Members of law enforcement agencies may have the ability to track the medical appointments of any patient of Kaiser Permanente (which owns Geisinger in Pennsylvania), without a warrant and without any probable cause, for any reason that may interest them.
Tag: letters to reps
Russia is asking Elon Musk for intel on dissidents.
I don’t think Elon Musk should have access to sensitive information…
The SAVE Act voter suppression bill will penalize people who’ve had a legal name change.
It definitely seems to target married people who’ve taken their spouse’s name or have had a legal name change for whatever reason.
The federal government is a poo circus.
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 […]
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?
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 […]
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.
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.
Calling Gretchen Whitmer – pick up the clue phone, Big Gretch.
Remember, if your Democratic Party representative isn’t hearing from you, they will assume you think they’re doing just fine!
The tycoons want us all to live in their authoritarian company towns instead of free communities.
Nobody voted for Elon Musk and what is he doing with American data? I’ve worked for government, and one big rule in government work is that you sign agreements that you understand that you can’t attach anything to government computers. You’re not even supposed to plug in a USB spotlight lamp to government equipment. There’s […]
AI is not the answer to human problems.
Going all in on vaporware is a bad idea – especially gambling on this with taxpayer money.
Trump administration’s central government email plan raises red flags.
Ken Klippenstein said that the new comms system made it possible for him to message the entirety of NOAA. That sounds off.
Is this what people really voted for? To rename Denali to insult people in Alaska?
Eventually Donald Trump will be gone and they switch the name back because mostly nobody wants it.
Don’t listen to bad advice on civic engagement.
If you want to engage in democracy, consider carefully about where you get advice.
NDAs are a persistent problem, used often to cover up wrongdoing.
“the plaintiff and the defendant working cooperatively to use that to transfer funds legally, totally legally, and to then lock that fund transfer behind an NDA”
Online communities centered around products, services, or investments are a threat to money, time, and social networks.
I recommend watching this youtube documentary about Bed Bath & Beyond memestock community it’s sad and fascinating and unfortunately all too familiar because this type of thing seems to be widespread.
Deregulation is another way of saying buyer beware.
I’ve also heard it said a few times that it should just be called “re-regulation” because in fact what so-called deregulation does is just switch the regulation from protecting consumers to protecting bad actors.
Tax prep company lobbying to get Donald Trump to kill IRS Direct File.
Nearly 30 House Republicans are asking President-elect Donald Trump to stop the IRS free tax filing service, Direct File, on day one of his new administration.