This youtuber says that the news station didn’t fact check it when Rep. Diana Harshbarger claimed that she’s had NO complaints about the shutdown, when this woman knows that she and others have been complaining.
Tag: civic engagement
Where’s the shadow government people all over the broad left want?
Dem politicians and candidates need to consider Thomas Paine, and should be saying things l: “If we were in charge this is what you’d be seeing, this is what we would be doing.”
Don’t pooh-pooh protests, just advocate for more.
If you have ideas for effective civic engagement, lead with that, by all means, but there’s no reason to make your first foot forward out of the gate be a crapping on what someone else is trying.
Indianapolis said no to the proposed water guzzling Google data center.
“Indianapolis killed this Google data center. It would have used 1 million gallons of water per day.”
Surveillance tech companies are doing secretive government contracts with public officials who are avoiding public input.
The parallels with the secrecy with tech industry data center projects are uncanny.
Data Center hearing in the town of Archbald Pennsylvania drew a record number of constituents who were talked down to.
Multiple data centers proposed in Northeastern Pennsylvania are in or very near to Archbald Pennsylvania.
Town in Wisconsin wants to externalize the impact of a data center to their neighboring village.
In Menomonie Wisconsin, one town’s council is also annexing land of a neighboring town, and externalizing the impact to the people in this other town that they don’t have to answer to, and who can’t vote them out.
Attorney for a developer threatens end to democracy if the people of Covington Township don’t allow their property values to zero out.
WVIA reports that the company that will run the proposed data center in Lackawanna County has already had the developer sign a NDA (nondisclosure agreement).
Hundreds turn out in small town meeting to oppose a data center; township politicians vote for it anyway.
Someone should be looking into what kind of financial interests these township supervisors have in the proposed 500 acres to be used for this planned ginormous data center power plant.
We do need a shadow cabinet, but a private medical society is unlikely to overthrow the current regime.
Don’t wait for some elite doctors and scientists to save science for the people from “behind the scenes”.
AI is not inevitable.
More specifically the tech tycoon preferred implementation of AI is not inevitable.
The UK Post Office computer system outrageous injustice story, dramatized.
Mr Bates Vs the Post Office is finally available in the US streaming on PBS Passport and Apple TV, and probably elsewhere.
American Medical Association calls for a senate investigation into CDC ACIP committee firings ahead of the vaccine meeting.
The public comments period opened and CDC ACIP committee members were all abruptly fired.
Marty Makary was copying Stephen Miller and saying America voted for this.
I’ve seen a lot of people on social media mad that Marty Makary said, “America doesn’t want covid boosters” and of course this doesn’t mean Americans don’t want covid boosters. He said “America doesn’t want covid boosters”. Important distinction.
Pseudoscience eugenics conspiracy theory is what’s driving the push to keep vaccines from American children.
I really hope people voice support and interest in vaccines for children specifically to elected representatives and to the FDA VRBPAC in public comment.
Public Comment to CDC ACIP on VACCINES.
The deadline to submit a public comment is April 11th.
No system can enforce itself.
I’m glad other people are articulating this issue, because I see people often saying “we need a system where this can’t happen!” or saying the system is the problem, or that they think some “mechanism” should be put in place to stop things going wrong.
Don’t listen to bad advice on civic engagement.
If you want to engage in democracy, consider carefully about where you get advice.