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House votes to block California from banning sales of gas cars by 2035 (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Both the Senate parliamentarian and the Government Accountability Office have concluded that Congress lacks authority to block California’s climate policy.

Trucks yesterday. Cars today.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

This comment fascinates me

California is apparently about 12% of the total tax revenue of the US, and New York is about 8%. If every other state was equal after that, they are about 1.5 each.

That's quite a lot of leverage

Can't send people to El Salvador if you can't pay for planes

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Didn't the manager for the Patriots lend his private plane to deport people to Guantanamo? Lack of government funded airplanes won't stop them

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

iirc the Patriots plane has a 3rd party management that manages a bunch of planes that happens to also include the patriots plane.

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