Biden calls for broad new social programs, higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy (wapo.st)
Trump advisers propose mandatory military service (wapo.st)
Some in the former president’s camp say it’s time more young adults put “some skin in the game.”...
Trump told donors he will crush pro-Palestinian protests, deport demonstrators - The Washington Post (Gifted article, no paywall) (wapo.st)
U.S. fully bans asbestos, which kills 40,000 a year (wapo.st)
In a move the EPA deemed ‘historic,’ the agency has banned chrysotile asbestos, the only form of the cancer-causing mineral that the U.S. still imports and uses
Meadows, Giuliani and other Trump allies charged in Arizona 2020 election probe (wapo.st)
The New York Times coverage for comparison
Was the 2020 election stolen? Job interviews at RNC take an unusual turn. (wapo.st)
Prospective hires say agreeing with Trump’s false election claim appears to be a new litmus test for being hired by the party
The incomprehensible, unattainable scale of Trump’s deportation plan | The former president has said he will send nearly 5 percent of U.S. residents out of the country if he is reelected. (wapo.st)
Abbott grants Daniel Perry pardon in murder of Black Lives Matter protester | Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is pardoning Daniel Perry, the former Army sergeant convicted in the fatal shooting (wapo.st)
The idea is to make it effectively legal to kill anybody deemed left-of-center
Louisiana moves to make abortion pills ‘controlled dangerous substances’ (wapo.st)
Someone possessing the pills without a valid prescription or outside of professional practice could be prosecuted and sentenced to prison.
Justice Alito tells Congress he will not recuse from Jan. 6-related cases (wapo.st)
He has something of a history of flying flags in support of the insurrection.
Climate change is altering Earth’s rotation enough to mess with our clocks (wapo.st)
Trump plans to claim sweeping powers to cancel federal spending: In a second term, allies said the former president would look at funding cuts for the World Health Organization and green energy (wapo.st)
Classically, Congress held the power of the purse, able to both bar and require spending. This imposed a significant limit on Presidential power. With a bought court supporting him, Trump would have significant ability to essentially chart power as a king.
House Democrats launch probe of Trump’s dinner with oil executives (wapo.st)
Lawmakers demand details of a Mar-a-Lago dinner where Trump promised to ease regulations on the oil industry while asking executives to steer $1 billion to his 2024 campaign.
Biden seeks to accelerate the EV transition in biggest climate move yet (wapo.st)
The EPA’s final rule follows a concession to labor unions worried about a rapid shift to electric vehicles, and a nod that EV sales are slowing
RNC installs Trump’s chosen leaders in merger with his campaign (wapo.st)
DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from Florida law (wapo.st)
Meanwhile, it’s hotter than it has been in thousands of years
What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign: Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy & more (wapo.st)
The corruption is really open at this point....
Trump trusted more than Biden on democracy among key swing-state voters (wapo.st)
I’ll note that this is substantially at odds with the candidates positions and history:...
Never wait in the school car line again. Here’s how. For the first time in decades, a small but critical mass of children are riding their bikes safely to school again in the US. (wapo.st)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/10212084...
Florida Governor DeSantis rejects climate change rationale for record-breaking rain (wapo.st)
At this point, it’s fairly common for significant rainfall events to have attribution studies showing that they’re a result of the higher temperatures that fossil fuel burning has given us. Whether or not we end up with one for this particular event, it’s something that we know will be more common if we keep on extracting...
Trump makes sweeping promises to donors on audacious fundraising tour |By tying donation requests to pledges of tax cuts and other policies, Trump is testing the boundaries of federal campaign finance (wapo.st)
It’s called soliciting bribes. And really really damaging to have our government run in this kind of transactional impact.
Nestlé adds more sugar to baby food in poorer countries, report finds (wapo.st)
Republicans pitch tax cuts for corporations, the wealthy in 2025 | Trump has asked wealthy donors for donations, promising large tax breaks in return if he retakes the White House. (wapo.st)
Conservative attacks on birth control could threaten access (wapo.st)
Far-right conservatives are sowing misinformation that inaccurately characterizes IUDs, emergency contraception, even birth-control pills as causing abortions