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https://twitter.com/theonion/status/1410333104045187073?s=21

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A lobbyist for Exxon Mobil Corp said the company supports a carbon tax publicly because the plan to curb climate change would never gain enough political support to be adopted, according to an interview aired on the UK’s Channel 4 on Wednesday.

McCoy and Easley spoke candidly to the Greenpeace activists on their strategies and positions on a range of issues, including President Joe Biden’s initial $2 trillion infrastructure package, which they said they worked on to remove major climate provisions and push back against proposals to raise corporate taxes.

Easley said the Biden infrastructure plan contained clean energy measures that would “accelerate the transition that I think four years from now - it is going to be difficult to unwind them.”

By DY_nasty Go To Postyal rep so many pro torture ppl tho

By DY_nasty Go To Postyal rep so many pro torture ppl tho

A confrontation Tuesday between a police sergeant and member of the public didn’t start out unusually. James Burch, policy director of the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP), was standing outside the Alameda Courthouse in Oakland, California when an officer approached him and asked him to move a banner. As the two argued, the sergeant noticed he was being filmed. Then, he pulled out his phone and started playing “Blank Space” by Taylor Swift — in an apparent play to exploit copyright takedowns and keep the video off social media.

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https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1410638264147628032?s=21

Very very good

By Nat Go To PostGonna need to get to high ground pretty soon

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https://twitter.com/MuseWendi/status/1409890599113740300?s=20

I mean I don't see any lies here. We're on the full steam ahead and sort it out later track

The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has been conducting the investigation, also accused a top executive, Allen H. Weisselberg, of dodging taxes on $1.7 million in perks that should have been reported as income. Mr. Weisselberg, Mr. Trump’s long-serving and trusted chief financial officer, faced grand larceny, tax fraud and other charges.

The jury’s deliberations came to an abrupt end that afternoon, when Juror 7 informed a court official that another juror had disobeyed the judge’s instructions and conducted online research. The first juror didn’t know Meile’s name. But in sworn testimony, according to a transcript of the late-afternoon hearing, Juror 7 told Kugler that Meile had looked up the logo on the ICE officer’s uniform the night before deliberations began.

When the jury took the case, Juror 7 said, Meile asserted that his research showed the ICE officer's patch was a white supremacist logo.

“He said that to the whole jury?” Kugler asked. “What was the reaction of the other jurors?”

Juror 7 said jurors weren't influenced by Meile's white supremacist assertion because no one knew if it was true. But they were all distressed about Meile’s violation of court orders, the juror told Kugler.

“Everybody was very upset that he just didn't listen and did the research," Juror 7 said. (I asked the New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s office and defense counsel Justin Loughry for additional information about the ICE officer’s patch and its role at the trial. A spokesperson for prosecutors declined to comment and Loughry didn’t respond.)

After Juror 7’s testimony, prosecutors and defense lawyers agreed that Kugler should declare a mistrial because Meile's disclosure of his search results had tainted the jury.

By DY_nasty Go To Postthe odds that excerpt is taken wildly out of context is high

By Fenderputty Go To PostWhat context makes that better?

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https://twitter.com/MuseWendi/status/1409890599113740300?s=20

I mean I don't see any lies here. We're on the full steam ahead and sort it out later track

By DY_nasty Go To PostDon't know.

But people taking a small sub paragraph of a much larger document then running with it is kind of turning into a theme. "But the mere fact there is-" being the cut off in that crop top? lol fuck completed thoughts I guess.

By Fenderputty Go To PostAgain what context makes “it only negatively impacts minorities in small percentages so this doesn’t violate what’s left of the VRA” better?

They didn’t even give guidelines on when it would be a large enough impact to violate what’s left of the VRA.

I get why that tweet is suspect but man … it’s not wrong.

By Naw Go To PostIsrael beat Twitter. Fartlow redeemed

By Exxon LobbyistDiscussing current policy, McCoy reveals that Exxon has been working to downsize president Biden’s $2 trillion, climate-centric infrastructure bill, to limit it to “roads and bridges” so it can better argue against restrictions on refineries. “If instead of a $2 trillion dollar bill, it’s an $800 billion dollar bill, if you lower that threshold and stick to highways and bridges, then a lot of the negative stuff starts to come out. Why would you put in a something on emissions reductions, on climate change, to oil refineries in a highway bill? People say, yeah, that doesn’t make any sense. So you then you get to the germaneness, say that shouldn’t be in this bill.”

By Fenderputty Go To PostAlso Antifa is more hated than China and Hamas lmao

By Fenderputty Go To PostAlso Antifa is more hated than China and Hamas lmao