#the us sucks

[lordbkspooky]

Yall erm...important stuffs, it passed senate. We. Are. Screwed.

[morganzedumb]

What the Overturning of CHEVRON Affects

The overturning of CHEVRON happened on June 28, and it affects how regulatory agencies make their regulations, such as the FDA. This means that companies could put ingredients that can harm us into our food. This includes meat produce.

It also affects how drugs are approved for medical use, how sanitary regulations are made, could decrease the amount of worker protections we have. This is because local judges can make the decisions on what regulations are allowed and which ones will be thrown out.

Local governments are NOT qualified to make these decisions, the ones who actually are qualified, the doctors and scientists, no longer are in charge of making the regulations.

This could affect how air and land pollution is prevented, affecting the health of thousands in this country and possibly others. 

This could affect how sanitary regulations in restaurants are made.

In truth, this will only harm the people, because it doesn’t allow the experts to make the decisions, and instead gives all the power to the Judiciary Branch of the US Government.

[colacat53]

Melami:*summoning the spirit of George Washington* What are your opinions on America's current state?

George Washington: Absolutely horrible why is everything beneficial towards certain people illegal?

[elijah-loyal]

i have such a weird experience with covid since i lived overseas during the duration of it, but yeah.

i can confidently say that the middle east government at least fucking tried some stuff

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[saltywinteradult]

[e-to-the-v]

I need Saturday to come sooner. I need the life series to distract me from the state of the world

[sapphia]

USA please listen to me: the price of “teaching them a lesson” is too high. take it from New Zealand, who voted our Labour government out in the last election because they weren’t doing exactly what we wanted and got facism instead.

Trans rights are being attacked, public transport has been defunded, tax cuts issued for the wealthy, they've mass-defunded public services, cut and attacked the disability funding model, cut benefits, diverted transport funding to roads, cut all recent public transport subsidies, cancelled massive important infrastructure projects like damns and ferries (we are three ISLANDS), fast tracked mining, oil, and other massive environmentally detrimental projects and gave the power the to approve these projects singularly to three ministers who have been wined and dined by lobbyists of the companies that have put the bids in to approve them while one of the main minister infers he will not prioritise the protection of endangered species like the archeys frog over mining projects that do massive environmental harm. They have attacked indigenous rights in an attempt to negate the Treaty of Waitangi by “redefining it”; as a backup, they are also trying to remove all mentions of the treaty from legislation starting with our Child Protection laws no longer requiring social workers to consider the importance of Maori children’s culture when placing those children; when the Waitangi Tribunal who oversees indigenous matters sought to enquire about this, the Minister for Children blocked their enquiry in a breach of comity that was condemned in a ruling — too late to do anything — by our Supreme Court. They have repealed labour protections around pay and 90 day trials, reversed our smoking ban, cancelled our EV subsidy, cancelled our water infrastructure scheme that would have given Maori iwi a say in water asset management, cancelled our biggest city’s fuel tax, made our treasury and inland revenue departments less accountable, dispensed of our Productivity Commission, begun work on charter schools and military boot camps in an obvious push towards privatisation, cancelled grants for first home buyers, reduced access to emergency housing, allowed no cause evictions, cancelled our Maori health system that would have given Maori control over their own public medical care and funding, cut funding of services like budgeting advice and food banks, cancelled the consumer advocacy council, cancelled our medicine regulations, repealed free prescriptions, deferred multiple hospital builds, failed to deliver on pre-election medical promises, reversed a gun ban created in response to the mosque shootings, brought back three strikes = life sentence policy, increased minimum wage by half the recommended amount, cancelled fair pay for disabled workers, reduced wheelchair services, reversed our oil and gas exploration ban, cancelled our climate emergency fund, cut science research funding including climate research, removed limits on killing sea lions, cut funding for the climate change commission, weakened our methane targets, cancelled Significant National Areas protections, have begun reversing our ban on live exports. Much of this was passed under urgency.

It’s been six months.

[morganzedumb]

Why the Overturning of CHEVRON is Complete Bullshit

Hi, my name is Morgan. You may or may not have heard, but on June 28th, 2024, the United States Supreme Court decided to overturn CHEVRON. You may be asking what CHEVRON is, how it affects you, and why you should care about it. I will be explaining all of that in this essay I’m writing at 4:00 AM CDT on June 30.

To begin, CHEVRON was a series of rulings made by Congress which allows for Agencies like the EPA and FDA to use their reasonable interpretations on congressional rulings. This allows the agencies to help make sure produce is safe for human consumption, to make sure weapons are stored safely, and to make sure anything radioactive is handled with care.

These are only a few examples of what CHEVRON does. When the Supreme Court overturned CHEVRON, they decided for federal judges to make the decisions on what regulations should be in place for different things, such as what should be allowed in foods, what drugs are approved for medical use. With this decision, the experts, like doctors and scientists, are no longer in charge of deciding what can be safe for us to consume, sanitary regulations in restaurants, worker regulations, and healthcare.

Local governments are not qualified to make these decisions! This could widely affect the health of the whole country, the kids, the elderly, everyone!

This ruling could cause different laws to be torn down, such as the Clean Air Act, which limits air pollution.

In truth, this is just a power grab by the Judiciary Branch of the US Government. They now have all the power because local judges now get to make the decision on what can be consumed by the people, what can be used in the medical industry, how companies must treat their workers.

SPREAD KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THIS!! THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW!!

[cozylittleartblog]

cant tell you how bad it feels to constantly tell other artists to come to tumblr, because its the last good website that isn't fucked up by spoonfeeding algorithms and AI bullshit and isn't based around meaningless likes

just to watch that all fall apart in the last year or so and especially the last two weeks

there's nowhere good to go anymore for artists.

edit - a lot of people are saying the tags are important so actually, you'll look at my tags.

#please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads#in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite

[royalmeatsuithostage]

I hate it here

Living in the U.S. under its disgusting level of horrors both on home soil and foreign land has solidified my decision to never have children.

[greygullhaven]

The one that gets me is the dirty looks we used to get when we would be buying our groceries for the month with what we used to get on food stamps. And god forbid among the cheap ass ramen, canned veggies, and everything else frugal we dared to get one package of nice meat.. ya know... for an anniversary dinner or a birthday... like Im sorry being poor means I cant afford a $20 splurge to celebrate my anniversary? F you!

[iero]

Full offense, but I think milk substitution charges should not exist at coffee shops. It is NOT my or anyone's fault that they cannot have dairy and that's that.

[man-peach-reborn]

I feel like there's meme potential here

[basket-cas]

While Healthcare has a HUGE impact on our happiness levels, there's also so much more to consider!

How individualistic we are here.

How little 3rd places there are (much less ones that have any kind of green which leads to my third point..)

We keep loosing the little nature we do have. I mean think about it, so many of us live in big cities that just keep expanding. Biophilia is real and important!

What about job security?

The state of our economy??

It's getting expensive to enjoy even the little things in life. Owning a pet, grabbing coffee, watching tv.

And I can go on and on.

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[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

[fainting-fat-cat]

Existing in this economy?

Brittany Ojeda