here’s a pretty good thread about the whole deal at four seasons
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This is all good news. Unfortunately, I don’t think we can meet the emissions standards we pledged to meet in the original Paris climate agreement at this late date. Trump didn’t just withdraw us, he and his team refused to enact (or reversed existing) standards that could’ve gotten us there.
Still, good to at least start moving in the right direction again!
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This makes it so much sadder! And not any less hilarious.
They decided to hold it there…? 
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ive seen some reporting that a lot of companies have stayed on track with the regulations. basically, they already had made their plans so why change. especially when trump’s changes were likely to be reversed by the courts anyway.
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is this in any way surprising?
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not to be too grim, but it probably wouldn’t take much right now to find at least a few people who voted and yet have since died from trump’s virus
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I remember how shocking and how welcome the contrast felt when George W. Bush’s “C-student-and-proud-of-it” routine was replaced with Obama’s “scholar-and-a-statesman” approach, but even that pales with today.
Just the act of reading a poem or offering a message of unity and hope as if he actually means it… damn.
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“
The first person Rudy Giuliani, the attorney for President Donald Trump, called up as a witness to baseless allegations of vote counting shenanigans in Philadelphia during a press conference last week is a sex offender who for years has been a perennial candidate in New Jersey.
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During the press conference, however, he said he moved to Philadelphia two years ago.
“I started watching it and all of a sudden I was like, ‘there’s New Jersey’s perennial candidate claiming to live in Philadelphia and Giuliani claiming him to be a poll watcher and Philadelphia resident," Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora said in a phone interview.”
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Seems pretty on-brand.
If there’s one thing they are, it’s consistently immoral (or do I mean amoral?) and incompetent.
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Trump won 28 percent of the LGBTQ vote compared to the 61 percent won by Biden, according to exit polling from Edison Research, which compiles demographic information for every U.S. election, published last week in the New York Times.
Self-identified LGBTQ voters also represented 7 percent of the electorate — the highest percentage in any election since the LGBTQ vote was first recorded in 1996.
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I’d be curious how self-identified Ls, Gs, Bs and Ts break down within those voters. I kind of suspect that the 28% is almost entirely white men.
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I have to say, learning about Gritty is probably one of the best things to come out of this election for me.
I mean, there’s the whole “avoided authoritarianism” bit too, but I really like Gritty.
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