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Resist Fascists
Justice has been hijacked by a handful of elite republican big money corrupt a-holes.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Miles Taylor ~ “In a monumental irony, both Julian Assange… and Edward Snowden… stand charged with the very same crimes that are likely to be brought against Mr. Trump. On both Mr. Assange and Mr. Snowden, Mr. Trump argued that they should be executed.”
FANG
Big Tech’s $95 Million Spending Spree Leaves Antitrust Bill on Brink of Defeat
Top Recipients of Contributions from Lobbyists, 2022 Cycle
FCC has obtained detailed broadband maps from ISPs for the first time ever
4,000 Google cafeteria workers quietly unionized
zuckerberg JAG Ferguson: Judge rules Facebook parent Meta intentionally violated campaign finance laws
GOOGLE YOUTUBE More Likely to Direct Election-Fraud Videos to Users Already Skeptical about 2020 Election’s Legitimacy
GOOGLE YouTube pushed Trump supporters toward voter fraud videos, study finds
ZUCKERBERG OWNED Ireland fines Instagram a record $400 mln over children’s data
How deranged anti-Obama conspiracy theories led America to Donald Trump Folklorist Patricia Turner on how unhinged right-wing paranoia about the first Black president tore America apart
What’s Life Like for the Content Moderator? How untenable is our current social media system “If the torture of its workers is an intrinsic part of the system, then it’s Facebook that has to die (or TikTok or YouTube—kill ’em all).
The T-Mobile / Sprint merger hasn’t created jobs — it’s cut thousands
T-Mobile Misleads Home Internet Customers, Employees Say (Update)
Ahead of iPhone 14 event, Brazil suspends iPhone sales without power brick and fines Apple
TV PRIME TIME NETWORKS
How Roy Cohn Helped Rupert Murdoch
Trump says Fox News pushing ‘Democrat agenda,’ offers to help CNN go ‘Conservative’
Broadcast Networks Pass On Carrying Joe Biden’s Primetime Speech — Update: ABC ran Press Your Luck, CBS went with a Young Sheldon rerun and NBC with a Law & Order replay. CNN and MSNBC carried the address, as did news division streaming channels, but Fox News stuck with Tucker Carlson and his critique of the speech as it was happening.
“And this is why the media is such a failed state. The president is supposed to be political. It’s the job.”
“Democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election — either they win, or they were cheated,” Biden said.
“Either they win, or they were cheated, and that’s where the MAGA Republicans are today.”
“Why Ken Burns Is Exposing America’s Evils During the Holocaust”
PRIVACY
2nd largest U.S. school district hit by ransomware attack
Cops wanted to keep mass surveillance app secret; privacy advocates refused “Tracked,” that investigates the power and consequences of decisions driven by algorithms on people’s everyday lives. Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’ “U.S. police departments have used the “Fog Reveal” database to follow people’s movements based on hundreds of billions of records from 250 million devices. The data originates from common apps such as Starbucks and Waze, @AP’s reporting shows. Federal, state and local police agencies around the U.S. continue to use Fog with very little public accountability EFF RELEASE FOG MANUAL
“U.S. police departments have used the “Fog Reveal” database to follow people’s movements based on hundreds of billions of records from 250 million devices. The data originates from common apps such as Starbucks and Waze, @AP’s reporting shows.
Encrypted app Signal just hired one of Big Tech’s sharpest critics. Meredith Whittaker, the former Google manager, is Signal’s first president. She is out to convince users to pay for the free app.
Signal hypothetical use case becomes practical since cellular providers have started censoring private text messages.
Re Signal:
If only Signal wasn’t actually recording all our contacts permanently in their servers (under their mandatory PIN requirement), then Signal might be a useful tool for encrypted messaging. But somebody apparently got to them to undermine their users’ privacy.
Normally this would not be a problem with free software — users could just rip out the offending code. But Signal’s interpretation is that the license doesn’t allow you to rip out the spyware part of the code, while still using their back-end servers to let your improved version talk to any other Signal users.
The Pentagon’s Push to Program Soldiers’ Brains
The military wants future super-soldiers to control robots with their thoughts.
HEALTH
Blood abnormalities found in people with Long Covid
How long the coronavirus survives in air depends on relative humidity, infectivity can drop by 90% in 20 minutes depending on environmental conditions.
Interacting brains sync without physical presence
Blue Zones Lessons From the World’s Longest Lived
Bill would eliminate federal taxes on Social Security benefits: ‘You Earned It, You Keep It’
New Mexico governor commits $10 million to building new abortion clinic near Texas border
Study raises red flags about corporatization of health care, OHSU investigator says
Study raises red flags about corporatization of health care, OHSU investigator says
Researchers discover new way fat cells talk directly with the brain
Dundee researchers hail Parkinson’s breakthrough
Court Says Tipped Wage Initiative Can Be On November Ballot
MUSIC
Kids Yell “Poop” At Alexa, And These Musicians Profit “Alexa, play ‘Poopy Stupid Butt’ again.”
CRYPTO
IMF Says Crypto Has Greater Potential as a Payment Method Over Weak Currencies
Crypto Dev Enters Wrong Command, Destroys Entire Company
Metaverse Scammers Have a Bridge to Sell You. The Alabama Securities Commission Is Fighting Back
CFTC and SEC open comments for proposal to amend crypto reporting rules for large hedge funds
Who is BitBoy Crypto and why does everybody hate him?
CORRUPT AS HELL
“Unacceptable”: Trump-appointed inspector general stonewalls Jan. 6 probe and blocks witnesses
DHS watchdog Joseph Cuffari has a “fundamental misunderstanding” of his duties as IG, lawmakers say
Atlanta federal pen nearly vacant amid corruption investigation
Leonard Leo: the secretive rightwinger using billions to reshape America
Oath Keepers lawyer Kellye SoRelle charged in Jan. 6 conspiracy case
Georgia election server wiped after suit filed
A computer server crucial to a lawsuit against Georgia election officials was quietly wiped clean by its custodians just after the suit was filed, T
“Masked White Supremacists Crash New Jersey Labor Day Parade”
New FBI documents link Saudi spy in California to 9/11 attacks
More Than 1 In 2 Americans Will Have An Election Denier On The Ballot This Fall
Opinion Leaked audio of a billionaire GOP donor hands Democrats a weapon
“Dark Money Group in Alleged Bannon Scam Dinged by IRS”
Opinion It’s time for Democrats to act on a dark money ban in primaries
Trump Went Judge Shopping and It Paid Off in Mar-a-Lago Case
Why Trump’s FBI investigation could now be delayed for months or even years
Senate Filibuster Stopped Most Pro-Democracy Bills From Becoming Law
Dr. Oz Campaign Hires Actors To Play Convicted Felons Supporting Fetterman
Trump judge’s ruling in Mar-a-Lago case proves Biden was right: MAGA is fascism
Bill Barr: Judge’s Ruling Was ‘Wrong’ in Mar-a-Lago Investigation
Police investigating how Michigan voting machine wound up for sale online
Authorities in Michigan are investigating how a missing voting machine from the state wound up for sale on eBay last month for $1,200.
‘Corrupt as Hell’: Demands for Clarence Thomas to Resign Follow New Details of Wife’s Election Scheming
Jan. 6 panel alleges Gingrich involvement with Trump efforts, seeks interview
Oxford Physicist Unloads on Quantum Computing Industry, Says It’s Basically a Scam
In NCLA Win Against IRS, First Circuit Rules Taxpayers Can Indeed Take the Agency to Court – New Civil Liberties Alliance
McCarthy’s “Commitment to America” rollout
RELIGION
Politico’s New Owner Invited Colleagues to ‘Pray’ for Trump’s Re-Election
Pope dissolves Knights of Malta leadership, issues new constitution
Pope Francis dissolved the leadership of the Knights of Malta, the global Catholic religious order, and installed a provisional government ahead of the election of a new Grand Master.
Kansas constitutional amendment on abortion is a bailout for the Catholic Church
Neo-Nazi head of Goyim Defense League arrested in Poland
Jon Minadeo was arrested while he was protesting against Jews outside of Auschwitz concentration camp.