President Donald Trump is threatening to sue a left-leaning think tank unless it retracts a report that said his National Guard deployments to various cities did not reduce crime as he said. https://t.co/miqHQXbI1G
It’s actually insane we have politicians committing a felony with irrefutable proof and they aren’t arrested. Any one of us would be in lockup right now.
Btw this is a blatant first amendment violation. Children also have the constitutional right to the freedom of expression. This is just further evidence that children's rights in this country are basically non-existent.
Reminder: Flock is just one example. Palantir is another. Digital ID is another.
We need to fight the entire surveillance industrial complex. And we need to fight as hard as we can.
Pencils are more expensive. So are notebooks, scissors, glue sticks — just about every back-to-school item that families will load into their literal or virtual carts this summer has gone up in price at a time when American families already feel crushed by rising costs.
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The Justice Department finalized a rule Monday that will pave the way for people who've been barred from owning firearms because of criminal convictions to apply to have their gun rights reinstated.
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The Trump administration said this week it would stop funding the Arctic Report Card, a longstanding effort to synthesize the latest research about the fastest-warming place on Earth.
The decision is the latest in a series of moves by the administration to curtail scientific research into the impacts of climate change.
@WmBrangham discussed more with glaciologist Twila Moon, who has been a lead editor for the Arctic Report Card.
People on the USA are so used to not getting anything out of their tax money besides war that when a mayor actually gives them fans on their subway, fixes trash cans, paves patholes, and provides services with their own tax dollars they call it communisim.