Outgoing President Joe Biden on Monday moved to permanently ban offshore oil and gas drilling across more than 625 million acres of U.S. coastal territory, protecting swaths of the East Coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific, and Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea from fossil fuel exploitation just before President-elect Donald Trump is set to retake power.

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    5 days ago

    rare and twisted court ruling or an act of Congress

    you mean like how roe was trashed? or literally any other example of courts and congress doing exactly what trump wants?

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      I mean he does have the trifecta so he could undo basically anything (non-filibusterable) if he sets his mind to it.

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      Are people just figuring out that law is complicated? You’re right, it can be undone through corrupt actions but that doesn’t mean that the Biden administration hasn’t taken the steps they could to make it permanent.

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      No one will escape his terror. Not women, not the immigrants who do all the hard work, not the planet or Bea Arthur fanclub members. Any joy in this world will suffer because Obama told a joke that one night.

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        He’s a man, not a god. This isn’t just him, it’s a country more focused on money and fame and disaster than on quality of life. 🤷‍♂️ We live in a reality TV nation here in America. We have been building this for decades.