Anti mask ban legislation shouldn’t undermine the entire reason for the protection, and it definitely shouldn’t introduce random “Stop and Unmask” checkpoints by law enforcement.
Month: March 2025
VACCINATION IS POPULAR. It is certainly worth it to keep up the pressure in favour of vaccines.
Keep telling the people in elected positions at all levels of government.
The Trump Social accusation of supposedly illegal “collusive boycott” against Elon Musk is a threat of lawfare.
Billionaires are already using antitrust law to suppress community organizing resistance to their authoritarian corporate hostile takeover of democracy and personal freedoms.
Cuts to good stuff? — OR we could ask tycoons to cut back on the avocado toast and the superyachts.
TAX THE TYCOONS. Problem solved.
Out of touch Republican in Tennessee blames outsiders with nose rings for unpopularity of Trump & Musk policies.
I don’t live in Tennessee, but I live smack dab in Appalachia and I’ve had my nose pierced for 35 years.
Decimation of NOAA is a threat to public safety.
I oppose the dismantling of NOAA and any privatization of public data.
Lancaster County Pennsylvania gets a Dem state senator for the first time since 1889.
This is a county that’s been taken over by some fringe right-wing extremists on the local level which might’ve gotten more voters engaged.
Pennsylvania House moves to protect ACA provisions.
I’ve been asking my state reps what they’re going to do to try to mitigate things in Pennsylvania against the onslaught of the maga-doge admin, and there’s some movement.
People who oppose public safety & human health are never right.
This is an example of Kaiser Family Foundation and MedPage Today conforming to manufacture consent, by introducing the topic this way in a PR piece that is of course outrageous clickbait material.
Health disinformation & pseudoscience promotion will likely get much worse.
It’s really unlikely that there will be any policy reforms in the US to combat medical misinformation any time soon.
Trump administration FTC dropped rulemaking against predatory surveillance pricing.
If the FTC is not going to help consumers on this, because Elon Musk decided he didn’t want them investigating him, well that means we need legislation.
Cryptocurrency has no deposit insurance.
FDIC insurance does not cover cryptocurrency. Pass it on.
Rep Rob Bresnahan’s Tele Town Hall, PA-08
The tele town hall recording is available on Facebook
Elon Musk has sued Tesla customers who complain, and also journalists who criticize.
And he’s won the suits for lots of money.
Alternative crisis pregnancy centers can ignore HIPAA.
They can ask you for all sorts of private do what they want with people’s private health info.
Gavin Newsom is pushing state workers to get butts in seats downtown for fossil fuel and business interests.
This guy’s sad podcast platforming a far right bigot isn’t the first or only extremely anti progressive garbage from Gavin Newsom. Just write this guy off.
Selling immigration and “golden passports” — NOT a new idea.
It seems like a way to promote international bribery and prioritize foreign rich people over ordinary Americans.
Republican Rep. Rich McCormick in Georgia says health should be handled by AI.
A GOP congressperson in Georgia, who identified himself as a doctor, actually said that the massive firings and downsizing of healthcare and public health workers at the CDC are justified because those people can be replaced by chatbots.
Fossil fuel, commercial real estate, and mid level megalomaniacal managers are behind anti-telework RTO.
The REAL Reasons CEOs Hate Remote Work – SOME MORE NEWS Feb 12, 2025 “Hi. We’ve been told that 2025 is the year that remote working will die, despite it often being good for workers and their employers. CEOs hate it though, and they’re working to get rid of it.“
Culty politics and the mismanagement of water.
“perhaps a better way to think about it is a political ideology and of course it had religious overtones – cult’s perhaps the wrong word because it suggests something kind of small-scale and extra-governmental this was political ideology front and center”
Don’t fall for propaganda shaming people into inaction.
There are always people who will mock civic engagement, and you better believe that the opposition is the beneficiary when people get shamed into inaction.
Don’t shove dubious stuff up your nose, just put on an N95 mask.
“Unproven products can seem attractive, especially when social media marketing overhypes potential benefits, without mention of risks or uncertainties.” – Kaitlin Sundling