Tootfinder

Disclaimer: IANAL I am not well-read on applicable laws.
POTUS executive military authority without Congressional Declaration of War should be limited to when full Congress can't be consulted due to urgency and secrecy. Best example I know is raid to get bin Laden — limited in scope, possibly limited time to act on intel, would've leaked the more who knew.
None of that applies to the slowly simmering situation with Venezuela.

The Federal Court of Appeal delivered two major environmental victories last month. The court found former Fisheries and Oceans Minister Joyce Murray was “procedurally fair and reasonable” when she did not renew licences for open-net salmon pens in the Discovery Islands in 2023. The same court found that the federal government acted well within its purview when it listed plastic manufactured items as “toxic” under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act in 2021.

At a hearing last week, members of the "Senate Special Committee on Aging" criticized generic drug manufacturers
for routinely concealing the locations of their drugmaking plants
as well as the suppliers that provide key ingredients.
ProPublica described this lack of transparency — and how it was enabled by the Food and Drug Administration — in a series of stories that found
the agency had quietly allowed troubled foreign drugmakers to continue selling gene…

The Clear Labels Act Would Change What You Know About Your Prescription Medication
The bill, introduced by Sens. Rick Scott and Kirsten Gillibrand, follows a bipartisan investigation that cited ProPublica’s reporting on dangerous foreign drugmakers and the medicine they continued to sell in the U.S.

"This extension applies to all MyWay concession travellers (except ACT Seniors which have a 3-year expiry date) including those who use a MyWay account and those travelling anonymously."
Well, I'm not going to get any bloody YOUNGER in 3 years now, am I?
#MyWay #ACTSeniors

Well, that's two ways of putting it.
https://www.theverge.com/news/823750/european-union-ai-act-gdpr-changes

Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws
The European Commission has proposed changes weakening EU privacy legislation and delaying parts of the AI Act to make the bloc more competitive globally.

Watched the first 5 episodes of PLUR1BUS … very well done. Good acting, especially on all the side cast. But boy do I dislike the main character Carol. She’s such an entitled US american character that act like the world is revolving solely around her… and maybe that’s just authentic 🙈

After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol

An anti-imperialist movement is building in Mexico,
where the U.S. invasion of Venezuela has been seen as an act of intimidation for all of Latin America.
Across the country, larger-than-usual marches on January 3 and 10 condemned the U.S. attacks on Venezuela.
The marches included some pro-Morena groups
(the governing party)
as well as students, workers, farmers, and Indigenous groups that are critical of Morena.
Over a hundred organizations met in univ…

Resisting the Empire Next Door, Protests in Mexico Grow
After US intervention in Venezuela, Trump’s threats against cartels may be seen as paving the way for actions in Mexico.