Latest comic: The Supreme Court ruling overturning the Chevron doctrine was largely overlooked in the wake of the debate, but possibly even more apocalyptic. In short, the Republican majority gutted the precedent that gave deference to scientists and other experts at setting regulations for air and water pollution and food safety.
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jordan
in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •Unfortunately...
"Biden Campaign Brushes Off Idea of Reforming the Supreme Court"
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/biden-supreme-court-reform-trump-immunity-1235051044/
Biden Campaign Dismisses Idea of Supreme Court Reform
Tessa Stuart (Rolling Stone)Jen Sorensen
in reply to jordan • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •In any anti-democracy movement, a war on facts & reality comes first.
Men like Alito, who is so scientifically illiterate that he doesn't know the difference between laughing gas and a greenhouse gas, have been bought by the fossil fuel industry to continue frying the planet.
https://newrepublic.com/article/183285/supreme-court-chevron-gorsuch-nitrous-oxide
Solutions:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586030/how-fascism-works-by-jason-stanley/
https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/how-world-war-ii-scientists-invented-a-data-driven-approach-to-fighting-fascism/
https://www.americanlaboratory.com/Blog/355628-What-s-Behind-the-Rejection-of-Science/
This Is Why the Supreme Court Shouldn’t Try to Do the EPA’s Job
The New RepublicGabeMoralesVR
in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •patcanfield
in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •Xenophon
in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •alba
in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •as hilarious as this is, I still have to ask the question:
What exactly are Americans proud of? Are the last several years of orange man fever something you're proud of? What kind of country allows itself to become such a laughingstock that the world just sees you as a bunch of giant drunk toddlers?
Don't get me wrong; my province definitely doesn't disappoint in the category of dipshittery, but at least our government is...kind of functioning.