Notices by PunkLawyer (punklawyer@mastodon.sdf.org), page 2

@bmacDonald94 I didn't read Thomas Paine until I'd been a lawyer for around 6 years and took a break in '93 around 6 months to move from California to Oregon and take the Oregon bar. I was so embarrassed when I read his powerful and inspiring words, that explained why tyrants had no legitimacy and the government is only legitimate when it rules with the consent of the governed. I have benefited a great deal from what I learned in *The Crisis* and *The Rights of Man.*.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, WHEN WE CELEBRATE THE COURAGE OF PATRIOTS WHO ESTABLISHED OUR NATION IN LIBERTY ONLY TO HAVE OUR LEADERS CRAVENLY DELIVER ALL THE POWERS OF THE PEOPLE ON A SILVER PLATTER TO A CORRUPT OLIGARCH WHOSE LIFE IS A CHRONICLE OF CRIME AND PERVERSION

#FEARANDLOATHINGATSCOTUS

SORRY TO TELL YOU MOFOS, BUT THAT AIN'T WATER -- IT'S PURE TOXIC WASTE!

Dunlap suspects it may be related to the injection of fracking wastewater. West Texas oil producers pump millions of gallons of so-called produced water—laced with chemical lubricants & hazmats: arsenic, bromide, strontium, mercury, barium, and organic compounds, particularly benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene & xylenes—underground every day for disposal, often into old oil and gas wells.  

https://www.fastcompany.com/91142197/texas-oil-wells-water
#toxicwaste

The bullets rained down
On the crowd in Vegas,
--But they weren't machine guns,
So don't blame us --
That's the tune we hear from SCOTUS.
Congress marinates in blood
Hollywood worships killers
Yaweh stalks Palestine, crazy as ever
I think we took a wrong
On the way to the Pearly Gates.

*FREEDOM OF THE BRAIN* CAN EXIST IN OPPRESSION, LEADING TO *FREEDOM OF LIFE AND COUNTRY*

'Russia now is like 1984': Inside a Russian dystopian library https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckrr1k1xl0lo

These books show our readers that the power of autocratic regimes is not forever,” Alexander explains. “That every system has its weak points and that everyone who understands the situation around them can preserve their freedom. Freedom of the brain can give freedom of life and of country.”

https://apnews.com/article/native-americans-voting-rights-ed175f6bbdc1b3a078bd675be8ac0b04

Native Americans in New Mexico — home to 22 federally recognized tribal communities and holdings of an Oklahoma-based tribe — were among the last to gain access to voting, decades after the U.S. extended birthright citizenship to the land’s original inhabitants on June 2, 1924 through the Indian Citizenship Act.

That legislation took shape in the aftermath of World War I in which thousands of Native Americans had volunteered to serve overseas in the military.

@StillIRise1963

Diets will be changing as the planetary climactic collapse undermines thousands of years of agricultural development.

I KNEW I SHOULDN'T HAVE TRUSTED BEZOS WITH #WAPO
https://www.lawdork.com/p/washington-post-bombshell-washington

NEW MOMS NEED LOVE

https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2024/05/19/1251531849/what-future-for-postpartum-care-in-america-could-be

What if a space like this existed when I needed it — would I have not faced such overwhelming challenges — from postpartum depression (PPD), to the critical need for self-care and community. Research conducted by Postpartum International Support shows that although perinatal mental health (PMH) disorders affect 800,000 people ayear, only 25% of them receive support.

GOOD TO KNOW YOU CAN STILL GET A PROPER INSULT IN NYC

Guy just looks at me and goes, 'I'm not scooping your fucking bagel, bro,'" Offer said. "'He's like, 'Get the fuck out of here with that shit.'" The TikToker took it in stride and went to the next place.

A California man received hate for asking for 'scooped bagel' in NYC https://www.insider.com/california-los-angeles-new-york-city-man-scooped-bagel-viral-2023-10

@log

It all comes down to this

#HannahDreier got a #Pulitzer for her MYT article revealing how child labor laws are being flouted in, among other states, Alabama.

In textile factories, meat plants & roofing companies, immigrant children work in clear violation of the law, & few folks seem that concerned, especially at the #Alabama Attorney General’s office.

Marshall, it seems, is more preoccupied with what’s happening in the Big Apple than who’s working for Fruit of the Loom.
https://www.al.com/news/2024/05/whitmire-what-was-alabamas-ag-doing-at-the-trump-trial-not-his-job.html

#childlabor

@br00t4c

Wherefore God created mushrooms and marijuana.

@cy @BalooUriza

There must be a better way.

@cy @BalooUriza

Reveals the truth that access to borrowing is all that wealth really means, at the ordinary human level of the economy.

DIFFERENT RULES FOR DIFFERENT TRIBES

if Swedish workers can bring #Musk to heel with solidarity and collective action, then there’s no reason in theory why workers in other countries couldn’t do the same. It might take a lot longer in the U.S., but at the end of the day without the brain and muscle of workers, not a single wheel can turn.

#Tesla Faces Off Against Nordic Labor Solidarity - The American Prospect
https://prospect.org/labor/2023-11-21-tesla-sweden-union-sympathy-strikes/

#sweden
#labor

SOUNDS LIKE THEY'RE CONSULTING A HANDMAID'S TALE