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Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo allows courts to make decisions that used to be the job of federal agencies.

If the FDA says hormone treatments are safe, the court can now say "mmm, nah" and ban those treatments.

The court can ban mifepristone or miscarriage care contrary to medical experts.

The court can lower requirements by the EPA that regulates climate change.

The court can overrule trade rules by the FTC.

The court could require less safety regulation on airplanes.

And much much more!!

This is very very bad, and the way to solve this problem is by voting for Joe Biden so that he can replace Thomas and Alito when they die. If you care about marginalized communities, PLEASE vote.

City of Grant Pass v. Johnson says that criminalizing/fining people for sleeping outside (aka being homeless) isn't cruel and unusual punishment. It will punish people of color and disabled people disproportionately.

On my knees begging you to vote for Joe Biden. You cannot sit this one out. Activism is not tweeting or blogging. You are not helping by not exercising your right to vote, a right that can and will be taken from you if Joe Biden is not reelected.

Like there could be smaller class sizes and more teachers, so if a kid is getting upset with one teacher another can take over or even take the kid to somewhere quiet to chill out. There should be a variety of snacks available to kids who are hungry. Parents should have to meet with an expert to come up with a strategy at home to help minimize violence. And the expert should be able to connect the parents with support, including financial support, to make sure they're able to spend time with their kid working on emotional regulation. The expert should also be there to help the teacher work with that one specific kid and their specific issues, because maybe their signs of frustration aren't as clear or the normal methods to calm kids down don't work for them. Even when you can't 100% remove the risks, there are things you can do! The problem is none of those things are getting done.

Instead we've got a teacher who got hit (and again, no evidence that the kid was young or disabled, just some assumptions, but teachers are absolutely getting assaulted by older non-disabled kids) and the parents' solution is a banana, and a bunch of people expecting him to just accept it. What happens when the kid gets frustrated in the afternoon, what is the one calming banana he eats in the morning gonna do then? What happens when the source of frustration isn't hunger?

Like we literally just watched a teacher almost get killed by a very young student while the parents and administration stood by and did nothing, and then tried to blame the teacher.

You have a double whammy here because a. everyone has had a teacher before, therefore teacher = ruling class who has had or does have power over the poor oppressed working class. And b. in pop culture social justice you can’t have a victim without a bad guy, and you can’t have a bad guy who isn’t evil, and a child can’t be that evil bad guy. Ergo, the teacher can’t be harmed by the child and should just deal with it.

As a healthcare worker (who has also been assaulted at work, as many of us have) for a long time I thought that if only people realized what our day to day is like and that we are workers just like them they would be nicer about the shit we have to deal with. Eventually I realized that leftist culture is more invested in ensuring that healthcare workers are always people that it is socially and morally correct to abuse. So they will always refuse solidarity with us as a group. I’m less familiar with the teaching side since I’m not a teacher, but I’ve seen enough posts about how all education and teachers are awful and evil to assume it’s the same situation.

if you're parroting this talking point, you are doing propaganda for the US military and you just need to stop saying it. here's an article from the Military Times that breaks the finding of various studies like this one from 2020 and this one from 2018 that analyze motivations for joining the military and popular conceptions of motivations for joining the military. Here's a pretty important excerpt:

Further, they hypothesized that some of this possible misconception about poorer Americans joining the military was a geographical issue. While the Defense Department tracks the zip codes of recruits ― and historically, many of them come from more rural areas in the southeast ― it doesn’t track their incomes or their parents’ incomes, which leads to assumptions that the poorer their communities, the poorer the recruits. [...] Using Bureau of Labor Statistics data from 1997 to 2008, they found that the services have recruited primarily from the middle class, America’s largest socio-economic demographic. “We show that recent recruits tend to have higher than average socioeconomic background: they disproportionally come from the middle of the family income, family wealth, and cognitive skill distributions, with both tails under-represented,” they found.

Here's from the army times:

Surveyed troops said these were the top five reasons for staying in the Army. The percentages indicate how many troops felt the factors were “extremely important” to them:

- Opportunity to serve my country — 53.5% - How well my retirement pay or benefits will meet my future needs — 45.1% - Opportunities to lead or train soldiers — 43.5% - My sense of purpose — 38.1% -How well my pay or benefits meet my present needs — 37%

Also mentioned in other sources but here from the NY times in 2020 as well, army enlistment is becoming increasingly skewed towards being the children of people who have previously served.

The main predictors are not based on class or race. Army data show service spread mostly evenly through middle-class and “downscale” groups. Youth unemployment turns out not to be the prime factor.

Vote Democrat this fall, because Republicans fucking hate Ranked Choice Voting, and in several Republican-run states they have outlawed it. So if you want it, you have to keep Democrats in power in your state.

Why is this an instead? Why can you not do these things AND take a couple hours out of one day of your life to vote? Do you think any of this organization is going to be easier under Trump?

"I am doing these other kinds of activism instead of canvassing / phone banking / get out the vote" -- that makes sense! You have a finite amount of time and energy! No one can do all of the work!

"I am doing these other kinds of activism instead of voting" -- Uh-huh. And are these other kinds of activism in the room with us now? Or is your "activism" actually just "yelling on tumblr?"

If you were doing anything tangible in the world, it would be affected by the laws and policies you live under--the ones that will determine whether and what your kids eat at school; and what they learn there; and how your communities and protests are policed; and the conditions in the jails; and how likely you are to see the inside of one for sheltering undocumented people or providing abortion pills or DIY HRT.

If you were doing that work, you would know real people for whom a second Trump administration would mean deportation or forcible detransition or quitting college or going hungry, and you would need to be able to look them in the eye.

If you were doing that work, you would know that working with other people to achieve a goal sometimes requires compromising, even on issues that are important to you, but that getting things done, even incrementally, is worth that compromise.

If you were doing that work, you would have the experience of making things happen in the real world--gardens planted, children fed, houses built--and you would know that getting your hands dirty working is so, so much more satisfying than sitting alone and keeping them clean.

That's.

That's not the lessons the Democrats would take away from Biden losing.

See, the thing is, they know from the last several decades that the further to the left you are politically, the less likely you are to vote, and the more fickle you are about it. Politicians who run after the vote of leftists may get elected once, if they're inspiring enough. But by the time it comes to re-elect them, the chances are very good that a lot of the leftists who voted for them the first time will have found some reason to dislike them, and so they will be a one-term politician.

On the other hand, if you want to have a long career in politics where you have a chance at actually getting shit done, you have to get re-elected many times. And centrists are much more reliable voters than leftists! If you go after the centrist vote, you'll lose the leftists ... but let's be real, the vast majority of them wouldn't vote anyway, so who cares. They might as well not exist.