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Residents, Experts Rally Against Massive Gas Plant on Sensitive N.B. Isthmus
Residents, Experts Rally Against Massive Gas Plant on Sensitive N.B. Isthmus About 80 people gathered in the basement of a church in Midgic,...
Exec at Trump Media Jumped the Line for U.S. Visa After Company Lobbied GOP Lawmaker
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A congressman intervened to help former President Donald Trump’s social media company jump the line for a difficult-to-obtain foreign-worker visa to bring a company executive to the U.S., according to interviews and records reviewed by ProPublica.
A former staffer for Rep. Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican, said the congressman personally instructed her to help Trump Media, even though she thought it was inappropriate to mix politics with the office’s constituent services duties.Exec at Trump Media Jumped the Line for U.S. Visa After Company Lobbied GOP Lawmaker
Site C Dam in BC
On a warm and calm Sunday, Ken and Arlene Boon stood on the banks of the Peace River in northeast B.C. and watched the water rise — an event they had dreaded for more than a decade.
It lapped near their former farm fields and a lodge where a beaver family was busy storing twigs, bark and leaves to eat over the winter. The water crept up a thick tangle of bushes along the shoreline where migratory songbirds nest, moving towards the fire ring around which the Boons spent many a cheerful evening with their extended family and friends.
The Boons felt somewhat prepared for the rising waters; they’d received an email from BC Hydro three days earlier, on Aug. 22, saying reservoir flooding for the Site C hydro dam
project was about to begin, after almost a decade of construction.
But it was still a shock, Ken Boon told The Narwhal. “It’s going to be pretty dramatic — and traumatic,” he said.
Republicans have pulled off a coup
Republicans have pulled off a coup against an entire branch of government, and nobody seems to have noticed. But if you pay attention, it’s shocking.
Sometimes you can learn as much from attending to what Republicans suddenly stop saying as from what they are talking about. In this case, it’s their half-century-long obsession with convening a constitutional convention to rewrite the US Constitution. Under Article V of our Constitution, when two-thirds of the states formally call for a “con-con” to rewrite our nation’s founding document, it officially comes into being.
They can then make small changes like enshrining the right of billionaires and corporations to bribe judges and politicians, or insert the doctrine of corporate personhood into the document, or simply throw the whole thing out and start over. Many on the right are hoping to insert a national ban on abortion into a new constitution; others want to end the right of women to vote, do away with all antidiscrimination laws, outlaw labor unions, or return the selection of senators to the states.
So far, 19 Republican-controlled states have signed on to a call for for a convention under Article V. The project, heavily funded by rightwing billionaires, even has its own website: conventionofstates.com. Consider just a sampling of recent GOP supporters of the project:
— Senator Marco Rubio: “One of the things I’m going to do on my first day in office is I will put the prestige and power of the presidency behind a constitutional convention of the states.”
— Governor Greg Abbott: “We need a Convention of States to restore the rule of law in America.”
— Governor Ron DeSantis: “An Article V Convention of States is the best way to bring power back to the states and the people.”
— Congressman Jodey Arrington: “We need to go back to our founding document, back to our Constitution, and put the restraints on Congress that our founders intended.”
— Senator Ted Cruz: “An Article V Convention of States is a powerful tool given to us by the Founders to rein in the federal government.”
— Senator Rand Paul: “I’m a big fan of the Convention of States project. I think it’s the solution to Washington’s overreach.”
But over the past year, Republicans have suddenly fallen silent on the issue. Project 2025, for example, the all-encompassing wish-list for the GOP and its billionaire owners, lacks even one single mention of a constitutional convention.
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Elon Musk has a new nemesis: Ireland
Elon Musk has a new nemesis: Ireland
Elon Musk is having a rough week. His daughter has denounced him as a fake Christian, an absent father, and a serial adulterer. He’s been in court to fight a custody battle. His ex-partner Grimes said he “‘cannot distinguish the truth.” And that’s just his personal life. Musk’s businesses are also under fire. Tesla stock has plummeted. X has repelled so many advertisers that Musk has sued them over an alleged “illegal boycott.” Politicians have accused the platform of fuelling race riots. Musk has also been slammed for claiming “civil war is inevitable” in Britain. But his next battle could…This story continues at The Next Web
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