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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
  • Marriott Vacations Worldwide Fires Employee of 11 Years Because She’s Running for Office

    Thursday, September 25, 2014
    Viviana Janer worked at Marriott Vacations Worldwide for 11 years as an internal auditor. But that came to an abrupt end this month after she won the Democratic primary for the Osceola County Commission’s District 2 seat. Her superiors told Janer she had a choice: keep her job, or quit the race. She chose to stay in the race.   read more
  • Obama Administration Claims Khorasan Group is more dangerous than ISIS, Bombs Them in Syria

    Wednesday, September 24, 2014
    The director of national intelligence, James Clapper, said recently that Khorasan represented a more direct threat than IS. Clapper for the first time named the group’s leader, Muhsin al-Fadhli, a Kuwaiti who, as a young man, worked closely with Osama bin Laden during the plotting of the 9/11 attacks.   read more
  • White House Intruder Left His Weapons in His Car, Claimed He was Trying to Help Obama Warn Americans that “Atmosphere was Collapsing”

    Wednesday, September 24, 2014
    Gonzalez, a former military sniper, had 800 rounds of ammunition in his car at the time of his attempt to find President Barack Obama. Gonzalez said he wanted to tell the president that the “atmosphere was collapsing” so he could warn the nation. His vehicle also contained a machete and two hatchets. Gonzalez left all these weapons behind when he climbed the White House fence, and was carrying only a small pocket knife when the U.S. Secret Service apprehended him.   read more
  • Jury Finds Arab Bank Guilty of Helping Finance Terrorism

    Wednesday, September 24, 2014
    In the lawsuit that was originally filed 10 years ago, the 297 plaintiffs cited the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act (pdf), which for the first time was successfully used to hold a financial institution responsible for knowingly supporting terrorism efforts. They claimed Arab Bank supported Hamas by handling transfers and payments for the group. And they did so despite a “high” burden of proof, which entailed proving Hamas was behind 24 suicide attacks.   read more
  • CDC Funds Group that Helps Hollywood Present Health and Health Insurance Issues Accurately

    Wednesday, September 24, 2014
    When television writers or screenwriters need some expert advice for a medical storyline, they turn to Hollywood, Health, and Society, a private group of experts funded by the federal government’s leading health research agency. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides up to half a million dollars a year to Hollywood, Health, and Society, which has been advising the entertainment industry for 13 years.   read more
  • Pine Ridge Sioux Must Travel 27 Miles from Reservation to Vote

    Wednesday, September 24, 2014
    In a lawsuit filed by the Oglala Sioux, plaintiffs claim the lack of an election office on reservation land has forced Pine Ridge tribal members to travel at least 27 miles to Kadoka to register for voting and to vote. And that’s the struggle for Sioux who own a car. Federal census data reportedly shows 25% of reservation residents have no access to an automobile.   read more
  • U.S. Nuclear Spending Hits Record Level

    Tuesday, September 23, 2014
    Former members of Congress and aides to the president have been left wondering what happened to the arms-reduction version of Obama who took over the Oval Office. Former Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, whose positions favoring nuclear disarmament reportedly meant something to Obama at one time, told the newspaper that the president’s new position is “hard to explain.”   read more
  • U.S. Greenhouse Gases back on the Rise; U.S. Still Leads in Per Capita Pollution

    Tuesday, September 23, 2014
    The U.S. averaged 16.5 metric tons of carbon dioxide spewed into the atmosphere for each individual—a rate that’s far ahead of all other nations. China, the second largest per-capita polluter, averages 7.2 metric tons. The U.S. emission rate had slowed because of increased use of natural gas in power generation, but coal has recently made a bit of a comeback in that role, causing more carbon to flow into the atmosphere.   read more
  • Police Departments Investigated for Civil Rights Abuses Still Get Free Military Weapons

    Tuesday, September 23, 2014
    The Los Angeles Police Department received more than 1,600 M16 assault rifles even though the LAPD was under the supervision of a federal monitor until just last year following accusations of excessive force, false arrests and unreasonable searches. Warren, Ohio, reached a settlement in 2012 with the U.S. Department of Justice for excessive force and illegal searches, but is expected to receive 30 M16 rifles.   read more
  • California Pensions to Dump $4 Billion Hedge Fund Investments; Rockefeller Charity Drops Oil

    Tuesday, September 23, 2014
    The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has decided to divest its investment portfolio of all hedge funds, a total of 24 plus six “funds of funds.” The total comes out to about $4 billion out of CalPERS’ total assets of $300 billion. The amount may not be that significant compared to the overall investing CalPERS does, but the pension fund’s sheer size makes any decision noticeable among investors.   read more
  • One Cop in Charge of 461 Sex Offenders

    Tuesday, September 23, 2014
    Officer Chris Poncia has 461 people in his case file, all the sex offenders in Providence. His beat includes 175 Level 2 and 3 offenders, who are classified this way because they’re considered likely to commit sex crimes again. Poncia is unique among his peers in Rhode Island, which has about 1,600 sex offenders. He is the only cop in the state who does nothing but patrol the sex offender beat.   read more
  • Congress Takes 5 Weeks Off, Works for 8 Days and Takes another 8 Weeks Off

    Monday, September 22, 2014
    Lawmakers took five weeks off from Washington during their summer break. They came back this month to work…for eight days. Now, they’re jetting off again to their districts, where they’ll spend nearly the next eight weeks not doing any legislative work. Congress is scheduled to return on November 12. Its members will have just a few more lame-duck weeks to avoid setting a record for enacting the least number of laws of any Congress since such statistics began being kept in 1973.   read more
  • Appeals Court Throws Out Child Porn Conviction over Illegal Navy Surveillance of Private Citizens

    Monday, September 22, 2014
    The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals was forced to throw out the conviction of a man caught distributing child pornography because the case was initiated by Naval investigators randomly searching computers in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the military acting as a civilian police force. NCIS agent Steve Logan's excuse for searching all computers in Washington was that the state has a high percentage of military personnel.   read more
  • Prosecutions for Environmental Crimes Decline under Obama

    Monday, September 22, 2014
    Last year, there were 449 prosecutions for environmental crimes. That’s less than half the 927 prosecutions initiated in 2007, toward the end of the Bush administration. And the trend line is falling; there were 271 prosecutions in the first nine months of this fiscal year. If cases are filed at the current rate, that would result in only 361 for 2014, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University.   read more
  • Secret Donors have Spent more than $60 Million on Current Election Campaign

    Monday, September 22, 2014
    Nonprofit groups that aren’t supposed to have politics as their primary purpose have reportedly put $63 million into ads and other efforts to influence the outcome of the 2014 midterm races, according to the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), which tracks electoral spending. Mother Jones’ Andy Kroll pointed out that this amount nearly matches the $69 million in dark money that was spent during the entire 2008 presidential campaign.   read more
  • Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy: Who Is Michael Botticelli?

    Monday, September 22, 2014
    Botticelli ran afoul of Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) during a Congressional subcommittee hearing. Blumenauer, who is hoping to change marijuana’s status as a Schedule I narcotic, asked Botticelli which is more dangerous, marijuana or methamphetamine. Botticelli wouldn’t give a straight answer and Blumenauer chastised him, "If the deputy director of the office of drug policy can't answer that question how do you expect high school kids to take you seriously?”   read more
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