Greg Abbott is the Governor of the Texas. He is running for re-election. He’s the man who stripped Medicaid from two millions Texans, most of them kids. He’s the man who has spent years trying to privatize our public school systems and funneled a billion taxpayer dollars into the pockets of his donors. He’s the man who refused to use state money to feed kids during the SNAP freeze. And so now it makes sense that he would want to redistrict Texas. #Texas #GregAbbott #USPol #redistricting
A study in Science reveals that tiny tweaks to Elon Musk’s X algorithm can produce the same level of political polarization in one week that historically took three years. Users didn’t even notice. This isn’t content delivery—it’s propaganda manufacturing. X is a Russian disinformation tool. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu5584 #Propaganda #SocialMedia #X #Twitter
"Thankful for the Turkeys Running this country. This Thanksgiving, we raise a glass to incompetence, political theater, and self-inflicted disasters; nothing entertains, frustrates, or guarantees blue midterms quite like sheer, glorious chaos." - Michael Cohen #gratitude
Talking Point #5 with MAGA at Thanksgiving: "After we’re done eating, let’s tear down this house and build a ballroom." (Courtesy of Andy Borowitz) #MAGA #Thanksgiving #USPOL
"Earlier this year, Elon Musk built a gas-burning power plant large enough to power a small city, claimed it was exempt from air pollution laws, and placed it next to Boxtown, a Black neighborhood in Memphis where he had built a new data center. People in Boxtown started breathing polluted air – and dying faster. This is what the AI bubble looks like today." - Dwaign Tyndal #AIBubble #Elon #elonmusk #Climate #ClimateChange #climatejustice
"The last time the presidents signed something for Jeffrey Epstein, it was his illustrated contribution to his former best friend’s 50th birthday book...Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in a humiliating act of surrender, backing down after months of historic stonewalling." Pam Bondi stuttered through the press conference, promising "information."
BREAKING NEWS: Trump Signs Epstein Files Bill He Spent Months Blocking
Exclusive: Narativ obtains FBI file inventory showing evidence collected under his own Justice Department, including albums labeled 'girl pics nude...
 #Trump #Epstein #USPOL
Psychologist Dr John Gartner lays out the signs and symptoms he sees of “dementia and malignant narcissism” in Donald Trump, and explains why he thinks the president won’t make it to the end of his term “compos mentis”. Dr John Gartner is founder of Duty To Warn and former assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University Medical School. #Dementia #Trumphasdementia #Trump #USPOL
Aaron Rupar of Public Notice: “I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring.” #Epstein #epsteinfiles #USPol #USPolitics
Amazon Ring’s upcoming face recognition tool has the potential to violate the privacy rights of millions of people and could result in Amazon breaking state biometric privacy laws.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Legal Case Against Ring’s Face Recognition Feature
Many biometric privacy laws across the country are clear: Companies need your affirmative consent before running face recognition on you.
 #Privacy #EFF
Representative Jim McGovern isn't just voting No, he's voting "HELL, NO!" Rep. Jim McGovern: "Republicans are giving tax breaks to billionaires while healthcare premiums double & triple for regular people," McGovern wrote on X. "Accepting a pinky promise to maybe have a vote on lowering healthcare costs is not a compromise. It's capitulation." #USPOL #ShutDOWN #Congress #TaxTheRich #Healthcare