Why the &#**### is California putting Amber Alerts on a porn site?

Its also based on who runs the elections: the states. The federal executive branch doesn’t hold power over them.

Yes, except in DC and places where it was nominally deployed by the governor

https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-guard-withdrawal-cities-6b7b02b832b24e17e6db483eb6c74425

Thats shockingly close to his actual language. Start at 1775 seconds in

That kind of choice is quite unusual in the US.

Jamelle Bouie is far from typical at the NYT

Think of it like Hitler and Stalin splitting up Poland

In particular, its a failure of state utilities commissions, which have power over electric pricing.

Americans were, if anything, more openly racist during Einstein’s day than now. What he did was to articulate and help demonstrate that a better world was possible

Yes. The combination of widespread protest with lawsuits often succeeds

That one is nominally done by the governor, so it has a different legal status

The courts act, but they don’t act in a vacuum. Had the protests been violent, or had there been no protests at all, we could easily have seen a different outcome

The Supreme Court has made those cases incredibly difficult to win

There were things like a congressional authorization of the use of military force. We don’t even have that

Who knows. Trump seems to bomb and not tell until he randomly decides to call in to a talk show somewhere.

Be nice if there was a refusal to carry out acts of war without a declaration of war or a pressing need of self defense

The courts definition of undue hardship means not being able to attain a minimal standard of living and not having any real chance of it changing. For new grads in good health, the expectation is that it will change in the near future.

Because you can’t do that, even under the new rules; it takes making a good-faith effort to pay off the loans and having undue hardship as a result of them. That’s not a typical situation for new grads.

This is normal; only about 1 in 4 people who comment or vote on an article bother to do so much as click the link.

Trump replaced their board with a bunch of his supporters, so that’s unlikely

In a couple states, yes. They don’t actually do anything to restrict the water vapor trails that aircraft routinely produce in cold air.

They in a couple cases impose restrictions on cloud seeding.