The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake summarized in his latest column:
Polling on the GOP’s appetite for a more powerful chief executive has been slow in coming. But it has been coming. And the emerging picture is that Republicans are remarkably on-board with a president who isn’t answerable to Congress and the courts significantly more so than Democrats. And perhaps as significantly, very few Republicans seem to strongly object to the idea. #GOP#Power#Democracy
“Let there be no illusion. If Donald Trump is elected & the #MAGA#Republicans in #Congress put a #NationalAbortioBan on the Resolute Desk, #Trump will sign it into #law. Donald Trump & all those responsible for overturning Roe don’t have a clue about the #power of #women in America. But they are about to find out.” - #POTUS#Biden
"The Christian nationalist movement has long used abortion as an issue to unify different strands of their movement. They know that if you can get people to vote on a single issue, you can control their vote. ...
If you dig deeper, it is really about the money and power, and not just sex."
~ Katherine Stewart, author of The Power Worshipers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
"The hostility to women's reproductive rights is also accompanied everywhere with an embrace of far-right economic theory and a rejection of rights and protections for the workforce.
So the attack on IVF is just one piece of the much larger pie of controlling people’s rights. It should obliterate any illusions that they will stop with abortion."
The #nuclear reactors on submarines are designed for sustained #power generation to propel the vessel, rather than a single explosive release like the atomic #bomb.
This allows them to be much larger and more powerful than the compact nuclear weapons developed during World War II.
For those keeping track at home, reactors orders of magnitude more powerful than bombs over Hiroshima or Nagasaki are floating around in the world’s oceans and seas.
The decision established that minors at open-air sites were in #legal custody of the DHS & thus must receive #safe#shelter, even if they had not yet been formally processed.
“The ability to exercise discretion over, & make decisions affecting, a child’s #health & #welfare is indicative of maintaining #legal custody of the child, regardless of whether that decision is to provide or withhold care,” the 12-pg order read. “Juveniles, unlike adults, are always in some form of #custody.”
Russian forces carried out a targeted attack on a solar power plant in Ukraine's rear for the first time since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, the head of Ukraine's state grid operator Ukrenergo, said at a press conference on April 4.
Geopolitics and the Moon
The #moon is an excellent place from which to influence or even dominate #Earth. It could become a #military base from which a hostile #enemy could #bombard Earth with #solar#power or boulders procured from the surface of the moon.
Unlike other #nuclear#states , #France has chosen to reprocess its nuclear #waste on a massive scale, first at La Hague and then partly in... #Russia .While this saves 20% of #natural#uranium in #French nuclear #power#plants ,the #choice is politically highly questionable, since not only has it already accumulated 100 tonnes of #plutonium stored in France, which represents an enormous #risk , but it also contributes to financing the #Russian#state and, consequently, its #war in #Ukraine .
"Without an analysis of power, it is hard to understand inequality or much else in modern capitalism.”
Nobel Laureate economist Angus Deaton has delivered a ferocious rebuke to his own profession, saying economists have failed to understand that capitalism is about power.
#NBC employees argued publicly & privately that their complaint was not w/ #RonnaMcDaniel’s party affiliation but w/her actions.
“To be clear, we believe #NBCNews should seek out #conservative#Republican voices to provide #balance in their election coverage,” co-host Mika Brzezinski said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Mon. “But it should be conservative #Republicans, not a person who used her position of #power to be an anti- #democracy#ElectionDenier.”
Meanwhile, #CAA, the talent agency that helped broker the deal w/ #NBCNews, cut ties w/ #RonnaMcDaniel Tues, acc/to 2 people familiar w/the matter, telling the fmr #RNC chief & #political operative she needed to consult w/ an attorney to represent her in exit discussions.
I think anyone following me knows I have serious problems with the field of #economics. It's little more than post hoc rationalizations for #power masquerading as #science
Well #AngusDeaton just dropped a shit bomb all over his fellow money priests.
Ukrenergo: Russia targeted solar power plant in Ukraine's rear for the first time (kyivindependent.com)
Russian forces carried out a targeted attack on a solar power plant in Ukraine's rear for the first time since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, the head of Ukraine's state grid operator Ukrenergo, said at a press conference on April 4.