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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.
Glossary
 FEMA received calls from people in Texas, shortly after the big flood, that it was unable to answer because of cancellation of call center contracts. The immediate cause seems to be incompetent management, but a deeper part of the case seems to be the magats' hatred of FEMA and of people who get help from the government and
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the Guardian
Big pharma will stop investing in UK, top scientist warns after Merck’s £1bn exit
Comments by former professor of medicine at Oxford follow scrapping of planned London research centre
 Drug companies are planning to stop investing in UK for research (and manufacturing?) because the UK won't pay them as much for drugs as before. How, I wonder, does the amount of expected decrease in investment compare with the savings in drug spending? I would estimate that the medical savings must be much larger, in order to bring about this decision. If
the Guardian
How the US right wing is taking over news media and choking press freedom
Takeover of broadcast companies by Donald Trump’s allies is harbinger of media capitulation to authoritarian leanings
 *How the US rightwing is taking over news media and choking press freedom.*
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2025: July - October Political Notes
2025: July - October Political Notes
 The Bureau of Labor Statistics is slow in releasing an annual data report. We don't know whether this is because of the crucial staff who have been fired, or because it has orders that override doing its
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Tell Sinclair: Air Jimmy Kimmel Live! on your ABC affiliates
ABC has reinstated Jimmy Kimmel Live! — but Sinclair Broadcast Group says it will keep preempting the show on its ABC affiliates and replace it w...
 US citizens: call on Sinclair to air Jimmy Kimmel Live! on your ABC affiliates. Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above work without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code. (See
The JavaScript Trap - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
 for why that issue matters.) First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScript in your browser or are using the LibreJS
the Guardian
US border patrol collected DNA from thousands of US citizens for years, data shows
CBP officers took DNA samples from about 2,000 citizens, some as young as 14 and many who never faced criminal charges, new analysis shows
 The US border thugs sometimes collect DNA samples of US citizens without legal grounds to do so. These DNA sequences go into a permanent database.