#119th congress

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: suspend the filibuster to codify Roe v. Wade during the next Democratic trifecta

Alexander Bolton at The Hill:

Progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced Wednesday that there are currently enough votes in the Senate to suspend the filibuster to codify Roe v. Wade and abortion rights if Democrats win control of the House and keep the Senate and White House. “We will suspend the filibuster. We have the votes for that on Roe v. Wade,” Warren said on ABC’s “The View.”

She said if Democrats control the White House and both chambers of Congress in 2025, “the first vote Democrats will take in the Senate, the first substantive vote, will be to make Roe v. Wade law of the land again in America.” The Massachusetts Democrat said her party would only need “skinny” majorities in the House and Senate to override the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the national right to an abortion established by Roe v. Wade in 1973. “We can make Roe v. Wade law of the land if we have, and I have to be clear, we’ve got to have a majority in the House — skinny majority. We can take a really skinny majority in the Senate, I’ll take fifty. And a Democrat in the White House. We have those three things we will suspend the filibuster,” she said.

Speaking on ABC’s The View Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) supports the idea of suspending the filibuster to pass a Codify Roe bill should the Dems get a trifecta.

From the 07.17.2024 edition of ABC's The View:

[deadpresidents]

trump and mike johnson keep talking about a little secret, do you think johnson is going to help trump steal the election when the electoral votes are counted since he is speaker of the house?

Fun fact: Hakeem Jeffries will probably be the Speaker of the House on that day, not Mike Johnson!

The certification of the Electoral College results is January 6, 2025. The new Congress begins on January 3rd. No matter what happens everywhere else, it looks as if the Democrats will most likely win control of the House of Representatives next week. Unlike the Republicans, the Democratic caucus in the House won't need several weeks to elect a Speaker. It's going to be Hakeem Jeffries, and when that happens, whatever the "little secret" that Trump and Johnson keep giggling about might be, Johnson is going to be, at best, House Minority Leader on January 6th. And don't forget that the Joint Session on January 6th will be presided over by the Vice President and I think we know where she stands on the issue.

[tomorrowusa]

My representative spoke at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday.

If Democrats pick up about half a dozen House seats then Hakeem Jeffries will become Speaker of the House.

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Remember that it's not necessary to live in a candidate's district to help a candidate – though you can vote only for a candidate running in your own district.

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[arcadiaberger]

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[cyarskaren52]

Mike Johnson is gonna be a horrible speaker. He is a MAGA extremist with a weak disarrayed barely-a-majority caucus.

We have an election on November 5, 2024. Democrats MUST take back the House and make Hakeem Jeffries speaker of the 119th congress. Period!

[irradiate-space]

(Copying a take I posted elsewhere, because I'm curious if @xhxhxhx might have a take.)

Ben Shapiro's nightmare scenario for the 2024 election

Via the Daily Wire.

Summarized: If you can argue that the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives after the 2020 Census was wrong, then a 270-268 EC win for Harris could be converted by the Supreme Court to a narrow EC win for Trump by reallocating EC votes from Democratic states (NY, Michigan, Delaware) to Republican states (Florida, Texas).

I don't think this works, but the why isn't clearcut so much as it is a bunch of arguing-in-the-alternative, which I lay out below:

Electoral College apportionment by state isn't set based on raw population numbers; it's set based on the number of senators and representatives they have. For the SC to throw out the existing apportionment of EC electors would require them to rule that the just-elected 2025-2026 class of the House of Representatives is not correct, and throw that entire class out (or at least the reps in the affected states), leaving those states without representation in the House during the vote counting.

Furthermore, The US does not have procedures for invalidating the results of an election or holding a do-over. The SC would be flying by the seat of their tighty-whities. It is generally accepted that members of the House of Representatives must be elected to that chamber. Because House of Representative seats are generally from drawn districts (although not required to be), to hold a new election would require those states to first draw new districts, which is a process that takes a year at the best of times. Except the SC would be ruling that the Census was wrong, and can't be used as the basis of that redistricting, so since the maps are drawn based on population distributions within the state, first you'd need to redo the Census, which is a process that takes a year when they've had a couple of years of prep time. Which means that it would take two years to get new maps, and then you'd need another year to run an election, which puts us electing the Representatives to the House for the 119th Congress (2025-2026) in 2027.

You could maybe condense that to two years, and elect the 2025-2026 House in 2026.

Now, a Trump supporter might say: Sure, but you don't need to have Representatives seated in order to have EC electors seated. And maybe the Constitution doesn't actually require Representatives to be elected, so states can use their own procedures to fill the empty seats in the interim, such as by appointing new representatives to fill the empty seats, and waiving residency requirements because their districts haven't been drawn yet. You just need to have the number of seats, so that electors can be appointed.

The rejoinder is that if you don't have Representatives in their seats on January 6, 2025, then those States whose Representatives were thrown out will lack representation in the House when the EC votes are counted. Therefore Ben Shapiro's SC scenario would leave the election in an unresolvable situation, where the House of Representatives would not be able to fulfill its 12thA duty to elect a new President if the EC does not have a winner.

The 12thA scenario probably doesn't change anything in the current election, since it seems extremely unlikely that the EC will lack a winner, no matter how it is apportioned. The SC could look at the reapportioned tally and say that a House vote would not be needed.

(also let's fix this by requiring the EC to have an odd number of seats)

However! The Electoral Count Reform Act of 2024 provides that, during the counting of the ballots, the gathered members of the House and Senate may file objections to the counting of any State's EC votes. If there are no Representatives from these changed states present in the joint session on that day, then their State will be unable to file objections, or join other objections, or vote on objections, and their State's interests cannot be adequately represented. This isn't a scenario that the Trump supporters will accept, because it removes the big Trump-supporting states from the votes to support Trump.

Now the SC could try to split the difference, and use the mis-allocated batch of 2025-2026 Representatives to vote on an EC batch with corrected numbers. To do so would be to say that it's OK to have a bad allocation in one situation but not in the other. I don't think the more-centrist Republicans on the court would join with the right-winger Republicans to endorse such a take. 4-3 conservatives for Shaprio's scenario, 2-3 against, 3 liberal against: results in at least a 5-4 ruling against splitting the EC count from the House apportionment.

Keeping the EC and House apportionment together means that the 2025-2026 House lacks representatives from major Republican states during the EC vote, and during the 2025-2026 Congress. This would not be acceptable to the right-wing SC justices, nor to the states which stand to benefit from reallocation, so it's not going to move forward.

Or maybe the SC finds that States can appoint Representatives to fill empty seats, instead of using an election. Then, swift action from the existing State governments would let the House sit with all Representative seats filled in the new apportionment, even without drawn districts. But the appointment scenario still requires the SC to invalidate the Census, and invalidate the apportionment, and invalidate the election that was done with districts based on the invalidated apportionment (which has never, ever been done before), and invalidate state laws requiring that Representatives be elected. Precedent and practicality don't bind the current Supreme Court, and Moore v. Harper might give them the power, but that set of invalidations still seems like way too much to ask. I hope.

With these paths foreclosed, I think that's the entire set of possibilities ruled out.

No, if the current Supreme Court wanted to hand the Presidency to Trump, they wouldn't fuck with the Electoral College. They'd find a way to throw out a bunch of Democratic ballots.

[nj-stone]

Jude Cowell - Stars Over Washington: 119th Congress: Jeffries or Johnson? https://www.starsoverwashington.com/2024/11/119th-congress-jeffries-or-johnson.html

[newsource21]

Based on my experience, I guess that, by January 2025, over the preceding four years, we will have admitted 20 million more folks in this country than law and good sense would have allowed. Most Americans strongly favor deporting these illegal aliens. How do we (i.e., the next Trump Administration) fix this? A few simple, immediate steps will address the problem without the ugly round-ups that Democrats promise, ensuring a stark reduction in the number of illegal aliens. All these steps should apply to all illegals in the country without exception.

What about the children?

Each illegal foreign child should be DNAed and fingerprinted. Abandoned children need to be tracked and eventually reunited with family if feasible. Otherwise, put them up for adoption. Any minor claiming to be 14 years or older should be processed as an adult, which I’d be willing to bet most of them are.

DREAMers should be processed for temporary legal residence with no possibility of becoming an American citizen. If they keep their noses clean and stay off public assistance, let them stay. By the way, if they say they can’t speak their parents’ native language, that’s simply not true. They grew up speaking with their parents, after all.

Long-term residents under Temporary Protected Status (TPS) should also be processed for temporary legal residence with no possibility of naturalization. The March 2024 ruling in favor of Texas and Missouri should have taken care of that, but completion may take time which takes us into the Trump administration. If costs have increased, there are FY-24 DHS infrastructure funds. DHS should also reimburse states, counties, and municipalities that have already blocked or are willing to block border crossers. That quickens the process and lowers the cost as well. The 119th Congress can appropriate the rest of the funding required. Then, secure that wall with harsh enforcement.

Halt admissions

Historically, two-thirds of all illegals in the country have been overstays. Have each consular section at our embassies analyze those who did not return and stop issuing visas to folks in similar circumstances.

Stop all nonimmigrant visa issuances to and admissions from countries that are under TPS. Cancel the faux “humanitarian entry” program and stop flying folks to the US. Roll back all of Biden’s extensions of TPS and advise these folks that they have 60 days to depart.

Halt all illegal entry. Turn every single one of them away. If they want to apply for asylum, advise them to find a UNHCR office elsewhere in the world. Do not accept applications for asylum from individuals who are already in a third country (Mexico) or from Mexicans. Their governments are not persecuting them.

Tighten the asylum application process

No pleas for asylum should be processed from an airline passenger without proper travel documentation. Require airlines to present, along with the passenger and crew manifest, a screenshot of everyone’s passport page with identifying information and photo. Anyone ditching their documents should be denied entry and flown out immediately.

Cut off funds

Cancel all federal contracts with organizations assisting illegals and those abroad assisting those who intend to enter illegally. Cut off reimbursements to states that provide assistance to illegals. If a state wants to provide a service to someone on its soil, that’s on the voters in that state, not the rest of us in other states. Cut off federal funds for state and local law enforcement to all sanctuary states, cities, etc.

Cancel all US assistance to Ecuador, Panama, Mexico, and any other country that fosters the movement of those intended to enter the US illegally. Remove USAID staff from those countries. Send it back once the migrant hordes are gone and they’ve properly secured their borders.

Stop all federal payments of any sort (medical, housing, food, miscellaneous) to illegals. Immediately cancel all but $1000 on any EBT card issued to illegals. Tell them they have two months to get out of the country before detention, prosecution, and life-long ineligibility ever to enter the US again kick in. How do they prove they left? They apply for a nonimmigrant visa at a US embassy or consulate abroad within 60 days.

Prohibit residence and employment

Provide two months’ notice that all temporary residence and work authorization under the “humanitarian parole” and CPB1 programs will be canceled. Same for asylum applicants since January 20, 2021. Since Biden/Harris paid to fly many in, they should be offered free flights home.

Prohibit change of status

Require those who are seeking to change to a legal status (student, marriage to an American, etc.) to wait abroad for processing. Give them two months to appear at a US embassy in person to register to continue processing their application.

Stop processing asylum applications

Require those who applied for asylum/refugee status to wait abroad. Give them two months to show up in person (entire family) at a US embassy or consulate, where they can make a no-cost application for a visitor visa that will be denied. That application process should include capturing fingerprints (even of minors), photographs, a copy of the DHS documentation of their asylum application, and contact information abroad. If they fail to make such an application, their asylum application should be denied.

Prosecute employers of illegals

Put out a public service announcement that the new 87,000 IRS agents will be following up on any reports of a company employing illegals, and those that have done so will have their work permission revoked. Set up a tip line. Any company found to be employing those ineligible for employment will be IRS audited, and OSHA inspected to within an inch of their lives. Crooked in uno, crooked in omnibus, I say.

Incarcerate illegals

States and localities should be reimbursed for detaining illegals until they can be passed over to federal authorities and processed for deportation. If a routine traffic stop can result in detention and deportation, this will also force folks to reevaluate the benefits of being in the United States. Such detention doesn’t have to be expensive. Sheriff Joe Arpaio showed the way with his adequate but barebones facilities. Those apprehended should never have the ability to wander freely in our society.

Force their hand

Deporting illegals should be one of our highest national priorities. If a country refuses to accept its citizens being returned or refuses to document its citizens for international travel, the United States should start revoking visas issued to that country’s senior officials and their families, including their kids in school in the United States. If that doesn’t work, then refuse to grant admission to the United States for any citizen from that country. They’ll cave.

A great many of those who should not be here will self-deport if faced with dire consequences otherwise. Loss of money, loss of free housing, free food, free medical care, and access to employment will be enough to send most of the recent and some of the long-term illegals away. Rounding up the rest will then be less onerous.

Anony Mee is the nom de blog of a retired public servant who X-tweets at oh_yeahMee.

[maximilianarmada]

It's been absolutely baffling watching the amount of money that Kamala's campaign has raised in such a short time. Her supporters better start focusing on the amount of support that Kamala will receive if elected from the 119th Congress. #JillStein2024 

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4816429-kamala-harris-campaign-fundraising/

[nadiasindi]

Setting Quaker Lobbying Priorities for the 119th Congress

https://youtu.be/Bb9CBrKqYEs?si=L_DsnAlZq3q8ti5-

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Mackenzie Krumme and Jonah Beleckis at WPR:

Vice President and Democratic nominee for president Kamala Harris told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” on Monday that she supports ending the filibuster to restore Roe v. Wade to protect abortion rights nationally. “I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe,” Harris said in an interview that aired Tuesday morning. “And get us to the point where 51 votes would be what we need to actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom and for the ability of every person and every woman to make decisions about their own body and not have their government tell them what to do.” In 2022 as vice president, Harris said she supported ending the filibuster to protect reproductive and voting rights. As a candidate for president in 2019 when she was a U.S. senator, she also said she would support ending the filibuster to pass environmental legislation known as the Green New Deal.

The filibuster can be an attempt to delay or block a vote for a piece of legislation. Eliminating it would effectively allow the U.S. Senate to pass some legislation with a simple majority rather than meeting a 60-vote threshold.  Harris’ interview with “Wisconsin Today” comes days after her fourth campaign visit to the state.

YES!!! Kamala Harris supports eliminating the filibuster to restore abortion rights that were stripped away by Roe v. Wade being overturned in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Harris made those comments on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Wisconsin Today on Monday.

From the 09.23.2024 edition of Wisconsin Public Radio's Wisconsin Today:

[tomorrowusa]

North Carolina may have just gerrymandered 3 US House seats out of Democratic control. But the New York Court of Appeals (what the state supreme court is called in NY) just indirectly gave the Democratic legislature the power to draw a new Congressional map. It will probably result in Dems flipping 3 or 4 seats and possibly as many as 6. In effect, the North Carolina gerrymander has been neutralized – or even more than neutralized.

Under a new map, Democrats could flip as many as six seats currently held by Republicans, enough to seize control of the closely divided House. The New York Republicans who rode a state-level red wave to Congress in 2022 are about to watch their districts shift dramatically to the left. The big question is whether New York Democrats will squander this opportunity with the kind of mismanagement and infighting that led them to disaster last year. Tuesday’s decision was the latest episode in the years-long saga over redistricting in New York. It began when residents voted for a constitutional amendment in 2014 that gave primary responsibility over the process to an Independent Redistricting Commission, or IRC. The 2014 amendment, however, divided the IRC equally between Democrats and Republicans, and the commission deadlocked on a plan after the 2020 census. So the legislature stepped in with its own congressional map—which the New York Court of Appeals struck down as an unlawful partisan gerrymander by a 4–3 vote in 2022. (The Court of Appeals is the state’s top court.) The conservative-leaning majority, appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and led by Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, directed an outside mapmaker to redraw the plans. The mapmaker’s submission was heavily influenced by analyses from experts who specialized in GOP-friendly redistricting. It gave Republicans an edge while pushing two top Democrats into the same district, forcing them to compete against each other. As a result, Republicans seized five or six additional seats (though one was vacated when the House expelled indicted Rep. George Santos).

So we probably have that 2022 NY map to thank for George Santos's brief House career. His district, NY-03, is currently a tossup. But with a redraw of the map, much of that area would probably find itself in bluer territory.

In the peculiar world of NY politics, nothing is simple.

First crack at a new map will go to the IRC (Independent Redistricting Commission). But it will deadlock because it is evenly split along party lines. Then the task goes to the legislature with Dem majorities in both chambers. Dems will get out their mapping software and have a go at it. Republicans will inevitably appeal the new Democratic map and the case will end up back at the New York Court of Appeals which just handed down this decision on Tuesday.

All this has to be done before filing deadlines for the 2024 US House primaries. However, no date has been set for those primaries in NY. The primaries can be held as late as early September. Stay tuned!

[amaranthinewilliamsauthor]

Writing Short #6

When they blamed Muslims we said nothing.

When they blamed black people we said nothing.

When they blamed immigrants we said nothing.

Now, with the world on the brink of change or collapse, we stand above the fiery wreckage and survey all that has been destroyed by our complicity. By our hubris. By our cowardice.

Men have seized power, they always do if given the chance, and they are howling for total control. “The good old days” are brought up more and more, female politicians quietly removed from current elections with little fanfare or explanation. I can feel the shackles, once constrictive until suddenly removed, tighten more bit by bit.

I grew up free, free to make my own decisions, free to choose my own destiny, and free to live my own way. We are no longer free, but now asks the question: were we ever free to begin with? How free were we with staggering student debt? How free were we with stagnant wages and increasing cost of living? Is the world we left behind, where men were men and women had no say, really that bad?

I have lived to see the world become better, the ideals of our forefathers begun to be realized, and now I will live long enough for all of it to come crashing down. We didn’t want to fight, we didn’t want to yell, and we didn’t want to argue. Now our voice is gone, snuffed out by those in power, and our rights taken away because we didn’t want to be mean.

We changed the world once, making it a little brighter and a little better, but now the darkness is snapping at our heels and threatening to plunge the world back into the darkness of ignorance and malice.

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“The new executive order,” a man droned on the news channel, “has commanded government contractors to fire all female staff effective immediately. Outcry from women has been intense, picketing at factories and outside political offices has been broken up by police arresting all who refuse to disperse, but the President has indicated that there will be no mercy for any women who violently oppose this order.”

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“The 119th congress was sworn in yesterday, with Republicans making up a supermajority, it is a historic victory for Evangelicals who petitioned and politicked to ensure that no women or female presenting individuals were elected. The majority leader Evan Smith of Utah stated, “Our first priority is to ensure that the rights of men, to lead their households or to care for their children in event of divorce, is protected to the highest order. God has ordained men as the heads of their households, and not even feminists could challenge the word of the almighty God without suffering his divine retribution.”

“Divine retribution? Is that what they call domestic terrorists?” Stacy’s voice was full of unconcealed malice, “You bomb a few Pride parades and suddenly it’s “gods will” that women’s rights be revoked?”

We all stared at the television, and each one of us fervently prayed that this was a nightmare that we would wake up from soon.

------------------------------------------------------------------- “Tonight the world has dimmed as 38 states ratified the constitutional amendment that will revoke the voting rights of women, and the amendment that also makes it illegal for women to work in any gainful employment. Odd jobs, like babysitting or elder care can be monetarily compensated as long as it doesn’t exceed $2400 a year or $200 a month.” Margaret Atwood’s world of religious persecution of women has now come to pass.

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“Fierce division within the Republican party as many Mormon members introduced new legislation that would allow polyandry within the United States and would legitimize any children resulting from polyandrous marriages,” The newscaster droned on and kept his eyes fixed on the teleprompter, “The legislation would allow marriages of multiple men to a single woman or multiple women to a single man. Same sex marriages are still illegal, and all previous same sex marriages have been dissolved. The age of marriage would be raised to a minimum of sixteen, and judges are not allowed to issue marriage licenses to anyone under the age of sixteen for any reason.”

[electronicwriter]

#Repost @deptvetaffairs • • • • • • May 29-Happy Birthday, Bob Hope May 29-Happy 119th Birthday, Bob Hope, first Honorary U.S. Veteran. Born Leslie Townes Hope, in 1903 London, UK and raised near Cleveland, Ohio. Known as a radio and screen Superstar: stand-up comedian, vaudevillian actor, singer, dancer, author, golfer and super-feather-weight boxer with a 3/1 record, Bob Hope brought smiles and diversion to hundreds of thousands of active duty US servicemen and women around the world during over 50 years of tours with the United Service Organizations (USO). Hope’s career spanned nearly 80 years and he starred in 54 of the 70 films he made, hosted the Academy Awards 19 times, appeared often on stage and television. He was praised for his comedic timing, one-liners and self-deprecating humor, and he is considered an icon of modern American stand-up comedy. But it was his devotion to US servicemen and women which we remember. He, and his crew, brought smiles and diversion to Americans serving their nation in-theatre during World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf War, and on bases in the US. From 1941 to 1991, Hope headlined 57 tours to entertain the troops. In 1997, by an act of Congress, Bob Hope was awarded the status of Honorary Veteran of the United States Armed Forces in recognition of the entertainment he provided U.S. troops during war and peacekeeping missions. Upon receiving the award, he remarked, "I've been given many awards in my lifetime, but to be numbered among the men and women I admire most is the greatest honor I have ever received." Hope was the first US Honorary Veteran awarded. This status has since been shared only with Fisher House founder, Zachary Fisher. Happy Birthday, Bob Hope, and "Thanks for the Memories". “Bob Hope, radio and screen star, sits with men of X Corps, as members of his troupe entertain at Womsan, Korea. October 26, 1950. Cpl. Alex Klein. (Army)” NARA photo/caption. #Veterans #HonoringVets #USArmy #USNavy #USCG #USAirForce #MARINES https://www.instagram.com/p/CeKtE8kLSMr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[cpw-nyc]

Goat carriages in Central Park via Library of Congress.

A herd of hungry goats will save Riverside Park from invasive plants

Posted On Tue, May 7, 2019 By Michelle Cohen

The hilly terrain of the Upper West Side‘s Riverside park is becoming overgrown with invasive plant species, poison ivy included; but the green hordes will be no match for 24 goats that the park plans to unleash on the hard-to-reach patches human gardeners have had a hard time taming. The goats are being brought out of a cushy retirement upstate to graze on a fenced-in area between 119th and 125th Streets, I Love the Upper West Side blog reports.

It won’t be the first time goats roamed free in Manhattan. The name “Gotham” comes from “Goat Town,” the Old English name for the city in the early 1800s when the Upper West Side was an undeveloped backwater where goats outnumbered people. The program has been christened “Goatham” in reference to the historic horny herds.

Between the all-you-can-eat buffet–the herd will return to raze the weeds several times until the greenery stops growing back–and a planned goat popularity contest, the job might even be a step up from retirement. The goats will arrive on May 21 and munch until August 30; no news yet when the contest, which also has a place in city lore, will be, but it will give visitors a chance to gaze at the goats. Sadly, no petting is permitted. You can find out more about the goats here.

The Goats are Coming!    

May 21st — August 30, 2019

The New York City nickname Gotham – meaning “goat town” in Old English – was popularized by Washington Irving in 1807. Though originally meant as a put-down, New Yorkers embraced the name. “Goat town” was an apt description of the undeveloped Upper West Side where goats used to roam.

Today, it applies once again.

On Tuesday, May 21st Riverside Park Conservancy is bringing a herd of goats to Gotham, to create Goatham – a hard-to-access area in the northern part of the Park. The goats, who have all retired from former careers, are from a local farm. They will take up residency for the summer on sloped terrain that is rife with invasive plants. Since goats are naturally effective weed whackers, putting than to work in Goatham is like treating them to an all-you-can-eat buffet. It’s hearty for the goats and good for the environment.

https://riversideparknyc.org/goatham/

https://www.6sqft.com/a-herd-of-hungry-goats-will-save-riverside-park-from-invasive-plants/