Forty-seven members of Congress skipped the vote on the KIDS Act, which establishes the infrastructure for mass surveillance of Americans online.
This bill needed a two-thirds majority to pass, so just 17 more no votes could have sunk it!
A couple members might have a legit excuse, but 47? No way. They bailed to avoid going on the record, even at the cost of furthering the surveillance state.
Trumps taking the SCOTUS decision on mail-in ballots well. DSA is apparently more dangerous than WW1, WW2, Pearl Harbor (seperate from WW2?), and 9/11 combined.
Last night I went to Lawrence, Kansas, because Battle of Algiers was playing at a local festival.
It was an incredible experience but was slightly soured by a horrible choice for their post screening Q&A.
Up until yesterday, this is how people interacted with the reflecting pool, which we all own. Now, Trump will arrest anyone who puts a finger in the water. How exactly is this freedom that the GOP constantly says we have more of now than ever before? Let's get back to the old way
New paper: every law in America is technically public. But not really, until now!
With @DenisPeskoff at UC Berkeley, we built a corpus of ~every publicly accessibly city and county law, and released a huge chunk of it!
2.2 million laws, you're (probably) covered in it!
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