#News on Puerto Rico

[aci25]

This is a conversation about our future—about our access to affordable, reliable, and clean energy. But it’s also a conversation about profit for US corporations.

[mysharona1987]

[troythecatfish]

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[batboyblog]

Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week #4

Feb 2-9 2024

The White House announced that a landmark 23 million Americans, 1 in 6 households, have been connected to affordable high speed internet with the help of the Affordable Connectivity Program, saving Americans between $30 and $75 every month on their internet bill. 4 Million ACP users are seniors, 1/4th of households on the program are African American and 1/4th are Latino, and it supports 320,000 households on Tribal lands. Sadly the program will be forced to end if Republicans in Congress continue to block new funding

The White House announced $5 billion for a National Semiconductor Technology Center, focusing on research and development as well as workforce needs. This is part of an effort under the CHIPS and Science Act to make America a world leader in science and grow jobs for the 21st century. This will include hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in workforce development

The EPA announced finalized rules that will strength air quality standard around fine particle pollution, AKA soot. The new stronger rules are projected to prevent 4,200 premature deaths and save Americans $46 billion in health costs by 2032. Soot is particularly harmful to those with lung and heart illnesses, children and those with asthma. Industrial soot is more common in low income communities

The Department of Transportation announced $1.5 Billion investment in America's bus systems. The bulk of the money will go helping local transport authorities buy low or no emission buses. There will also be investment in bus facilities.

President Biden signed a memorandum directing a strengthening of human rights safe guards around weapons transferred from US stockpiles to allied nations. The directive seeks to guarantee no arms are transferred that might be used to violate human rights.

HHS and HUD announced a join program partnering with 8 states and DC to help streamline an all of government response to homelessness. This is an off shoot of the $3.16 billion dollar investment amounted by HUD last week to end homelessness in America

The Department of Energy and FEMA released the findings of a two year study that projections Puerto Rico will be able to be 100% renewable energy by 2050. DoE also announced that by the end of the 30,000 low income Puerto Ricans will be able to apply for a solar power program, the first investments in a billion dollar DoE program for the island's renewable energy future

Department of Transportation announced $417 million dollar loan to the North Carolina Turnpike Authority to complete a major transportation overhaul in the greater Raleigh area

The EPA and Department of Energy announced a joint plan to invest federal funds to help measure and reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas production. Methane is the second largest green house gas after CO2 and is responsible for 30% of global warming in the last 200 years. This comes after the EPA pushed new rules to fine oil and gas manufacturers for excess methane emissions.

The Senate confirmed 2 more Biden nominated federal judges. This brings the total number of Biden judges to 177 For the first time in history a majority of a President's judicial nominees are not white men, Biden has nominated a majority women and people of color Biden also nominated 4 more federal judges, including two LGBT candidates. If they are confirmed it'll bring Biden's LGBT judge total to 11 tying with President Obama for the most LGBT people put on the federal bench

[schrodingersbabe]

debí tirar más fotos 💯🇵🇷

[myut0eve]

Puerto Rican Skyla because god gave me hands to draw with

[idemirose]

[miraclesinthestars]

[originalleftist]

Trump and MAGA revealed what they are at today's rally at Madison Square Garden-a clear attempt to invoke and recreate the infamous pro-Nazi rally there in 1939.

As one would expect, the rally was full of virulent racism and fear-mongering.

Of particular note was one speaker's racist comment comparing Puerto Rico, a US territory in the Caribbean, to garbage, which is getting backlash, and some frantic backpedaling from Florida Republican senatorial candidate Rick Scott.

While Puerto Rico does not have statehood, there are a LOT of Puerto Rican voters elsewhere in the country, particularly in Florida, so this is likely to backfire on Republicans. As of 2020, 13% of all Latino voters were Puerto Rican in origin- the second largest block after Mexican Americans.

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[st5lker]

not to get fake deep or anything but does anyone else feel like these last few months and heading into this year is weirdly punctuated by like… grief. it feels like a lot of things we kind of assumed would be here forever are going away and its a really strange feeling. and its weird bc it applies to big things everyone is aware of like los angeles or the us tiktok ban but its also been applying to a lot of things in my personal life and the life of a lot of other people i know. or i guess id say its more broadly change than grief because its not like im really that attached to every one of them like it feels dramatic to call reacting to tiktok being banned in the us “grief” but like ive spent more nights than usual recently kind of looking back to even just like fall 2023 and feeling like that was forever ago because so much has changed so quickly. and some of that change is good (like luigi and everything he spawned) and some of it is bad but its all kind of scary. and i know that happens literally all the time and every year but idk something in my gut just makes this all feel like its a bit more. like 2025 will end up feeling more like a divider between eras than most of us anticipated

[mysharona1987]

[lobuenodepuertorico]

Bad Bunny presentando su nuevo album en víspera de Reyes DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS

[thelastharbinger]

I need us all to be more urgently concerned with the current state of journalism.

[reality-detective]

The world's largest telescope in Puerto Rico collapses. 🤔