Tag: #1linerWeds

One-Liner Wednesday: superseding indictment

After presenting evidence to a new grand jury, Special Counsel Jack Smith filed this superseding indictment against Donald Trump in the 2020 election interference case before Judge Tanya Chutkan, charging Trump as a candidate in conspiracy with other private citizens, thus avoiding any evidence that could be thought of as part of his “official duties” after the controversial Supreme Court decision bestowing broad presidential immunity for official acts and evidence related to executive branch communications, including the Department of Justice.

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One-Liner Wednesday: no CO2 fracking in NY!

On the first day of the New York State Fair, we call on Governor Kathy Hochul to sign the bill adding carbon dioxide to our state’s fracking ban for the good of our health, environment, and climate.

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One-Liner Wednesday: Project 2025 and mifepristone

Project 2025, the lengthy document spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation to lay out plans for the “conservative president” they expect to be elected this year and which mirrors Trump’s Agenda 47 and the Republican party platform, would direct the FDA to reverse the current approvals of mifepristone nation-wide, restricting medication abortion, miscarriage care, and other uses, even though the medication has proven to be safe and effective. (p. 458)

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One-Liner Wednesday: Project 2025 and child labor

Project 2025, the lengthy document spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation to lay out plans for the “conservative president” they expect to be elected this year and which mirrors Trump’s Agenda 47 and the Republican party platform, would weaken child labor protections, allowing youths to do dangerous jobs (p. 595).

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One-Liner Wednesday: Project 2025 and NOAA

Project 2025, the lengthy document spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation to lay out plans for the “conservative president” they expect to be elected this year, calls for disbanding NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration), the United States’ premier agency for weather, ocean, and climate data and research. (p. 664)

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One-Liner Wednesday: Project 2025 and the EPA

Project 2025, the lengthy document spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation to lay out plans for the “conservative president” they expect to be elected this year, would gut the Environmental Protection Agency, sending most of those responsibilities to state and local governments who could then ignore the impacts of their industries on the public and the planet, starting with a Day One Executive Order and political appointees (pp. 422-3).

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One-Liner Wednesday: Dept. of Education

Project 2025, the lengthy document spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation to lay out plans for the “conservative president” they expect to be elected this year, calls for the elimination of the Department of Education and limitations on federally supported services such as special education, school meals, Title IX, and student loans. (pp. 319-361)

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One-Liner Wednesday: wisdom from Meister Eckhart

“Meister Eckhart instructs us that to ignore our capacity to give birth, to run from our responsibility to create, is to run from goodness itself: If human beings have something that they do not bestow on others, they are not good.”
~Matthew Fox

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One-Liner Wednesday: hope

Hope is not the certainty that things will turn out as we wish, but the conviction that some things are worth doing no matter how they turn out.

Vaclav Havel

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One-Liner Wednesday: prescience

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear.

– Senator Margaret Chase Smith (Republican – Maine) addressing the Senate on June 1, 1950 near the beginning of McCarthyism

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