https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-drafts-6-trillion-nfrastructure-plan-democrats-gop-reconciliation-2021-6

"We have an enormous amount of work in front of us," Sanders said on Thursday after leaving a key budget meeting with Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill. He ticked off areas for federal intervention — climate change, affordable housing and to level the playing field for average families.

Green energy worker gets shit end of stick

https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/17/green-energy-joe-biden-john-kerry-white-house-climate-change/

‘Dumb Bastard’: Green Energy Worker Blames Biden’s Policies For His Factory Shutting Down

A green energy technician, who works at a factory that is soon shutting down, blamed President Joe Biden and climate czar John Kerry for the closure that will lead to hundreds of lost jobs.

Brian Dockter lost his job at a wind turbine factory in Aberdeen, South Dakota as a result of President Joe Biden’s tax policies, he said during a Fox News interview on Thursday morning. Dockter, a nondestructive testing technician at a Molded Fiber Glass Companies (MFG) factory, called Biden hypocritical for claiming to support green energy jobs while implementing policies that led to him losing his job.

“Starting 2022, the tax credit will phase out for wind energy and that has something to do with [Biden’s] production tax credit for wind and fossil fuels,” Dockter said during the interview.

“Why doesn’t [Kerry] pick a different profession? If anybody should lose a job it should be him and his cronies and Biden,” Dockter told Fox News. “Biden is such a dumb bastard he just doesn’t get anything.”

Beginning of the end for Mexico

https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/6/17/two-trans-women-make-history-after-being-elected-mexicos-congress

For the first time in Mexico, two trans women will sit in the country’s lower house of Congress. Both of them have promised to work toward LGBTQ+ rights.

Over 100 LGBTQ+ people ran for office in Mexico’s June 6 elections, reported the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Those elections had the largest mid-term turnout in over twenty years.

The Congresswomen — Maria Clemente Garcia and Salma Luevano — are members of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s Morena political party.

“There’s really a lot of poverty … extreme poverty within our trans population,” Luevano said, reported TRF.

The activist, 52, runs a collective called Together for the Way of Diversity. She’s also the owner of a salon in Aguascalientes, a state in central Mexico. This year, the collective has worked to create electoral rules to have a quota for parties to have from underrepresented populations.

https://www.spacex.com/launches/

now

How about just letting the best product decide market equity

https://hightimes.com/business/cat-packer-las-director-equity/

In 2017, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti appointed Cat Packer as the city’s first executive director of the Department of Cannabis Regulation. In the years since, Packer, an ardent advocate for equality and inclusivity, believes the city has made strides to establish a regulatory infrastructure with pathways for equitable ownership.

Still, the fight for the ideal market remains ongoing, as does the need for L.A. and other major markets to address numerous effects of the drug war, from the illicit market to social equity. As incremental progress takes form in the city, Cat Packer said the fight for an equitable market continues both here and across America.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/558959-dc-inmate-elected-to-public-office

A Washington, D.C., man who has been in prison for the past 26 years was elected this week to the city’s Advisory Neighborhood Commission, likely making him the first incarcerated person to be chosen for a seat in the local government.

The ANC announced in a tweet Tuesday that 44-year-old Joel Castón had won the election to a vacancy on the commission for the area in Ward 7, located in the lower northeastern portion of the nation’s capital.

Castón, who has remained in prison since he was convicted of fatally shooting an 18-year-old man, told the Post in a Wednesday interview that by being elected to the board responsible for making recommendations to the D.C. Council on neighborhood issues, he hopes to change people’s perceptions of incarcerated individuals.

Now they are going after the Cops

https://www.macon.com/news/nation-world/national/article252181513.html

Officers resign from Portland, Oregon, protest response unit

Officers who serve on a specialized crowd control unit in Portland, Oregon, who have responded to the city’s ongoing, often violent protests have resigned en masse after criminal charges were filed against a team member.

The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the officers on the Rapid Response Team voted to resign from the team during a meeting Wednesday night.

The move by officers and sergeants to disband their own team came a day after a team member, Officer Cody Budworth, was indicted, accused of fourth-degree assault stemming from a baton strike against a protester last summer. A year ago, about 70 members were on the team.

“Our RRT members do not volunteer to have Molotov cocktails, fireworks, explosives, rocks, bottles, urine, feces and other dangerous objects thrown at them,” wrote Daryl Turner, then-president of the union. He noted that the team members volunteer for the work without any specialty pay.

Budworth marked the first Rapid Response Team officer to face criminal prosecution stemming from force used during a protest. The police union has called the prosecution politically driven