Drone armies, expanded overtime pay and over-the-counter birth control pills are just some of the new things Biden has ushered in as president that you might not have heard about.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1753168

I can't stop laughing

Preventing another Jan. 6

Biden scraps Trump’s paint scheme for Air Force One

Biden recommends loosening federal restrictions on marijuana

Countering China with a new alliance between Japan and South Korea

Union-busting gets riskier

Biden empowers federal agencies to monitor AI

The U.S. is producing more oil than anytime in history

is in the same article as

Renewable power is the No. 2 source of electricity in the U.S. — and climbing

where BOTH are presented as good things

These are real subheaders from an article about things Joe Biden did

Someone please burn this shithole down already

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    The impact: A move to Schedule III would be the biggest change in U.S. drug policy in more than half a century. It would make marijuana much easier for researchers to study — which could give politicians and regulators a better idea of how best to write laws concerning cannabis.

    yeah u.s. drug policy is just based on a big misunderstanding and surely some nerds testing it in a controlled environment will provide that much needed insight that will finally help us get it right. just one more linear regression, i promise, and that will fix the systemic racism.