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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)

Mostly through taking a sledge hammer via executive branch right now

Which needs things like confirmation of appointees from the Senate

Plus in a broad sense they're also trying to codify some of their currently illegal actions. It's good to slow stuff like that down

The Senate is still not able to go about their normal business because of this. It was suppose to start going through their schedule at noon today

Weird, no paywall for me but you can read on archive.is

https://archive.is/fBdZh

For the last bit, that's more or less what the article suggests

There’s no clear path to breaking the meat industry’s grip over American politics on the horizon, but there is something anyone can do — starting today — to push back against the kinds of horrific allegations made against Mountaire and other poultry giants: Eat less chicken.

There are also Tesla protests growing in Europe (and Canada, and more)! Musk's influence threatens more than just the US, so we must all step up. The Tesla Takedown protest movement started in the US, but it's now becoming international. Here's a map of the latest ones in Europe

Here's the site with that info along with a guide on how to plan one around you if you don't see one

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown

There have been tons of protests and there have been some pretty widespread ones outside of Tesla this weekend. The media is just hardly covering it making them seem way smaller than they are

Here's a map of recent Tesla Takedown protests alone

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown

Here's just a handful of photos from yesterday

Most people within the US aren't aware these protests are happening either. There are also broader nationwide protests planned on April 5th as part of the 50501 movement. This will be the 4th nationwide 50501 protest

https://archive.is/ITR1e for the paywall

The laws these industries are trying to overturn are just ones that set such low standards it's truly insane. Cage-free still means plenty of cruelty and yet that's still much for the egg industry

For instance, practices like chick culling exist in most of the world including the US. Billions of male chicks are shred alive around the world right after birth

Or forced molting is quite common in the US where they intentionally starve a flock for a 7-14 days to increase egg production rates after it

Among other broader problems like how they've been bred to produce eggs at such high rates they start getting tons of bone health problems. I could keep going on and on, but I think that's enough to get the idea

I said Tesla Takedown Protests starting to spread not sales boycott starting to spread. This is a specific protest movement that started in the US and is primarily still clustered in the US but now increasingly growing outside it. Please don't twist the words I'm saying

The first Tesla [Takedown] Protest occurred in Tucson, Arizona

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Takedown

Here's what the mapped of planned protests looked like 6 days ago

And here's where it look like now where you can see more within Europe alongside more within the US

Even if there's no criminal charges, at least there are some groups that just filed civil lawsuits about the record keeping laws they broke

And note that Pardon powers do not apply to civil cases - only criminal ones

Tesla takedown protests are happening across the US and starting to spread outside of it too!

https://www.teslatakedown.com/

Less a fluke, more of a pattern lately. Dems have been overperforming in most special elections since Trump took office again. Sometimes by a couple percent, and frequently by 10-20%. Only a handful of underperformances

For instance, they also flipped a Trump+21 distict in Iowa. They won by 5 points too

Will it hold up in the longer term? That's much harder to say, but it's not just one special election that's been a large upset

Probably

And yet some Republicans were actually already warning about potentially losing this district before the election

Elon Musk, Scott Presler sound alarm over Republican Josh Parsons’ chances in Tuesday’s state Senate special election

Dems are pressurable. Republicans are lot harder to pressure

Elections decide who you have to work with

They alone won't fully fix things, but they can set the stage for progress

It's going to take both voting and directed pressure to change things

Call your local & state officals about this. The federal government does not run elections. It's the state and local officals that do even for federal office. They are the ones who chose to follow or not follow a blatantly illegal order

Trump is threatening to pull unrelated federal funding if they don't, but he's been pulling funding for many states anyways for zero reason. Make sure your local & state officals know you'll have their back if they don't bow down

Removal requires 2/3 in the senate meaning 67 senators need to vote yes. There are only 53 republicans

Even on the shutdown stuff with Schumer actively pushing for voting for the CR, they only got to 62 not 67. Would be even harder to convince them to vote for a judge impeachment comparatively

Still call your senators and let them know not to vote for it, but it highly unlikely they would have the votes

Hi, just wanted to check in here. Are you familiar with the concept called "hyperbole" and a "figure of speech"? Figurative language is a thing that people use sometimes, and some people say that perhaps he is using that here. Many people are saying that you can say things like this and still imagine worse

Perhaps if you have other issues with him, those should be expressed rather than just taking a statement like this super literally

Pro tip: if you change the x.com to xcancel.com you can make the link use a twitter mirror and not give Musk revenue if people click on the link

Fun fact, if you click on the article, the subheading tells you even with their paywall

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

Also if you were to go to

https://archive.is/2NUKC

You can read the full article

Yes, they are making it harder, but that's not a good reason not to not try at all - which is what they appear to be suggesting. For some areas sure it's harder to tell who the owner is and such, but that does not apply everywhere. It's not super difficult to figure out if you are boycotting Target or not

I think the bigger issues right now is just that lot of people forget how it often takes a while boycotts to work. For instance, people boycotted the Montgomery busses for 381 days before they were desegregated

Yes, boycotts shouldn't be the only tool we use, but we shouldn't just give up before trying and never use it all