It is if you’re a pig apparently
Also, let’s not forget them also lying to investigators after initially being caught doing this (they said they thought they were following department policies, but they were using Signal to coordinate with ICE instead of their department emails because they knew they weren’t). These guys really shouldn’t be trusted to work in any police department ever again, but they’ll be back on the beat before schools are back in session.
Also, par for the course when you build your whole economy around an extractive industry with no thought about what comes after (see also; basically all of West Virginia)
Click bait sucks, but just complaining about it doesn’t do anything to help anyone, we can all (presumably) read the headline and see what you’re seeing
I think it would have been really hard to get all the nuance here down to a single headline sentence,
…representatives of at least 15 coal-burning power plants, four steel mills, four chemical facilities and two mines wrote emails to the E.P.A. this spring, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
All 15 coal plants were ultimately exempted from requirements to curb several hazardous air pollutants, including mercury, a neurotoxin that can cause developmental problems in infants and children. All four chemical facilities were exempted from restrictions on other harmful air pollutants, including ethylene oxide, a gas linked to several types of cancer.
Those email exemptions were part of a broader wave of more than 100 granted so far by the Trump administration to facilities across the country, including oil refineries and sites that process a type of iron ore. The exemptions apply to rules that were set to take effect in the coming years.
Some named companies here,
The Tennessee Valley Authority, the country’s largest federally owned utility, successfully sought two-year exemptions from the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for three coal plants in Tennessee and one coal plant in Kentucky, according to the documents obtained by the Sierra Club.
Alabama Power’s James H. Miller Jr. Electric Generating Plant in Jefferson, Ala., also successfully sought an exemption from the stricter mercury rule.
The documents also show that Eastman Chemical Company, a global chemical manufacturer, requested and received an exemption from the limits on ethylene oxide emissions for its facility in Longview, Texas.
U.S. Steel, which was acquired by Japan’s Nippon Steel last month, had mixed results in its quest for regulatory relief.
While the documents show that Citgo Petroleum Corporation and Phillips 66 requested exemptions for some oil refineries, they do not reveal the names of the facilities.
With as much spyware garbage and paywall nonsense and other anti-reader practices as these media companies engage in, I’m really sympathetic to someone offended by being asked to click on the basis of “just trust us, the information we’re vaguely promising up here is somewhere in this article”
On the one hand I’m glad to see this kind of community response getting covered in places where a lot of people will see it, because it shows the harms of this xenophobic bullshit, how many people are opposed to it, and that fighting back against it is possible
But on the other hand, given their extensive history of contemptible bootlicking, I’m pretty sure the NYT editorial board only greenlit this because they want these people’s names and faces documented so they can be harassed by right wing assholes. Author/photographer did a good job of keeping immigration court attendees and day laborers’ faces out of her shots at least, but you know if she had presented them with a story where community members who wished to remain anonymous were organizing against ICE the people in charge of NYT would’ve said it needed to be reported out more, even though they’re constantly rubber stamping news articles where anonymous government officials “confirm” straight up lies.
which Brussels conceded it has no power to control
Bullshit, you just said a quiet part out loud and now you’re trying to sweep it back under the rug but you absolutely have soft and hard powers to incentivize these companies to do what you want, you just don’t want to admit it because you’ll face uncomfortable questions about why you never seem to pressure these companies into serving the general public and this kind of thing only happens when rich people’s yacht money is at stake
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16 year olds working isn’t that unusual, though it depends on what exactly they had her doing at the spa. If it was stocking shelves, ok, but if it was giving “massages,” it gets creepy fast.
This was Trump she was working for, there’s no way it wasn’t creepy regardless of what they hired her for and there’s no way a bunch of different people working for him didn’t know and didn’t just try to cover it up
They call it the free market because it’s free to do exactly what their rich friends want. If concerned citizens could influence it to do something else that upset their rich friends that wouldn’t be very free, obviously /s
Honestly, you’re not giving enough credit to everything they do to make things worse. Between
-Clinton throwing money and resources at shitty ISPs and intellectual property ghouls in the 90s, -Obama putting legal niceties on Bush’s assassination program and making sure nobody got held accountable for those murders, -Obama keeping every NSA spying program intact, -Obama throwing taxpayer money at private health insurance companies, -Biden killing stimulus checks (because obviously nobody supports UBI), -Biden throwing taxpayer money at fossil fuel companies, -Biden throwing money at ICE, -Biden throwing money at cops of all sorts, -etc.,
they have done a ton to entrench bad things and undermine good things too.
You should probably still vote for them because there’s nothing on this list Republicans wouldn’t try to turbocharge, but if we don’t get rid of the awful Dems we have now and replace them with people who are actually willing to fight for us it’s actually just a choice between carnage quickly or carnage slowly
Oligarchs love the highly leveraged and poorly educated
People warned the Obama administration the records they forced people to submit to participate in DACA made them vulnerable to law enforcement abuse when they were coming up with the program
The compression is a bit rough but the network speed is an improvement over a traditional IPoAC system
“But this was on TikTok and we’ve been told to hate that, so…”
They think determining guilt and innocence and punishing the guilty is their job and all the lawyers and judges are just egghead formalities, so they think that administering the punishment of public humiliation to suspects is doing their job
What the fuck is this telling companies to appease a peodpfiliic rapist who has ambitions to be a dictator?
Late stage unregulated capitalism.
Might as well tell CEOs to offer him their 14 year old daughters too.
If there was a profit in it, they would, or they would be replaced by someone who would.
I would only consider supporting this if we first dissolved the governments of Texas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, etc. and put them under direct control of the federal government. Fascist state lawmakers are just as big of a problem if not an even bigger one than federal ones.
Kind of off topic, but this just activated one of my trap card rants,
The problem is not that we’re a litigious society, the problem is we make litigation artificially costly and time consuming by restricting the number of lawyers and judges we create and only trying to address the bottleneck that creates by making courts harder to access (e.g. increasing filing fees, giving defendants more ability to force things into arbitration kangaroo courts, etc.).
Especially in light of how our courts have been just making up bullshit to let cops/soldiers/Republicans do whatever the fuck they since circa 1968/2001/2025, you can’t tell me that people need as many years of education to practice law as we require in this country.
Also, private bar associations are fucking weird, feudal era anti-democratic bullshit that ought to get replaced with proper public licensing agencies that are accountable to democratic systems and accessible to the public
/end rant