultimately left office peacefully.
Ukraine after the 2004 protests.
Ghana in 2000 after decades under Jerry Rawlings.
(Not counting the times when violence and international pressure led to elections that were honored, like Mandela winning in South Africa in the '90s.)
Republicans are unfixable
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