For that reason, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that #Trump’s lawyers—despite running roughshod over #Congress, the #states, the #press, & the #CivilService—were somewhat slower to defy the federal courts, & have fast-tracked cases to #SCOTUS, seeking a judicial imprimatur for novel #PresidentialPowers. The #courts, unlike the legislature, remain useful to an #autocrat in a #DualState.
That is no small feat, as leaders of the states that use #ColoradoRiver #water are caught in a #legal standoff about how to share it going forward.…
"Having this appropriated funding suddenly taken away undoes years & years of very careful collaboration among the #states in the #ColoradoRiverBasin," Castle said, "& threatens the #sustainability of the entire system."
These #states use stolen #Indigenous land to fund #prisons
#Statetrustlands generate millions of dollars for #carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive industries like #oil and #gasdrilling.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/these-states-use-stolen-indigenous-land-to-fund-prisons/
States rights.
#1stFelon directs US government to override California water policies if necessary
"It orders the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to deliver more water and hydropower through the Central Valley Project, even if that conflicts with state or local laws.”
So much for letting states decide what’s best for them.
There may be a trend to "shut down #FEMA" and letting US #States "fend for themselves" when #disaster strikes. To frame this properly you have to keep in mind a map like this (about ten years old now, from The Economist). The darker orange states take IN way more than they send to the Feds. The green states PAY way more than they get back. So #Mississippi, #WestVirgina, & #NewMexico will be in big trouble!
If you hold with that logic, then average the total payments back to the States and send only that amount (per capita) back every year!
#everyone in and outside the #states: act in accordance with reality. Especially #media. There is no “the #american people.”
There is no #united states. There is a #federal #government with a huge #military and control of #data and $ that the rest of us need some access to about #health, population, #voter eligibility and more.
There was no landslide in the #us #election. Qualified eligible #nonvoters were the largest group and determined the outcome of who is #president, for all of us.
https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/epidemiology/respiratory-diseases-in-virginia/data/ #virginia data still exists and is still being published regarding #flu #rsv and #COVID.
Sorry travelers to the #US and between #states: #cdc et al have been ordered to cease all external publication and comms.
If the data are still being collected and getting out there by #alt accounts, thank you #publichealth advocates inside the asylum.
#researchers outside #us government control, hope you can collect and communicate somehow.
Are #Abortion #Bans Across America Causing #Deaths? The States That Passed Them Are Doing Little to Find Out. #WomensHealthcare n states with abortion bans, ProPublica has found, pregnant women have bled to #death, succumbed to fatal #infections and wound up in morgues with what medical examiners recorded were “products of conception” still in their bodies. https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-bans-deaths-state-maternal-mortality-committees #privacy #healthcare #civilliberties #legalresearch #states #healthcare #miscarriage #maternalmortality
There's something that annoys me about stories like these, which we see many of each time something politically reviled happens in the #USA.
We get #Americans saying they're going to #move to #Canada.
We get #American #politicians saying they're going to #secede from the #US and join Canada.
On and on and on...
But it never seems to even occur to any of them that #Canada gets a say in this. Don't secede only to find that Canada's response to being asked to absorb a few U.S. #states is "thanks, but no."
"In the broadest sense, here’s how the night should go: Starting at around 7 p.m. EST, states that aren’t much of a surprise to anyone will start being called, and some data will begin emerging that will be interesting for wonks to chew on. But things will probably really start to get interesting after 9 p.m. Eastern, and the battleground states that will ultimately decide the election (Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, and North Carolina) likely won’t be called till after midnight. Just how long after is the big question."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/election-results-when-polls-close-trump-harris-2024.html
#USPS: "Don't delay" in #returning #mailin #ballots.
#Voters casting #ballots by #mail should have them at the #postoffice by #Tuesday to ensure they are delivered by #ElectionDay in #states with a #November5th #deadline, the #UnitedStatesPostalService said.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Politics #Voting #Vote
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/28/usps-mail-in-ballot-2024-election
#Abortion Is on the #Ballot in These 10 #States.
#Republican #officials have gone to sometimes #extreme lengths to #undermine the latest #measures.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/abortion-is-on-the-ballot-in-these-10-states/
#LGBTQ+ #voters in these 4 #states could swing the 2024 #presidential #election.
LGBTQ+ voters strongly #vote for #democrats
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Politics #Election #Representation #Culture #DemocraticParty #Allies #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate #Megathread
In 'Cancelling hunter-gatherers for the cause of 21st C urbanism', anarchist anthropologist #JamesvanLanen critiques what he sees as a gendered structure arising in #TheDawnofEverything.This counterposes brutish, masculinist, prestige-hungry hunters to more communal, matriarchal early women farmers, busy creating an ‘ecology of freedom’. A whole array of lifeways of non-intensifying, egalitarian peoples have been ‘cancelled’ from this ‘new history of humanity’. Yet precisely these indigenous peoples bear the most sustainable cultural knowledge, and are most vulnerable to ethnocide from farmer expansion. Paradoxically Graeber + Wengrow end up advocating statist, urban bureaucracies in creating a fallacious prehistoric ‘left/right’ divide.
#huntergatherers #nonintensifying #egalitarian #transegalitarian #farmers #states #bureaucracy #history
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/hgr.2022.7
https://theconnector.substack.com/p/one-last-thing-to-win-lets-go-relational
One Last Thing to Win: Let’s Go Relational!
Connecting to your own personal #network to urge them to #vote could tip the 2024 #election where it matters most. Read on to learn how.
#uspolitics #gotv
..." #presidential election of 2024 is going to be decided by who wins seven #states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. There are also some very important #Congressional contests that will decide which pa"...
The #PoliticalViolence Spilling Out of #RedStates.
#ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump's #America is trying to #impose its #vision on the rest of the #country through #intimidation, and in some cases even more. Red state–supported #vigilantes are specifically aiming to intrude into #blue #states and impose #MAGA #values.
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-10-10-political-violence-spilling-out-of-red-states/
Dear #Americans
prepare yourself emotionally
for what (In my opinion) it's a certainty
Even if #Harris win with a never-before-seen landslide of votes
ALL #States controlled by #MAGAs
will impede the normal electoral process.
They are ALL #racist states that would like to take away the VOTE from #women
#Trump doesn't matter (he's old history a looser)
NOW it's racism #misogeny and fear of losing 'power status' (and $$$).
How do you think those assholes can certify POTUS a Woman and of Color ?
If only it were that easy
#bases #equipment #personnel #Oklahoma #progressive #states
— The solution is simple move all military #bases, #equipment, and #personnel from #Oklahoma to more #progressive #states.
