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Hope does live on - with the people. That's where the power has always lived if we the people are willing to use it

Right now they're thinking the 5 million protesting last Saturday was a fluke. Let's show them it's not. Sat April 19th is the next day of nationwide protest

Next day of nationwide protests is April 19th. 5 million showed up last Saturday. Let's make the next one larger

For the moment in the current AI boom, but not expected to in the long run. Just make the progress less fast. Still not ideal, of course, but don't get into the mindset that we can't make any progress at all when we still can and are doing so

From the article

Ember’s report shows that clean generation growth is set to outpace faster-rising demand in the coming years, marking the start of a permanent decline in fossil fuel generation. The current expected growth in clean generation would be sufficient to meet a demand increase of 4.1% per year to 2030, which is above expectations for demand growth.

It is worth noting that you can already beat meat on price with things like beans, lentils, chickpeas, etc. Plant-based meats specifically are just more expensive because they're building the economies of scale and putting some of their research costs into the price. Plant-based meats are also already cheaper than animal meats in some parts of the world

But yes, once that becomes much prevalent, sales will likely increase substantially

As a related note: this is also encouraging that a number of coffee chains are now dropping their non-dairy milk up charges after pressure from activists. Once they got Starbucks to do so, it's spread to tons of chains. Even the worst plant milks are way better across all environmental metrics compared to dairy (yes even water weighted by scarcity), so it's going to be good for the environment

It becoming financially convenient was a result of decades of intentional policy. It's now snowballing once it got there

It would have taken far longer to get here without government involvement if applications like space travel were the only reasons for earlier research and manufacturing

Not that pausing this is anything less than insane, but note that SCOTUS has recently given administrative stays and then ruled against Trump after that. Nothing is a given either way

The fight isn't over until it's over. Don't read this news and give in the doom and cynicism Trump wants us all to have. We can still fight back, and people are still fighting. 5 million were on the street on Saturday. There's another nationwide 50501 protest on April 19th

Check my post history*. I post about them quite frequently here on Lemmy. They still get less attention here even. The sorting algorithms like active boost posts with more engagement which photos of protests often don't get until they are truly enormous

For instance, here was one large protest a month ago in the Iowa Statehouse that I had posted about

So social media posts about protests often get lost in the sea of bad news and news outlets are downplaying them severely. That's why few people were hearing about them

*From my instance or some other one. From your instance, it seems a lot of my posts about the protests haven't federated :(

Dems actually did introduce a bill to do essentially that in the Senate for tarrifs on Canada. It passed 51-48 with only 4 republicans breaking rank. Notably in this case, Ted Cruz voted against that bill

I should note it's unlikely Mike Johnson will ever put it up for a vote in the house. If he did and it passed, it will likely get vetoed. Without more republicans breaking rank it's not going to be able to get to the 2/3 of congress needed to veto override

Need to see more republicans with spines for this bill to get through

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00160.htm

Schimel already conceded and said that they had to respect election results. (To a booing crowd of supporters)

Kind of something that what used to be 100% standard by all is now suprising

Plenty of states are directly rubuking Trump right now and actively going against what he's telling them to do. We don't have to imagine them enforcing things that they don't want. Many are already doing just as much

Statewide dem parties have been better at standing up than much of the national dems have

NY still has the congestion prices going despite his demand they pull it

Maine's governor is not bowing to Trump's demands on trans rights even after direct in person confrontation

And so on

State courts can carry out arrests and penalties themselves without federal government involvement

Primarily in the context of Musk that's going to matter with his active cases in the WI court

Other states governments can extradite him too even if he never steps foot in Wisconsin. He'd have to basically never go anywhere other than federal territories or deep red state to avoid that. That's assuming they'd block his extradition in the first place which is quite rare to begin with

Musk spending $25 million and also reduces his grip on congressional Republicans

They have been worried about him funding challangers against them. If he can spend this kind of money and heavier time investment and still lose badly, that reduces a motivation to go along with him

Both appear to be happening in the specials lately

Higher comparative dem turnout and some degree of persuasion is likely

Can't directly tell because individual votes are anonymous, but you can tell what party a voter is registered with in some states.

Generally seeing higher turnout among registered dems and margins large enough to suggest that many independent and likely some Republicans are shifting their votes

Elon Musk does. He poured $12 million into it for a reason. He has cases before the Wisconsin court system for violations of Wisconsin law. They can carry those penalties out without Trump being able to pardon for them either (can only pardon for federal crimes)

This is for a state court, not a federal one

State courts make decisions about state laws and are enforced by state officals

*In deep red districts. Like R+33 red

Dems overperformed by like 20 points. They probably would have outperformed more if Republicans didn't notice the close polling and start pouring millions into the race

Yes, don't be complacent, but don't look at it strictly in a binary way

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

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)

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

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)