Mostly through taking a sledge hammer via executive branch right now
Which needs things like confirmation of appointees from the Senate
Plus in a broad sense they're also trying to codify some of their currently illegal actions. It's good to slow stuff like that down
The Senate is still not able to go about their normal business because of this. It was suppose to start going through their schedule at noon today
Weird, no paywall for me but you can read on archive.is
For the last bit, that's more or less what the article suggests
There’s no clear path to breaking the meat industry’s grip over American politics on the horizon, but there is something anyone can do — starting today — to push back against the kinds of horrific allegations made against Mountaire and other poultry giants: Eat less chicken.
There are also Tesla protests growing in Europe (and Canada, and more)! Musk's influence threatens more than just the US, so we must all step up. The Tesla Takedown protest movement started in the US, but it's now becoming international. Here's a map of the latest ones in Europe
Here's the site with that info along with a guide on how to plan one around you if you don't see one
There have been tons of protests and there have been some pretty widespread ones outside of Tesla this weekend. The media is just hardly covering it making them seem way smaller than they are
Here's a map of recent Tesla Takedown protests alone
https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown
Here's just a handful of photos from yesterday
Most people within the US aren't aware these protests are happening either. There are also broader nationwide protests planned on April 5th as part of the 50501 movement. This will be the 4th nationwide 50501 protest
https://archive.is/ITR1e for the paywall
The laws these industries are trying to overturn are just ones that set such low standards it's truly insane. Cage-free still means plenty of cruelty and yet that's still much for the egg industry
For instance, practices like chick culling exist in most of the world including the US. Billions of male chicks are shred alive around the world right after birth
Or forced molting is quite common in the US where they intentionally starve a flock for a 7-14 days to increase egg production rates after it
Among other broader problems like how they've been bred to produce eggs at such high rates they start getting tons of bone health problems. I could keep going on and on, but I think that's enough to get the idea
The meat industry's conditions are especially bad for workers around the world. Many of them get PTSD and have high rates of workplace injuries even compared to many other dangerous industries. Plus other horrifying exploitation
Revealed: exploitation of meat plant workers rife across UK and Europe
'Slave-Like Conditions' Found on Brazilian Beef Farms Supplying World's Biggest Meat Producers
I said Tesla Takedown Protests starting to spread not sales boycott starting to spread. This is a specific protest movement that started in the US and is primarily still clustered in the US but now increasingly growing outside it. Please don't twist the words I'm saying
The first Tesla [Takedown] Protest occurred in Tucson, Arizona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Takedown
Here's what the mapped of planned protests looked like 6 days ago
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And here's where it look like now where you can see more within Europe alongside more within the US
Even if there's no criminal charges, at least there are some groups that just filed civil lawsuits about the record keeping laws they broke
And note that Pardon powers do not apply to civil cases - only criminal ones
Tesla takedown protests are happening across the US and starting to spread outside of it too!
Less a fluke, more of a pattern lately. Dems have been overperforming in most special elections since Trump took office again. Sometimes by a couple percent, and frequently by 10-20%. Only a handful of underperformances
For instance, they also flipped a Trump+21 distict in Iowa. They won by 5 points too
Will it hold up in the longer term? That's much harder to say, but it's not just one special election that's been a large upset
Probably
And yet some Republicans were actually already warning about potentially losing this district before the election
Not that I forgive Schumer for what he did on the CR, but Schumer actually was on the floor helping Booker
Schumer along with many other dems have been asking super long winded questions to give Booker a break speaking for a few minutes
(Procedurally, you can take and answer questions without yielding your time on the floor)