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NonilexA FAQ that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> created for agency heads showed that even team members did not feel confident in their <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/powers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#powers</a>.  In one…draft FAQ, a question — posed from the perspective of an agency head — asks, “Under what authority are you directing us to do this?”  Beneath the question is one word highlighted in yellow: “EO,” referring to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExecutiveOrder</a>. Next to the acronym, in a set of brackets, there is a single character apparently questioning whether such an order would be sufficient: “[?]”

NonilexThe independent structure of those agencies has been a central part of how <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Congress</a> has set up the administrative state since the New Deal. But <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RussVought</a> sees the modern structure of government as a theft of the president’s *rightful* <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/powers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#powers</a>.“What we’re trying to do is identify the pockets of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/independence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#independence</a> & seize them,” <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Vought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vought</a> said at the time, adding of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalReserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalReserve</a>: “It’s very hard to square the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Fed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fed</a>’s independence with the Constitution.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a>

Nils WilckeQuels sont les premiers personnages "féminins" à vous avoir marqué dans les séries? Ce gros coup de vieux pour moi 😭 (les années M6, Minikeums, Canal J...)<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Serie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Serie</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Anime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anime</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Culture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Women</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Powers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Powers</a>

Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈[Video] Post-<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/VPDebate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VPDebate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sensation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sensation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MarcusJohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarcusJohnson</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#schools</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ShadyVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShadyVance</a> even MORE on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/vicepresident" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vicepresident</a>'s real <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/role" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#role</a>. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MarcusJohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarcusJohnson</a>, a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/student" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#student</a> at <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OaklandUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OaklandUniversity</a> in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Rochester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rochester</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Michigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Michigan</a>, dismantled one of the many <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BadFaithArguments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BadFaithArguments</a> made by Vance in a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/postdebate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postdebate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/voterpanel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voterpanel</a> with <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NBC</a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JacobSoboroff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JacobSoboroff</a>--namely, the idea that <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KamalaHarris</a> should <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/implement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#implement</a> her <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/policies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#policies</a> now, when a quick <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/civics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#civics</a> lessons reminds you of the true <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/powers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#powers</a> of the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/vicepresident" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vicepresident</a>. <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/college-student-delivers-masterful-post-vice-presidential-debate-fact-check-of-jd-vance-using-basic-civics-knowledge-220739141990" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/college-student-delivers-masterful-post-vice-presidential-debate-fact-check-of-jd-vance-using-basic-civics-knowledge-220739141990</a>

Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈[Video] '<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Ferocious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ferocious</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pushback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pushback</a>': <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ProTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProTrump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/state" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#state</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/electionboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electionboard</a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/tricks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tricks</a> draw <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#legal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/backlash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#backlash</a>. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RachelMaddow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RachelMaddow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/reports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reports</a> on the pro-Trump <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/electionboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electionboard</a> in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Georgia</a> that it working hard to grant itself <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/powers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#powers</a> to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#control</a> the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/outcome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#outcome</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Georgia</a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#election</a>, and the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pressure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pressure</a> on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Governor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Governor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BrianKemp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrianKemp</a> to step in to preserve the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/integrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#integrity</a> of Georgia's <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/electionsystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electionsystem</a> while <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Democrats</a> have filed a new <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lawsuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lawsuit</a>. <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-ferocious-pushback-pro-trump-election-board-s-tricks-draw-legal-backlash-218040389687" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-ferocious-pushback-pro-trump-election-board-s-tricks-draw-legal-backlash-218040389687</a>

Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Upset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Upset</a> at <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SupremeCourt</a>’s <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gerrymandering</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ruling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ruling</a>, resort to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/emergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#emergency</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/powers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#powers</a>. The <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republican</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/leaders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#leaders</a>’ <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/decision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#decision</a> to call a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/speciallegislativesession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speciallegislativesession</a> on Wednesday comes as Utah’s top <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/House" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#House</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Democrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Democrat</a> is in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chicago</a> for the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DemocraticNationalConvention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DemocraticNationalConvention</a>. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Women</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transgender</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQIA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Utah</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Conservatives</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Extremism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RepublicanParty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/VoterSupression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoterSupression</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Redistricting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Redistricting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gerrymandering</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ThePartyOfHate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThePartyOfHate</a> <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2024/08/19/gop-leaders-use-emergency-power/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2024/08/19/gop-leaders-use-emergency-power/</a>

Chuck DarwinBiden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changesPresident Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish ⭐️term limits ⭐️for the justices and an 💥enforceable ethics code💥 according to two people briefed on the plans.  He is also weighing whether to call for a ♦️constitutional amendment to eliminate broad immunity for presidents ♦️and other constitutional officeholders, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.  The announcement would mark a major shift for Biden, a former chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who has long resisted calls to make substantive changes to the high court. The potential changes come in response to growing outrage among his supporters about recent ethics scandals surrounding Justice Clarence <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thomas</a> and decisions by the new court majority that have changed legal precedent on issues including <a href="https://c.im/tags/abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#abortion</a> and federal <a href="https://c.im/tags/regulatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#regulatory</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/powers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#powers</a>. Biden previewed the shift in a Zoom call Saturday with the Congressional Progressive Caucus <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/16/biden-supreme-court-reforms/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/16/biden-supreme-court-reforms/</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> on Thurs will issue more end-of-the-term rulings, potentially including whether <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> is immune from prosecution in his federal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionInterference</a> case, whether <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Jan6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jan6</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/insurgents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insurgents</a> may be charged w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/obstruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#obstruction</a> & whether <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalRegulatoryAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalRegulatoryAgencies</a> should have their <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/powers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#powers</a> reduced. Wed, the court inadvertently posted a ruling it has not yet announced that, while <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/litigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#litigation</a> continues, would allow emergency <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/abortions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#abortions</a> to stabilize patients in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Idaho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Idaho</a> where <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#abortion</a> is banned.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a>

Chuck DarwinA World of Slaves: Most Americans haven’t seen what’s coming.Nancy MacLean notes that when the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kochs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kochs</a>’ control of the GOP kicked into high gear after the financial crisis of 2007-08, many were so stunned by the “shock-and-awe” tactics of <a href="https://c.im/tags/shutting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shutting</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/down" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#down</a> government, <a href="https://c.im/tags/destroying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#destroying</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labor</a> unions, and <a href="https://c.im/tags/rolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rolling</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/back" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#back</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/services" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#services</a> that meet citizens’ basic necessities that few realized that many leading the charge had been trained in economics at Virginia institutions, especially George Mason University. Wasn’t it just a new, particularly vicious wave of partisan politics? It wasn’t. MacLean convincingly illustrates that it was something far more disturbing. MacLean is not the only scholar to sound the alarm that the country is experiencing a <a href="https://c.im/tags/hostile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hostile</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/takeover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#takeover</a> that is well on its way to radically, and perhaps permanently, altering the society. Peter <a href="https://c.im/tags/Temin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Temin</a>, former head of the MIT economics department, INET grantee, and author of "The Vanishing Middle Class", as well as economist Gordon <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lafer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lafer</a> of the University of Oregon and author of "The One Percent Solution", have provided eye-opening analyses of where America is headed and why. MacLean adds another dimension to this dystopian big picture, acquainting us with what has been overlooked in the capitalist right wing’s playbook.She observes, for example, that many liberals have missed the point of strategies like <a href="https://c.im/tags/privatization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privatization</a>. Efforts to “reform” <a href="https://c.im/tags/public" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#public</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Social" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Social</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Security</a> are not just about a preference for the private sector over the public sector, she argues. You can wrap your head around those, even if you don’t agree. Instead, MacLean contends, the goal of these strategies is to radically alter power relations, <a href="https://c.im/tags/weakening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weakening</a> pro-public forces and <a href="https://c.im/tags/enhancing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#enhancing</a> the <a href="https://c.im/tags/lobbying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lobbying</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#power</a> and commitment of the corporations that take over public services and resources, thus advancing the plans to <a href="https://c.im/tags/dismantle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dismantle</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> and make way for a return to <a href="https://c.im/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligarchy</a>. The majority will be held captive so that the wealthy can finally be free to do as they please, no matter how destructive.MacLean argues that despite the rhetoric of Virginia school acolytes, shrinking big government is not really the point. The <a href="https://c.im/tags/oligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligarchs</a> require a government with tremendous new powers so that they can bypass the will of the people. This, as MacLean points out, requires greatly <a href="https://c.im/tags/expanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#expanding</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#police</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/powers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#powers</a> “to control the resultant popular anger.” The spreading use of pre-emption by GOP-controlled state legislatures to suppress local progressive victories such as living wage ordinances is another example of the right’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/aggressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aggressive</a> use of <a href="https://c.im/tags/state" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#state</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#power</a>.👉Could these right-wing capitalists allow private companies to fill <a href="https://c.im/tags/prisons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prisons</a> with helpless citizens—or, more profitable still, right-less undocumented <a href="https://c.im/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigrants</a>? ☑️They could, and have. 👉Might they engineer a <a href="https://c.im/tags/retirement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retirement</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/crisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crisis</a> by moving Americans to inadequate 401(k)s? ☑️Done. 👉Take away the rights of consumers and workers to bring grievances to court by making them sign <a href="https://c.im/tags/forced" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#forced</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/arbitration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arbitration</a> agreements? ☑️Check. 👉Gut <a href="https://c.im/tags/public" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#public</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> to the point where ordinary people have such bleak prospects that they have no energy to fight back? ☑️Getting it done.👉Would they even refuse children <a href="https://c.im/tags/clean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#clean</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#water</a>? ☑️Actually, yes.MacLean notes that in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Flint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Flint</a>, Michigan, Americans got a taste of what the emerging oligarchy will look like — it tastes like <a href="https://c.im/tags/poisoned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poisoned</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#water</a>. There, the Koch-funded Mackinac Center pushed for legislation that would allow the governor to take control of communities facing emergency and put unelected managers in charge. In Flint, one such manager switched the city’s water supply to a polluted river, but the Mackinac Center’s lobbyists ensured that the law was fortified by protections against lawsuits that poisoned inhabitants might bring. Tens of thousands of children were exposed to <a href="https://c.im/tags/lead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lead</a>, a substance known to cause serious health problems including brain damage.Libertarian economist Tyler <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cowen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cowen</a> has provided an economic <a href="https://c.im/tags/justification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#justification</a> for this kind of <a href="https://c.im/tags/brutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brutality</a>, stating that where it is difficult to get clean water, private companies should take over and make people pay for it. “This includes giving them the right to cut off people who don’t—or can’t—pay their bills,” he explains.To many this sounds grotesquely <a href="https://c.im/tags/inhumane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inhumane</a>, but it is a way of thinking that has deep roots in America. In "Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative" (2005), Buchanan considers the charge of <a href="https://c.im/tags/heartlessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#heartlessness</a> made against the kind of classic liberal that he took himself to be. MacLean interprets his discussion to mean that people who “failed to foresee and save money for their future needs” are to be treated, as Buchanan put it, “as <a href="https://c.im/tags/subordinate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#subordinate</a> members of the species, akin to…<a href="https://c.im/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animals</a> who are dependent.’”Do you have your education, health care, and retirement personally funded against all possible exigencies? Then that means <a href="https://c.im/tags/you" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#you</a>.<a href="https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america</a>

Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Parents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Parents</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trans</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Youth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Youth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Fear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fear</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/KOSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KOSA</a>’s <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TrojanHorse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrojanHorse</a>. The <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/KidsOnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KidsOnlineSafetyAct</a> is making its way through <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#congress</a>, but critics including <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/families" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#families</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/vulnerable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vulnerable</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trans</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/kids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kids</a> fear <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservatives</a> will <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/misuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#misuse</a> the new <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/powers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#powers</a> to target <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQ</a>+ <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/content" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#content</a> for <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/parents-fear-kosa-trojan-horse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/parents-fear-kosa-trojan-horse</a>

Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈A new <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SupremeCourt</a> case seeks to make the nine <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/justices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#justices</a> even more <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/powerful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#powerful</a>. The <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Partisan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Partisan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Court" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Court</a> has spent the last several years claiming the other two branches’ <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/powers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#powers</a> for itself.<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Women</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transgender</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQIA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SupremeCourt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RepublicanParty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Bigotry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bigotry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Violence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Genocide</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Homophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Homophobia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transphobia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ThePartyOfHate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThePartyOfHate</a> <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/2/23706535/supreme-court-chevron-deference-loper-bright-raimondo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/2/23706535/supreme-court-chevron-deference-loper-bright-raimondo</a>

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