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This is an opinionated article by legal experts: Evan Davis was editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review and David Schulte was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. Both clerked for Justice Potter Stewart. Davis is a New York lawyer who served as president of the New York City Bar and Schulte is a Chicago investment banker.--

The Constitution provides that an oath-breaking insurrectionist is ineligible to be president. This is the plain wording of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. “No person shall … hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath … to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” This disability can be removed by a two-thirds vote in each House.

Disqualification is based on insurrection against the Constitution and not the government. The evidence of Donald Trump’s engaging in such insurrection is overwhelming. The matter has been decided in three separate forums, two of which were fully contested with the active participation of Trump’s counsel.

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The unlikelihood of congressional Republicans doing anything that might elect Harris as president is obvious. But Democrats need to take a stand against Electoral College votes for a person disqualified by the Constitution from holding office unless and until this disability is removed. No less is required by their oath to support and defend the Constitution.

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Belgium will ban the sale of disposable electronic cigarettes as of Jan. 1 on health and environmental grounds in a groundbreaking move for European Union nations.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20241229092244/https://www.npr.org/2024/12/29/g-s1-40289/belgium-will-ban-sales-of-disposable-e-cigarettes

SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2024%2F12%2F29%2Fg-s1-40289%2Fbelgium-will-ban-sales-of-disposable-e-cigarettes

Source Financial Times article

I did a few of the 30 minutes studies this week.

Here you can see the timelapse of the process.

https://youtube.com/shorts/9tJzTipT6z4

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/28945692

Belgium will ban the sale of disposable electronic cigarettes as of Jan. 1 on health and environmental grounds in a groundbreaking move for European Union nations.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20241229092244/https://www.npr.org/2024/12/29/g-s1-40289/belgium-will-ban-sales-of-disposable-e-cigarettes

SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2024%2F12%2F29%2Fg-s1-40289%2Fbelgium-will-ban-sales-of-disposable-e-cigarettes

Post-Luigi, the "extremist" threat is you

The defending champion said he quit as a "matter of principle" after being told to change his jeans.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20241229085023/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98lkrdkz70o

SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fc98lkrdkz70o

One of two Azure CDN providers was Edgio, which filed for bankruptcy.

azureedge.net dotnet CDN URLs will cease to work sometime next year after January 15th.

We expect that most users will not be directly affected, however, it is critical that you validate if you are affected and to watch for downtime or other kinds of breakage.

We maintain multiple Content Delivery Network (CDN) instances for delivering .NET builds. Some end in azureedge.net. These domains are hosted by edg.io, which will soon cease operations due to bankruptcy. We are required to migrate to a new CDN and will be using new domains going forward.

Affected domains:

• dotnetcli.azureedge.net
• dotnetbuilds.azureedge.net

Unaffected domains:

• dotnet.microsoft.com
• download.visualstudio.microsoft.com

Summary

Thousands protested in Tbilisi as Mikheil Kavelashvili, a pro-Moscow ally of the ruling Georgian Dream party, was inaugurated president following an election widely seen as rigged.

Outgoing president Salome Zourabichvili, a pro-EU figure, refused to step down, calling herself the “only legitimate president” and vowing to fight alongside demonstrators.

Georgian Dream faces backlash for authoritarian policies, ties to Russia, and suspending EU accession talks until 2028, despite strong public support for EU membership.

The crisis has escalated with nightly pro-EU protests outside parliament.

every bird is a UFO if you're bad at birding.

I know this meme isn't very professionally done, but I hope you get the idea. If somebody can make this more appleasing to view, feel free to make your own meme like this.

*Nachhaltiger mit Open Source, gefördert vom Bund: KDE Eco*

https://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgaben/2025/01/kde-eco/

"Nachhaltigkeit und Langlebigkeit: Was Windows 11 schwer fällt, macht Open-Source-Software beispielhaft vor. Okular, der KDE-PDF-Viewer ist mit dem Blauen Engel zertifiziert, und das KDE-Eco-Projekt will helfen, noch mehr alte Hardware zu unterstützen."

#KDE #KDEEco #Nachhaltigkeit #Umwelt #BlauerEngel #SOK #Okular #FOSS #FreieSoftware #OpenSource

@kde

@mfeilner

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/35982352

Firetruck drove around rail crossing arms after waiting for earlier train to pass, according to person briefed on details

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20241229094432/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/28/florida-passenger-train-firetruck

SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2F2024%2Fdec%2F28%2Fflorida-passenger-train-firetruck

Bestseller: ecco la classifica dei libri più venduti del 2024
@libri
https://www.illibraio.it/news/editoria/classifica-libri-piu-venduti-2024-1466848/
Joël Dicker, Aldo Cazzullo e Francesca Giannone sul podio della classifica libri più venduti in Italia nel 2024. In cui non mancano le sorprese…
Leggi l'articolo completo Bestseller: ecco la classifica dei libri più venduti del 2024.

Parents believe San Francisco police lack ability to conduct thorough investigation into multifaceted case