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  • Musk and Trump Fire Members of Congress

    Wednesday, February 26, 2025
    Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) sent messages to all members of Congress terminating their positions, stating “Your performance has not been adequate to justify further employment.” All Democratic and independent members of Congress, as well as two Republicans, found themselves locked out of their offices after everything inside had been confiscated.   read more
  • Mitch McConnell is the only U.S. Senator with a Negative Approval Rating

    Sunday, December 06, 2015
    One U.S. senator—who happens to be the most powerful of them all—gets far more thumbs-down than thumbs-up from those in his state. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has a 52% disapproval rating, according to polling data. He’s the only senator with a disapproval rating over 50%. Nor does McConnell have many who approve of the job he’s doing. At 38%, he barely edges out Democrats Bob Menendez of New Jersey, who’s under indictment, and Gary Peters of Michigan, each at 37% approval.   read more
  • West Point Bans Pillow Fights after at least 30 Injured

    Sunday, December 06, 2015
    The fight resulted in two dozen concussions, dislocated shoulders, a broken leg, broken nose, fractured cheek, and other injuries One male first-year cadet said his upperclassman commander advised him: “If you don’t come back with a bloody nose, you didn’t try hard enough.” A female first-year cadet defended the event: “Right after, when we learned how many people had gotten hurt, everyone felt totally hard-core. I know it looks weird from the outside, but it really bonds us.”   read more
  • U.S. Physicians Call for End to Ban on Gun Violence Research

    Saturday, December 05, 2015
    The doctors' petition was presented just hours before news of the mass shooting in San Bernardino. “It’s disappointing to me that we’ve made little progress in the past 20 years in finding solutions to gun violence,” said Dr. Nina Agrawal. “In my career, I’ve seen children lives saved from measles, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, motor vehicle accidents…because of federal scientific data and research. It’s frustrating that the CDC is not permitted to do the same type of research for gun violence.”   read more
  • Outgoing Kentucky Governor Restores Voting Rights to Non-Violent Felons who have Served their Terms

    Saturday, December 05, 2015
    “This disenfranchisement makes no sense,” said Beshear. “It makes no sense because it dilutes the energy of democracy, which functions only if all classes and categories of people have a voice, not just a privileged, powerful few. It makes no sense because it defeats a primary goal of our corrections system, which is to rehabilitate those who have committed crimes.” Kentucky joins more than 20 other states that have eased restrictions on voting by former prisoners over the past 20 years.   read more
  • In Pursuit of Investigation and Prosecution of CIA Torture Program Perpetrators

    Friday, December 04, 2015
    Human Right Watch argues “sufficient evidence exists” for Attorney General Lynch to carry out investigations of “senior United States officials and others involved in the post-September 11 CIA program for torture, conspiracy to torture, and other crimes.” HRW offers evidence to support criminal charges against those responsible for state-sanctioned torture, and claims the Senate "torture report" showed that CIA torture was “more brutal, systematic, and widespread” than had been previously found.   read more
  • Florida State Football: 10-2; Florida State Rape Reporting: 14-99

    Friday, December 04, 2015
    Court documents revealed 113 students reported being raped at FSU last year, but the school officially reported only 14 such cases. Melissa Ashton, former director of the FSU’s Victim Advocate Office, testified that in the nine years she worked there, 40 football players were accused of either sexual assault or “intimate partner” violence, but to her knowledge, only one person had been held responsible. “She said most of the women chose not to pursue the cases ‘based on fear,’” said the Times.   read more
  • For the First Time, Law Enforcement Takes more Property from Americans than Burglars Do

    Thursday, December 03, 2015
    Crime isn’t paying like it used to, at least for burglars. They’d be better served working for the federal government. Armstrong Economics pointed out last month that in 2014, U.S. Attorneys seized more than $4.5 billion of assets. An even larger figure, more than $5 billion in assets, was forfeited to the departments of Justice and Treasury. The loss to burglaries, on the other hand, was about $3.5 billion last year. “The police are now taking more assets than the criminals,” wrote Armstrong.   read more
  • European Regulator Investigating Controversial Clinical Trial Overseen by FDA Chief Nominee

    Thursday, December 03, 2015
    Before his nomination, Califf helped design and oversee a clinical trial for Xarelto, which thins blood in heart patients. With Califf's help, the drug won FDA approval in spite of two FDA warning letters before the trial began and a later recall notice that said testing devices in the trial could deliver false test results. An FDA review of the trial showed it was biased in favor of approving Xarelto, Patients using Xarelto were said to be “at greater risk of harm from stroke and/or bleeding.”   read more
  • War on Terror Fails as Terrorism Deaths Skyrocket

    Wednesday, December 02, 2015
    Last year saw an 80% spike in the total number of deaths from terrorism, the highest increase since 2000. The vast majority of terrorist deaths don’t happen in Western countries. Five countries — Iraq, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria—accounted for 78% of the terrorism death toll in 2014, The six new countries with more than 500 deaths were Somalia, Ukraine, Yemen, Central African Republic, South Sudan and Cameroon.   read more
  • Montana Stays on Track as State with Worst Drivers in U.S.

    Wednesday, December 02, 2015
    This year Montana was at the top of the list again. The state was the worst in the country for its traffic fatality rate and was among the worst in several other categories, including speeding, careless driving and failure to obey traffic laws. “Montana has the potentially deadly combination of high speed limits and severe winter weather that could really be driving up fatality rates,” said Tyler Spraul, director of the study. Second place went to South Carolina and New Mexico in a tie.   read more
  • Air Force Adds Civilian Contractors to Drone “Kill Chain”

    Tuesday, December 01, 2015
    The Air Force was forced to use contractors to fly its MQ-9 Reaper drones because it has struggled to recruit, train and retain military drone pilots. But some people are concerned. “The more closely related an activity is to the kill chain, the greater the likelihood the activity should be barred from contractor performance,” wrote Maj. Keric D. Clanahan in Air Force Law Review. He urged the Pentagon to “only allow military personnel to serve as aircraft pilots and … sensor operators.”   read more
  • Lax Government Oversight behind Use of Deadly Banned Pesticide in U.S. Territories

    Tuesday, December 01, 2015
    The EPA banned the use of methyl bromide in U.S. homes in 1984. It is still used on American farms and throughout the Caribbean, including illegally in U.S. territories. Its continued use gained attention after a family from Wilmington, Delaware, nearly died from exposure to the pesticide on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands nine months ago. Two of the family’s boys are still hospitalized in Delaware, suffering from neurological damage and paralysis. The father is also paralyzed.   read more
  • U.S. Watchdog Investigations Imperiled by Obama Fixation on Government Secrecy

    Monday, November 30, 2015
    Three decades of established federal policy that gave watchdogs unrestricted access to government records in their investigations is now at serious risk of being undone. That includes at least 20 investigations that have been slowed or completely shut down. “This is by far the most aggressive assault on the inspector general concept since the beginning,” said professor Paul Light. “It’s the complete evisceration of the concept. You might as well fold them down. They’ve become defanged.”   read more
  • Humans Mold Animals at Will: Gene Editing Hits Full Throttle

    Monday, November 30, 2015
    “We’re going to see a stream of edited animals coming through because it’s so easy,” said professor Whitelaw. “It’s going to change the societal question from, ‘If we could do it, would we want it?’ to, ‘Next year we will have it; will we allow it?’” A variety of gene-altered creatures are already being created in labs for purposes of battling disease to enriching the food industry. Human gene manipulation is the logical next step, a prospect that excites some and frightens others.   read more
  • National Institutes of Health Orders Halt to Use of Chimpanzees in Biomedical Research

    Monday, November 30, 2015
    “It is clear that we’ve reached a tipping point,” Collins wrote. “In accordance with NIH’s commitment in June 2013, I have reassessed the need to maintain chimpanzees for biomedical research and decided that effective immediately, NIH will no longer maintain a colony of 50 chimpanzees for future research.” Additionally, NIH intends to develop a plan for phasing out all agency support for the remaining chimps that are supported by, but not owned by, the NIH.   read more
  • Conservatives Decide Trump Qualifies as a Fascist

    Monday, November 30, 2015
    Jeb Bush adviser John Noonan wrote: “Forced federal registration of US citizens, based on religious identity, is fascism. Period. Nothing else to call it.” Another right-wing voice, Iowa radio host Steve Deace, remarked: “If Obama proposed the same religion registry as Trump every conservative in the country would call it what it is—creeping fascism.” Trump’s attempts to control the media and inciting violence against critics also suggest fascist characteristics, according to some historians.   read more
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