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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

https://archive.is/fBdZh

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

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown

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

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

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

Elon Musk, Scott Presler sound alarm over Republican Josh Parsons’ chances in Tuesday’s state Senate special election

Dems are pressurable. Republicans are lot harder to pressure

Elections decide who you have to work with

They alone won't fully fix things, but they can set the stage for progress

It's going to take both voting and directed pressure to change things

Call your local & state officals about this. The federal government does not run elections. It's the state and local officals that do even for federal office. They are the ones who chose to follow or not follow a blatantly illegal order

Trump is threatening to pull unrelated federal funding if they don't, but he's been pulling funding for many states anyways for zero reason. Make sure your local & state officals know you'll have their back if they don't bow down

Removal requires 2/3 in the senate meaning 67 senators need to vote yes. There are only 53 republicans

Even on the shutdown stuff with Schumer actively pushing for voting for the CR, they only got to 62 not 67. Would be even harder to convince them to vote for a judge impeachment comparatively

Still call your senators and let them know not to vote for it, but it highly unlikely they would have the votes