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Let’s ban the sale of our phone location data Sign petition to stop cell phone tracking

Your phone’s apps can collect and sell your location data without your knowledge, revealing your every move. States can take the lead passing laws that ban the sale of your geolocation data; sign our petition supporting the State Location Privacy Act. action.consumerreports.org/nb_20260211_...

Note that this is a newish amendment to the Save America Act. The earlier version was plenty bad. But this is even worse. Curiously, I had a really hard time finding this latest version online. I knew to look only bc the Brennan Center alluded to an amendment along these lines.

"You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook". ~ Harry S. Truman #PresidentsDay

"Hypothetical questions can only be given hypothetical answers..."

New research shows how Londoners used death data to survive the plague What a 350-year-old diary reveals about public health power.

New research by the University of Portsmouth reveals that during the Great Plague of 1665, Londoners used published death figures to make daily, life or death decisions, reshaping how governments managed public health and personal freedom for the first time www.port.ac.uk/news-events-...

Actor Robert Duvall has died — he brought a compassionate center to edgy hard roles Duvall appeared in over 90 films over the course of his career, imbuing stock Hollywood types — cowboys, cops, soldiers — with a nuanced sense of vulnerability.

Duvall appeared in over 90 films over the course of his career, imbuing stock Hollywood types — cowboys, cops, soldiers — with a nuanced sense of vulnerability. n.pr/4rUDvwW

Last year, venture capital investors poured $174 million into companies developing new mRNA vaccines, down from $510 million in 2023, according to GlobalData, a firm that tracks industry deals. The newfound perils for investors are illustrated by Blackstone, the investment firm, which invested $750 million in the development of the Moderna flu vaccine that the F.D.A. refused to review - and that now might never make money in the United States. Blackstone stood to receive royalties and other payments if the shot came to market.

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Page 15 of the GOP’s Save America Act wld force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s centralized voter purge program (called “SAVE”), which they know has had error rates as high as 14% & links to an SSA database that they know was compromised by DOGE. #NoOnSave 1/

Small business owners squeezed by Trump tariffs await Supreme Court decision • Iowa Capital Dispatch The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimated as of August Trump’s tariffs will cost America’s small businesses about $200 billion annually.

Many small business owners are waiting on the U.S. Supreme Court, which has been mulling since November what was supposed to be an expedited opinion on whether large shares of the president’s unilateral emergency tariffs are legal, Ashley Murray reports.

Wow. Just read the opening grafs of this opinion on Trump's ordered removal of an exhibition on the treatment of slaves in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

the current US administration is literally a plague

Valentine's Day quotes from the OUTLANDER books News, information, random musings, and occasional Deep Thoughts about Diana Gabaldon's books and All Things OUTLANDER.

Happy Valentine's Day! Here are some of my favorite romantic quotes from Diana Gabaldon's #OUTLANDER books. Hope you enjoy them!

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when you make noise it hurts the fascist cause. make more noise. make good trouble.

Robert Duvall, indelible actor from 'The Godfather' and 'Apocalypse Now,' dies at 95 The renowned actor died peacefully in his home in Middleburg, Virginia, with his wife at his side, according to a statement from his family.

ah damn, another absolute irreplaceable legend. RIP

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NETWORK was made 20 years before the internet and yet it’s still probably the best movie about the media ever made

After Trump denied disaster aid for August flooding that hit the South and West sides hard, city leaders are vowing to "get creative" to help neighbors. blockclubchi.co/4rSQ6R0

More states are requiring insurers to cover non-opioid pain meds • Ohio Capital Journal More states are requiring their Medicaid programs and health insurance companies to cover non-opioid pain medications as an alternative to opioids, which can be cheaper for insurers but also more…

More states are requiring their Medicaid programs and health insurance companies to cover non-opioid pain medications as an alternative to opioids, which can be cheaper for insurers but also more addictive for patients. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/16/r...

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

This is the ultimate futility of Trumpism: in their desperation to exclude immigrants from some herrenvolk American society, MAGA ethnonationalists are in fact compelling everyday Americans to reaffirm and strengthen their communal bonds to immigrants.

"Antarctica's first political prisoner":

Ukrainian marine biologist Leonid Pshenichnov was arrested by Russia in occupied Crimea in September of 2025. He is charged with high treason and might spend up to 20 years in prison.

The current book ban movement is, at its core, a movement to defund the public good.

The necessary bigotries were a feature of that, not a bug.

Trump's Climate Supercomputer Plans Threaten US Insurance Market: Actuaries A new letter from the American Academy of Actuaries draws a direct line between the planned dismantling of NCAR and higher homeowners insurance costs for US consumers.

The American Academy of Actuaries warns that dismantling NCAR would degrade the catastrophe models insurers depend on to price climate risk—driving up premiums and threatening coverage availability nationwide.
"Uncertainty carries a positive cost."
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Read and share all over..he nails it

“It's time to write our own story.” 🩰 The incomparable Misty Copeland

#FollowYourJoy
#BlackWomenMakeHistory

COMMENTING GUIDE: Opposing Two Trump Regime Rules Banning Gender-Affirming Care, Deadline 2/17/26 Creator profile picture Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland January 26 Edit I. Bottom Line Up Front The Trump Regime's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published two companion proposed rules designed to eliminate access to gender-affirming care for minors nationwide. Together, these rules would: Ban hospitals from providing this care (CMS-3481-P) — regardless of how the care is paid for Prohibit Medicaid and CHIP from covering this care (CMS-2451-P) — cutting off funding for lower-income families You have the opportunity to help defend trans kids by submitting comments against these vile proposed rules. Because even if a state wanted to continue covering gender-affirming care through Medicaid, the hospital rule would prevent hospitals from providing it. The two rules use different regulatory mechanisms to accomplish the same policy goal: eliminating access to gender-affirming care for anyone under 18 (or under 19 for CHIP). You should submit your comment to both dockets. The deadline is 5PM ET on February 17, 2026.

Public comment on Dr Oz's proposed rules to ban gender-affirming care for youth closes 2/17

One rule bans hospital-based care, the other eliminates Medicaid/CHIP coverage

Together they'd make care virtually unavailable nationwide, including in shield law states

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Violent Israeli settlers attack Palestinian community in Jericho and expel all 15 families The settlers bulldozed and destroyed 19 buildings, including 15 residential homes, and stole jewellery and money in the village near Jericho

Violent Israeli settlers attack Palestinian community in Jericho and expel all 15 families

The settlers bulldozed and destroyed 19 buildings, including 15 residential homes, and stole jewellery and money
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American Century of Humiliation is manifesting in ways I did not predict.

“Under the Administrative Procedure Act, agencies must consider substantive comments and respond to them in the final rule. When a rule is challenged in court, judges review the ‘administrative record’ which includes the public commenting docket.”

Black cat with oversized round eyes sits on soft green ground against a purple-to-pink gradient sky. The text above reads: “I wish you a calm week ahead. But if it gets loud, because sometimes it does, remember you’ve found your way back to your own peace before. And you can do it again!”