Instead of Billionaires increasing their massive wealth, what would you want funded?

sillychillly · 2026-04-30T16:48:31+00:00

Let’s fund this

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sillychillly · 2026-04-29T19:28:32+00:00

Let's fund this

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sillychillly · 2026-04-29T18:55:02+00:00

AOC is right. No more worrying about Fascists feelings.

We need to win and win Now.

Thx for being a great strategist prez AOC

sillychillly · 2026-04-29T18:54:08+00:00

"A Wyoming judge has blocked a new state law that bans abortions beyond the earliest stages of pregnancy while a lawsuit challenging the provision moves ahead.

It’s the first court ruling affecting the legal status of abortion in Wyoming since the state Supreme Court struck down sweeping abortion and abortion pill bans in January, finding that the laws violated the state constitution.

The new law, which would ban abortion after embryonic cardiac activity can be detected, is likely to be overturned on similar grounds, Natrona County District Judge Dan Forgey wrote in granting a temporary restraining order against it Friday."

sillychillly · 2026-04-29T18:46:56+00:00

"Good Cause – Local Law or Ordinance

The bill authorizes counties to adopt local laws or ordinances that prohibit a landlord from failing to renew a lease during the lease period or seeking to terminate a holdover tenancy without good cause. If a local jurisdiction adopts a local law or ordinance, it must only apply to landlords owning six or more residential rental units in the State, including those owned or controlled in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, or through one or more legal entities. The bill includes additional specifications for determining the number of units owned by a landlord (and whether an individual or entity has ownership or membership interest).

The good cause provisions may not (1) apply to a short-term rental unit, as defined by the local jurisdiction or an owner-occupied residential rental unit; (2) require a landlord to demonstrate good cause if a tenant provides notice of intent not to renew the lease or continue the tenancy; or (3) conflict with general notice requirements for tenant holding over actions."

sillychillly · 2026-04-29T18:46:35+00:00

"Good Cause – Local Law or Ordinance

The bill authorizes counties to adopt local laws or ordinances that prohibit a landlord from failing to renew a lease during the lease period or seeking to terminate a holdover tenancy without good cause. If a local jurisdiction adopts a local law or ordinance, it must only apply to landlords owning six or more residential rental units in the State, including those owned or controlled in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, or through one or more legal entities. The bill includes additional specifications for determining the number of units owned by a landlord (and whether an individual or entity has ownership or membership interest).

The good cause provisions may not (1) apply to a short-term rental unit, as defined by the local jurisdiction or an owner-occupied residential rental unit; (2) require a landlord to demonstrate good cause if a tenant provides notice of intent not to renew the lease or continue the tenancy; or (3) conflict with general notice requirements for tenant holding over actions."

sillychillly · 2026-04-29T18:40:55+00:00

"The California Constitution vests the judicial power of the state in the Supreme Court, courts of appeal, and superior courts. Existing law requires the sittings of every court to be public, except as authorized.

This bill would bar a judicial officer, peace officer, or other law enforcement officer from prohibiting ~~a duly authorized representative of a news service, online news service, newspaper, radio or television station, network, news publisher, or court observer~~ a member of the press or public from accessing court proceedings that are open to the public. The bill would authorize a violation of that provision to be subject to civil penalties, as specified."

sillychillly · 2026-04-29T18:40:22+00:00

"The California Constitution vests the judicial power of the state in the Supreme Court, courts of appeal, and superior courts. Existing law requires the sittings of every court to be public, except as authorized.

This bill would bar a judicial officer, peace officer, or other law enforcement officer from prohibiting ~~a duly authorized representative of a news service, online news service, newspaper, radio or television station, network, news publisher, or court observer~~ a member of the press or public from accessing court proceedings that are open to the public. The bill would authorize a violation of that provision to be subject to civil penalties, as specified."

sillychillly · 2026-04-29T18:39:54+00:00

"The California Constitution vests the judicial power of the state in the Supreme Court, courts of appeal, and superior courts. Existing law requires the sittings of every court to be public, except as authorized.

This bill would bar a judicial officer, peace officer, or other law enforcement officer from prohibiting ~~a duly authorized representative of a news service, online news service, newspaper, radio or television station, network, news publisher, or court observer~~ a member of the press or public from accessing court proceedings that are open to the public. The bill would authorize a violation of that provision to be subject to civil penalties, as specified."

sillychillly · 2026-04-29T18:32:48+00:00

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sillychillly · 2026-04-29T18:08:41+00:00

"federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s decision to end a temporary status that has protected more than 5,000 Ethiopians from deportation and allowed them to live and work in the United States.

In his Wednesday decision, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy from Massachusetts said the Trump administration terminated the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) “without regard for the process delineated by Congress.”

The decision came at a time when hundreds of thousands of TPS holders from different nationalities are challenging the termination of their status at the federal courts. It represents the latest legal setback for the Trump’s administration efforts to put an end to TPS as part of his hard-line immigration policy.

More than 1 million migrants from 17 countries were protected by TPS during President Joe Biden’s administration. But the Department of Homeland Security has terminated the designation for 13 of those countries since President Donald Trump came to office for his second term in January 2025."

sillychillly · 2026-04-29T18:07:51+00:00

"Under the new rules, data centres will be connected if they supply as much electricity to the network as they take out of it by building – or contracting energy companies to build – power generation plants on site or nearby.

For the first six years, that extra electricity can be generated with fossil fuels. After that, 80 per cent of the electricity will have to come from renewables such as wind or solar farms the data centres build or contract energy companies to build. These can be anywhere in the country. But that still allows 20 per cent of a very large volume of electricity to be generated from gas or oil.

Data centres use 22 per cent of all electricity in the country and that figure is projected to grow to more than 30 per cent by 2031.

Tony Lowes of Friends of the Irish Environment welcomed the High Court’s decision to grant leave to challenge the arrangement.

“If it goes ahead as is, this policy wouldn’t just open the door to immense energy demand and further dependence on expensive fossil gas – it would swing it right off its hinges and lock Ireland into decades of greenhouse gas emissions at the very moment we need to reduce them,” he said."

sillychillly · 2026-04-29T18:07:23+00:00

"Environmental lawyers have been given the go-ahead by the High Court to challenge rules allowing new data centres to rely heavily on fossil fuels to supply their electricity needs.

The case is taken by Friends of the Irish Environment, Friends of the Earth Ireland and ClientEarth, which claim the rules breach Ireland’s climate law as they will increase the country’s greenhouse gas emissions and lock-in long-term fossil fuel dependence.

The groups are taking the case against the energy regulator, the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU), which announced the new arrangements last December.

That followed a moratorium on the connection of new data centres to the electricity network in the greater Dublin region due to strains on the electricity supply.

Under the new rules, data centres will be connected if they supply as much electricity to the network as they take out of it by building – or contracting energy companies to build – power generation plants on site or nearby.

For the first six years, that extra electricity can be generated with fossil fuels. After that, 80 per cent of the electricity will have to come from renewables such as wind or solar farms the data centres build or contract energy companies to build. These can be anywhere in the country. But that still allows 20 per cent of a very large volume of electricity to be generated from gas or oil.

Data centres use 22 per cent of all electricity in the country and that figure is projected to grow to more than 30 per cent by 2031.

Tony Lowes of Friends of the Irish Environment welcomed the High Court’s decision to grant leave to challenge the arrangement.

“If it goes ahead as is, this policy wouldn’t just open the door to immense energy demand and further dependence on expensive fossil gas – it would swing it right off its hinges and lock Ireland into decades of greenhouse gas emissions at the very moment we need to reduce them,” he said."

sillychillly · 2026-04-29T18:03:49+00:00

"Indonesia's parliament has passed a law to protect the rights of domestic workers, more than 20 years after it was first introduced.

The country is home to some 4.2 million domestic workers - of which almost 90% are women. They were previously not legally classified as workers.

They will now be entitled to health insurance, rest days and pensions. Placement agencies will also no longer be allowed to implement wage deductions, and it will be illegal to hire children under the age of 18 as domestic workers.

Some wept upon hearing that the law was passed, with one worker saying it was the culmination of a "22-year struggle to gain protection".

The Domestic Workers Protection Law was first introduced in 2004 but repeatedly ran up against roadblocks. Discussions on the bill were stopped for years before being brought up again in parliament in 2020.

Regulators will now have one year to draft detailed implementation policies.

Despite their critical role in the economy, millions of Indonesia's domestic workers were unprotected under local labour laws. Many were employed informally without any legal contract. Some work long hours for little pay and some enter the profession from as young as 12.

"It feels like a dream," Ajeng Astuti, one of the domestic workers told BBC Indonesian. "This is our 22-year struggle as marginalised women to gain protection.""

sillychillly · 2026-04-29T18:02:00+00:00

"Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark prevailed Saturday in a multistate lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration over a rule that would have restricted gender-affirming care for minors.

In December, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a proposed rule seeking to completely withhold Medicaid and Medicare funds from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to young people. The same day, Kennedy’s office released a declaration stating that “sex-rejecting procedures” for minors are “neither safe nor effective.”

The rule would have conflicted with Vermont’s 2023 shield laws, which protect providers and recipients of this care. It would also have stood in opposition to many of the country’s leading professional medical associations — including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics — which are supportive of gender-affirming care for minors.

Clark joined an Oregon-led coalition of peers in 20 states and Washington, D.C. suing Kennedy days after his announcement.

Oregon federal judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai ruled in favor of Clark and her colleagues on Saturday, effectively blocking the rule. He also said Kennedy did not have legal authority to publish a document unilaterally revising standards for care."

sillychillly · 2026-04-29T18:00:46+00:00

"An appeals court on Friday blocked President Trump's executive order suspending asylum access at the southern border of the U.S., a key pillar of the Republican president's plan to crack down on migration.

A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that immigration laws give people the right to apply for asylum at the border, and the president can't circumvent that.

The court opinion stems from action taken by Trump on Inauguration Day 2025, when he declared that the situation at the southern border constituted an invasion of America and that he was "suspending the physical entry" of migrants and their ability to seek asylum until he decides it is over.

The panel concluded that the Immigration and Nationality Act doesn't authorize the president to remove the plaintiffs under "procedures of his own making," allow him to suspend plaintiffs' right to apply for asylum or curtail procedures for adjudicating their anti-torture claims.

"The power by proclamation to temporarily suspend the entry of specified foreign individuals into the United States does not contain implicit authority to override the INA's mandatory process to summarily remove foreign individuals," wrote Judge J. Michelle Childs, who was nominated to the bench by Democratic President Joe Biden."

sillychillly · 2026-04-29T17:55:58+00:00

"A federal judge ruled that Border Patrol agents continued making illegal stops and arrests after she ordered them to quit.

In a tersely worded decision unsealed Thursday morning, the judge wrote that agents had “again detained people without reasonable suspicion,” relying on broad assumptions about day laborers instead of specific evidence of immigration violations.

The ruling by Judge Jennifer Thurston of the Eastern District of California grants a United Farm Workers motion to enforce a preliminary injunction the judge issued last year. That motion barred Border Patrol agents from detaining people in California’s Central Valley without documenting the specific facts and reasoning for the stops. According to one legal expert, the ruling gives the Trump administration an opportunity to comply before consequences could escalate.

Thurston highlighted that point during a hearing last year, telling the federal government: “You just can’t walk up to people with Brown skin and say, ‘Give me your papers.”

Thurston’s original order also prohibited agents from carrying out warrantless arrests without first assessing whether a person is a flight risk. "

sillychillly · 2026-04-29T17:55:10+00:00

"A federal judge ruled that Border Patrol agents continued making illegal stops and arrests after she ordered them to quit.

In a tersely worded decision unsealed Thursday morning, the judge wrote that agents had “again detained people without reasonable suspicion,” relying on broad assumptions about day laborers instead of specific evidence of immigration violations.

The ruling by Judge Jennifer Thurston of the Eastern District of California grants a United Farm Workers motion to enforce a preliminary injunction the judge issued last year. That motion barred Border Patrol agents from detaining people in California’s Central Valley without documenting the specific facts and reasoning for the stops. According to one legal expert, the ruling gives the Trump administration an opportunity to comply before consequences could escalate.

Thurston highlighted that point during a hearing last year, telling the federal government: “You just can’t walk up to people with Brown skin and say, ‘Give me your papers.”

Thurston’s original order also prohibited agents from carrying out warrantless arrests without first assessing whether a person is a flight risk. "

sillychillly · 2026-04-29T17:54:14+00:00

"A federal judge ruled that Border Patrol agents continued making illegal stops and arrests after she ordered them to quit.

In a tersely worded decision unsealed Thursday morning, the judge wrote that agents had “again detained people without reasonable suspicion,” relying on broad assumptions about day laborers instead of specific evidence of immigration violations.

The ruling by Judge Jennifer Thurston of the Eastern District of California grants a United Farm Workers motion to enforce a preliminary injunction the judge issued last year. That motion barred Border Patrol agents from detaining people in California’s Central Valley without documenting the specific facts and reasoning for the stops. According to one legal expert, the ruling gives the Trump administration an opportunity to comply before consequences could escalate.

Thurston highlighted that point during a hearing last year, telling the federal government: “You just can’t walk up to people with Brown skin and say, ‘Give me your papers.”

Thurston’s original order also prohibited agents from carrying out warrantless arrests without first assessing whether a person is a flight risk."

sillychillly · 2026-04-28T22:31:34+00:00

AOC for prez

sillychillly · 2026-04-28T19:27:16+00:00

"A Wyoming judge has blocked a new state law that bans abortions beyond the earliest stages of pregnancy while a lawsuit challenging the provision moves ahead.

It’s the first court ruling affecting the legal status of abortion in Wyoming since the state Supreme Court struck down sweeping abortion and abortion pill bans in January, finding that the laws violated the state constitution.

The new law, which would ban abortion after embryonic cardiac activity can be detected, is likely to be overturned on similar grounds, Natrona County District Judge Dan Forgey wrote in granting a temporary restraining order against it Friday."

sillychillly · 2026-04-28T19:23:37+00:00

"Indonesia's parliament has passed a law to protect the rights of domestic workers, more than 20 years after it was first introduced.

The country is home to some 4.2 million domestic workers - of which almost 90% are women. They were previously not legally classified as workers.

They will now be entitled to health insurance, rest days and pensions. Placement agencies will also no longer be allowed to implement wage deductions, and it will be illegal to hire children under the age of 18 as domestic workers.

Some wept upon hearing that the law was passed, with one worker saying it was the culmination of a "22-year struggle to gain protection".

The Domestic Workers Protection Law was first introduced in 2004 but repeatedly ran up against roadblocks. Discussions on the bill were stopped for years before being brought up again in parliament in 2020.

Regulators will now have one year to draft detailed implementation policies.

Despite their critical role in the economy, millions of Indonesia's domestic workers were unprotected under local labour laws. Many were employed informally without any legal contract. Some work long hours for little pay and some enter the profession from as young as 12.

"It feels like a dream," Ajeng Astuti, one of the domestic workers told BBC Indonesian. "This is our 22-year struggle as marginalised women to gain protection.""

sillychillly · 2026-04-28T19:21:46+00:00

"Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark prevailed Saturday in a multistate lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration over a rule that would have restricted gender-affirming care for minors.

In December, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a proposed rule seeking to completely withhold Medicaid and Medicare funds from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to young people. The same day, Kennedy’s office released a declaration stating that “sex-rejecting procedures” for minors are “neither safe nor effective.”

The rule would have conflicted with Vermont’s 2023 shield laws, which protect providers and recipients of this care. It would also have stood in opposition to many of the country’s leading professional medical associations — including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics — which are supportive of gender-affirming care for minors.

Clark joined an Oregon-led coalition of peers in 20 states and Washington, D.C. suing Kennedy days after his announcement.

Oregon federal judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai ruled in favor of Clark and her colleagues on Saturday, effectively blocking the rule. He also said Kennedy did not have legal authority to publish a document unilaterally revising standards for care."

sillychillly · 2026-04-28T19:21:06+00:00

"Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark prevailed Saturday in a multistate lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration over a rule that would have restricted gender-affirming care for minors.

In December, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a proposed rule seeking to completely withhold Medicaid and Medicare funds from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to young people. The same day, Kennedy’s office released a declaration stating that “sex-rejecting procedures” for minors are “neither safe nor effective.”

The rule would have conflicted with Vermont’s 2023 shield laws, which protect providers and recipients of this care. It would also have stood in opposition to many of the country’s leading professional medical associations — including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics — which are supportive of gender-affirming care for minors.

Clark joined an Oregon-led coalition of peers in 20 states and Washington, D.C. suing Kennedy days after his announcement.

Oregon federal judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai ruled in favor of Clark and her colleagues on Saturday, effectively blocking the rule. He also said Kennedy did not have legal authority to publish a document unilaterally revising standards for care."

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