Civil society orgs letter to Meta:
American Association of People with Disabilities
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC
Center for Democracy & Technology
Common Cause
GLAAD
Human Rights Campaign
Legal Defense Fund
Muslim Public Affairs Council
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It's an old song. But I think it has a vibe for today's stress.
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"California paid in a lot more [to the federal government] than it got back — $83 billion in total. So did Washington state and much of the Northeast. Most red states were in the reverse position, getting much more from DC than they paid in return."
Gavin Newsom launched a website to combat the wildfire disinformation spreading about Los Angeles, because people can’t be bothered to do a simple Google search before sharing nonsense. And because people suck!
Get the facts: californiafirefacts.com
How about cutting out Amazon? We have to believe that we have the power to impact billionaires.
Red state life. Over 20 years of Republican majority rule in Missouri means that three days after one snowstorm major roads are still not plowed and safe. MODOT says they are short 200 plow drivers. MO has lowest state employee pay in the country. These clowns can’t handle basic governance. #moleg
My strategy for mentally surviving the next 4 years is to listen to podcasts with Pete Buttigieg.
It's like oxygen for your brain:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change.
Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:
www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
It hasn’t even started yet.
Los Angeles received just 0.16 inches of rain since May 2024, the second-driest period on record.
Wildfires are now engulfing the city in January.
But some politicians still claim the climate crisis is a "hoax" as they do the bidding of Big Oil.
What planet are they living on?
Bernie woke up, went on X, and chose violence.
Agreed. I will also stop buying from Amazon. It won’t mean a thing to Bezos, but I have to do something.
1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years
But we've identified 10 promise keepers:
Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
General Mills
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
“We should commit to remembering Jan. 6, 2021, every year. To remember it as a day when our democracy was put to the test and prevailed. To remember that democracy — even in America — is never guaranteed.”
We couldn’t have said it better, Joe Biden.
Is it under their starter packs?
“Four years ago, dozens of companies denounced the invasion of the U.S. Capitol and pledged to withhold support from those who disputed the 2020 election results. Now, many of those companies are lining up to fund Donald Trump’s inauguration.”
From the @wsj.com
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The Russian disinformation network “Matryoshka” has launched a new campaign on Bluesky. Eliot Higgins, founder of the investigative journalism group Bellingcat, has been one of the first researchers to detect its activity. So far, four Russian-made fake videos have been identified on the platform.
THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files.
It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
BREAKING NEWS:
President Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Michael J. Fox and Hillary Clinton.
Who agrees they DESERVE it. 💙
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes announced she has resigned from The Washington Post after the newspaper refused to publish a satirical cartoon depicting billionaire Post owner Jeff Bezos (and others) on bended knee in front of President-elect Donald Trump.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/04/m...
As of January 1, Minnesotans won’t have co-pays higher than $25 per month for prescription drugs used to treat chronic diseases, and we’re putting a $50 per month cap on all related medical supplies.
We’re putting the wellbeing of our people before the profits of big pharma.
Trump can’t come close.
Yes, please make it “safer”.
It's official: For the first time, the U.S. Senate has two Black women as members.
Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland and Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware have just been sworn in as part of the 119th Congress.
Lobbying
