Cosmo @nibble4bits@qoto.org

It's 2:37 PM Eastern and I'm glad you're alive.

Thanks for being here with me.

#MakeKindnessNormal

The largest caucus of House Republicans released a plan that cuts Social Security spending by $1.5 trillion.

These are the same Republicans pushing to extend the Trump tax cuts — which would add $3.5 trillion to the deficit.

None of this is really about addressing the debt.

Yesterday the Fair Representation Act was re-introduced in Congress! This reform will stop gerrymandering and make the House of Representatives more competitive and more responsive to voters.

Learn more from #FairVote here: https://fairvote.org/our-reforms/fair-representation-act/

And contact your representatives and ask them to support the #FairRepAct!

https://p2a.co/ZraNU5n

#uspol #RCV #RankedChoiceVoting #ProportionalRepresentation #gerrymandering

It's going to be so much fun watching Donald Trump loot the Republican National Committee. Couldn't happen to a nicer party.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/48RMtRq
#politics #USPol #Trump

Age has become a big issue in the US presidential election.

By the end of the next presidential term, Biden will be 85.

And by the end of his prison term, Trump will be 795.

I keep reading “SOTU” as “STFU” #uspolitics

#OpenAI responds to the #Elon suit with a blog post. Which, honestly, might be more appropriate than it seems.

#lawfedi @law

https://openai.com/blog/openai-elon-musk

Manchin and Sinema are two big reasons why we couldn't have nice things. Good riddance to both.

#USPol

If there actually was some Illuminati-level conspiracy to remove the weakest people from the gene pool, convincing the absolute dumbest people not to vaccinate their kids would be a pretty solid way to get that done.

The skin of your laundry pods dissolve in the washing machine, right?

They dissolve into microplastic.
And wastewater treatment systems have no way to filter that out so the microplastics go straight into streams and the ocean.

Just pour your laundry soap out of a box or bottle.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-08/new-york-city-considers-banning-laundry-dishwasher-pods?

In her latest unhinged rant, Nikki Haley now says "Texas can secede if that's what it's voters want."

Okay, let's do the math on that.

If Texas secedes:
•Texas loses $68.2B in Federal aid
•GOP loses 2 US Senate seats, Dems lose 0
•GOP loses 27 US House seats, Dems lose 11
•Dems win permanent control of US House, US Senate, & White House

MAGAs never think these things through, do they? They don't care about the Constitution or national unity—only uninhibited power.

Vote GOP Out Permanently.

Can #Biden seize control of the #Texas #NationalGuard?

Let's take a look of the powers granted by the #Constitution.

Biden's authority would come from Article 3, Section 2:
"The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States;"

So where does this -call to service- come from?

All that authority rests with #Congress. This is from Article 1 Section 8:
"To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;"

The power to -call to service- rests with Congress. Once Congress has done so, #POTUS takes over as the Commander-In-Chief.

Be cautious with people advocating otherwise. They're either ignorant, and spreading #misinformation. Or they are malicious and attempting to #gaslight you with #disinformation.

#SCOTUS #politics #news #PsychologicalPriming #border #FediLaw #LawFedi

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