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Twentytwo
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Same. I have a 7 and a 10 year old and I think of it happening to them. This is like 35 miles away from where I live. It is like 6 miles away from my work. Hits way to close to home.
Sandyhook taught us nothing.
Profit > People is the American way, and as long as someone stands to gain a $, nothing will change.
Activist group led by Ginni Thomas received nearly $600,000 in anonymous donations — The Washington Post
Funding for the group led by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's wife was channeled through a right-wing think tank, an arrangement that effectively shielded key operational details from public view, a Post investigation found.
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Twentytwo
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These bastards originally denied my nuclear stress test even though it immediately showed I had ischemia. Nevermind less than two months later I was having double bypass, VSD repair and fixing of double chambered right ventricle. Insurance companies can burn in hell.
threesunrises
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Twentytwo
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Burchett can eat shit along with every other TN congressman besides Steve Cohen. He also mentioned it don't affect him because he home schools his children.
threesunrises
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I saw that. He seems like a real piece of garbage. These bastards just dgaf about anything except the money they get from the NRA. Oh, they love their guns as well.
Twentytwo
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Oh he is, him and Ogles who is basically George Santos light can go kick rocks.
So the legislation being proposed to ban TikTok is more severe than folks realize. It is effectively a blank rule that allows the government to decide what technologies are a threat to national security, with zero insight into the process of how it is determined. Most fascinating and alarming to me is the penalties that can be imposed for violating this law should it pass:
This latter part sticks out, as friend notes, because though not explicitly defined, you could be in violation if you were to use a VPN to access TikTok.
…prison. For using TikTok…that’s where we are.
This is setting up for some pretty wild abuses by corporations in the future, as many dislike methods people use to avoid being track for legitimate activities.
Most ironic to me is the argument that this is intended to protect people’s personal data when the government does
to hold US companies accountable for their own data breaches.
This latter part sticks out, as friend notes, because though not explicitly defined, you could be in violation if you were to use a VPN to access TikTok.
…prison. For using TikTok…that’s where we are.
This is setting up for some pretty wild abuses by corporations in the future, as many dislike methods people use to avoid being track for legitimate activities.
Most ironic to me is the argument that this is intended to protect people’s personal data when the government does
to hold US companies accountable for their own data breaches.
Nee Lewman
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We need some kind of dumbest timeline emoji. Maybe just Rick Sanchez’s face or something.
'Ruby Bridges' movie under review by Florida school district after parent complaint | CNN
A film about a Black first grader who integrated an all-White elementary school in the South is under review in a Florida school district after a parent objected to the movie's use of slurs and argued it could teach students that "White people hate Black people," according to school officials...
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Meanwhile, in Florida...
SB 150: KY legislature easily overrides Gov. Beshear’s veto of gender-affirming care ban bill — Lexington Herald-Leader
Kentucky lawmakers overrode Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of Senate Bill 150, an anti-trans bill that would bar health care options for minors.
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Joe Mac
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Perhaps more history that current policies but I found this to be a really interesting read.
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The Manchester Guardian: the limits of liberalism in the kingdom of cotton | Michael Taylor
Manchester’s liberal establishment backed the abolition of British slavery – but their wealth depended on the labour of enslaved Africans in the United States
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