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Ambitious climate action could boost global 2040 GDP by 0.2% | Tanzania’s marine reserves offer long-term benefits to communities | Paris residents vote in favor of making 500 more streets pedestrian | Use of pesticides on UK farms to be cut by 10% by 2030 to protect bees | New forest to be created in England, with 20m trees planted by 2050 | Affordable e-bikes are transforming delivery work for Latin American migrants | California & Sonora sign agreement to boost clean energy & climate collaboration | UK to invest $260 million on solar panels for schools and hospitals | Green power to give 570 million energy access in Africa | UN hails rare success story as emissions from construction stop rising |

Jul 30, 2022

A Matter Of Language

Law is all about how you say things. Whether or not someone will hold themselves to their word is a different thing.

And the problem is that no matter what someone says or promises, they can always just refuse to honor their word.

Donald Trump has made a career out of that shit.

The rest of us (ie: normal people) are bound by a sense of honor. We get together, and we choose people we think we can trust to come up with rules that govern our behavior, and we agree to live within those rules because we're honorable people - honor is what makes civilization possible.

Anyway, Glenn Kirschner explains some of the weirdness we hear in the language of the law.

Worth noting: The Oklahoma City bombing and Jan6 were both attacks carried out by homegrown terrorists. ie: Violence in the name of political gain.

Merrick Garland put together the toolkit necessary to try and to convict and then execute the bomber, Timothy McVeigh - and put his accomplice, Terry Nichols, away for life without parole.

Merrick Garland is probably the guy we need on this. His investigation and pursuit of Trump and his gang will likely mold US policy on Domestic Terrorism for decades to come.

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