As ShellMonkey references, this type of designation might foreshadow that they discovered he’s right-wing. If he was left-wing (or even if they didn’t know) they’d usually have already started using it as propaganda against the left and Democrats.
Gotta clear his troops’ schedules for the next insurrection I guess.
Not quite. This is a panel decision from two Trump appointees and the respondents have said they will ask the full DC Circuit Court to hear the case. It may be that the initial decision was a lucky draw for Trump and the full circuit will reverse.
Yeah, pretty big “2016 called and wants their Trump meme back” energy from this one.
Just to talk through conservatives’ blatant hypocrisy:
Conservativism is correlated generally with a lack of empathy (general scientific essay collecting evidence here). For people who fundamentally lack empathy, one explanation is that they literally cannot tell the difference between “free speech” and “my free speech.” To them, they cannot understand why any valid moral goal would be different from theirs. That implies that any exercise of free speech by them and those like them is valid, and free speech by others with different goals would be invalid.
So likely they see Charlie Kirk’s “censorship” as a free speech issue, and not LGBTQ censorship, because they actually lack the cognitive tools to understand the contradiction.
I’m not sure what the solution is here, short of sending Henry Cavill to the predominantly-male conservatives who think this way, and giving them a long, romantic kiss to make them realize they are also a little LGBTQ, to expand their sympathy base to make up for their lack of empathy. But I doubt Henry Cavill would volunteer for this particular task.
Not sure why. I just tried them and they work both in the US and via a Sweden VPN. I’m not sure if they’re geolocked, but I can view them.
They’re in multiple parts but seem all here at least:
It’s incredible how every day in this country continues to be unimaginably dumber than the last.
The Trump administration is considering a new strategy for throttling the country’s offshore wind industry, after federal judges blocked its five previous attempts to stop wind farms under construction off the East Coast.
Senior administration officials are drafting settlement agreements that would pay nearly $1 billion to TotalEnergies, the French energy company behind two wind farms off New York State and North Carolina, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times, including copies of the agreements.
Under the terms of the proposed settlements, the Interior Department would cancel the leases in federal waters for the two projects, known as Attentive Energy and Carolina Long Bay, the documents show. The Justice Department would then pay more than $928 million to TotalEnergies, reimbursing the company for its winning bids in lease sales during the Biden administration.
In exchange, TotalEnergies would abandon its plans to begin building the wind farms. It would also commit to investing in natural gas infrastructure in Texas, as the Trump administration prioritizes the production of fossil fuels over renewables like wind and solar power.
This is one where I had to click through to the article solely because the headline was too stupid to make sense. We are paying $1 billion of taxpayer dollars in order to undo green energy that was already in process? What reason could there possibly be for not only making our energy policy worse, but paying through the nose to do it?
Mr. Trump has disparaged offshore wind power since 2012, when he tried unsuccessfully to stop a wind farm visible from one of his golf courses in Scotland. He has often called the projects ugly and inefficient, and he has claimed without evidence that they are “driving whales crazy.”
Oh, right. We are a country whose every action must curry approval from a narcissistic sociopath with the prefrontal cortex of a 2-year-old.
I’m hoping the number would be much higher, but that there are a large number of lawyers there who are resisting from the inside - delaying, sabotaging, undermining all the illegal things they are trying to do.
It’s wishful thinking, but it would certainly be a better result than all the people with principles resigning which just frees up spots so they have a clean fascist reporting chain.