Excerpts below. Article states that it is. “Adapted from Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State, by Byron Tau” Archive: ghostarchive.org/archive/5bsWU...
If you are looking for more info, I see that 404 media has a podcast with the book author, Byron Tau (I’ve not yet listened): www.404media.co/interview/
Norman Lear, the television writer and producer who introduced political and social commentary into situation comedy with “All in the Family” and other shows, proving that it was possible to be topical as well as funny while attracting millions of viewers, died on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 101....
By chance are you using adblockers? I noticed it loads scripts from youtube.com, googletagmanager.com, and so on, so I bet there are some hooks in there. What I don’t understand is why a .GOV site includes commercial junk that the citizenry might opt to block.
The code contains sections codifying that justices should not allow outside relationships to influence their official conduct or judgment, placing restrictions on justices participating in fundraising and reiterating limits on the accepting of gifts. It also states that justices should not “to any substantial degree” use...
Cancer patients are celebrating a string of courtroom victories after juries in three US states recently ordered Germany’s Bayer to pay more than $500m in damages for failing to warn about the health risks of its Roundup herbicides. But the consumer wins come as proposed federal legislation backed by Bayer and the powerful...
This is important! This is the sort of thing voters need to be calling about to their Congress folks. This is where we need media attention – especially the mostly defunct local news that SHOULD be telling us which way our elected officials are positioning themselves for upcoming issues, and then checking to see if they voted as they said they would.
This is the sort of thing where Congress KNOWS it is unlikely that anyone will know how the votes go down, and they’ll get ‘campaign’ money from mega-corps for screwing over the voting public. Don’t let them get away with it!
Call your Representative NOW and tell them you are watching. Better: tell them you are part of a group (whatever group you might be in) and you are educating the whole group to vote on this issue. Tell them you are watching to see when they vote for and against public interest. Then DO SO.
I might have this wrong, but my understanding is that his plea deal only covers state prosecution, but not federal. It is possible the feds could prosecute him, but I haven’t seen nor heard if there is a side-deal to keep that from happening. Surely his lawyers would have tried to secure that, but did they succeed?
Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, Eric Schmitt, Kyrsten Sinema, Tom Cotton, and of course only a year older than Cruz we have: Raphael Warnock, John Fetterman and Cory Booker.
How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin ( www.wired.com )
Excerpts below. Article states that it is. “Adapted from Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State, by Byron Tau” Archive: ghostarchive.org/archive/5bsWU...
Groundhog Day 2024 ( apnews.com )
At posting, the verdict was not yet in, but there are plenty of groundhog stories, like:...
Federal Regulators Seek to Force Starbucks to Reopen 23 Stores ( www.nytimes.com )
There’s contrasting reporting on this:...
Texas AG threatens to prosecute doctors in emergency abortion ( www.reuters.com )
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Norman Lear, Whose Comedies Changed the Face of TV, Is Dead at 101 ( www.nytimes.com )
Norman Lear, the television writer and producer who introduced political and social commentary into situation comedy with “All in the Family” and other shows, proving that it was possible to be topical as well as funny while attracting millions of viewers, died on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 101....
"It feels like I'm not crazy." Gardeners aren't surprised as USDA updates key map. ( www.npr.org )
US Supreme Court announces formal ethics code for justices ( www.reuters.com )
The code contains sections codifying that justices should not allow outside relationships to influence their official conduct or judgment, placing restrictions on justices participating in fundraising and reiterating limits on the accepting of gifts. It also states that justices should not “to any substantial degree” use...
F.B.I. Seizes Eric Adams’s Phones as Campaign Investigation Intensifies ( www.nytimes.com )
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‘It’s an abomination’: battle brewing over proposed US laws to protect pesticide companies ( www.theguardian.com )
Cancer patients are celebrating a string of courtroom victories after juries in three US states recently ordered Germany’s Bayer to pay more than $500m in damages for failing to warn about the health risks of its Roundup herbicides. But the consumer wins come as proposed federal legislation backed by Bayer and the powerful...
At least 22 dead and suspect at large in mass shootings in area of Lewiston, Maine ( www.cnn.com )
Live news. I’m seeing at least 22 dead via NBC. Here’s a feed from ABC: abcnews.go.com/…/lewiston-maine-mass-shooting/?id…...
Kenneth Chesebro: Pro-Trump lawyer pleads guilty in Georgia election subversion case, implicates Trump in fake elector conspiracy ( www.cnn.com )
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Trump attorney Sidney Powell pleads guilty in Georgia election subversion case | CNN Politics ( www.cnn.com )
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/politics/t/552682...
Possible right-wing instigation of Musk’s Twitter takeover and Anti-Defamation League fight ( forward.com )
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Dianne Feinstein, California’s longest-serving senator, dies at 90 ( www.cnbc.com )