The policies that Trump is talking about for a second term would lead to more inflation — and top newspapers are not including that context in almost all their inflation coverage, leaving Americans in the dark

Full study: mediamatters.org/new-york-times…

For first time in US history 5 of 6 conservative SCOTUS justices appointed by GOP presidents who initially lost popular vote & confirmed by senators elected by minority of US. That’s one of many chilling stories I tell in new book Minority Rule, out today amazon.com/Minority-Rule-…

For Earth Week, we present to you: the Climate Crisis ft. Google!

We're taking action to make Google clean up their act.

Want to learn more about the campaign & how to get involved? Register for the Movement Organizing Call, happening 4/24 at 6:00 pm ET. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

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This is an incredible and frightening film about something hugely important to the health of our democracy. It's also a smart, riveting film that reminds us that everything has a history. I hope everyone has a chance to watch. Streaming of #BadFaith starts 4/26.

The disease of for-profit media rears its head.

The Atlantic, basically: Is a liar who tried to overthrow the will of the people in the last election…actually a success?

A commercialized system for informing the public makes heroes out of those trying to tear democracy down.

Today's newsletter is the story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it into the ground.

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BREAKING: The Department of Labor has raised the overtime threshold.

The new rule says that everyone who makes under $58,656 and works over 40 hours a week must be paid time-and-a-half.

That increases the threshold dramatically from $35,568.
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Please call the Governor today.

AI-drafted police reports will absolutely result in mistakes enshrined as facts.

This will permanently impact peoples' lives & freedom.

So far, just TODAY in MCPS:

Wootton and Einstein locked down due to what has now been determined to be non credible bomb threats.

Student with unloaded gun found at Clarksburg HS (see letter to families below).

Christian nationalist Tony Perkins says that Christians should not be sending their own children to public schools, but 'we do need to be sending teachers into the public education system as missionaries because our public schools are as ripe unto harvest as many foreign

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From Yale School of Public Health

If this doesn't get you listening and taking action with regards to Covid, I'm not sure what would.

And remember that kids don't have the information or autonomy to make choices themselves. We decide for them...

Wow. READ THIS! Thank you Anne Loo 🌻🇺🇦 Huge amount of information re Leonard Leo’s Opus Dei Catholic web in 2018. Freakin 2018. It was there for anyone who looked. Why didn’t NYT or WaPo botherL Carl Hulse Robert Draper Kenneth P. Vogel

The FTC will complete its ban on noncompete agreements today, and that's when the fight really begins, Luke Goldstein and I wrote. A Chamber of Commerce official said last week they would sue to block the rule—and possibly the FTC's rulemaking authority.
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Medic reminder.

Do not use milk or LAW for the treatment of pepper spray exposure. Please use water.

In a remarkable plot twist, a judge found that Brian Pritchard, a Georgia Republican official who pushed false claims that the 2020 election was “stolen,” has himself voted illegally nine times since 2008. Follow us to stay up-to-date.

I hope companies are developing Low-cost, in-home, rapid tests for influenza. Some multiplex options already in Europe that detect flu A/B, RSV, & Covid. It would be a good plan to find a way to ensure they can detect H5N1 and bring them to the US. FDA Medical Devices U.S. FDA