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They'll be looking for an injunction, not huge amounts of money

This one is likely making good on a bribe

Time to work on changing the government

The idea is to pretend that fossil fuel industry propaganda represents reality, and that every storm is the consequence of some sort of evil conspiracy that somehow wasn't the burning of fossil fuels

Mind you, the norm is for Met Gala attendees to pay nothing for outfits as its an advertising opportunity for the designers. She voluntarily paid something to try and avoid running afoul of congressional ethics rules

Satire is dead

Its mostly red tape at the municipal level; construction permits and such. That's something that you and a group of friends can reasonably expect to address

No. We have a system which gives more power to less populated areas. Plenty of fairly reasonable people still; just don't have power except in a few areas

I generally agree with you...but a congressmember whose home is far from DC doing the normal things that people obliged to spend half their time in two locations for work do isnt something that should be prosecuted, no matter which party.

Its a bit different when there is a third house, used as a vacation home a few weeks a year.

Kinda sorta. The Democrats accused were keeping two main residences, one in DC and one in their home state, with the knowledge of their lenders. That's not really fraud.

Its actually a measure being taken to fulfill Trump's commitment in exchange for a bribe — not so much a distraction as an exhibit in a future trial

2°C is likely to be ecologically and economically quite damaging, and also at the edge of where we can be reasonably assured that agriculture remains viable. Its not an everybody-dies-instantly threshold