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@knutson_brain The theory is that perception of reality is formed through repetition, and that's how propaganda works. The theory is rough (and I guess rather weak in methodologically terms) but as long as most people comply those in power make use of it. That's why control of mass media has always been more important than terror. Only the weakest regimes must use extermination of dissenters as an additional principle. #rule #power #propaganda #suppression #terror

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Chuck Darwin

Trump has directed his administration to
❌block #global aid recipients from telling patients about #abortion — a move that would weaken reproductive health care worldwide.

The move, announced in a presidential memorandum Friday, revives a policy known as the “#global #gag #rule” that Trump and many other Republican presidents have implemented.
Already, contractors that receive U.S. foreign aid money cannot use it to directly support abortion services -- But they can tell people the option is available.
Trump is not the first GOP president to implement this policy,
but his interpretation of it, which matches an approach he took in his previous term, is the most expansive.
Other Republicans have only applied the gag rule to foreign aid that is specific to family planning services.
-- But Trump’s rule 💥affects any global health funding distributed by the United States.
The gag rule’s wide reach means that its implementation would weaken global efforts to prevent the spread of #HIV, to promote #contraception, and to fight diseases such as #malaria and #tuberculosis.
👉In the past, similar gag rules have resulted in family planning clinics in other countries shutting down and fewer people receiving contraception.
🆘 Some health centers have dropped contraception offerings in response to the policy,
leaving people with no local options for birth control.
❌The rule has also been associated with a higher rate of unintended pregnancy and abortion, including in countries where the procedure is not legal.

19thnews.org/2025/01/trump-rei

The 19th · Trump reinstates the ‘global gag rule’ on abortionBy ajohnston
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Chuck Darwin

Trump signs order to reinstate ‘global gag rule’ on abortion aid

Federal rule also known as ‘#Mexico #City #policy’ halts US funds to overseas groups that provide abortion services

The policy, which was first instituted by Ronald Reagan in 1984, is typically implemented whenever a Republican president wins the White House and rescinded whenever a Democrat wins.

But this whiplash has major implications for abortion and reproductive healthcare around the world.

Historically, the revival of the Mexico City policy affects up to about $600m of international aid.

During his first term, however, Trump dramatically expanded the scope of the Mexico city policy,
which abortion rights supporters call a “#global #gag #rule”.

Rather than applying the policy only to family planning assistance, as was typical,
the Trump administration applied to it to assistance for organizations that offer a range of health services around the globe
– leading the policy to affect billions of dollars’ worth of aid.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, which tracks abortion restrictions and their impact, the policy can cut off access to contraception,
lead women to seek out unsafe abortions
and cause tumult within the non-governmental groups that depend on US aid to keep their programs going.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

The Guardian · Trump signs order to reinstate ‘global gag rule’ on abortion aidBy Carter Sherman
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Chuck Darwin

In recent years, U.S. Supreme Court decisions have undercut federal agencies’ ability to curb pollution and fight climate change.

Several cases decided in 2024 continued this trend,
systematically shifting the power to make and enforce environmental regulations over to the judicial branch.

Though it will likely take years to know the full consequences of this year’s rulings,
legal experts say they have profound implications as to how federal agencies can respond to the threat of climate change.
Congress passed the majority of the laws that protect our lands and waters decades ago,
and with an increasingly polarized political environment, legislators have passed few new environmental regulations since.
In the past few decades, Congress has in effect tasked federal agencies with adapting existing laws to our new climate reality,
said Chris Winter, executive director of the University of Colorado Law School’s Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment.

But with an increasingly conservative Supreme Court in place, these laws have come under increased scrutiny,
including in several of the court’s 2024 landmark decisions.
Perhaps the most significant was #Loper #Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo,
which overturned the 1984 #Chevron #doctrine, a powerful legal tool that gave federal agencies the ability to interpret and enforce ambiguous or unclear laws.
For decades, the courts have largely deferred to agency experts in crafting and enforcing regulations,
since those agencies typically have greater expertise in their subject areas than judges do.
By eliminating Chevron, the court transferred the authority to clarify the meaning of a written law to the judicial system.

Loper Bright has already raised “a lot of uncertainty” about whether or how agencies should create and enforce environmental regulations,
according to Winter.

The last few years have signaled a structural change in the balance of power between courts and federal agencies, he said,
with courts now working hard to rein in federal regulators.

Meanwhile, industry groups eager to roll back regulations have filed lawsuits in conservative states with business-friendly judges.

In federal courts in Wyoming, Utah and Montana, for example,
groups representing farmers, ranchers and the fossil fuel industry have cited Loper Bright as a precedent for suing the Biden administration to overturn the 2024 #Public #Lands #Rule,
which designated conservation as a legitimate “use” for public lands in line with extractive uses like mining, grazing and logging.

As of Sept. 6, Loper Bright has been cited in 110 federal cases, according to the advocacy group Democracy Forward.

“These days, it doesn’t feel like you can really think deeply about the law. It is simply a political battle,”
said Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, executive director of the Western Environmental Law Center,
a nonprofit public-interest environmental law firm.

Altogether, the body of law emerging from the court has “prioritized politically oriented property rights and economic rights,”
Schlenker-Goodrich said.
“In other words, corporate rights and corporate power.”

hcn.org/articles/the-supreme-c

High Country News · The Supreme Court decisions that gutted environmental protections in 2024By Natalia Mesa
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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

#SarahMcBride skillfully sidestepped a #Congressional #Republican #trap.

#NancyMace’s #rule was a calculated #ploy, but #McBride refused to #takethebait. Had she defied the #transphobic regulation, she risked #sanctions for breaking #Congressional #rules—potentially including #censure or losing the right to #speak on the #House floor. McBride’s #intelligence and #strategicapproach ensured she avoided the #trap entirely.

epgn.com/2024/11/25/sarah-mcbr

Philadelphia Gay News · Sarah McBride passed the first Congressional trap - Philadelphia Gay NewsMany in our community were quick to criticize Congresswoman-elect Sarah McBride, accusing her of “capitulating” to a new Congressional bathroom rule introduced by Republicans.
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