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Rep. Rob Bresnahan has gone all in on the nightmare of data centers to fuel AI scams.
Rep Rob Bresnahan’s stock trades, including in tech companies, as of March 2025 are interesting.
Poison pill in a pro-mask bill.
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.
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.
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.
Elon Musk has sued Tesla customers who complain, and also journalists who criticize.
And he’s won the suits for lots of money.
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.
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
Trump fired the people who investigate fraud waste and abuse.
Any claims that this new Elon Musk dog crew is actually looking for fraud or waste is a lie. We already had positions that were all about rooting out corruption, and the Donald got rid of them. THEY FIRED THE WATCHDOGS. NOW, NO ONE IS WATCHING. | RepresentUs – Mar 12, 2025 Trump fired 19 […]
Rob Bresnahan’s comms director defamed constituents in order to make excuses for not having a public town hall in the district.
Indivisible’s Ezra Levin has pointed out that Republicans will do tele town halls because then they can tightly control who can speak. So of course: U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan has announced he’s holding a “Telephone Town Hall”
Can we please end loser leftism and extol the public good?
Stop thinking “if only we could convince people” of something, that things would change. Just stop that. It’s not about explaining.
We need a shadow government to scrutinize everything that happens at HHS.
Every policy decision and everything that comes out of that entire HHS department, and all the agencies within, needs to be scrutinized.
Facebook is censoring articles about tech tycoons plans for monarchy.
Same memo that I included in my February 7th newsletter.
Not the worst pandemic takes, but why do people seem to miss the experience of entire segments of the population?
And it’s not that I’m alone or unique because I know many many people who are in similar situations to me. Marketplace – Make Me Smart Unpacking our collective COVID-19 trauma, five years on Episode 1347 Mar 11, 2025 David Wallace-Wells was on Marketplace podcast talking about the covid pandemic declaration anniversary and was surprisingly […]
Annexation and invasion threats should be taken seriously — dump the normalcy bias.
It’s a mistake to think Trump is just fooling about Canada too.
Rob Bresnahan is being called on the carpet by constituents on Medicaid vote.
I sent him a postcard with a jellyfish, and I have more jellyfish postcards reserved just for him.