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The United States is failing miserably to provide a good example of how to successfully combat COVID-19, but other nations are offering better models of what can be done and should be done. #globalleadership #CodePink #covid19
States are lifting business regulations during COVID-19
This rise of an “emergency state” that justifies all manner of government tyranny in the so-called name of national security is all happening according to schedule. #constitution
The head of the United Nations has issued a passionate appeal for a global ceasefire to take effect across the world that would give authorities and medical professionals alike the ability to focus exclusively on defeating the coronavirus pandemic. #globalceasefire
Coronavirus will bring into focus the depraved inefficiency of this system—the model of profit-driven health care, of market forces that look out for the short-term interests of business, not the long-term interests of us all.
#coronavirus
The ACLU called on prisons and detention centers throughout the U.S. to release high-risk and elderly inmates on Monday and applauded an Ohio county court for ordering the release of hundreds of prisoners to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. #releaseprisoners
Scotland to make tampons free
The Senate on Thursday passed a War Powers Resolution aimed at preventing President Donald Trump from launching military action against Iran without congressional approval. #nowarwithiran
Journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin is suing the state of Georgia for violating her First Amendment rights. #abbymartin
A four-minute video that aired on CBS Friday morning was praised for using slices of real pie to show the huge wealth gap in the U.S. #wealthgap
Environmental advocacy groups issued mixed responses Tuesday after Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee released the legislative text of a draft bill for a national climate plan, with critics charging that the proposal isn’t ambitious enough to address the planetary crisis. #GreenNewDeal #climateaction
‘Just the Beginning’: Illinois Gov. Pardons Over 11,000 on Eve of Recreational Cannabis Legalization
On Tuesday, just one day before “equity-centric” legislation legalizing sales and adult use of recreational marijuana took effect in Illinois, Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker granted pardons to more than 11,000 individuals with low-level cannabis convictions. #cannabislegalization
The underlying fault is not in how the U.S. tries and fails to reconstruct societies destroyed by its “regime changes,” but in the fundamental illegitimacy of regime change itself. #stopwars
More than two centuries after our ancestors went to war over their abused property rights, we’re once again being subjected to taxation without any real representation, all the while the government continues to do whatever it likes—levy taxes, rack up debt, spend outrageously and irresponsibly—with little concern for the plight of its citizens. #taxes #taxation
Concerning marijuana legalization in the US, you should be familiar with these basic facts regarding state and federal laws.
