Notices by beSpacific (bespacific@newsie.social)

Sen Ron #Wyden, D-OR, today introduced new legislation to restore balance among the 3 branches of #government, increase #transparency to improve #public trust in America’s #courts, and modernize courts to ensure greater access to justice for more Americans. Wyden’s #Judicial Modernization &Transparency Act would modernize the courts by expanding the #SupremeCourt to 15 justices over three presidential terms. #law #SCOTUS #democracy #constitution #MAGA Legislative text https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/judicial_modernization_and_transparency_act.pdf

ACKKKK #Trump will tap #Musk to lead proposed government #efficiency commission <lol>. In a recent conversation on #X, entrepreneur suggested Trump form a commission tackling #government spending as a way to address #inflation. In a speech today outlining suite of #economic proposals former president said #Musk had agreed to be the head of the commission. Trump also said he would cut the corporate tax rate to 15% for companies that make products in the U.S. WSJ free read https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-to-adopt-elon-musks-proposal-for-government-efficiency-commission-e5c05514?st=wyd4usqakcjpihm&mod=djemwhatsnews

The #SupremeCourt is hardly a #court of #law at all. It is best understood as a third #political branch of #government, but one that consists of just nine #unelected people with lifetime appointments and zero #accountability #corruption #SCOTUS #courts #GOP #MAGA #project2025 #HeritageFoundation #federalistsociety #LeonardLeo #graft #paytoplay #democracy #constitution #justice #civilliberties #freedom https://www.salon.com/2024/08/30/how-john-roberts-reshaped-the-law--and-gutted-the-voting-rights-act/

Supreme Court Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson said she was "concerned" about court's landmark decision that granted former #Trump #immunity from #prosecution for #officialacts he took while in office. Jackson, in an interview with "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell, suggested the #ruling gives Trump special treatment compared to anyone else in the #criminaljustice system. #democracy #legalresearch #courts #election2020 #peaceful #transferofpower https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-trump-immunity-ruling/?stream=top

#Scientists have discovered a #mutation in #SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes #COVID19, that plays a key role in its ability to infect the central nervous system. The findings may help #scientists understand its #neurological symptoms and the mystery of #longCOVID and they could one day even lead to specific treatments to protect and clear the virus from the #brain. #medicine #publichealth #covid #spikeprotein https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-08-spike-mutations-sars-cov-infect.html #vaccines #healthcare

Why #FactCheckers Mangle Facts To Provide #DonaldTrump Cover. Yet more #journalists embrace #pedantry, fallacious #logic, and outright #misinformation to insulate # Trump from accurate #Democratic attacks. #Election2024 #democracy #corruption #lies #facts #media #journalism https://www.offmessage.net/p/fact-checkers-provide-donald-trump-cover

#Republican State Officials Do Trump’s #Election #Denying Prep Work For Him https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/republican-state-officials-do-trumps-election-denying-prep-work-for-him #election2024

Some Basic #Facts about Language for #Political #Bullshit Artists. Erika R Alpert, PhD - As a #linguistic #anthropologist, I take a few things for granted, because they are pretty useful for understanding how and why people do what they do, and have been empirically demonstrated across the work of linguists, #anthropologists, and #sociologists for, say, the last 50–60 years. https://erikaalpert.com/2024/08/20/some-basic-facts-about-language-for-political-bullshit-artists/ #factcheck #factchecking #journalism #newspapers #washingtonpost

Purging the Demons at #DNC2024 After 8 years of being bullied by T#rump, #Covid19, #January6th and fears of #civilwar, #KamalaHarris and #TimWalz are offering a catharsis. https://theconnector.substack.com/p/purging-the-demons-at-dnc2024 #democracy #election2024 #voting #dictator https://theconnector.substack.com/p/purging-the-demons-at-dnc2024 #hope #joy #hardwork #elections #trust #faith #education #truth #justice #democracy #jan6 #insurrection #politics
#maga #gop #democrats

@ProPublica - We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s #SupremeCourt #Supermajority The inside story of how #LeonardLeo built a machine that remade the American #legalsystem — and what he plans to do next. #courts #justice #democracy #corruption #maga #gop #civilliberties #RoeVWade #WomensHealthcare #abortion #privacy #SCOTUS #federalistsociety #courts #judges #contraception #birthcontrol #gunviolence #guncontrol https://www.propublica.org/article/we-dont-talk-about-leonard-leo-supreme-court-supermajority #billionaires #dobbs #OpusDei

WTF #Billionaires just talk and talk and talk - and then get their statements removed from online just like that - we surely cannot do this - they are so #special Ex- #Google #CEO says successful #AI #startups can steal #IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’ “But if nobody uses your product, it doesn’t matter that you stole all the content,” #EricSchmidt said during a recent talk at #Stanford that has been taken offline. https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220658/google-eric-schmidt-stanford-talk-ai-startups-openai #OpenAI

#Trump #MAGA #GOP #billionaires have created this judicial #hellscape from which there is no exit - #SupremeCourt Rocked by New #Leak of Bitter #Abortion Split. A months-long internal feud among the justices over a key case about #abortion access in #Idaho has been leaked—the latest internal communication to escape the high court. #democracy #civilliberties #courts #SCOTUS #constitution #corruption #ethics #WomenRights #justice #paytoplay #womenshealthcare #healthcare https://www.thedailybeast.com/supreme-court-rocked-by-new-leak-on-bitter-split-over-idaho-emergency-abortion-ruling

Twice-yearly shots used to treat #AIDS were 100% effective in preventing new infections in women.There were no infections in the young women/girls that got the shots in a study of about 5,000 in South Africa & Uganda In a group given daily prevention pills, roughly 2% ended up catching #HIV from infected sex partners. The results in women were published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine and discussed at an AIDS conference in Munich. https://apnews.com/article/africa-aids-hiv-infection-prevention-shot-sunlenca-a94b83717f5b61987822335e11398428 #publichealth #africa

7 in 10 #Americans think #SupremeCourt #justices put #ideology over #impartiality: AP-NORC poll #corruption #courts #GOP #MAGA #Trump #civilliberties #democracy #constitution #legalresearch #abortion #publichealth #womenshealth #politics #political #impartiality #republicans #education #separationofpowers #gunviolence #SecondAmendment
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-presidential-immunity-abortion-gun-2918d3af5e37e44bbad9c3526506c66d

The #BloodBrainBarrier, a network of blood vessels and tissues that nurtures and protects the brain from harmful substances circulating in the blood—is disrupted in #AlzheimerDisease. Now, researchers at #MayoClinic and collaborators have uncovered unique #molecular signatures of blood-brain barrier #dysfunction that could point to new ways to diagnose and treat the disease. Their findings are published in Nature Communications.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-vascular-brain-linked-alzheimer-disease.html #healthcare #publichealth #dementia

Justice Sonia #Sotomayor admitted being moved 2 tears by #Supreme Court decisions that she did not agree w, reflecting on her emotional experiences in her time on Court. Sotomayor shared her emotional response to cases in speech at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, highlighting her personal struggles, dedication to her work. The 69-year-old Justice made these comments during an event honoring her at #Harvard, where she received an award for her contributions. #insurrection #constitution #democracy

Faced w barrage of ethics scandals that have tarred #SupremeCourt as riddled w #corruption, Justice #ClarenceThomas has sought to cast them as merely an outgrowth of politics in Washington, D.C. “It’s a hideous place,” Thomas said recently of the nation’s capital, in some of his most extensive remarks about his ethical lapses, noting that he’s been subject to “nastiness” and “lies.” Thomas added, “It’s one of the reasons we like R.V.ing.” #RV #graft #paytoplay #IRS #taxes https://newrepublic.com/article/181627/clarence-thomas-rv-loan-democrats-letter

New Book Unpeels Bananas Story of #ElonMusk’s #Twitter Takeover #socialmedia #billionaire. Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover may have dominated news cycle for months but as Zoe Schiffer’s new book Extremely Hardcore proves there’s still a lot more 2 learn. Schiffer, a veteran tech journalist who worked as senior reporter at The Verge before becoming managing editor at Platformer, meticulously details chaos bef, after Musk’s much-covered coup, surfacing new details of takeover. https://www.thedailybeast.com/zoe-schiffers-extremely-hardcore-tackles-elon-musks-twitter-takeover

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Call Congress: Demand #SupremeCourt #TermLimits - #Lawmakers in the #Senate and the #House have introduced #BrennanCenter endorsed #legislation that would implement 18-year term limits for Supreme Court justices. Term limits for the highest #court in the country would advance a simple principle: in a #democracy, no one should have power for life. https://brennan.gospringboard.com/content/term-limits-legislation #corruption #billionaires #maga #justice https://brennan.gospringboard.com/content/term-limits-legislation