Mit #NewDawn und #EminentDomain durften zwei älterer Spiele sich nochmal beweisen. Hatten beide ihre interessanten Mechaniken, aber insgesamt hat man ihnen schon angemerkt, dass sie auf Dauer dann wohl doch nicht begeistern können. #Brettspiele

If you are following the situation in Tom’s River, NJ (the town is trying to use #EminentDomain to seize church property to turn into a park after the church submitted plans to the #zoning commission to build a #homeless shelter), here are some ways to help: #Epsicopal #TomsRiver

A home where Pope Leo XIV lived as a child went up for sale, then there was to be an auction, and now the Village of Dolton, Illinois is seeking to purchase it. I haven’t seen this much excitement since George Costanza bought Jon Voight’s car.

#law #contracts #property #PopeLeoXIV #EminentDomain

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/06/an-almost-too-american-story-about-the-popes-childhood-home.html

Errata on 2/2…arguments over whether Schumer would have accomplished this are for now academic. Assertion of #EminentDomain potentially self torpedos the ship all over again. Details matter

https://archive.is/eePVK <=== read here
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/trump-ramaphosa-south-africa-eminent-domain.html #EminentDomain #ResidentDump #LandSeizure #Farmers #WhiteFarmers

Just in case you have not had your fill of nauseating northeastern property developers...

https://www.thesandpaper.net/articles/toms-river-eminent-domain-takeover-bid-of-historic-church-makes-national-news/

#TomsRiver #DanielRodrick #EminentDomain #EpiscopalChurch

‘Where is the evidence?’ #CNN anchor presses #DHSgov spokesperson on claim of #genocide on White South Africans

#SouthAfrica #asylum #Afrikaners #race #Trump #Congo #Sudan #Rwanda #Cambodia #Bosnia #persecution #discrimination #eminentdomain

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/17/politics/video/homeland-security-tricia-mclaughlin-defends-refugee-status-afrikaners-blackwell-digvid

Church wants to add a 17-bed homeless shelter. Town says pickleball courts would be a better use of the land. Far too many residents agree. #EminentDomain #NIMBY #DamnedIfTheyDo

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/pickleball-over-people-nj-town-moves

When it comes to standing up to #Trump, I laud #Maine Governor #JanetMills. But when it comes to #Wabanaki #Sovereignty, building wind terminals on undeveloped islands (#SearsIsland / #Wahsumkik ), destroying trees to supply #WesternMass with electrcitiy, or building highways through farmland (#MDOT), we definitely DO NOT always see eye-to-eye!

Governor opposed to latest change to #SettlementAct backed by #WabanakiNations

by Emma Davis
Wed, April 9, 2025

"Discussion of legislation to afford the Wabanaki Nations more authority over their land revealed that Gov. Janet Mills does not support the change, presenting a steep path for a plan that otherwise has bipartisan support.

"After not testifying during the public hearing last week, the governor’s counsel, Jerry Reid, told the Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that Mills’ concerns stem from the inability to predict the future needs of state government, an issue also raised in written testimony from the #MaineDepartmentOfTransportation, which was made available after the hearing.

"When pressed by committee members, Reid said he doesn’t have a specific example of an infrastructure project that would warrant seizing tribal land but that, 'We need to write the law mindful of the potential for problems.'

"While Reid and Wabanaki leaders noted that progress has and continues to be made to improve the relationship between the state and Wabanaki Nations, Reid added, 'the fact that we have such a good relationship right now might not always be true.'

"The U.S. government can seize private property for public use, a principle known as eminent domain, however that authority is restricted by the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which requires just compensation for land taken, as well as some federal laws.

"The 1834 federal Indian Nonintercourse Act prohibited land transactions with tribes unless authorized by Congress. However, the 1980 Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act specified that that federal law was not applicable to the #HoultonBand of #Maliseet Indians, the #PassamaquoddyTribe and the #PenobscotNation.

"This is the act that has overall resulted in the Tribes being treated more akin to #municipalities than #SovereignNations. So far, sweeping changes to the act have failed due to opposition from Mills, but the governor, lawmakers and Wabanaki leaders have successfully made some targeted adjustments, including expanding tribal authority to prosecute crimes last year.

"The legislation being considered this session, #LD958, would amend the Settlement Act to prohibit the state from exercising eminent domain on trust and reservation land, which is protected under federal law, though fee land — or private property for which the owner owns the title — would still be subject to the state taking.

"The bill would also amend the 2023 #MikmaqNationRestorationAct to make this change for the Mi’kmaq Nation, which wasn’t included in the Settlement Act.

"On Tuesday, the Taxation Committee unanimously voted in favor of a bill to ensure equal tax treatment among all of the Wabanaki Nations, which Mills supports. #LD982 would provide the #MikmaqNation the same rights to sales tax revenue on its land that the other three tribes of the Wabanaki Nations were granted in 2022 through an amendment to the Settlement Act.
State hasn’t exercised this authority in decades, but argues it’s necessary

"The state hasn’t exercised eminent domain over #TribalLands since the #SettlementAct. However, testimony from Wabanaki leaders and state government officials underscore that it is a possibility."

Source:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/governor-opposed-latest-change-settlement-185134791.html

#MaineSettlementAct #EminentDomain #LandTheft #FirstNations #WabanakiConfederancy
#MaineFirstNations #Maine #MainePol
#NativeAmericanNews #TribalSovereignty

Can eminent domain be used to halt development in the name of public good? A Rhode Island case could set precedent in governments’ power over private development. #RhodeIsland #eminentDomain #housing https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0423/eminent-domain-affordable-housing-johnston-rhode-island

Can eminent domain be used to halt development in the name of public good? A Rhode Island case could set precedent in governments’ power over private development. #RhodeIsland #eminentDomain #housing

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0423/eminent-domain-affordable-housing-johnston-rhode-island?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into The American Story @the-american-story-csmonitor

#SouthDakota #SDPol #CarbonCapture #EminentDomain

From AP.com: A pipeline company filed hundreds of lawsuits against landowners. Now its project is threatened

https://apnews.com/article/summit-carbon-solutions-carbon-capture-pipeline-midwest-lawsuits-landowners-6c410dad59ce4d5d6de5ff4962dd0913

All of you who are hot to close the #GreatHighway to make it into a park should be up in arms demanding that all of the multi-million $ houses that were blocking access to the ocean that have now burned down be claimed & paid for by #EminentDomain to allow direct public access to #MalibuBeach.

This is a rare opportunity to provide such access.

https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/malibu-la-fire-video-damage-20064518.php

And now Colorado is about to fight over water with Nebraska. 🤦🏻‍♂️

“Six landowners in Sedgwick County, where the South Platte River flows out of the state, received notices of condemnation from the state of Nebraska on Jan. 17, offering $1.4 million for about 650 acres of land, according to Nebraska Public Media.

The landowners were given 90 days to sell or face eminent domain.”

#WaterRights #Colorado #Nebraska #SouthPlatteRiver #PerkinsCanal #EminentDomain

https://coloradosun.com/2025/02/01/eminent-domain-perkins-canal-nebraska/

@Lightfighter #FortCarson actually took my grandpa's ranch in the 70s through #EminentDomain and used it for #MilitaryExercises because the climate is like that of #Afghanistan

The #JusticeDepartment #warned #ElonMusk’s #AmericaPAC in recent days that his $1 million #sweepstakes to #registeredvoters in #swingstates may #violate #federallaw, people briefed on the matter told #CNN.

#Federallaw #bars #paying #people to #registertovote.

— #EminentDomain his #companies, #Revoke his #citizenship, and then #ban him from the country forever.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/23/politics/elon-musk-justice-department-letter

During my time in Cali, I'll be training filipino martial arts with some folks at Bruce's Beach. I'd never heard of this beach before, and looked it up -- and wow, I'd never heard this history before, either. It's a bit of a travesty to have grown up around here without truly understanding the artifacts and stories that make up my hometown.

TLDR: it was one of the first black-accessible beaches in Cali, before the city took it over via eminent domain under the egregious pretense of wanting to build a city park.

https://www.nrdc.org/stories/once-thriving-black-owned-beach-returned-its-rightful-owners

#eminentdomain #racialreckoning #systemicracism #manhattanbeach #racerelations #losangeles #socal

Bringing the Ancestors Home

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews
Sept. 9, 2024

OKEMAH, #Oklahoma --"Les Williston, #Choctaw, spoke on living life with honor, during the Convening of the Four Winds gathering at the Phillip Deere Round House on Sunday, hosted by the
#Mvskoke family of the international rights leader Phillip Deere.

"'Your ancestors are always around,' Williston said, speaking of the #SacredPlaces along the rivers. Williston is entrusted with bringing the Chahta ancestors home."

[...]

"Williston said that all along the rivers, like the #KiamachiRiver in southeastern Oklahoma, there are sacred places, places that are the heart of the people, places where the council was built.

"Speaking on bringing the ancestors home at the Phillip Deer Roundhouse on Muscogee Creek land, Williston was joined by Native people from throughout the nation during the two-day weekend gathering. They shared the history of the struggle for #NativeAmericanRights, the hard-won victories of the 1970s, and the ongoing struggles to protect the water and rivers -- as the #racism, threats of #EminentDomain seizures, the violence of #ManCamps of the #OilAndGas industry, the desecration of #LithiumMining in burial places, and the manipulations of the United States government continue.
With gratitude to the Native women gathered here, Williston said he appreciates the strength of the women speaking and their leadership, for it is a #matriarchal culture.

"'It is important that the women take the lead,' he said. 'I hear the wisdom come from these ladies.' 'We should always listen to the women, our clan mothers and clan sisters.'"

Full article:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/bringing-ancestors-home.html

#Chahta #FourWinds #WaterIsLife #ConveningOfTheFourWinds #DefendTheSacred #HonorTheAncestors

Oh, look, it's the government using eminent domain for what it's actually supposed to be used for, the common good.
#politics #MAPol #BosPoli #Boston #BrightonMA #LizBreadon #EminentDomain #healthcare

So viel Lob und so lange im Regal gereift war #EminentDomain leider ein kompletter Rohrkrepierer. Bevor man überhaupt an die Technologien rankommt, muss man erstmal durch sich immer wiederholende Aktionen Planeten beschaffen und das Deck optimieren. Leider kam da keinerlei Spielspaß auf. #Brettspiele