Chicago Taxpayers to Pay $4.5 Million to Settle 3 Police Misconduct Cases
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The Evil Warmongering Zionist Won (No Not That One, The Other One)
The Democratic Party has lost control of both the White House and the Senate. As of this writing it is still unclear which party will secure control of the House of Representatives. Turns out campaigning on the promise of continuing a genocide while courting endorsements from war criminals like Dick Cheney is not a great way to get progressives to vote for you. One interesting point is that Donald Trump appears to have taken the battleground state of Michigan, where Kamala Harris was soundly rejected by the […]
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The Real Monsters of Street Level Surveillance
Safe trick-or-treating this Halloween means being aware of the real monsters of street-level surveillance. You might not always see these menaces, but they are watching you. The real-world harms of these terrors wreak havoc on our communities. Here, we highlight just a few of the beasts. To learn more about all of the street-level surveillance creeps in your community, check out our even-spookier resource, sls.eff.org. If your blood runs too cold, take a break with our favorite digital […]
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Election Policy Roundup
Walter Olson Number four in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: The Dispatch invited writers to share our worries about a new Trump or Harris administration. I did both, concentrating in both instances on elections and governance. Also for The Dispatch, I wrote a piece explaining why there’s no plausible parallel between Elon Musk’s cash outlay to prospective registered voters and Mark Zuckerberg’s 2020 election philanthropy. How prepared are the states to handle election […]
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Courts Agree That No One Should Have a Monopoly Over the Law. Congress Shouldn’t Change That
Some people just don’t know how to take a hint. For more than a decade, giant standards development organizations (SDOs) have been fighting in courts around the country, trying use copyright law to control access to other laws. They claim that that they own the copyright in the text of some of the most important regulations in the country – the codes that protect product, building and environmental safety–and that they have the right to control access to […]
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According to the IMF, cutting spending is less harmful to economic growth than raising taxes. In fact, tax increases can hurt economic growth
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Musk’s influence on Trump: A national security mess at best, a global power realignment at worst
Just know that if you don’t vote or vote third party or g*d forbid, vote GOP, the worldwide consequences – you might help allow a new world axis, Elon Musk helping dictators around the world with Starlink. If you don’t believe this, if you think I’m off my head with TDS, just listen to Rachel Maddow, fact check the facts she states. And listen to what Trump says about foreign leaders and who he prefers to listen to. […]
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Election Day is tomorrow, spread the message. “Left or Right, democracy is a cult and both of you look ridiculous.”
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What information sources do you recommend if one wants to understand what the coming economic impact of the Trump administration will be? Ideally I would like credible sources from different perspectives, from left to right.
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