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notacat , (edited )

Do they have a godfundme for legal support? They clearly need some civil rights lawyering up to protect their town. Holy crap this is some jim crow shit.

notacat ,

Sure it’s possible it was “designed to fail” but not because the wrong method was used but because our current extremist supreme court would have used any excuse to stop it. It was based on the same HEROES Act that Trump’s pause of student loans was based on and the act explicitly says “waive or modify” loans so if Biden’s cancelation was illegal then so was Trump’s pause.

Here is a quote from the DOJ: “The plain text of the HEROES Act authorizes the Secretary to “waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to” the federal student loan program, … We conclude that targeting relief towards those individuals who suffered financial hardship because of COVID -19 and who otherwise satisfy the requirements of the Act accords with the Act’s requirement that the waiver or modification “be necessary to ensure that” student loan recipients who are “affected” by a national emergency “are not placed in a worse position financially” with respect to their loans as a result.”

From this law blog

notacat ,

You could do an obstacle course or pieces of one, like a balance beam, monkey bars, gymnastic rings. Some people do full-on ninja warrior shit. And it’s also possible to put in drought-tolerant or native plants that mostly only require work in the first couple years of getting established.

notacat ,

The U.S. apparently hasn’t been starting enough wars lately.

“Research published in 2021 by Vescio showed that people who embrace a particular kind of traditional masculinity — women as well as men — were more likely to support Trump in the 2016 and 2020 elections. Other studies have indicated that hostile attitudes toward women were associated with support for Trump in both presidential elections, as is the perception that the U.S. has grown “too soft and feminine.”

“We’ve Changed the Game”: Teamsters Win Historic UPS Contract ( teamster.org )

Today, the Teamsters reached the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS, protecting and rewarding more than 340,000 UPS Teamsters nationwide. The overwhelmingly lucrative contract raises wages for all workers, creates more full-time jobs, and includes dozens of workplace protections and improvements....

notacat ,

Oh don’t worry. They’ll just raise prices and blame it on the rising cost of labor.

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