February 10, 2025 From the American Bar Association – The ABA supports the rule of law. We have seen attempts at wholesale dismantling of departments and entities created by Congress without seeking the required congressional approval to change the law. There are efforts to dismiss employees with little regard for the law and protections they […]
People are not happy about the Elon Musk Trump administration’s various corruptions.
We’re not happy in Pennsylvania, that’s for sure.
The problems with MAID in context.
Human euthanasia cannot be considered as a standalone question, because like everything else, it has to exist in the worst societal contexts – some that are a reality right now.
No to data center corporate welfare.
Data centers don’t need to be subsidized as businesses that need them and will build them either way. There is zero justification for giving taxpayer giveaways to big tech companies and cryptocurrency tycoons to build their data centers. Boondoggle – Big Tech’s AI Blackmail State and local data center extortion is going national. Pat Garofalo […]
Pennsylvania out on a limb.
Do people even understand that federal funds are still frozen?
The cult of anti-woke.
I realize this is funny. But there’s a dark risk to the mechanism of this type of social contagion.
Yes, shadowbanning is real.
It’s probably happening on all the platforms, and most people probably don’t even know it’s happening to them.
Steve Bannon to the left of NPR on Medicaid cuts.
Medicaid funding is a foundation of a great deal of Northeastern Pennsylvania, but we can’t be complacent that our politicians won’t take marching orders from tycoons like Elon Musk. More uninsured people racking up medical debt they can never ever pay off never made anything better in America for those people or anyone else. NPR […]
Harming disabled people was always part of the project.
I’m really concerned because a lot of people I talk to, or see posting in forums or on social media, seem to not realize that disabled people are being targeted by anti-DEI and anti-woke policy. I keep seeing people saying things like that they’re stopping funding for disability services at schools and such because “transition” […]
Paxlovid keeping older vaccinated and unvaccinated patients from severe covid.
But white patients get it more often than others.
5G mmWave was big hype by big telecom -so many bought inferior and or more expensive phones for nothin.
The big telecoms and big tech companies need to be broken up.
Mechanical scams are drinking up our fresh water.
Public safety with regards to life sustaining water supply should override any trade interest any company might have.
The information zombies of pandemic misinformation.
There are things that have stuck with people from the beginning of the pandemic when we didn’t know much, and science & clinical information on covid was new, but we need to move with the times.
Carbon County deer found with Chronic Wasting Disease
CIDRAP – CWD spreads to Carbon County, Pennsylvania, with first detection in free-ranging deer – News brief February 14, 2025 – Mary Van Beusekom, MS The severely emaciated deer was found dead on private property located more than 10 miles away from any other CWD-positive cases. Carbon County is in the east-central part of the […]
Louisiana government forbids public health officials from doing public health.
State officials have forbidden the public health department from even mentioning vaccines.
Utility rate increase proposed in PA.
WNEP16 – Scranton requests public hearing with UGI following proposed rate increase – Scranton city officials are requesting a public hearing regarding UGI’s proposed gas rate increase. Author: Maggie Zaleski Published: 5:05 PM EST February 13, 2025 The utility provider filed a request with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) last month for an overall […]
People are not even talking about the same things and this is dangerous.
I don’t think most people realize that many times we think we’re talking about the same thing, but in fact, we’re not actually on the same page with the underlying premise or even basic facts.
It’s an attempt at regime change to corporate monarchy.
“THIS IS A PLUTOCRATIC COUP. IF YOU WANT THE POWER, RUN FOR OFFICE AND BE CHOSEN BY THE PEOPLE. SHORT OF THAT, THIS IS AN EXERCISE IN VIGILANTISM.”
DOGE employee’s past cyber breach and hacker gang activity.
Strange choice of inexperienced employees for an elite forensic accounting operation looking for fraud and waste. There are actual forensic accountants.
Curtail use of social media and start connecting with people personally.
The big public social media platforms are not the entirety of the internet.
Community leaders need pressure from below to counter pressure from authoritarianism above them.
I sent emails to my local school board and it wasn’t a resounding reassurance I got in response.