Seeing good people reach out to help each other, which happens with some regularity here, is a balm.

“Overall, the #Court cannot find from the evidence presented that Abrego’s release clearly & convincingly poses an irremediable danger to other persons or to the community,” the judge wrote.

#KilmarAbregoGarcia has pleaded not guilty to the smuggling charges that his attorneys have characterized as an attempt to justify the #deportation mistake after the fact.

#law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #immigration

I don't like it when media like NPR talk about countries "playing defense" or "playing offense" when they are bombing each other. This isn't playing; it's killing.

@pattykimura
Don't forget Iran used to be a democracy.

Until they wanted to nationalise oil. As US and British oil companies were taking the oil with little local benifit.

The US and British organised a coup and installed a new leader, which lead them down the path of anti west religious leaders and treatment of woman, they have today.

Consequences can be felt many many decades later

@alanferrier

"Donald Trump was inaugurated 152 days ago, and he did not make it through the first day of summer before America was back at war in the Middle East. This time, it is against a nation that has more than double the population of Iraq and is 3.77 times larger.

The American economy is in trouble, the global security situation is on fire, scientific and medical research is being vandalized, public lands are being sold off, and corruption has become normalized, while the USMC is deployed against the American people in Los Angeles."

https://open.substack.com/pub/steveschmidt/p/america-is-at-war-in-the-middle-east?r=rmgks&utm_medium=ios

Seems significant somehow that the thing that would most energize the Democratic base is if approximately 90-99% of currently elected Democrats were to be primaried into retirement.

@lillyfinch

Laughter and derision are the best medicine against police overreach.

#politics #humor #ice #icefishing #sanity #alt

"Lurie has consistently maintained that ushering San Francisco towards its Climate Action Plan goals — ultimately leading to zero carbon emissions in 2040 — is a top priority while he’s in office. "

Yet, a sentence further on: "But in his first budget proposal as mayor released last month, Lurie called for slashing the Environment Department’s budget by 13%,"

And most of that cut will hit the climate related programs, including programs focusing on supporting low-income household decarbonize (Climate Equity Hub). As "Climate Action: The budget partially reduces funding the City’s Climate Action Plan at the Department of the Environment." makes clear (From "Summary of Community Investments & Changes in the Mayor’s Proposed Budget, FY25-26 & FY26-27"

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/climate/us-mayors-recognize-sf-with-top-climate-leadership-award/article_e5f663c2-ccda-4efa-a4b3-bf9451fc3e3b.html

#ClimateDuplicity & #WordsVsActions are a big part of the reason we have a #ClimateCrisis.

ProPublica has sued the FDA, accusing the agency of withholding information about the safety and availability of generic drugs critical to millions of Americans.
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-fda-lawsuit-drug-safety?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Journalism #Law #FDA #Drugs #Safety #Health #Medicine

A final note of clarification. I am open to the idea that the US should attack Iran. But I am not open to the idea that Congress cedes all authority to the executive branch. No matter how many lickspittle sycophants in the GOP argue to the contrary.

OTOH, when Netanyahu attacked Iran he KNEW that he didn’t have the weapons to attack Fordo. Only the US has bombers that can penetrate the deep bunkers where that enrichment happens. It is hard not to conclude that he assumed he could play Trump like a fiddle. And Trump got played.

It’s worth noting that “imminent threat” is a gray area. Trump did attack Solemani without Congressional approval. Black ops do happen. Leaving details aside, there is a case that Presidents need to move to protect the homeland quickly in some cases. This was not that.

I’m not saying we have the votes to impeach. I’m saying that you DO NOT do this without Congressional approval and if Johnson doesn’t grow a spine and learn to be a real boy tomorrow we have a BFing problem that puts our very Republic at risk.

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

Final Call to Action on the People’s Budget

Show up on June 23rd at Supervisors’ budget Committee hearings to take back City Hall.

Mayor Lurie released a Proposed Budget document on May 30. Now, two weeks later, the devastating cuts to vital services are becoming clearer. We agree with the People’s Budget Coalition’s view that an equitable and just budget is a matter of life and death.

#SFPol

I'm no psychic but I'm willing to bet one reason the Democratic Party has a 26% approval rating is because while Establishment Dems remind everyone that Trump is a 27X credibly accused sexual abuser & thus unfit for office, they're lining up behind 13X credibly accused sexual abuser Andrew Cuomo for Mayor.

They seem unable to recognize their own hypocrisy, but voters do, and rightly find it inexcusable.

NEWS: Lawmakers added a line to Trump's tax bill that provides a tax break to private equity firms that buy up companies, load them up with debt, fire their workers & drive them into bankruptcy.

In effect, your boss gets a tax cut for firing you. https://www.levernews.com/wall-street-gets-a-trump-tax-break-to-fire-workers/

How is that #PGE spends money on PR messaging about how safety is so important, and yet happily continues to tolerate unsafe conditions that result result in #wildfires and fines?

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/pge-fined-2022-fire-20386705.php