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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
  • Nevada Chief Justice Complains that State Supreme Court will Go Broke unless Law Enforcement Officers Write more Tickets

    Wednesday, March 25, 2015
    Chief Justice James Hardesty testified before a joint senate subcommittee that the court needed $700,000 by May 1 or it will be out of money. Law enforcement is not generating the same amount of revenue from traffic tickets as it once did, he said, and that’s robbing the high court of funds for operations. “I’m not faulting law enforcement...[but] the truth is that we’re seeing less traffic violations because law enforcement’s priorities have changed...dramatically."   read more
  • Food Allergies are no Joke: Children Die from Eating Pancakes and a Cookie

    Wednesday, March 25, 2015
    While inside a Publix supermarket, Derek Wood, 11, wanted to eat a “Chocolate Chew” cookie. Due to the boy’s allergy to tree nuts, his relatives first asked if the cookie was nut-free. They were told the cookie was nut-free. Derek suffered a fatal asthma attack after eating the cookie. His family is now suing Publix, saying it should be held liable under the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act for not properly identifying allergens in the foods it sells.   read more
  • Crackdown on Medicare Fraud Brought back $3.3 Billion in One Year

    Tuesday, March 24, 2015
    Spearheaded by Attorney General Eric Holder and then-Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the HEAT program ramped up an 18-year effort by their two departments to battle Medicare fraud. Of the $3.3 billion recovered, $1.9 billion was funneled back into the Medicare Trust Fund, $1.2 billion went to the U.S. Treasury, and $155 million to other agencies. Whistleblowers collected $370 million of the funds for helping expose Medicare fraud.   read more
  • Revolving Door, Nuclear Power Edition

    Tuesday, March 24, 2015
    Daniel Poneman, the Energy Department’s second most powerful official for five years, will now become president and CEO of Centrus Energy Corp. with a salary of $1.7 million a year. “DOE has long had an improper relationship with USEC (now Centrus),” said Sen. John Barrasso. “Mr. Poneman’s appointment...only promises to make that record worse.” Said Public Citizen's Tyson Slocum, “[It’s] one of the more problematic revolving-door issues that I can remember.”   read more
  • The Clash over Police Body Cameras Heats Up

    Tuesday, March 24, 2015
    Without public records laws, police exercise unilateral control over body camera footage. They are responsible for making the recordings, archiving them, and deciding which footage to release to the public and which to keep under wraps. In many cases, their decisions are final. “I think it’s a fair concern and a fair criticism that people might cherry pick and release only the ones that show them in a favorable light,” said former Charlotte, North Carolina, police chief Darrel Stephens.   read more
  • Justice Dept. Files “Statement of Interest” in Case of “Assembly-Line Justice” for Juveniles in 4 Georgia Counties

    Tuesday, March 24, 2015
    The Cordele Circuit, said the lawsuit, has provided only “assembly-line justice” to juveniles. “For too long, the Supreme Court’s promise of fairness for young people accused of delinquency has gone unfulfilled in courts across our country,” said Eric Holder. “Every child has the right to a competent attorney who will provide the highest level of professional guidance and advocacy. It is time for courts to adequately fund indigent defense systems for children."   read more
  • Breast Milk for Sale versus Breast Milk Banks

    Tuesday, March 24, 2015
    One biotech company offers cash to mothers to donate their extra breast milk to its lab. The company sells the human milk--which some call "white plasma"--at $180 an ounce, which means one premature baby can easily consume $10,000 worth over several weeks. But the lure of cash for milk may begin to drain the resources of milk banks, which don’t pay mothers for their contributions. Opponents say “breast milk farming” could lead greedy moms to do unscrupulous things in order to increase profits.   read more
  • After more than 4 Years, Bureau of Land Management Finally Issues Rules to Protect Drinking Water from Fracking…but only on Public Lands

    Monday, March 23, 2015
    The regulations apply only on public lands and Indian reservations under the administration of the Interior Department. Fracking on private land, where about 75% of it is done, is not affected. • Drillers will be required to encase wells in cement when groundwater supplies could be affected. • Wells must undergo pressure tests to ensure they’ll stand up to fracking without blowing out. • The use of open waste pits to contain fracking fluids will be prohibited in most circumstances.   read more
  • NSA Bulk Surveillance Could Continue even if Legal Authority Expires on June 1

    Monday, March 23, 2015
    The provision of the USA Patriot Act (pdf) that allows the data collection, Section 215, is set to expire on June 1, and so far, lawmakers haven’t adopted legislation extending this authority. However, the Obama administration could continue the NSA program by drafting a legal memo authorizing the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to in turn approve the bulk collection effort until Congress does act.   read more
  • $1 Billion TSA Behavioral Screening Program Slammed as Ineffective “Junk Science”

    Monday, March 23, 2015
    SPOT, whose techniques were first used in 2003 and formalized in 2007, uses “highly questionable” screening techniques, according to the ACLU complaint, while being “discriminatory, ineffective, pseudo-scientific, and wasteful of taxpayer money.” TSA has spent at least $1 billion on SPOT.   read more
  • McAfee-Owned Company had Access to Hillary Clinton’s Classified Emails

    Monday, March 23, 2015
    Clinton used a commercial spam filtering service, MxLogic, now owned by McAfee, to monitor emails coming into her account. To be able to filter out spam, MxLogic had to be able to read the emails. Thus, anyone with access to MxLogic’s system, which could include someone from outside the company, could read emails meant for Clinton. Those emails would include communications coming from the White House and foreign governments.   read more
  • Clashing Chemical Safety Bills: Industry vs. Consumers

    Monday, March 23, 2015
    The Environmental Working Group (EWG) cites the failure to specifically address asbestos, deadlines for chemical review pushed far into the future, not allowing states to set tougher standards for chemical safety, and several other issues. All 17 senators who sponsored or co-sponsored the Vitter-Udall bill were among the current members of the Senate who received more than $1 million in donations from the nation’s top 10 chemical companies.   read more
  • China Leads in Heavily Polluting Coal Plants, but U.S. not far Behind

    Sunday, March 22, 2015
    Sub-critical coal-fired power stations (SCPS) emit 75% more pollutants than more technologically advanced ultra-supercritical type plants. The United States has 75% SCPS in its coal-fired portfolio. The United States has 10 companies—the most of any nation—among the top 25 in SCPS generation.   read more
  • New York and San Diego Police Departments Edit Wikipedia Entries on Alleged Police Brutality Cases

    Sunday, March 22, 2015
    • “Garner raised both his arms in the air” was changed to “Garner flailed his arms about as he spoke.” • “Use of the chokehold has been prohibited” was changed to “Use of the chokehold is legal, but has been prohibited.” • Instances of the word “chokehold” were replaced twice, once to “chokehold or headlock,” and once to “respiratory distress.”   read more
  • Florida Environmental Protection Employee’s Mental Health Questioned after Mentioning Climate Change in a Meeting Summary

    Sunday, March 22, 2015
    Bibler turned in a meeting summary that mentioned climate change, which is an undeniable threat to the low-lying state, and he inadvertently left the word “agenda” in the memo header, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Bibler was ordered to remove mentions of climate change and the word agenda. He sent the note back, minus “agenda” but with climate change mentions intact and with a logo that urged a stop to the Keystone XL pipeline.   read more
  • U.S. Cities with Highest and Lowest Rates of Gay Populations

    Sunday, March 22, 2015
    Despite its status as home base for the Mormon Church, Utah has passed legislation with the support of the church prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in employment and housing. The area may also attract LGBT people from other, less welcoming, locations in the West. The metropolitan area with the fewest who identify as LGBT is Birmingham, Alabama, at 2.6%.   read more
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