Amazing. A vandalized institution.
#MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky 🛟 In its opinion dismantling the EPA's authority on interstate air pollution, the Supreme Court mixed up the pollutant nitrogen oxide (NOx) with nitrous oxide aka laughing gas (N2O). www.forbes.com/sites/alison...
The error came in an opinion blocking an EPA policy meant to improve air pollution.
“If Trump wins in November…I have zero faith in any countervailing institution protecting civil liberties, the rule of law, or any of a hundred ontological givens that I had taken for granted all my life. In that outcome, the U.S. would shift to being a competitive authoritarian state.”
I wrote despairingly today. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-rant-o...
It's been a bad week.
At least not in the democratic way. There are no rules left, the fascists can just have their militias murder Harris and then put in who they want once Mike Johnson ascends to emperorship. Classic Praetorian politics.
The poasters do what they can and the readers suffer what they must.
She's right. Fascists love a point of no return and they need us to believe in theirs. But there's no such thing. Life goes on and there will always be more of us than them.
The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
And gives him permission for a despotic second term.
I did too. There’s more of us and we can banish them back into the darkness.
I just signed up to write postcards to get out the vote in swing states. You can, too! www.turnoutpac.org/postcards/
Voters who receive handwritten postcards are significantly more likely to vote. We proved it in 2020.
As our forefathers once fought for their imperfect democracy in the ARVN, we will fight for ours. Quyết Chiến. Quyết Thắng.
