Sure, probably. It’s kind of immaterial as to whether or not it’s reasonable to blame D here though.

Get out the flow chart

Republican does bad thing > blame democrats for not stopping it

About-to-retire Republican introduces articles of impeachment into an all-Republican congress months before it swings Democrat, Republican speaker rushes vote to ensure minority Democrats can’t vote, it gets stuck in procedural hell, blame Democrats.

Literally only Stevens, who is effectively out of the party, has no valid reason for not voting.

Lou Correa — California: Will do medical procedure soon, doctor won't allow travel.
Frederica Wilson — Florida: The evening before, she was attending an inauguration ceremony of veteran homes in Florida.
Steven Horsford — Nevada: Personal emergency. Submitted statement to the record afterwards. Seems to have attended a press conference earlier in the day, so something urgent must have come up in between.
Julia Brownley — California: "As I and many of my colleagues were rushing to the floor to support Hegseth’s impeachment, Mike Johnson closed the vote before we could."
Jonathan Jackson — Illinois: Traffic incident, registered his vote to the record afterwards.
Laura Gillen — New York: Same as Jackson.
Melanie Stansbury — New Mexico: Same as Jackson.
Marilyn Strickland — Washington: Same as Jackson, "missed vote by one minute." Posted about impeaching Hegseth just hours before the vote.
Brittany Pettersen — Colorado: "Denied the ability," probably same as Jackson. Has previously been voting just weeks after childbirth, so she is not the one who bails.
Nancy Pelosi — California: Received lifetime award at a Veterans Day Celebration in her district.
Haley Stevens — Michigan: "[H]ung out during votes in the Republicans' restricted room off the House floor."

You’re incredibly based and please comment more. Few people seem to recognize that obstructionist agendas like Republican agendas are far easier to implement in the US. The last two years only saw so much BS happen because Trump abused the executive’s power and the SC and Congress enabled/abdicated responsibility.

I’m just surprised to read a comment that actually understands the various accountability chains in the US.

What? No, it’s the other way around. Yes veto is very rarely overruled… so Democrats have very little odds of passing any legislation Trump doesn’t want passed.

That’s what he’s saying. Which is what your comment also implies.

Most sane lemmy comment? I think we’re about 2 months away from “but why haven’t they impeached him, Dems are useless” posts because people don’t understand how US government process works. Even with the blue wave, D is not strong enough to pass any legislation without R support.

“No don’t take those experimental mRNA vaccines under development for 30+ years and already undergoing human trials, they’re dangerous and experimental!!!”

“The guy with a brain worm who eats roadkill says its safe to inject this substance”

Please Santa I’ve been a good boy this year can you please have the next deadly recall be for these and wipe out MAGA manosphere looksmaxxers?

She DID accuse him publicly in 2024, why not just… read?

Right? “Only on paper” appears to be at least somewhat inaccurate.

They certainly don’t have to, I guess my point was less “they’re complying with idiots” and more “they didn’t initiate the idiocy”. I see how this is unclear in my comment, but I’m not sure how to make it more clear. MapQuest is an example of a mapping company choosing not to follow government direction.

I guess as much as I severely dislike our technocrats and how they enable Donnie, I want to ensure we primarily blame Donnie for Donnie’s idiocy.

They can’t. The USGIS sets names of things for Americans and Trump can basically order them to do whatever. I hate Google and friends but they’re an American company and within the borders of the US, the USGIS decides what things are named.

Fuck them for everything else they’re doing though.

Yes, best to try nothing for fear of failure.

Oh FCC won’t do anything but this could get Congress (or the courts) to intervene and maybe remove Brendan Carr or something. It’s not likely but Trump and friends “work” by throwing everything at the wall and seeing what they’re allowed to get away with. This is an attempt to make sure they don’t get away with something and that’s good.

Them not acting on a valid report gives cause for a lawsuit against the FCC which could result in something.

Lemmy: “why won’t anyone do anything”

Someone: *takes first steps

Lemmy: “this is useless!”

Also just as I read about this on pubmed because I find this to be very interesting, I find myself angry at how much of this incredibly valuable research has/will be defended by various right wing governments as “woke”. One of these papers by the International Association for the Study of Pain discusses how various hormones may conditionally amplify or suppress pain depending on various factors, rather than a blanket “estrogen amplifies pain” and I just think that’s really fascinating. The body is so complex.

This is an aggregate article I found from IASP that links to some of the studies I found: https://www.iasp-pain.org/resources/fact-sheets/biological-mechanisms-underlying-sex-differences-in-pain/

Really interesting stuff. I suffered from some chronic pain for what felt like forever this past year and so I had done some “basic” reading, but I didn’t bother to go much further beyond what I needed/wanted at the time. This is cool.

I’m stepping far outside my area of expertise here so please treat this as good faith, uneducated questions.

My understanding is that most of this research is about chronic pain rather than acute pain. I know AFAB people experience chronic pain at like 3x the rates of AMAB people, and that especially immune-moderated pain diseases are much harder to manage in AFAB. I also recognize this is an area of active research and much is yet to be confirmed, but I wonder if acute pain pathways are the same as chronic pain pathways? My limited understanding is that acute pain from tissue damage, etc. is still understood to be nervous system activation for both sexes.

Is it also accurate that these pathways and their activations are largely sex-hormone related? I wonder if that means we could survey trans folks on their experiences of pain before and after transition, both ways.

Thank you for your comment, this has spurred me to do some reading!

I’m not sure, but that could be interesting.

It sure does! Blood is carried back to the spleen, kidney, and liver where the blood is “cleaned” of the waste it was carrying before being recirculated. It also carries immune cells to/from your lymph nodes, oxygen, water, all sorts of stuff. Blood is more than just WBC/RBC!

Purely a guess on my part, but I imagine a not-insignificant amount of this is simply bloodflow. If cancer is a disruption in the cellular replication mechanics, then we’re looking at protein folding, DNA replication, and ion pumps and cell stuff. Perhaps not “taking out the trash” via blood flow allows higher rates of cellular corruption? Maybe lower bloodflow results in weaker cell self-destructs? Lots of candidates…

Congressional lawmakers, including Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins, have said (R-ME) said the move is a “clear violation of the law.”

Susan “I think he’s learned his lesson” Collins.

The claim was that Jack Smith went to the same basketball game as two people working on the Georgia state case against Trump, and they sat together. Them “meeting” was “proof” of collusion.

Obviously none of this happened, but it was an allegation of more than just perjury.