According to one prominent measure of judicial ideology, called Judicial Common Space scores, Kavanaugh would fall to the right of Gorsuch and Justice Samuel Alito, and just to the left of the arch conservative Justice Clarence Thomas. That score is based not on Kavanaugh’s rulings but rather on an appeal to the nomination process. Typically, this relies on the ideology of a judge’s home-state senator, but because Kavanaugh served on the D.C. circuit, his ideology score is drawn from that of the relevant president, George W. Bush. If JCS is accurate, Chief Justice John Roberts will become both the chief and the court’s new median justice. Roberts has been the pivotal vote in liberal-leaning decisions only five times during his tenure.
On the federal bench, Kavanaugh has been a reliable, mainstream conservative. Because the D.C. Circuit’s caseload is disproportionately tilted toward review of administrative agency decisions, there aren’t many clues about how he might rule on hot-button social issues like abortion. Overall, though, his track record is clear: He rules consistently in favor of business and employers and against government regulations and agencies. Over the years, Kavanaugh has authored a number of rulings reining in Obama-era environmental regulations, and he authored a recent dissent arguing that the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, the agency created in the wake of the Great Recession to prevent future financial meltdowns, was unconstitutional.
Reminder: Do not buy from Amazon or even open the website on 10 July 2018, in solidarity with the transnational strike.
Amazon workers in Spain have called for a transnational strike because Amazon has been avoiding accountability for its labour rights violations by merely shifting the work (and the human rights abuses Amazon inflicts on their workers) to non-striking countries, each time a strike occurs. If there is widespread striking transnationally, Amazon will have no choice but to recognize the strikers’ demands in order to keep their facilities functioning.
Our job as allies is to support the strike by avoiding using the Amazon website or purchasing anything from Amazon for as long as the strike continues. A mass boycott of the site, coinciding with the strike, will strengthen the workers’ bargaining position and could be crucial to Amazon workers gaining back basic rights in a variety of countries.
Please remember this includes subsidiaries like Twitch and Audible.
This is tomorrow!
Please do not shop on Amazon tomorrow.
Please do not stream Amazon music or video tomorrow
Please do not order from sites using Amazon Payments tomorrow.
as promised, i’ve stayed above the magic number for a week so here we go!
i’m not gonna bore people with a lot of talking but i’m back baby!! it’s been a pretty rough 18months so to see y’all here is pretty special for me, thank you guys for sticking around!!
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Unionized UPS Teamsters – 260,000 of them – are set to strike in the
biggest American strike since UPS’s unionized drivers walked out in
1997.
Superficially, the issue is about the company moving to seven-day
delivery, but the issue that’s forcing the strike is the sizable cohort
of union members who are unwilling to accept a two-tier workplace where
established workers get the full protection of the union and younger
hires are given a worse deal. This has been a traditional way that
employers have split, weakened and ultimately killed their workers’
unions – by buying off the long-established employees with better deals
that make the workers who’ll replace them feel that unions have nothing
to offer them, which establishes divisions that can be exploited later
to lay off those higher-paid workers, leaving only the lowest-paid
employees and no union they can use to press for better pay.
It seems like some of UPS’s Teamsters have figured out that solidarity pays.
Yo, if they do strike, don’t listen to the media bitching about those workers being uppity or what the fuck ever. Transit and shipping is a increasingly huge industry in the US, and the Teamsters should be cheered on and congratulated for demanding solidarity and support for junior workers–formal union members or not.
If you’re waiting longer on Amazon packages or whatever, of course, that doesn’t mean you can’t complain–but frame your complaints to aim at UPS management for failing to treat its workers well and negotiate, not at the workers themselves. In this Second Gilded Age, that’s the only way we’re ever going to see any kind of improvement from the exploitation of the nation by the uber-wealthy–and UPS certainly qualifies.
Bucky Barnes, aka the Winter Soldier, is a man on the run. He was falsely accused of creating an explosion at a United Nations gathering that resulted in multiple fatalities, including the king Of Wakanda. His childhood friend, Steve Rogers, believing in his innocence, set out to find him and clear his name.
As the Winter Soldier, Barnes could be manipulated through a series of trigger words implanted by the subversive organization Hydra. Although Hydra is gone, the triggers remain. Believing himself to be a threat, Barnes chose to be cryogenically frozen until the alterations to his mind could be undone.
The Winter Soldier’s design pretty much came straight from the comics. What elements did you bring in when designing his look?
“The design brief from the Russos was to try to create someone like Boba Fett, or Darth Vader – they wanted the coolest-looking villain. So how do we create someone that feels dangerous, threatening, and cool, but that kids will still want to be for Halloween? Our job as film concept designers gets a lot easier when the reference material developed is closer to when the movies are being worked on. Some of the characters we’ve worked on were created some sixty or seventy years ago – as opposed to the Winter Soldier, whose design was done in 2005. It’s much easier to take a very current design and try to translate it from the comics. He’s essentially wearing something that already makes sense in a modern context.” – Ryan Meinerding, Head of Visual Development (Art by Maciej Kuciara and Ryan Meinerding)
– The Road to Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War – The Art of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
THE RESULTS FOR THE VOTE ON EU CENSORSHIP AND LINK TAX.
This it the breakdown of MEPs via their country of origin.
ORANGE is GOOD.
GREEN is BAD.
BLUE is abstain.
PLEASE SPREAD AND REBLOG SO THAT PEOPLE CAN SEE HOW THEIR COUNTRY PERFORMED – EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT IN THE EU. THIS IS NOT AN EASY THING TO FIND.
France and Romania did the worst. If you live in these countries, your representatives were all for destroying the internet. You will need to work twice as hard campaigning your reps when this goes back for a second discussion in September.
Congratulations Sweden, Poland, Netherlands, Lithunania and Estonia.
THIS IS NOT OVER.
The legislation goes back for a re-do in September before we’ll have to fight this battle again.
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