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What happened is scientists discovered chlorofluorocarbons were bad for the ozone, countries believed them, the Montreal Protocol was signed, and CFC use fell by 99.7%, leading to the stabilization of the ozone layer, perhaps the greatest example of global cooperation in history.
One of the craziest things is that it's not over yet. Within a week the Supreme Court is going to declare that the EPA can't regulate carbon emissions, shredding federal efforts to respond to climate change.
personally i think no supreme court justice deserves even a moments peace of privacy in the comfort of their own home or in public for as long as they live
Yeah we didn’t, we just:
- reinforced cockpit doors
- made everyone take off their shoes to fly
- increased no fly lists
- passed the Patriot Act
- invaded Afghanistan
- invaded Iraq
- opened Guantanamo
- brought in a global torture regime
For 3k dead. Not 40k a year dead.
Not a good look. On top of being the best gymnast ever, Simone Biles has over a million Twitter followers and 4 million IG followers, so can’t come the excuse that nobody is interested.
2000: Rs block manual recount after memory card is found to have inexplicably deleted 16k votes from Gore’s total on a Diebold machine in Volusia county; no other races were impacted. Bush declared victorious by 537 votes. History forever altered. 1/
So many people in replies going “why is he out on parole” when the real question is, if jail was restorative, why he still doing violent shit to women? Maybe because jails *don’t make people or their communities any safer*
One day after 8 people were killed due to hatred of Asian women, how dare 172 Republicans vote against the Violence Against Women Act?
The most contentious part of the act? Preventing people convicted of domestic abuse or stalking from purchasing a firearm.
If a $15 minimum wage is unfair because cost of living varies across the country, why don't we apply that logic to senators?
Instead of everyone making $174,000 with Cadillac benefits, cut senator pay in half in states with a $7.25 min wage. We taxpayers simply can't afford it.