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It's not like you can really trust a "no" from these people. Kavanaugh and Barrett were both asked about Roe during their Supreme Court nomination hearings, and they both responded like it was settled law and they'd leave it alone. Look how that worked out.

It's in the comics too.

At the time he even bragged about how smart he was to put a clause in the new agreement that will have it up for review in 2026. And then he proceeded to blow things up in 2025 instead of waiting to address up his problems during the review.

I think the only position on immigration Trump cares about is Stephen Miller's. Also, someone who's supposed to be term limited, and will definitely rig the election if he somehow runs again anyway, doesn't really need to care about public opinion too much. It's not like there seems to be much risk of anybody overthrowing the government.

You’d have to remove half the supreme court

Make that two thirds of the Supreme Court. Most of the worst decisions have been 6-3.

The injunction will stay in place. The bike lanes will stay for now.

That quote didn't come from the Ford government. This is the paragraph before that:

Ontario Liberal energy critic Ted Hsu said prioritizing grid access for major economic projects makes sense — but only if done transparently and free of partisan influence.

Oh don't worry, Trump will put a 1000% tariff on the Chinese stuff to protect any remaining US production, or just to make sure nobody can afford solar panels.

The US has a law to limit the liability of gun manufacturers.

The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) is a U.S law, passed in 2005, that protects firearms manufacturers and dealers from being held liable when crimes have been committed with their products. Both arms manufacturers and dealers can still be held liable for damages resulting from defective products, breach of contract, criminal misconduct, and other actions for which they are directly responsible. However, they may be held liable for negligent entrustment if it is found that they had reason to believe a firearm was intended for use in a crime.

I'm pretty sure this supreme court would rule that people don't have a right to electricity, or even water. They'll probably be totally ok with people losing internet access as punishment for crossing media owners.

Probably best to never follow Alberta on anything while Smith is in charge.

Didn't take them 60 votes to ignore the parliamentarian and revoke the waivers that let California set its own emissions standards.

The Senate has overruled the guidance of the parliamentarian, a nonpartisan staffer who interprets the Senate's rules, and voted 51 to 44 to overturn a waiver allowing California to set its own air pollution standards for cars that are stricter than national regulations. The Senate has only overruled its parliamentarian a handful of times in the 90-year history of the role.

The link goes to the comments instead of the body of the post.

Anyway, the decision comes with a huge catch:

While the ruling means that coverage of preventive health care is no longer under threat, the ruling clarifies that the health secretary has direct authority over the USPSTF. The clarification raises concern that the current secretary, Kennedy, could remove task force members and/or undo recommendations to suit his personal ideology, as he is now doing with the vaccine advisory board at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Preventative care is covered, but RFK Jr. has control over the group that recommends which preventative care should be covered.

“Finally cancelling my Spotify subscription – why am I paying for a fuckass app that works worse than it did 10 years ago, while their CEO spends all my money on technofascist military fantasies?” said one user on X.

You shouldn't be "paying for a fuckass app that works worse than it did 10 years ago" regardless of anything an executive has done. Be less lazy and cancel subscriptions to shitty services.

Also, if a CEO doing a bad thing is a dealbreaker for them, why the fuck are they on twitter?.

Nah, burn Mar-a-Lago instead to make sure Trump knows it's personal.

Can the consideration be "this person makes poor financial decisions"?

Mother Jones has a full-text RSS feed. No pictures, but no ads either.

"Many respected constitutional experts argue that the War Powers Act is itself unconstitutional. I'm persuaded by that argument."

I don't think he was persuaded by the argument, I think he was hoping such an argument existed. Anything for daddy Trump.

Look, when a guy regularly tweets with caps lock you've got to lower your expectations.

Current regulations allow digital music providers to pay a lower music royalty rate if their paid music subscription offering is bundled with other legitimate product offerings. Seeing an opportunity, Spotify has exploited this regulation by converting all Premium Plan music subscribers into a new, bundled subscription offering without consumers’ consent or any notice. Spotify’s intent seems clear—to slash the statutory royalties it pays to songwriters and music publishers.

Spotify has priced its Audiobook Access plan with 15 hours of listening time per month from a limited catalog of 200,000 audiobooks at $9.99/month. In contrast, Spotify’s music-only Basic Plan—which includes unlimited hours of listening from a catalog of over 100 million songs—is priced only a dollar more. Under the regulations, the higher the Audiobooks Access plan is priced, the lower the music royalty Spotify must pay.