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Hoping to repay corporate America’s feckless support of authoritarianism, the Trump administration is once again attempting to illegally ban all state and federal oversight of corporate power. Both via executive order, and by withholding already awarded grants from states that refuse to play along.
The Trump administration has already done generational damage to federal consumer protection and...
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment about how fascism is happening live on TV:
Trump’s supporters, like Trump himself, if being honest (ha!) will reply, “I don’t care, I want this to happen.”
They’ve never cared about the Constitution except as a weapon to be used against others and as a get-out-of-responsibility free card to use when someone calls...
Five Years Ago
This week in 2020, Portland, Maine passed a facial recognition ban that said the city can fire employees who violate it, which might have been useful in Seattle where a police detective took Clearview for a spin and possibly violated local laws. The FBI pulled another one of its manufacture-a-terrorist schemes, and was elsewhere seeking to perform an intrusive search of a phone for...
This may seem like the sort of statement usually delivered by an overblown narrator as rockets and lasers go zooming* by, but here goes: In the world of journalism, the future is now! Granted, it's the kind of future that often makes waves in the present and raises at least as many questions as it answers, but if you wanted a bright, problem-free future, you'd have to travel back to the...