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I have been invited to testify (virtually) at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs about firings at VA. The hearing will begin at 3:00pm Eastern on Wednesday, April 2. The hearing was organized by the Democratic committee members; although all members of the committee are invited to attend, the Republican members are not expected to show up. The hearing will be live-streamed on Twitter (https://x.com/SVACDems) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/SVACDems/).
#politics #USPol #VA
Ensuring our veterans receive the care and benefits…
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Trump’s recent executive order on elections includes a provision allowing the DOJ to withhold federal funding from states that do not enter into agreements on election law violations and voter roll maintenance.
Critics argue this exceeds presidential authority and could coerce states into ceding control over election administration.
Experts warn it could undermine state autonomy and lead to punitive funding cuts over routine voter roll maintenance errors.
Legal analysts predict challenges, citing potential overreach and conflict with congressional authority.
Can you outsmart the fallacy that started a witch hunt?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=L9rkQJ91VOE&si=W9-ahvDL3DMj3Kzb
> Dig into the burden of proof fallacy, which assumes that something is true unless proven false and relies on arguments from ignorance.
When scientists are thinking of leaving your country, that's not a good sign.
US academics, fearing persecution by their own government,…
The Guardianhttps://www.europesays.com/1953385/ Kevin McCabe: Civic economy, free market, and why the sky isn’t falling #Alaska #campaigns #Economy #elections #News #Politics
Hmm, someone seems to have come up with a protest chant...
Sign says:
GET OUT ELON! GO TO MARS!
WE DON'T WANT YOUR NAZI CARS!
Massive, massive crowds protesting this weekend.
#TeslaTakedown #Tesla #Politics #USpol
https://bsky.app/profile/seedeeem.bsky.social/post/3llk4ezjnf22w
The Missing Piece of the #Signal Group Chat: The #Trump administration's natsec leaders didn't address what should have been a fundamental aspect of the attack
https://www.blueamp.co/p/the-missing-piece-of-the-signal-group #substack #writing #signal #hegseth #trump #donaldtrump #europe #usa #america #eu #us #news #politics #musk #socialmedia #war
The Trump administration's natsec leaders didn't address…
Blue AmpCNN: Over 200 ‘Tesla Takedown’ protests take place throughout US on ‘Global Day of Action’ against Elon Musk’s role with DOGE
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/business/tesla-takedown-elon-musk-doge/index.html
Trump attacks on the ‘Black Smithsonian’ as an effort to sanitize racism in US history
#BlackMastodon #Culture #Politics #Project2025 #Trump #TrumpRegime #Authoritarianism #whiteSupremacy
https://apnews.com/article/trump-black-history-smithsonian-dei-687fd306dc9c6d7611300d74fe49b8aa
Civil rights advocates, historians and Black political…
AP Newshttps://www.europesays.com/1953364/ Top vaccine official resigns from FDA and criticizes RFK Jr. #america #DistrictOfColumbia #DonaldTrump #GeneralNews #health #Immunizations #JimJones #Kansas #misinformation #PaulOffit #PeterMarks #philadelphia #Politics #RobertCaliff #RobertF.KennedyJr. #SaraBrenner #science #Texas #TXStateWire #U.S.FoodAndDrugAdministration #U.S.News #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USNews #USTopics #USA #USANews
“What the students did at #Columbia University was deeply inspiring to me, on really every level. But it came at this point in the genocide in Gaza that I think a lot of us were feeling a certain fatigue around. What can we do, our voices?”
I love this interview Macklemore gave on producing The Encampments: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/28/macklemore_the_encampments_gaza_columbia
#Palestine #genocide #politics #music #Uspol #activism #education #documentary
We’re joined by the four-time Grammy-winning musician…
Democracy Now!Not so secret anymore.
Secret Pentagon memo on China, homeland has Heritage fingerprints
#politics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/29/secret-pentagon-memo-hegseth-heritage-foundation-china/
@Free_Press@mstdn.socialThe Hamilton Project, an economic policy think tank, tracks federal spending using daily treasury statements published by the government.
These data show that the Trump regime had spent $1.893 trillion in 2025 as of March 26, compared to $1.763 trillion at the same date last year. In other words, federal spending in on pace to come in 7.4% higher this year than last
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews
If your Quaker Meeting House arrests commentary included the phrase:
[arrested] 'on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance'... as many of us thought it might, you/we were right.
two days late the story reaches the Guardian... while other (Right) news sources are taking the Police line that Youth Demand were threatening to 'close London down'...
and so it goes on; repression & then justification via conspiracy projection
At least 20 officers forced their way into property…
The GuardianToo bad, so sad 
Amber is as good as it gets!
Thin-skinned maga can't take their lumps along with the rest of the pols.
“In my view it is no exaggeration to say that at this juncture, information manipulation (whether foreign or not) poses the single biggest risk to our democracy. It is an existential threat.”
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Postmedia has largely replaced local news coverage…
canadiandimension.comPostmedia has largely replaced local news coverage with paid content, including a long-running campaign for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and under new CEO Andrew Macleod ordered its editors to hew even harder to the right politically. We are thus in effect paying foreign-owned media to feed us propaganda
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Postmedia has largely replaced local news coverage…
canadiandimension.comthe worst traitors of all may actually be in our own news media. “While allegations of interference involving elected officials have dominated public and media discourse, the reality is that misinformation and disinformation pose an even greater threat to democracy,” wrote Justice Marie-Josée Hogue in her long-awaited report on the subject that was released this past week in no fewer than seven volumes. “Some spread disinformation about candidates and elected officials who express views that diverge from their own interests. Their goal is to try and prevent these candidates from getting elected, and to affect policy choices and positions.”
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