July Politics

[basilosaurus]

Ffs, someone's now challenging Arthur in Florida

amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/28/arthurs-birthday-childrens-book-ban-florida

[mrsd2006]

Hurry the eff up Atlanta

www.cnn.com/2023/07/30/politics/fulton-county-fani-willis-trump-investigation/index.html


Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis reaffirmed in a local news interview that she will announce charging decisions by September 1 in her investigation into efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election result, while applauding the ramped-up security measures around the local courthouse.

“The work is accomplished,” Willis told CNN affiliate WXIA at a back-to-school event over the weekend. “We’ve been working for two and half years. We’re ready to go.”

[mrsd2006]

www.cnn.com/2023/07/31/politics/donald-trump-campaign-legal-defense-2024/index.html


The fateful clash between former President Donald Trump’s legal imbroglio and the 2024 election is deepening amid new signs his GOP poll-topping campaign is partly designed to bankroll his defense and beat criminal charges.

News that Trump’s leadership PAC, which raises most of its money from small-dollar donations, has spent more than $40 million on attorneys’ fees for himself and associates emerged as he tightens his grip on the GOP race – a New York Times/Siena College poll released Monday finds Trump with a monumental advantage over the rest of the GOP pack – and ramps up claims that President Joe Biden wants him arrested so he can’t pull off a stunning White House comeback.

[mrsd2006]

Terrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2023/07/28/far-right-climate-plans-00107498


Conservative groups have crafted a plan for demolishing the federal government’s efforts to counter climate change — and it wouldn’t stop with President Joe Biden’s policies.

The 920-page blueprint, whose hundreds of authors include former Trump administration officials, would go far beyond past GOP efforts to slash environmental agencies’ budgets or oust “deep state” employees.


Called Project 2025, it would block the expansion of the electrical grid for wind and solar energy; slash funding for the Environmental Protection Agency’s environmental justice office; shutter the Energy Department’s renewable energy offices; prevent states from adopting California’s car pollution standards; and delegate more regulation of polluting industries to Republican state officials.


If enacted, it could decimate the federal government’s climate work, stymie the transition to clean energy and shift agencies toward nurturing the fossil fuel industry rather than regulating it. It’s designed to be implemented on the first day of a Republican presidency.

“Project 2025 is not a white paper. We are not tinkering at the edges. We are writing a battle plan, and we are marshaling our forces,” said Paul Dans, director of Project 2025 at the Heritage Foundation, which compiled the plan as a road map for the first 180 days of the next GOP administration. “Never before has the whole conservative movement banded together to systematically prepare to take power day one and deconstruct the administrative state.”

[pixy0stix]

We're (the human race as a whole, the entire earth) are fucked even more than we already are if that plan gets set into motion.

[pixy0stix]

Remember when Trump tried to punish CO by removing Space Command and moving it to Alabama? Yeah, it's staying in CO per Biden. apnews.com/article/space-command-biden-colorado-alabama-382b12b57733848fd1d083227aefa0bf

[Velar Fricative]

Between this Project 2025 nonsense and the fact that the NYT/Siena poll today shows that there is no stopping Trump unless he dies…how the fuck did we get here.

[pierogigirl]

Jul 31, 2023 16:51:56 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Between this Project 2025 nonsense and the fact that the NYT/Siena poll today shows that there is no stopping Trump unless he dies…how the fuck did we get here.

I know what I'll be hoping for 

[redheadbaker]

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Group sues to halt opening of first religious charter school

www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/07/31/lawsuit-oklahoma-st-isidore-charter-school/

A group of parents, clergy and education activists in Oklahoma have filed a lawsuit asking a state court to block the opening of the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which could become the nation’s first religious charter school.

The group claims that St. Isidore’s will discriminate if it becomes operational and that it violates the state constitution and state law, which requires that charter schools be “nonsectarian in [their] programs, admission policies, employment practices, and all other operations.” The state’s virtual charter board approved the school in June; it is scheduled to open in fall of 2024.

Attorneys from Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the American Civil Liberties Union, Education Law Center and Freedom From Religion Foundation are representing the group. In the lawsuit, they wrote that St. Isidore “will provide a religious education and indoctrinate its students in Catholic religious beliefs.