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@deinol

Lincoln was very much not representing the anti-slave party.

@zleap @KawaTora@kolektiva.social

@GovTrack

Summary of H. R. 2839 enacted after being signed by the President on December 26, 2023:

This bill provides a process by which the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians and Oregon may negotiate to amend or replace the existing agreement defining the tribe's hunting, fishing, trapping, and animal gathering rights.

The current agreement, which was made effective by a May 2, 1980, consent decree by the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, serves as the exclusive and final determination of the tribe's hunting, fishing, trapping, and gathering rights. This bill instead allows an April 22, 1980, agreement between the United States, Oregon, and the tribe (known as the Siletz Agreement) to define the tribe's rights until and unless it is amended or replaced upon mutual agreement of the tribe and Oregon (with specified limitations regarding a new agreement).

The bill allows the tribe and Oregon to return to the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon to request the modification or termination of the May 2, 1980, consent decree.

@GovTrack

H. R. 2839

AN ACT

To amend the Siletz Reservation Act to address the hunting, fishing, trapping, and animal gathering rights of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, and for other purposes.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hr2839

@GovTrack

I like GovTrack.us and this bot is helpful but why not make this bot automatically include the names of the bills and links directly to them. It could also reply to itself with the bill summary from the Library of Congress if the bot was moved to an instance that doesn't have a crazy low grapheme limit. Something like:

@n1vux

I don't think UBI is something that can be successful on a municipal level (with few exceptions).

Local governments need to build housing units to make up for the decade after 2007 where housing production was cut in half due the mortgage market shenanigans (not to mention the 4 decade lag in housing unit production compared to population growth across the US). Just have governments build units, rent them, and include an option to purchase to each renter in the contract. Municipalities could create new neighborhoods quickly (maybe transit oriented, walkable ones with mixed use structures) and put downward pressure on local housing prices at the same time. This is probably asking a lot though.

@lauren

@n1vux

I'm assuming that the city council was banking on federal tax credit for energy efficient appliances to carry the load for subsidizing the installation of new units.

@lauren

@n1vux

Fixing the sources of pollution is always going to inconvenience those benefiting from the externalized costs of producing the pollution. There's simply no way around that. Perhaps a policy that taxed metered natural gas would have been a better option, but it seems like a toss up when dealing with infrastructure system level decisions.

@lauren

@n1vux

Is your mayor "pushing the issue"? The decision was unceremoniously made for good reasons and the people making an issue over that are Trump supporters.

@lauren

@mttaggart

Climate Town was all over this two years ago.

https://youtu.be/hX2aZUav-54

@lauren

The people pushing it already support Trump.

@lauren

"Getting rid of gas stoves" is a non-issue strawman used to gin up more reactionary anger among people who don't even have gas infrastructure to their homes.

Gas infrastructure is leaky as fuck and eliminating its expansion and removing the oldest and most leaky parts of the infrastructure is uncontroversially a good move.

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy

Perhaps consider moderating your New Year's Eve plans.

@auscovid19

@augieray

Perhaps consider moderating your plans for New Year's Eve and take steps to mitigate the increased risk of infection during this outbreak.