SpringfieldMO's mayor played a "bait-and-switch" with the bill proposing campaign limits & enforcement.
Pretending to "correct" it, Schrag offered a toothless "substitute bill."
The council agreed to the meaningless substitute.
#SpringfieldMO #CampaignFinance
SpringfieldMO's mayor played a "bait-and-switch" with the bill proposing campaign limits & enforcement.
Pretending to "correct" it, Schrag offered a toothless "substitute bill."
The council agreed to the meaningless substitute.
#SpringfieldMO #CampaignFinance
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken.
“I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold.
The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.
(Published Jan. 2026)
"Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will resign amid misconduct allegations
"The former Oregon congresswoman is the third member of Trump’s Cabinet -- all women -- to step down during his second term." archive.is/ERdXT
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Victoria Toensing @VicToensing Hubby being sworn in as Counsel to the Attorney General. 4:04 PM · Apr 20, 2026 · 6,199 Views Jason Reding Quiñones, the US Attorney in Miami, swearing in a much shorter Joe DiGenova.
Joe DiGenova, whose wife once solicited payments from foreigners to lie about Joe Biden in 2019, just got sworn in to investigate things those things he lied about in the past.
Over the weekend I laid out why this is so problematic.
emptywheel.net/2026/04/19/t...
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
Please stand by for more.
Palantir's ImmigrationOS endangers democracy and the rule of law, according to a new law review paper from Fordham Law School’s Chinmayi Sharma and Sam Adler. In this week’s Tech Policy Press podcast, they break down the risks of AI-powered surveillance in immigration enforcement.
Today's reading distraction #2: "Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism" (2024) edited by Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons.
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@matthewnlyons.bsky.social
SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...
Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"
"I did what anyone should do—I raised the alarm. Thomson Reuters’ response was to fire me.” www.404media.co/thomson-reut...
early view of my article is out! it explores the twinned ideologies of referentialism that often subtend language and "AI" and how those ideologies break apart in the R&D pipeline, where the social-pragmatic dimension of both speech + data come to the fore rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
ICE entered into another 1-year $12.2m contract for a system that looks a lot like surveillance tech based on advertising/app data, according to public records reported by The Lever.
The system/program, called 'SAFE HAVEN', aims to track, locate and profile migrants and 'extremists', among others.
Today's reading distraction: "White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism" (2003)
edited by Ashley W. Doane and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva.
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Palantir recently published a 22 point manifesto.
TL;DR DEI is bad, fascism is good.
Today's reading distraction #2: "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion" (2012) by Jonathan Haidt @JonathanHaidt.bsky.social.
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Today's reading distraction: "Who Will You Save?" (2025) by Gareth L. Powell.
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@garethlpowell.bsky.social
Virginia voters, particularly members of the Black community, began receiving mailers that compared a proposal by Democrats to redraw the state’s congressional districts to the Jim Crow era.
The group behind it received $9 million in donations from the pro-Trump tech billionaire Peter Thiel.
WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/
I agree with God @thegodshow.com
Sometimes, you must wait patiently for a book in your library queue.
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
@petercoffin.bsky.social
"So, in terms of original intent, 'woke' means 'aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues, especially issues of racial and social justice.'"
"However, as it has become a social phenomenon, I believe it is more appropriate to define 'wokeness' as 'a system-justifying ideology that employs a progressive aesthetic to reinforce segregation and essentialism.'"
Today's reading distraction #2: "Woke Ouroboros: Segregation and Essentialism." (2023) by Peter Coffin.
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