wondrng1#CREW exec cites 2 #FederalistSociety member law professors who make case that language in #SectionThree of #14thAmendment already constitutionally forbids #45 from serving in public office b/c of aiding/abetting #Jan6thInsurrection in violation of oath (other case verdicts?), with #DisqualificationClause requiring high-bar of 2/3 maj of both houses of Congress to remove disability.
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#Philosophy professor at University of Ottawa. Views personal. Work on #multiculturalism, #secularism, #PhilosophyOfReligion, history of German philosophy. Committed to globalizing philosophy. Also care deeply about #environment and #AnimalEthics.
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Sustainable us"Forty percent of the new licences for oil and gas drilling in the North Sea announced this week are within marine protected areas, with the potential to cause devastation to wildlife and habitats that are vital to ocean health, campaigners say"
https://uk.oceana.org/press-releases/new-oil-and-gas-licences-threaten-protected-ocean-habitats/
New oil and gas licences threaten protected ocean habitats
Forty percent of the new licences for oil and gas drilling in the North Sea announced this week are within marine protected areas, with the potential to cause devastation to wildlife and habitats that are vital to ocean health, campaigners say. A group – convened by the NGO Oceana and including a range of concerned ... Read more
CabBoost please British folk. Woods here are FULL of death caps. Amanita phalloides. In decades of picking I have never seen as many as here on Cambridge today. It not even usually common here. It's brutally poisonous, please share a warning to avoid it #mushtodon #fungi #mushrooms
Muslim leaders appeal for calm, but the provocations are organized and relentless. This clash was provoked by incendiary videos against Muslims posted by a Hindutva extremist suspected of lynching:
"He burned two people alive and the police say they can’t catch him. And then he goes around making videos and giving interviews threatening us, and we are not supposed to be angry also?”
‘We walked straight into their trap’: As dust settles, fear and regret in Haryana’s Nuh
https://scroll.in/article/1053822/we-walked-straight-into-their-trap-as-dust-settles-fear-and-regret-in-haryanas-nuh
"The spread of Hindu supremacist discourses in critical development spaces is facilitated by an essentialist and ultimately racist understanding of decoloniality among Western academics and practitioners which proposes that any concept or approach which claims to be authentically rooted in communities in the Global South can be accorded ‘epistemic deference’ without any serious engagement with the politics underlying it."
Contested development imaginaries: Hindutva and the co-optation of ‘decolonisation’
By Kalpana Wilson, Giti Chandra and Lata Narayanaswamy We live in a time where deeply embedded, historically entangled perceptions persist of a bifurcated world, made up of a civilised ‘developed’ …
John ShirleyFlorida is using far-right videos to 'indoctrinate' schoolchildren
PragerU ... a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that produces right-wing videos on a "range of themes," including healthcare and climate policy. One of PragerU's videos attacks Canada's government-operated healthcare system and claims that the United States' privatized system is superior, but critics of the U.S. system often point out how common medical bankruptcies are in the U.S.
'We are in the mind-changing business': Florida is using far-right videos to 'indoctrinate' schoolchildren
Gov. Ron DeSantis and his allies have been drawing widespread criticism from Democrats — and from some Black conservative Republicans as well — for the way in which the history of slavery is now being taught in Florida's public schools. This curriculum teaches that slavery had a benefit for slaves i...
eclectechWent for a walk where the fluff monsters grow.
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Trump’s PAC is running out of money. Quick, someone indict him soon! https://www.theonion.com/trump-campaign-worried-there-might-not-be-enough-indict-1850692369
Trump Campaign Worried There Might Not Be Enough Indictments To Meet All Fundraising Goals
PALM BEACH, FL—Though new charges are expected soon from both special counsel Jack Smith and a Georgia investigation of the former president, the Trump campaign was said to be privately worried Monday that there still might not be enough indictments to meet all their fundraising targets. “Frankly, we’ve got some…