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[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No senate business can take place because of this even though it's technically not a filibuster of a specific bill. The senate was suppose to open under normal operation at noon EST, but he's still speaking as of me writing this comment

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not that I forgive Schumer for what he did on the CR, but Schumer actually was on the floor helping Booker

Schumer along with many other dems have been asking super long winded questions to give Booker a break speaking for a few minutes

(Procedurally, you can take and answer questions without yielding your time on the floor)

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 months ago

If you want to get stuff through, no, but it you want to help him, then yes

Various Dems senators have been helping him by asking super long questions to give him a few minutes break from speaking

In any case, Republican senators leaving without being able to voting on nominees and other stuff is helpful

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 53 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Not that I forgive Schumer for what he did on the CR, but Schumer actually was on the floor helping Booker

Schumer along with many other dems have been asking super long winded questions to give Booker a break speaking for a few minutes

(Procedurally, you can take and answer questions without yielding your time on the floor)

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Mostly through taking a sledge hammer via executive branch right now

Which needs things like confirmation of appointees from the Senate

Plus in a broad sense they're also trying to codify some of their currently illegal actions. It's good to slow stuff like that down

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The Senate is still not able to go about their normal business because of this. It was suppose to start going through their schedule at noon today

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

Weird, no paywall for me but you can read on archive.is

https://archive.is/fBdZh

For the last bit, that's more or less what the article suggests

There’s no clear path to breaking the meat industry’s grip over American politics on the horizon, but there is something anyone can do — starting today — to push back against the kinds of horrific allegations made against Mountaire and other poultry giants: Eat less chicken.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There are also Tesla protests growing in Europe (and Canada, and more)! Musk's influence threatens more than just the US, so we must all step up. The Tesla Takedown protest movement started in the US, but it's now becoming international. Here's a map of the latest ones in Europe

Here's the site with that info along with a guide on how to plan one around you if you don't see one

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 179 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

There have been tons of protests and there have been some pretty widespread ones outside of Tesla this weekend. The media is just hardly covering it making them seem way smaller than they are

Here's a map of recent Tesla Takedown protests alone

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown

Here's just a handful of photos from yesterday

Most people within the US aren't aware these protests are happening either. There are also broader nationwide protests planned on April 5th as part of the 50501 movement. This will be the 4th nationwide 50501 protest

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://archive.is/ITR1e for the paywall

The laws these industries are trying to overturn are just ones that set such low standards it's truly insane. Cage-free still means plenty of cruelty and yet that's still much for the egg industry

For instance, practices like chick culling exist in most of the world including the US. Billions of male chicks are shred alive around the world right after birth

Or forced molting is quite common in the US where they intentionally starve a flock for a 7-14 days to increase egg production rates after it

Among other broader problems like how they've been bred to produce eggs at such high rates they start getting tons of bone health problems. I could keep going on and on, but I think that's enough to get the idea

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Even if there's no criminal charges, at least there are some groups that just filed civil lawsuits about the record keeping laws they broke

And note that Pardon powers do not apply to civil cases - only criminal ones

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Less a fluke, more of a pattern lately. Dems have been overperforming in most special elections since Trump took office again. Sometimes by a couple percent, and frequently by 10-20%. Only a handful of underperformances

For instance, they also flipped a Trump+21 distict in Iowa. They won by 5 points too

Will it hold up in the longer term? That's much harder to say, but it's not just one special election that's been a large upset

 

Missed this earlier in everything going on and didn't see others talking about it

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