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JdeB

#TaxTheRich #Gary #UK

"Why are we taxing working people more than billionaires?" [ ± 1min]
by garyseconomics
If you are interested in a bit longer video of a speech Gary had, where he gets more specific than a soundbite:
-> Gary Stevenson demands wealth tax outside Treasury <- [8:26 min]
-> youtube.com/watch?v=hNmroSMVDYc <-

youtube.com/shorts/891LWFGYMrY

Quote on the short by ge:
"Mar 28
2025
On BBC Question Time, 27 March 2025
UNDERSTAND, SHARE & PUSH BACK"

Quote on the longer by Politics Joe:
"Mar 25, 2025
At a rally to tax the super-rich outside of the Treasury, Gary Stevenson spoke to the crowd about the need to tax millionaires."

#CapitalismIsFailingYou #FightOligarchy
#TimeToResist #WorkersUnite #UnionStrong

YouTubeWhy are we taxing working people more than billionaires?By Garys Economics
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Ben Fulton

Gary Public Transit Corporation rolling out expanded bus, bikeshare services this spring

"The Cycle219 previously made bicycles available for rent through a mobile app at four hubs in Gary's Miller Beach and Downtown areas, and this year the GPTC plans to add at least two more. Plans for hubs at University Park near Indiana University Northwest and another at Calumet College of St. Joseph in Whiting have been finalized"

masstransitmag.com/management/

Mass Transit · {"dep"=>{"version"=>0, "sc"=>0}, "__v_isRef"=>true, "__v_isShallow"=>false, "_rawValue"=>"IN: Gary Public Transit Corporation rolling out expanded bus, bikeshare services this spring", "_value"=>"IN: Gary Public Transit Corporation rolling out expanded bus, bikeshare services this spring"}The Gary Public Transit Corporation (GPTC) will be offering expanded bus and bikeshare services to customers this spring and summer.
#Gary#BikeShare#PublicTransport
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Ben Fulton

Initiative to decarbonize Gary steel industry

"Steel production is responsible for roughly 7-9 percent of global CO2 emissions, largely due to its reliance on coal and traditional blast furnace processes. Regionally, the steel industry is also a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions...we seek to document the ideas being pursued to significantly reduce the carbon footprint of steel production and to learn what challenges remain"

#gary

news.iu.edu/northwest/live/new

news.iu.edu · Community conversation series on carbon removal beginning soon Community leaders to discuss modernization, investing in steel industry
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Chuck Darwin

J D #Vance’s speech at the Republican National Convention was all but indistinguishable from the claims of the #John #Birch #Society in the 1970s.

Senior Birch leader #Gary #Allen (father of Axios executive editor Michael Allen) wrote in his 1971 book, "None Dare Call It Conspiracy", that
a group he called the “#Insiders,” consisting of “power-seeking billionaires,”
sought to ➡️ squeeze the middle class “to death by a vise.”

This would be done by pursuing a strategy of tension:

the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations would channel money to Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panthers, and a whole sordid host of New Left organizations to stir up trouble in the streets
“while the Limousine Liberals at the top in New York and Washington are Socializing us.
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A DICTATORSHIP OF THE ELITE DISGUISED AS THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT.”

The hidden hand of the Insiders, he said, lay behind the radical tumult of the late 1960s and early 1970s, all at the expense of the American middle class.

Crucially, although "None Dare Call It Conspiracy" included anti-capitalist elements,
it was still profoundly hostile to socialism and communism,
-- with Allen at one point arguing that both ideologies were simply different terms for monopoly capitalism.

Bircherite producerism did not prevail in the 1970s,
either within the contested space of American right-wing politics or national policy.

🔸“Woke capital” is used essentially in the same way as “the Insiders,”

🔸and not just by J. D. Vance.

#Andy #Olivastro, the director of coalition relations at #Heritage, defined it as “a top-down anti-democratic movement . . . on the part of some of the biggest and most important names in American business . . . to change the definition of capitalism itself.”

The only major distinction between “woke capitalism” and the Insiders is that Allen insisted that the core goal of the conspiracy was power as such,
whereas “woke capital” is more interested in ensuring liberal and left-wing social policy.

Nonetheless, today’s right-wing critics of neoliberalism are fundamentally embedded in the same political tradition.

Thankfully, Vance, one of the most unpopular vice-presidential candidates of the past fifty years,
is a poor messenger for his Bircherite economic politics.
jacobin.com/2024/07/vance-trum

jacobin.comJ. D. Vance Is Summoning the John Birch SocietyFar from a novel form of populism, J. D. Vance’s appeals are indistinguishable from the economic vision of the 1970s John Birch Society.
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Danny Boling ☮️

A rare #win against the #weapons #industry in a #lawsuit filed in August, 1999. 🥳 (that's not a typo)

"A #judge ruled that a law passed by Indiana’s #GOP supermajority that tried to retroactively prevent cities from suing gun manufacturers goes too far. The decision allows [#Gary]’s decadeslong suit against gunmakers to continue."

propublica.org/article/gary-in
Historic #Gun Suit Survives Serious #Legal #Threat Engineered by #Indiana #Republicans

ProPublicaHistoric Gun Suit Survives Serious Legal Threat Engineered by Indiana RepublicansA judge ruled that a law passed by Indiana’s GOP supermajority that tried to retroactively prevent cities from suing gun manufacturers goes too far. The decision allows one city’s decadeslong suit against gunmakers to continue.
#IAmDB
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Chuck Darwin


Judge #Aileen M. #Cannon’s stunning dismissal this week of the most serious charges faced by Donald Trump put her on shaky legal ground, according to experts,

who say she is🔸 on track to be reversed on appeal
🔸 and could even be removed from the case
— an extraordinary, but not unheard of step.

Because of the political calendar, however, any legal repercussions could be short-lived.

Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified national security records and obstruction of government efforts to retrieve the material
🔸may not matter if the former president and current Republican nominee is elected in November.

If he gets back to the White House, Trump could pressure his Justice Department to close the case.

He could also promote Cannon to the very appeals court that will soon examine her decision to toss the case.

Cannon’s finding that special counsel #Jack #Smith was improperly appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Trump
conflicts with numerous past court decisions and the nation’s long history
— during both Democratic and Republican administrations
— of allowing #independent #prosecutors to handle high-profile instances of alleged wrongdoing.


⭐️Smith has filed notice of his plans to appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit,
which reviews decisions from the Florida district where Cannon,
a relatively inexperienced judge appointed by Trump in 2020, sits.

⭐️The court has already rebuked her twice for her handling of other aspects of the classified documents case,
sending what Yale Law School professor Akhil Amar described as a message that her decisions had been “way out of line.”

The question now, Amar said, is
💥how quickly and dramatically the appeals court acts on the latest ruling, 💥
which dismissed the entire indictment for Trump and his two co-defendants.

“They may not want to stick their head in a #buzz #saw if they can just let the case take its slow, deliberative course,” he said.

In her 93-page decision, Cannon said there is no specific statute authorizing the attorney general to appoint a special counsel.

She also said the Constitution requires someone with Smith’s authority to be confirmed by the Senate.

The judge acknowledged the tradition of special-attorney-like figures in moments of political scandal involving high-level government officials,
from #Watergate to #Iran-#contra to Russia’s attempts to #interfere in the 2016 election.

But Cannon said the practice of appointing such independent prosecutors has been inconsistent and based on a “spotty historical backdrop.”

Smith, she wrote, is “a private citizen exercising the full power of a United States Attorney, and with very little oversight or supervision.”

Conservative legal groups have long questioned the constitutionality of special counsel appointments.

Cannon repeatedly cited Justice #Clarence #Thomas, who raised the issue in a solo opinion this month as part of the Supreme Court’s decision granting Trump broad immunity from prosecution for official acts.

That Supreme Court case focused on Smith’s separate election interference prosecution of Trump in D.C.

She also embraced the arguments in a law review article by #Gary #Lawson of Boston University School of Law and #Steven G. #Calabresi, a Northwestern law professor and 🔸a co-founder of the Federalist Society, with which Cannon is affiliated.

Other legal experts, however, have joined former Justice Department officials and Smith’s legal team in saying
her ruling ignores the history of special counsel appointments and flouts Supreme Court precedent.

Most notably, the high court in 1974 unanimously required President Richard M. #Nixon to hand over recordings to a special prosecutor as part of the #Watergate investigation.

In that opinion, the justices endorsed the office, citing several statutes under which the attorney general had
“delegated the authority to represent the United States in these particular matters to a Special Prosecutor with unique authority and tenure.”

While lower-court judges are bound to follow the Supreme Court’s lead,
🔸Cannon took the unusual step of finding she was not required to abide by that aspect of the high court’s opinion in U.S. v. Nixon,
🔸saying the case did not directly address the validity of the office of special counsel.

Michael J. Gerhardt, a University of North Carolina law professor who teaches about constitutional conflicts between presidents and Congress, said
Cannon cannot just brush aside a unanimous high court ruling.

“For a trial judge to ignore it is judicial malpractice,” he said, describing her most recent decision as
part of a “pattern of bias that leads her to endorse wacky or unfounded arguments,
and that’s a problem if you’re a judge.”
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Tossing Trump’s case was risky for Judge Cannon — at least for nowBy Ann E. Marimow
Continued thread
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Nonilex

#Gary Farro is reportedly a bit irritated w/ #Blanche, #Trump's lawyer. Blanche suggests that Farro opened up a shell corporation, & Farro bites back: “I don’t open up shell corporations. I open up LLC accounts.” Blanche is directing jurors' focus to what #MichaelCohen did -- that is, effectively start a shell corporation that was used to pay #StormyDaniels. It’s a way to attack Cohen through Farro, making the former fixer sound deceptive & potentially criminal.

#TrumpTrial#law
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joe•iuculano :mastodon:

Via the #AssociatedPress

~25 yrs aftr suing firearms ind 4 failing 2 prevent illegal sales, city of #Gary won when judge ordered gun mfctr to hand yrs of production & sales records

But in March, Gov. signed law retroactively banning cities from bringing such lawsuits, halting case. #Republicans: gun industry=not responsible 4 illegal sales. Critics say legislation shows lawmakers don’t consider ending gun crime a priority, reflects apathy 4 Gary’s maj #Black residents

apnews.com/article/gary-indian

AP News · Why did the Indiana GOP kill Gary's lawsuit to stop illegal gun sales?By ISABELLA VOLMERT
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