by #BillBlum in #Alternet:

"Given the Supreme Court’s recent track record and its virtually unchecked power, such inaction can no longer be justified. With its six-member Republican supermajority, including three justices appointed by Donald Trump, the court is driving the country and American law backward.

"The court’s extremism is inflaming voter anger and will likely be a key driver of turnout in the 2024 election. Biden should be shrewd enough to harness that anger. It is not sufficient for him to acknowledge that the Supreme Court isn’t 'normal.' It’s time for him to recognize that the court is broken, and the only way to fix it is to expand it."

https://www.alternet.org/biden-comes-up-short-court/

#Biden #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #CourtReform #USPolitics #USPol #politics

by #BrandonGage in #Alternet:

"Bruce MacNab, the head of Wildland Fire Information Systems with Natural Resources Canada stressed to Nyce, 'Some of these fires in [the] northern boreal forest of Canada right now are enormous... and it would take some huge rain events to completely stop them.'

"Nyce also spoke with Karine Pelletier of Quebec's forest-firefighting agency SOPFEU, who told Nyce that 'barring many heavy periods of rainfall, the agency expects firefighting operations to last until September.'"

https://www.alternet.org/canadian-wildfire-smoke-until-september/

#Canada #wildfires #smoke #firefighting #forest #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #climate #ClimateChange

by #MayaBoddie in #Alternet:

"During a Senate hearing for the legislation earlier this week, Duckworth said, 'Now is not the time to put corporate profits ahead of the lives of our constituents who may want to board a commercial flight in the future. A vote to reduce a 1,500-hour rule for pilot training will mean blood on your hands when an inevitable accident occurs as a result of an inadequately trained flight crew.'"

https://www.alternet.org/sinema-slammed-support-airline-bill/

#Sinema #Duckworth #airlines #pilots #training #USSenate #Senate

by #MayaBoddie in #Alternet:

"A small Delaware city is expected to pass legislation allowing businesses to vote in local elections... Sponsored by Republican State Representative Danny Short, the proposal encompasses 'LLCs, corporations, trusts or partnerships,' according to the report, and is set to 'go into effect once both houses of Delaware's state legislature approve it.'"

https://www.alternet.org/delaware-town-proposal-business-vote/

#Delaware #business #LLC #corporations #trusts #partnerships #voting #elections

by #MayaBoddie in #Alternet:

"Sponsored by Republican State Representative Danny Short, the proposal encompasses 'LLCs, corporations, trusts or partnerships,' according to the report, and is set to 'go into effect once both houses of Delaware's state legislature approve it.'"

https://www.alternet.org/delaware-town-proposal-business-vote/

#Delaware #business #LLC #corporations #trusts #partnerships #voting #elections

by #MayaBoddie in #Alternet:

"Mayor Matt Diaz of Baker City, Oregon, is facing backlash from citizens after comparing those who support LGBTQ+ pride to Nazis, Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) reports."

"The local leader recently shared Facebook post featuring 'an image of four Pride flags positioned to look like a swastika,' along with the caption: 'When you join four pride flags you become ultra pride.'"

https://www.alternet.org/oregon-city-mayor-pride-swastikas/

#pride #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #antisemitism #Facebook

by #MayaBoddie in #Alternet:

"New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, has transported over 100 migrants from The Empire State to other states and countries despite his criticism of Republican leaders who have done the same..."

https://www.alternet.org/new-york-mayor-transported-migrants/

#NewYorkCity #NYC #EricAdams #immigration

by #AlexHenderson in #AlterNet:

"Ever since President Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign, the GOP has been portraying itself as the party of law and order — often equating liberal and progressive policies with high crime rates. Yet many European countries that are more liberal than the U.S. also have much lower rates of violent crime."

https://www.alternet.org/we-could-do-it-differently/

#crime #Republicans #GOP #US #Europe

by #BobbyAzarian in #Alternet:

"Terror management theory is particularly relevant to current political events because it provides a scientific explanation for tribalism. The theory suggests that in the face of threat or fear, we bolster our worldviews, and become more ideological. We also become more tribal, which will strengthen our support for like-minded others, while at the same time making us more prone to aggression toward those who are not like us, and who do not share our worldview."

https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/trump-extremists-violence-2024-neuroscientist/

#extremism #extremists #terrorism #tribalism #neuroscience #election #TerrorNanagementTheory

Another day, another conservative Supreme Court Justice who accepted undisclosed gifts. This time, it's the late Antonin Scalia.

Dem Senator: Scalia accepted over 70 undisclosed gifts similar to Clarence Thomas
https://www.alternet.org/viral-video-scalia-gifts-thomas/

#USPol #Politics #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #Alternet #News #AntoninScalia #ClarenceThomas #Corruption

The Supreme Court is 'determined' to 'defy ethical accountability': journalist

"Despite being rift by historically high tensions and distrust following the leak of the Dobbs draft opinion, all nine justices signed a statement in which they effectively rejected adopting a mandatory code of ethics for the nation’s highest court — the only court that functions without a judicial ethics code."

#USPol #Politics #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #News #alternet

https://www.alternet.org/Bank/the-supreme-court-is-determined-to-defy-ethical-accountability-journalist/

Watch: DeSantis explodes when asked about alleged role in Gitmo force feeding at Jerusalem press conference

Asked again about force-feedings, Desantis snarled in response, “Who said that?”

“How would they know me? OK thank about that. Do you honestly believe that’s credible? So this is 2006, I’m a junior officer. Do you honestly think that they would’ve remembered me from Adam? Of course not,” he responded angrily

#USPol #Politics #RonDeSantis #Alternet #News #GOP

https://www.alternet.org/desantis-jerusalem/

Montana becomes first state to ban TikTok. I'm guessing more will follow. We really do be living in a fascist dystopia.

https://www.alternet.org/montana-first-state-ban-tiktok/

#Montana #Tiktok #News #ban #TiktokBan #USPol #Alternet #politics

I can attest that this is certainly true in Michigan

"Republicans are bleeding voters who helped Trump break the blue wall in 2016"

https://www.alternet.org/republicans-bleeding-voters-break-wall/

#USPol #Politics #News #Alternet #Republicans #Trump #2016 #vote #Michigan #Pennsylvania #Wisconsin #RustBelt

I must be the only liberal person on the internet who thinks most of the "liberal" media sites are a net negative
sites like (just 3 examples of many !)

#CommonDreams #Alternet #DecmocracyUnderground
#PalmerReport
#rawstory
#uspolitics

@RawStory
@palmerreport@newsie.social
@palmerreport@newsie.social @commondreams
@alternet_rss_bot

MORE TROLLING, LESS PROTECTING
> The Satanic Temple is not your abortion white knight. They are not coming to save you. They are not our best hope. They are speaking over the heads of abortion seekers and repro justice experts, and touting themselves as the only option while raising money off their misinformation.
>
> Their stunts, and even the name of their abortion clinic, show an agenda more concerned with trolling than protecting. Please don’t let them take time and resources away from abortion funds and reproductive justice organizations.

https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/satanic-temple-defeat-white-saviorism/

#AlterNet #Abortion #TheSatanicTemple #SatanicTemple #TST #SAMSAC #SamAlito

Reading this article from #alternet , I started reimagining that scene from Being John Malkovich, where he enters into his own head and is surrounded by persons repeating "Elonmusk! Elonmu..." Err, I meant "Malkovich" 😉

https://www.alternet.org/Bank/musk-twitter-algorithm-engagement-forces/

@Andre_Mascar I think manually posting things such as the really important announcement of the #AlterNet #SummerSchool in #Peyresq on mastodon should remain the preferred option. The bird site is doing everything they can to disconnect and why should we even care?

@alternet@newsbots.eu #Alternet the Pedo Net

If I can figure out a reliable long range mesh networking solution that can be deployed for less than $50/node and works with commodity hardware and linux, I could bootstrap a community message board or a community wide intranet.

I feel like I'm having this conversation every three weeks, but I'm actually in a position to act on it now.

So let's talk about #meshnetworking and #mbbs and #alternet internet replacement ideas.

What hardware exists right now? What software? (I'll thread some.)