Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org

"At age 19, he lost his father to cancer, leaving his mother strapped with medical debt, an experience that informed some of the policy priorities...In June, Walz signed legislation banning medical providers from withholding medically necessary care because of unpaid debt. The law also banned debt transfer to a widow."

https://rollcall.com/2024/08/06/walzs-personal-experiences-shape-his-health-policy-outlook/

#healthcare #MedicalDebt #PublicHealth #fertility #IVF #veterans #GunViolence #ACA #ReproductiveJustice #USpol #elections #elections2024

While the criminal Trump has absurdly tried to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation's nightmarish blueprint for American fascism, Project 2025, here he is on the foundation president's private jet on the way to their conference. https://wapo.st/4dbdIcX

"Foreman rejected Vance's claim that Walz dodged serving in Iraq in 2005 by noting he resigned two months before orders to deploy were sent to his unit.

"The claim that he was somehow dodging going over there after 24 years of service, saying 'Well I just don't want to go to combat,' there's just no evidence to back that up," Foreman said. "

https://www.rawstory.com/no-evidence-vance-on-walz-military-service-gets-thorough-fact-check/

@GottaLaff
Let me guess, some guy with ties to Putin has volunteered this information...

@GottaLaff Uh, maybe they should check out Clarence Thomas, and Trump on who influenced them?

Journalistic rules of neutrality:

• If news is good for Democrats or bad for Republicans, it is biased against Republicans, and should be diminished.

• If news is bad for Democrats or good for Republicans, it is not biased against Republicans, and should be enhanced.

Griffin:

Tim #Walz signed the "Democracy for the People Act" into law last year — a sweeping bill that implemented automatic voter registration, allowed 16- and 17-year-olds to pre-register to vote, and created a permanent absentee voter list that automatically sends people who sign up a ballot each election.

#HarrisWalz2024

Breaking disaster this morning — the annual glacier floods are hitting Juneau, Alaska harder than ever, with a whole neighborhood flooded. Climate change is really hitting home this morning. https://www.ktoo.org/2024/08/05/live-updates-as-annual-glacial-outburst-flooding-impacts-juneaus-mendenhall-valley/ #akleg #alaska

Trump is too old and unfit to be president.

Drive up the company stock by doing layoffs then when investors get spooked by your now understaffed, deeply unstable company and they flee try to fix it with more layoffs!

A plan that could only come from the most brilliant minds!

@chrisgeidner Nothing says "I'm a Conservative!" like unearned/illegitimate moral superiority.

I remember a time when we all told ourselves, at least in academia, that #SCOTUS was supposed to be an #apolitical body of the #UnitedStates Govt….

If overturning #RoeVWade, SCOTUS’ ruling on Presidential #immunity, the blank check ruling on #bribery, … #Alito’s wife hanging a US flag upside down, & #ClarenceThomas’ existence was not enough to convince you that the #SupremeCourt is one of the most #political & #corrupt sections of our govt, then perhaps this will.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/5/2260806/-Gorsuch-Delivers-SCOTUS-Cryptic-Reply-to-Reform-Be-careful

#Google is an illegal #monopoly, federal court rules

A federal court has found that Google illegally abused its market #power to quash #competition in #InternetSearch, handing the #DOJ a landmark victory against as it takes on a string of federal #antitrust lawsuits #BigTech.

“Google is a monopolist, & it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” Judge Amit P. Mehta wrote in his judgment on Monday.

#law #TechPolicy #tech #business
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/05/doj-google-monopoly-trial-judgment/

@petealexharris

Start with placing Starlink and SpaceX under the control of an international body so Musk can't give Putin any more freebies.

If #Musk is allowed to say "#CivilWar is inevitable", we're allowed to say revolution and the uncompensated nationalisation of the assets of billionaires is inevitable.

Gorsuch telling those seeking SCOTUS reform to "be careful" is particularly galling in light of today's news of yet more unreported Thomas trips.

Why is Gorsuch lecturing us?

Tonight, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/gorsuch-be-careful-thomas-more-trips

Jamie Dimon taking a pay cut would help.

Jamie Dimon says the American dream is disappearing—and half the public no longer believe in it https://fortune.com/2024/08/05/jamie-dimon-american-dream-disappearing-pew-research/

#TaxTheRich #Labor #TaxBillionaires #UnionStrong

If Kamala Harris taps Tim Walz for VP and they win, then Peggy Flanagan becomes Minnesota's Governor, and would be the first Native American governor in US history.

In U.S. HISTORY.

In 248 years we've never had a Native American governor. This would be a critical step forward.

@Nonilex
Probably a benefit to him to be living in the US.That racist fuck woulda been necklaced years ago if he stayed in South Africa.
He needs to board that jet and move on to somewhere else....China sounds good...just his style.
#elonsucks

New, by me: A federal district court in New York ruled that U.S. border agents must obtain a warrant before searching the electronic devices of Americans and international travelers crossing the U.S. border.

The judge warned that had they ruled in the government's favor, this ruling could have be used to target political opponents, who "would only need to travel once through an international airport for the government to gain unfettered access" to their devices.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/29/us-border-agents-must-get-warrant-before-cell-phone-searches-federal-court-rules/