receipt #funny
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gap #funny
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Register to vote or update your registration 🇺🇸

https://vote.gov/


Texas AG sues Bexar County over voter registration outreach effort. The move escalates Texas Republicans’ brewing fight with heavily populated urban counties over initiatives to proactively send voter registration applications to unregistered voters.🇺🇸

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/09/03/texas-voter-registration-applications-ken-paxton-bexar-county/


Asian Americans have largest voter registration increase, new analysis shows. The increase in Asian American and Pacific Islander voter registration, compared to 2020, was more than double the increase of both new Black and white voters. 🇺🇸

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna169370


future #funny
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stickers #funny
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The International Longshoremen's Association union, representing 45,000 workers at major container ports from Texas to Maine, began two days of meetings on Wednesday to review wage demands and prepare for a potential strike on Oct. 1.🇺🇸
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-east-coast-ports-union-meets-over-wage-demand-preps-possible-strike-2024-09-04/


When, at five months pregnant, Emma Giglio discovered her baby had multiple anomalies in utero, she and her husband made the heartrending decision to terminate their pregnancy. But that was just the beginning of her agony. Emma was 22 weeks pregnant, if she had lived in a state where she had reproductive freedom, she would have been able to terminate the pregnancy in her own town, be seen by her own doctors, recover in her own bed. But because she lived in South Carolina, she had to travel hundreds of miles away for the procedure. It was a cold reality hitting both the Giglios and their physicians. 🇺🇸

https://www.glamour.com/story/election-2024-the-journey-of-my-abortion-in-south-carolina


name #funny
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giants #funny
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Most swing state Republicans and Democrats oppose criminalizing abortion, poll finds. Overwhelming majorities want the government to protect birth control access as well. American women don’t want the government to take away their reproductive rights 🇺🇸

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/abortion-swing-state-poll-trump-harris-b2606590.html


The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan is suing a Kalamazoo County canvasser for statements he made indicating he would not certify the 2024 presidential race results if they unfolded in a similar fashion to the 2020 election when Michigan voters elected Biden/Harris. 🇺🇸
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/09/04/aclu-michigan-kalamazoo-county-canvasser-robert-froman-2020-election-stolen-certify-results-gop/75068407007/


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PASSION FRUIT, MANGO, BANANA SMOOTHIE #food #foodstr #nyc
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Swing states prepare for a showdown over certifying votes in November. Over the past four years, some county officials in the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania have refused to certify certain elections seemingly because they didn’t like who voters elected. After immense pressure, county officials either agreed to certify results, or courts or state officials had to step in. 🇺🇸
https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2024/09/03/swing-states-prepare-for-a-showdown-over-certifying-votes-in-november/


Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R)  has asked Statehouse leaders to create a law eliminating ballot drop boxes. Using his own powers, he made it more difficult to even use drop boxes ahead of the November election. This makes it harder for Americans who work long hours and those with disabilities to vote. 🇺🇸
https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/politics/ohio-politics/ohio-sec-of-state-larose-proposes-elimination-of-ballot-drop-boxes-changes-rules-ahead-of-election


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A conservative organization has told Arizona officials that it plans to monitor ballot drop boxes for the November election and identify people it believes are voting illegally, raising the same concerns that led armed right-wing groups to begin watching some boxes two years ago, scaring voters, despite there being no evidence of widespread electoral fraud. 🇺🇸

https://apnews.com/article/arizona-elections-drop-boxes-monitor-voting-db4eb68c698e0c680ebebe0e6891bcb2


Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger talked to the Gwinnett Chamber on Wednesday. During his remarks, he did not hold back when talking about Georgia’s election board and recent rule changes pushed through in July and earlier this month by three Republican-leaning members allowing them to stop the certification of future election results in Georgia if they don’t like the results. 🇺🇸

https://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/raffensperger-calls-state-election-board-a-mess/article_802a2082-6589-11ef-b409-dfb34b4ae0e1.html


math #funny https://image.nostr.build/650bd3d8c5b72afa7d9d12f7ed6eb27fb3531dcfa9d5e9827de587d5ec0c4d1c.jpg


sleep ☕ https://video.nostr.build/aa09ec1a3967bf0b2ae9c20118f624f5e5edb2ff3c28ff77485fba18b094ab18.mp4


Thousands of hotel workers began a multiday strike in several cities across the U.S. to press for higher wages and increased staffing after contract negotiations with major hotel chains Hyatt, Hilton and Marriott stalled. 🇺🇸
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/01/g-s1-20527/hotel-workers-strike-hyatt-hilton-marriott


Missouri voters are on track to overturn near-total ban on abortion, new poll suggests 🇺🇸

https://amp.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article291552300.html


autozone #funny
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orangetheory #workout
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Court hearing exposes role of supermarket's price gouging in inflationary pricing. At a trial to determine whether supermarket chains Kroger and Albertsons can be allowed to merge, a Kroger executive admitted that prices on some food items had been raised more than was warranted by inflation. 🇺🇸

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-video/mmvo218296901868


A new AARP report shows millions of Medicare recipients will see cuts to their prescription drug costs starting next year. In January, a new $2,000 out-of-pocket cap kicks in from the Biden/Harris 2022 Inflation Reduction Act for Medicare Part D plan enrollees. 🇺🇸

https://www.wkbn.com/news/national-world/millions-will-see-cuts-to-prescription-drug-costs-in-2025/amp/


Bitcoin sats, you have to buy/transfer them to your wallet to zap ppl


Breakfast #funny
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twins #funny
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All-candidate primaries and ranked-choice voting are gaining momentum as advocates call for fairer elections that don't cater to partisan extremes. Open primaries, in which candidates from all parties compete to advance to the general election, are on the ballot in Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, and South Dakota. Similar measures in Montana and Washington, D.C. are expected to qualify, according to Unite America, the group behind the push.🇺🇸
https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2024/08/29/colorado-election-overhaul-primaries-ballot


Ballot measures in 41 states give voters a say on voting, abortion, crime and taxes in November elections🇺🇸
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/ballot-measures-41-states-give-voters-abortion-tough-113233824


party #funny
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bank #funny
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US Supreme Court Sowing Confusion Over How Election Disputes Will be Handled This Fall. 🇺🇸
https://news.wttw.com/2024/08/27/us-supreme-court-sowing-confusion-over-how-election-disputes-will-be-handled-fall


The LANDSCAPE of ELECTION DENIAL in AMERICA 🇺🇸 An informative state by state guide of elected officials that are election deniers despite being elected by the elections they are denying the results of.
https://electiondeniers.org/


buildings #nyc
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Orangetheory #workout
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Republican Nikki Haley made an ad about Trump’s remarks mocking American veterans of which he apparently has long history of per many Republican leaders 🇺🇸
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4463118-haley-ad-trump-remarks-mocking-veterans/amp/


Democrats, with the backing of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, on Monday sued to block controversial new election rules in Georgia that seem intended to lead to the falsifying of election results in November. Democrats are seeking a court ruling that makes clear that election superintendents do not have the discretion to delay the certification of election results or to refuse to certify the results, which generally is considered election fraud. 🇺🇸
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/26/politics/democrats-lawsuit-georgia-certification-rules/index.html


Ghosts?


Kermit


summer outfit inspo, shop my looks on LTK, link in bio @drmonalidesai

casual style #outfitideas https://video.nostr.build/eb0df96650b73de969725e448ab1ab00adca5eb106611ff872376974c3c0cc42.mp4


summer outfit inspo, shop my looks on LTK, link in bio @drmonalidesai

casual style #outfitideas
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Kamala Harris says she will aim to pass middle class tax cut as president. "Instead of the Trump tax hike we will pass a middle class tax cut that will benefit more than 100 million Americans," Harris said in her speech🇺🇸
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kamala-harris-says-president-she-will-aim-pass-middle-class-tax-cut-2024-08-23/


Elizabeth Warren says American women don’t believe that Donald Trump would veto any nationwide abortion ban passed by a Republican Congress if he wins, as Republican states are already banning reproductive rights. She suspects conservative activists could use the Comstock Act, a 19th-century anti-obscenity law which bans mailing abortion-related materials, to enforce a federal ban on abortion. 🇺🇸
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/26/elizabeth-warren-jd-vance-nationwide-abortion-ban-veto


Rubin Museum #nyc
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i went to the Rubin Museum, lovely art #nyc
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Although almost all Americans are currently insured, about half of people with mental illness are unable to access treatment. The nation’s insurers have assumed an outsize role in mental health care. It is often the insurers, not the therapists, that determine who can get treatment, what kind they can get and for how long. More than a dozen therapists said insurers urged them to reduce care when their patients were on the brink of harm, including suicide.🇺🇸

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/08/24/nx-s1-5028551/insurance-therapy-therapist-mental-health-coverage


Obamacare or Affordable Health Care Act Premium Benefits Targeted as GOP Pushes to Let the Tax Credits Expire in 2025. People in low-to-moderate income households can currently get a refundable tax credit to buy health insurance through Affordable Care Act marketplaces, a provision Democrats expanded in 2021. The following year, Democrats extended the expansion through the end of 2025. 🇺🇸https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/obamacare-premium-benefits-targeted-as-gop-pushes-for-tax-cuts


La Broadway: Pistachio Cream, Stracciatella, Sun Dried Tomato, Spicy Zucchini, Arugula #food #foodstr
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A steady stream of bureaucratic rule changes in Georgia is creating a framework that election deniers could use to delay the certification of the presidential election results come November, advocates say. It seems election deniers are setting the U.S. up for more political violence events in the time after the election to instigate more division and polarization in the United States 🇺🇸

https://www.axios.com/local/atlanta/2024/08/23/georgia-county-election-board-rule-changes


Union announces tentative deal for conductors with Amtrak. The agreement with the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers-Transportation Division (SMART-TD) will include a “substantial general wage increase,” the union said on its website, and will be retroactive to July 1, 2022. Other features include substantial paid parental leave; a paid holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day; increased away-from-home expense; and increased training pay.🇺🇸
https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/union-announces-tentative-deal-for-conductors-with-amtrak/


church #nyc
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jackson square #nyc https://video.nostr.build/8aba51fd39eb077fc24a91833dbb96f3fc86f5b1b57d4b604396a996d2dd5331.mp4


A non-partisan group known as VoteRiders is making certain North Carolina’s new voter ID law doesn’t keep people at home this election cycle by helping people register to vote. 🇺🇸

https://www.cbs17.com/news/north-carolina-news/non-partisan-group-helps-north-carolina-residents-register-to-vote/amp/


Election 2024: How to Look Up Your Voter Registration Status Online 🇺🇸

Vote.org is one of the more popular sites that you can use to check your voter registration status online.

Can I Vote from the National Association of Secretaries of State is another one-stop shop for voting resources.

Vote411.org, funded by the League of Women Voters, also lets you check on your voter status, register if you're not signed up, and see what's on your local ballot.

https://www.cnet.com/news/politics/election-2024-how-to-look-up-your-voter-registration-status-online/


special guest #funny
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tmz #funny
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surprise guest 🇺🇸
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surprise
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podcast #funny
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coffee #funny
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Senate Republicans blocked the border security bill designed to crack down on migration and reduce border crossings at the request of Trump as he seems to want wants more immigrants to cross the border illegally to create division and help him win the presidential election in November. 🇺🇸
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna153607


Members of the Georgia Association of Voter Registration and Election Officials are worried that significant changes to the rules such as those the board has adopted in recent weeks will disrupt preparations already underway for absentee, early, and Election Day voting. 🇺🇸
https://www.augustachronicle.com/story/news/politics/elections/state/2024/08/22/georgia-elections-group-calls-out-state-boards-late-changes-to-election-rules/74893878007/


great speech 🇺🇸
https://www.youtube.com/live/o10x76nSDEY?feature=shared


ice cream #funny
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summer outfit inspo, link in bio
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Kamala Harris’ housing boost is overdue. Harris wants 3 million new homes in four years, on top of what homebuilders were already planning. That’s a punchy target: developers completed just 1.5 million units in 2023. Her campaign aims to encourage what it calls “innovative” approaches to affordable housing, like providing grants and loans to local developers and non-profit organizations. The plan leans heavily on zoning reforms and employs language about cutting red tape. 🇺🇸
https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/kamala-harris-welcome-housing-boost-is-overdue-2024-08-21/


With half the U.S. states banning or severely restricting abortion, millions of students will be attending college this fall in states without access to abortion care and options to manage unintended pregnancies. These students don’t have freedom & autonomy over their own bodies because of abortion bans. 55% of undergraduate students last year were women—and the highest rate of unintended pregnancy in the U.S. is among women 20 to 24 years of age.🇺🇸

https://reproductiverights.org/college-students-abortion-access-2024/


Pizza #funny
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The new effort from the Biden-Harris administration is focused on “the corporate practice of giving people the run around, wasting their precious time and money,” according to the White House’s fact sheet. The only finalized policy among those listed as part of the “Time Is Money” initiative is the Transportation Department’s much-lauded (and promoted) rule that requires airlines to provide automatic refunds for canceled flights. Next furthest along are the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed rules that would require that companies make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up for one. 🇺🇸
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna166397


Why Many Nonprofit Hospitals Are Rolling in Money. “Hospitals are some of the biggest businesses in the U.S. — nonprofit in name only,” said Martin Gaynor, an economics and public policy professor at Carnegie Mellon University. “They realized they could own for-profit businesses and keep their not-for-profit status. So the parking lot is for-profit; the laundry service is for-profit; they open up for-profit entities in other countries that are expressly for making money” And they have somehow managed to keep  a myriad of for-profit enterprises under their nonprofit umbrella — a status that means they pay little or no taxes, float bonds at preferred rates, and gain numerous other financial advantages. 🇺🇸

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/commentary-nonprofit-hospitals-rolling-in-money/


Favorite DNC speech so far 🇺🇸

https://youtu.be/OO7SE4Zpd9s?feature=shared


train #funny
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street art #nyc
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She Lost a Fallopian Tube After a Hospital Denied Her Abortion. Kyleigh Thurman’s ectopic pregnancy ruptured after she was allegedly refused treatment.🇺🇸
https://www.thecut.com/article/hospital-denied-abortion-ectopic-pregnancy.html


How price gouging bans really work. If banning price gouging is communist, then the U.S. went Marxist long ago. Most of us live in states that already have bans in place. 38 states, including the most populous like Texas, California and New York, prohibit companies from jacking up prices during emergencies — think bans on selling $10 bottles of water after a major hurricane.

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/20/price-gouging-kamala-harris-communism-kamunism


plot #funny
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Ear #funny
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I watched Emily in Paris part 1 Season 4, it was good, I enjoyed it
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17,000 AT&T workers across the Southeast strike over contract negotiations, after accusing company management of “unfair labor practices” during recent contract negotiations. 🇺🇸

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/17/nx-s1-5079614/att-workers-strike-contract-negotiations


8 million teens are eligible to vote. These high school students want to make sure more do. Gen Z voters turned out at higher rates than previous generations during their first midterm elections in 2022. 51% of voters ages 18-24 are expected to vote this November.🇺🇸
https://www.aol.com/news/8-million-teens-eligible-vote-110000728.html


computer #funny
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museum #funny
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Red-State Republicans Say They’ll Defend Biden-Harris Era Green Jobs. GOP politicians in places that have reaped clean energy investment from the Inflation Reduction Act say they’d warn against changes that could jeopardize it. 🇺🇸
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-05/red-state-republicans-say-they-ll-defend-biden-era-green-jobs


Debby flooded inland Georgia. With climate change supercharging storms, it likely won’t be the last. “We know that climate change is juicing precipitating systems in general,” said Shepherd. “The data has been very clear that when it rains, it rains with greater intensity, even in just sort of heavy afternoon thunderstorms, not just hurricanes.”  🇺🇸

https://www.wabe.org/debby-floods-inland-georgia-a-growing-hurricane-trend/


Thanks!


Maps #funny
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summer outfit inspo, link in bio
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Idaho abortion ban spurs physician exodus, worsening state shortage. Idaho was already short on doctors. The problem’s only gotten worse since a statewide abortion ban.🇺🇸
https://www.courthousenews.com/idaho-abortion-ban-spurs-physician-exodus-worsening-state-shortage/


Kamala Harris outlined proposals to cut taxes for most Americans, ban "price gouging" by grocers and build more affordable housing on Friday as part of the "opportunity economy" she plans to pursue if she wins the White House.🇺🇸

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-economic-plan-mirrors-bidens-aims-lower-taxes-prices-2024-08-16/


wedding #funny
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typo #funny
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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor, the average U.S. annual salary in Q4 of 2023 was $59,384. This is up 5.4% from the same time period in 2022 when the average American was making $56,316 per year. Average salaries and wages in the United States have been increasing year after year, but the landscape looks different depending on a range of factors, from where you live to how old you are. On average, Mississippi is the lowest-earning state with an average income of $48,048, and Massachusetts is the highest-earning state with an average income of $86,840.🇺🇸

https://www.usatoday.com/money/blueprint/business/hr-payroll/average-salary-us/


Americans stepped up their spending at retailers last month by the most in a year and a half, easing concerns that the economy might be weakening under the pressure of higher prices and elevated interest rates. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that retail sales jumped 1% from June to July, the biggest such increase since January 2023, after having declined slightly the previous month. Auto dealers, electronics and appliance stores and grocery stores all reported strong sales gains.🇺🇸

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/economy/americans-spent-more-at-retailers-in-july-despite-higher-prices


The Economist/YouGov poll, conducted Aug. 11-13, found 54% of voters said the most important issues to them were “inflation/prices,” “jobs and the economy,” “immigration” and “taxes and government spending.” Economic issues and immigration have consistently been raised as high concerns among voters in polling in recent months. 🇺🇸

https://thehill.com/business/4828253-most-voters-in-new-poll-say-economy-immigration-most-important-issues-in-2024/amp/


Prices 🇺🇸
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Parking #funny
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Text #funny
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Mississippi is joining eight other states in a lawsuit attempting to block efforts by the administration of Biden-Harris to make voter registration easier. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, Secretary of State Michael Watson, and Attorney General Lynn Fitch filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. Joining the complaint were Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and South Dakota. They oppose an executive order issued instructing federal agencies to develop strategies to expand voter registration efforts  🇺🇸

https://floridaphoenix.com/2024/08/14/mississippi-officials-sue-to-block-federal-voter-registration-efforts/


Election officials in Arizona and Missouri this week announced that abortion-rights supporters in their states had gathered enough petition signatures to put proposed amendments on the ballot enshrining abortion rights into their states’ constitutions.🇺🇸
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-election-2024-roe-ballot-4403190b898e501b0834053c3417d072


Wedding #funny https://image.nostr.build/2dec265cf8ac1845efe7b37a1b1f5fe3a1e8c2e43c2f55b2b7783b43d0681563.jpg


emoji #funny https://image.nostr.build/5d3d57b7ff154385e64415764fb0478ad9d04c8feab6a0b9b6c1ba975f111fac.jpg


Massachusetts, California Weigh New Curbs on Private-Equity Medical Acquisitions. Lawmakers consider requiring premerger reviews and debt limits following high-profile failures, seeking to push back against a wave of investment that has reshaped the medical sector in the past decade. 🇺🇸
https://www.wsj.com/articles/massachusetts-california-weigh-new-curbs-on-private-equity-medical-acquisitions-0dc1ffa4


Dockworkers along the East Coast are threatening to strike in October. Observers tell Axios that wages are the big sticking point. 🇺🇸
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/13/strike-dockworkers-port-workers-east-coast-2024


Spirit #funny
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Among White House officials and economic advisers NPR spoke with for this story, there was a consensus that Harris’ economic vision is largely aligned with the Biden economic agenda, focused on strengthening the middle class and trying to lower costs. In her stump speeches, she ticks through plans to lower costs that echo the administration’s existing efforts: ban hidden fees and cap unfair rent hikes and prescription drug costs. Another key priority for Harris as vice president has been small-business creation.🇺🇸

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/09/nx-s1-5055895/harris-is-signaling-her-campaigns-priorities-the-economy-could-be-key-for-voters


In Bucks County, Pennsylvania a razor-thin margin and voter apathy ahead of 2024 presidential election🇺🇸

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/election-2024/2024/08/11/bucks-county-voter-apathy-margin-purple-politics/stories/20240809008


1/2 #funny
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Bed #funny
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Child rape survivors face extraordinary barriers in states with abortion bans. Since fall of Roe, 14 states have passed near-total abortion bans – most with no exceptions for rape or incest survivors 🇺🇸
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/11/child-rape-survivors-abortion-ban


Recent study finds Mediterranean diet changes may be beneficial to improve cardiometabolic markers among children and teens, which may help their heart health long term.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2821173


Doorbell #funny
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Some Nevada voters are now being moved to 'inactive' voter status after all 17 counties did routine voter list maintenance ahead of the 2024 general election.🇺🇸
https://mynews4.com/amp/news/local/some-nevada-voters-now-inactive-after-voter-roll-cleanup-heres-what-that-means-election


Election officials warn of text message scam asking to confirm voter registration status via links 🇺🇸
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/us/election-officials-warn-of-text-message-scam-asking-to-confirm-voter-registration-status/ar-AA1opFz3


Chat #funny
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arugula, basil, fennel, chevre, pistachio, lemon vinaigrette, chili honey #food #foodstr
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Early-stage Tampa Bay climate tech companies proposed solutions to hurricanes and warming seas at a Tampa Bay Innovation Center event this week. 🇺🇸

https://www.tampabay.com/news/business/2024/08/08/climate-tech-is-rise-tampa-bay-with-hotshot-investors-help/


Illinois Governor JB Pritzker told reporters in Chicago Wednesday that pro-choice states need to act quickly to expand resources necessary for women to receive reproductive healthcare. A new law, House Bill 5239 blocks people from requesting location information and health records for legal reproductive care provided in Illinois. 🇺🇸

https://www.wrex.com/news/pritzker-signs-bills-expanding-reproductive-healthcare-rights-amid-rise-in-abortion-bans/article_ecb867d8-55ce-11ef-a296-bf5b501ba323.html


Lights #funny
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50 #funny
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People must be proactive about confirming their voting status. The 2024 presidential elections—at least according to several polls—will be a close race, which means some votes could make a difference in the outcome, especially in swing states. Some people might not know that tougher election laws were enacted last year.

https://news.umich.edu/people-must-be-proactive-about-confirming-their-voting-status/


Nearly two-thirds of Miami-Dade voters want to see abortion rights enshrined in the Florida Constitution, new polling shows. Among likely General Election voters in the state’s most populous county, 66% support the passage of Amendment 4, which would restore the right to an abortion up to the point of viability (around 24 weeks of pregnancy).

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/688785-poll-66-of-miami-dade-voters-support-abortion-rights-amendment/


Thanks!


I watched season 2 of the Gilded Age, it was good
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Orangetheory tread #workout
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New rule may allow Georgia election boards to halt certifying results. The rule is just one sentence long, but opponents worry it could have sweeping consequences this fall in a critical swing state if local election board members, driven by unsupported claims of election fraud, wield it to delay certifying the results or to reject them altogether. 🇺🇸

https://www.wabe.org/new-rule-may-allow-georgia-election-boards-to-halt-certifying-results/


Court blocks enforcement of Arizona’s voter intimidation rules. Rules prohibit yelling at or photographing voters near polling places, but judge says they violate free speech rights 🇺🇸
https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/080624_voter_intimidation/court-blocks-enforcement-arizonas-voter-intimidation-rules/


Yes he seems to have accomplished a lot as Governor


zillow #funny
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#olympics
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A recent anti-abortion lawsuit seeks to force the release of the personal information of individuals terminated pregnancy reports from the Indiana Department of Health. When we look closely at this issue, it seems more about punishing patients and their doctors than being transparent about abortion in Indiana. 🇺🇸

https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/2024/08/06/indiana-abortion-ban-individual-terminated-pregnancy-reports/74637077007/


Who is Tim Walz? The governor with a history of winning over Republicans “We’re not electing our saviors. We’re not electing perfect people. We’re electing people who we can make hard decisions with, we can negotiate with, and who are serious about getting things done for people. And Governor Walz has shown that pretty strongly the last couple years as governor of Minnesota,” 🇺🇸
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/06/tim-walz-vp-kamala-harris


#Olympics
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summer outfit inspo, link in bio https://image.nostr.build/59303ad7534b4e445510459b03c1db069b4deee7be10f98d0d3d0f81221d6fb1.jpg


How Project 2025 Could Change Medicare. If the Project 2025 policies were enacted, seniors could see more limited health care choices and limited access to doctors while insurers see financial benefits due to the reduced regulations.🇺🇸

https://www.newsweek.com/how-project-2025-wants-change-medicare-1929606


As the U.S. Postal Service continues to struggle with on-time mail delivery, election officials are raising concerns nationwide about absentee ballots and urging Michiganders to take steps to ensure that their votes are counted.🇺🇸
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/02/michigan-absentee-ballots-vote-mail-election-2024/74646796007/


#olympics

nostr:note177t45jkhmd3xrh8mnngmc920vaf22wcwqm8emj6hp6psgusyneaquwtrk9
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delicious churros #nyc #food #foodstr
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Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan bill Thursday on to expand the child tax credit and provide some tax breaks for businesses, all but sinking it for the rest of the year.🇺🇸
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna164499


South Dakota Father is Leading Effort to Restore Abortion Rights in the State. Unlike other abortion-rights initiatives across the country, major reproductive rights groups haven’t backed the effort to restore access in South Dakota. But that hasn’t stopped Dakotans for Health — a ballot question committee behind a measure that is set to appear on the November ballot — from galvanizing voters in the state🇺🇸
https://knoxradio.com/2024/08/04/south-dakota-father-is-leading-effort-to-restore-abortion-rights-in-the-state/


Orangetheory #workout https://image.nostr.build/3ec0a4ba0978041ea263e64083e67fa38dde1deb03159f1a1ff0020091bab7ba.jpg


Olympics #funny https://image.nostr.build/c5dfdda960676d2cb73f652dbd7a9d2ff403b67446b8384112b7cc1dc2fa8aca.jpg


The world’s first hydrogen-powered commercial passenger ferry will start operating on San Francisco Bay as part of plans to phase out diesel-powered vessels and reduce planet-warming carbon emissions, California officials said. 🇺🇸
https://apnews.com/article/ferry-hydrogen-climate-change-greenhouse-gases-b2f9700910eddafc96105a39a2e0399e


AI-generated fake news that look like real news site offers unchecked path to misinformation as elections approach🇺🇸
https://www.wcvb.com/article/ai-generated-news-misinformation/61752341


Facebook & Instagram approved political ads in India that incited violence. Facebook & Instagram algorithms in the United States also have a history of pushing violence and election misinformation. The DOJ should investigate  Facebook & Instagram for election fraud. 🇺🇸
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/20/revealed-meta-approved-political-ads-in-india-that-incited-violence


Algorithm 👀
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Olympics #funny
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Olympics #funny
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Supporters of a proposed Arkansas constitutional amendment to create a limited right to abortion claim Secretary of State John Thurston’s rejection of the measure in July was viewpoint discrimination, according to a brief filed Friday with the state Supreme Court. The group submitted more than 102,000 signatures; proposed constitutional amendments need 90,704 signatures to qualify for the ballot.🇺🇸
https://arkansasadvocate.com/2024/08/02/arkansas-secretary-of-state-discriminated-against-proposed-abortion-amendment-supporters-say/


How Some States Are Making It Harder to Register Voters. Florida and some other states have put restrictions on voter registration drives, often with stiff fines that are dissuading some civic groups from taking part. 🇺🇸
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/us/voter-registration-drive-restrictions.html


Facebook pages linked to foreign interference in UK elections taken down after ABC investigation. Facebook algorithms have a history of amplifying election misinformation pages because it makes them more money per whistleblowers. The DOJ should investigate Facebook for election fraud. 🇺🇸
https://amp.abc.net.au/article/104045286


olympic viewing village, it was hot 🥵 #nyc
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mango margarita #atl #food #foodstr
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Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Far-Right Extremist Christians Trying to Sway the 2024 Election. They’re spending millions but it may be violating the law by trying to remove millions of Americans from the voter rolls in key swing states 🇺🇸

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election


Inside the powerful extreme-right Peter Thiel network that funded JD Vance’s political career. For Thiel, Vance’s presence on the Republican ticket is the payoff on a bet placed a decade ago, when he recruited the Yale Law School graduate as his protégé — joining his other proteges Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp CEO Mark Zuckerberg and OpenAI founder Sam Altman. Thiel’s company Palantir states it may collect, use, and disclose Americans’ personal data similar to Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp and OpenAI. 🇺🇸

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/28/jd-vance-peter-thiel-donors-big-tech-trump-vp/


Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp has agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement with Texas in a privacy lawsuit over claims that the tech giant used biometric data of users without their permission, officials said Tuesday 🇺🇸
https://fortune.com/2024/07/30/meta-texas-privacy-lawsuit-settlement-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-facial-recognition/


Olympics #funny
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Orangetheory tread #workout
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Olympics #funny
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Students learn about climate technologies at panel in DC. “We have enough opportunity in our quad-county region that the first thing that we need to do is drive successful projects and commercialization at home,” said guest speaker Francesca Covey, Miami-Dade’s regional innovation officer for the South Florida ClimateReady Tech Hub, of what should be a growing and powerful catalyst for innovation in Miami-Dade, Broward, Monroe and Palm Beach counties, which together represent the hub.

https://news.fiu.edu/2024/students-learn-about-climate-technologies-at-fiu-in-dc


Election Deniers Are Ramping Up Efforts to Disenfranchise Voters. After working for months to challenge thousands of voter registrations, election denial groups are now pushing ahead with plans to challenge voters and votes ahead of the election. Leaked documents published this month by Documented and ProPublica show that one of the funders is Ziklag, a group of wealthy individuals dedicated to pushing an extremist Christian nationalist agenda.
https://www.wired.com/story/election-deniers-efforts-disenfranchise-voters/


Facebook Instagram advertisers have claimed that Facebook Instagram owes them damages worth over $7 billion. Facebook Instagram has been accused of inflating their numbers by up to 400%. A significant percentage of the audience may actually be troll or bot accounts from foreign countries. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has paved way for advertisers to pursue legal action against Facebook Instagram for damages. Many of these troll accounts seem to be used to manipulate Facebook Instagram algorithms to spread election misinformation. Congress should investigate Facebook Instagram for election fraud. 🇺🇸
https://www.news18.com/amp/tech/advertisers-claim-meta-inflated-facebook-instagram-reach-numbers-elon-musk-shares-report-8983523.html


Olympics #funny
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Me #funny
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The number of women in the U.S. attempting abortions without medical assistance has surged since the Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections. A recent study found the most common method was ingesting a concoction of herbs and plants, followed by physical actions like punching themselves in the stomach and consuming alcohol and other substances. 🇺🇸
https://www.newsweek.com/home-abortions-rise-america-1932155


Russia is relying on unwitting Americans to spread election disinformation, US officials say. Authorities say the two Russian companies created fake websites and social media profiles to spread Kremlin disinformation.  Fake websites designed to mimic U.S. news outlets and AI-generated social media profiles are just two methods used. 🇺🇸
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/07/29/russia-is-relying-unwitting-americans-spread-election-disinformation-us-officials-say/?outputType=amp


Before the EU elections, disinformation campaigns were very visible on Facebook. In the US Facebook Instagram algorithms also push election disinformation on Americans. Per whistleblowers this seems to have been going on for the last 10 years, the DOJ should investigate Facebook Instagram for intentional election fraud. 🇺🇸
https://www.politico.eu/article/pro-russian-ads-networks-spread-on-facebook-despite-eu-probe-say-researchers/


awesome - Simone Biles @ #olympics

https://youtu.be/I_4n7HPl7uw?si=WYfaO3khErl595V6


Olympics #funny
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Fan #funny
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Biden calls for Supreme Court term limits 🇺🇸

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/29/politics/biden-supreme-court-reform/index.html


New National Abortion Hotline Data Shows Devastating Impact of Florida 6-Week Ban. In the two months after going into effect, there was a 575% increase in people who the Hotline supported to travel out of the state for care, compared to the same time in 2023.🇺🇸

https://prochoice.org/new-national-abortion-hotline-data-shows-devastating-impact-of-florida-6-week-ban/


The U.S. Supreme Court turned away Facebook Inc's bid to pare back a $15 billion class action lawsuit accusing the company of illegally tracking the activities of internet users even when they are logged out of Facebook & Instagram. As more than 80% of Americans use Facebook & Instagram the FTC should break up their dangerous monopoly. 🇺🇸
https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/u-s-supreme-court-rebuffs-facebook-appeal-in-user-tracking-lawsuit-idUSKBN2BE24O/


Orangetheory Tread #workout
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Olympics #funny
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Minnesota medical providers and public officials are preparing for the arrival of new patients as an Iowa law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy , which is often before women know they are pregnant, goes into effect.
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/minnesota-prepares-influx-patients-iowa-abortion-ban-takes-112353012


AI-powered weather and climate models are set to change the future of forecasting, researchers say in paper published in Nature
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-ai-powered-weather-climate-future.html


How Facebook's news ban in Canada helped a Regina garbage company be voted 'best online news'. Critics describe some of Just Bins's posts as exploitative. In the US more than 80% of Americans get information from Instagram Facebook, the FTC should break up the dangerous Instagram Facebook monopoly.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7272520


Item #funny
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money #funny
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A woman in Texas who took an abortion pill was charged with murder. She is now suing prosecutors. Lizelle Gonzalez, a Star County, Texas, resident, filed a civil rights complaint alleging that hospital staff provided her private information to prosecutors and the county sheriff who later charged her with murder, according to court documents.🇺🇸
https://www.fingerlakesdailynews.com/national-news/a-woman-who-took-an-abortion-pill-was-charged-with-murder-she-is-now-suing-prosecutors


Biden-Harris Administration proposes $575 million in funding to boost coastal climate resilience. The bill proposes investing in making coastal and Great Lakes communities more resilient to climate change🇺🇸
https://www.salon.com/2024/07/26/biden-harris-administration-proposes-575-million-in-funding-to-boost-coastal-climate-resilience/


A group of bipartisan lawmakers sent Facebook Instagram a letter asking the firm to delay shutting down CrowdTangle for six months. The lawmakers argue Facebook Instagram has a responsibility to be transparent about the content being shared on its platform ahead of the 2024 election. Researchers, journalists and others use CrowdTangle to measure what misinformation is trending on Facebook and Instagram.

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/24/lawmakers-ask-meta-ceo-to-delay-shutting-down-crowdtangle


Olympics #funny
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cooking #funny
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U.S. economy grew 2.8% in second quarter, a robust unexpected strengthening. Consumer spending, business investments and new inventory drove almost all of the second quarter’s growth.🇺🇸
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/07/25/gdp-q2-economy/


Why Kamala Harris’ nomination is good news for crypto, reveals Mark Cuban.  Bitcoin advocate Mark Cuban revealed that advisors close to Kamala Harris have started contacting him, hinting at a potential shift in crypto policy under Harris’s leadership. 🇺🇸

https://ambcrypto.com/why-kamala-harris-nomination-is-good-news-for-crypto-reveals-mark-cuban/


Facebook Instagram WhatsApp Faces $13.4 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Marketplace-Facebook Integration. The EU accuses the tech giant of giving its Facebook Marketplace ad service an unfair advantage by bundling it with its social media platform given the relative monopoly Facebook Instagram WhatsApp has. The FTC should break up Facebook Instagram WhatsApp’s monopoly in the US as it has been clearly harmful to Americans through the algorithm amplification of violence and election misinformation. 🇺🇸
https://eutoday.net/meta-faces-13-4-billion-eu-antitrust-fine-over-marketplace-facebook-integration/


I enjoyed this Simone Biles documentary
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really good dosa #food #foodstr
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US judge will not block Biden-Harris administration’s ban on worker noncompete agreements🇺🇸
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-will-not-block-biden-administration-ban-worker-noncompete-agreements-2024-07-23/


Doctors at Ossoff Decatur hearing say Georgia’s six-week abortion ban endangers patients. Georgia’s law has now been in effect for two years this month. The state Supreme Court upheld the law last year based on a narrow issue, but the question of whether the law violates the state Constitution is still pending in Fulton County Superior Court.🇺🇸

https://www.wabe.org/doctors-at-ossoff-decatur-hearing-say-georgias-six-week-abortion-ban-endangers-patients/


We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny. Result of Guardian Australia experiment aligns with research showing social media automatically delivers troubling content to young men, largely without oversight. Per whistleblowers this is because Facebook Instagram makes more pushing violent and polarizing content on users even if users are not interested. This is a clear danger to Americans, the FTC should break up Facebook Instagram’s monopoly.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/21/we-unleashed-facebook-and-instagrams-algorithms-on-blank-accounts-they-served-up-sexism-and-misogyny


sky ✈
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delicious spicy kale salad #food #foodstr
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Health care company tests using AI to create notes on patients to help reduce physician burnout 🇺🇸
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-health-company-ai-patients-physician.html


A new group of doctors will join the effort to pass a ballot measure that would reinstate abortion rights in South Dakota. “Hopefully we can inject some reality into what I’m sure will be a little bit of a contentious, very rhetoric-filled issue,” said Amy Kelley, a Sioux Falls OB-GYN and co-chair of the group. 🇺🇸

https://southdakotasearchlight.com/2024/07/23/doctors-form-group-to-support-abortion-rights-ballot-measure/


Over 7,200 former Facebook Instagram’s employees' confidentiality agreements found unlawful. The tech giant is in hot water. In a 19-page ruling on Friday, NLRB judge Andrew S. Gollin found that the non-disparagement and confidentiality sections in Facebook Instagram’s separation agreements unlawfully restricted workers' legally protected right to organize. 🇺🇸
https://mashable.com/article/meta-nlrb-confidentiality-non-disclosure-agreement-employee-union


Rights 🇺🇸
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Tent #funny
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Biden-Harris administration touts lower costs for 64 prescription drugs as part of the Inflation Reduction Act . 🇺🇸

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4740963-biden-lower-prescription-drug-costs-medicare-inflation-reduction-act/amp/


Obamacare or Affordable Care Act marketplace enrollment surged in Republican states in 2024. Many Americans who use ACA marketplace health insurance don’t seem to know that Obamacare and ACA marketplace health insurance are the same thing. The 30.7% annual increase in ACA (Obamacare) sign-ups comes as some Republicans leaders are calling to get rid of the health insurance program that 45 million Americans use. 🇺🇸
 https://www.axios.com/2024/01/24/obamacare-aca-health-insurance-republican-states


Brazil Joins Europe in Blocking Facebook Instagram’s AI Training Tools From Using Public Posts. Facebook Instagram has a long history of violating Americans’ privacy too. As more than 80% of Americans use Facebook Instagram the FTC should break up their dangerous monopoly.
https://www.pymnts.com/cpi-posts/brazil-joins-europe-in-blocking-metas-ai-training-using-public-posts/


6am #funny
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U.S. retail sales were unchanged in June as a drop in receipts at auto dealerships was offset by broad strength elsewhere, a display of consumer resilience that bolstered economic growth prospects for the second quarter.🇺🇸
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-retail-sales-unchanged-june-beating-forecasts-slight-drop-2024-07-16/


Iowa’s near-total abortion ban remains blocked by injunction🇺🇸
https://littlevillagemag.com/iowas-near-total-abortion-ban-remains-blocked-by-injunction/


Nigeria fines Facebook Instagram $220 million for violating data protection and consumer rights laws. Facebook Instagram also has a long history of violating Americans’ privacy. As more than 80% of Americans use Facebook Instagram the FTC should break up their monopoly.

https://apnews.com/article/nigeria-meta-fine-facebook-whatsapp-9c79447e348dcaaa1b8c59898e60c7fa


delta flight delay = chicken lettuce wraps #food #foodstr ✈🕰
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👀
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Season #funny
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The Biden-Harris administration unveiled 17 cutting-edge technologies it’s going to test in federal buildings, part of a $9.6 million effort to boost climate tech products at the edge of commercialization.🇺🇸
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/us-taps-federal-buildings-to-test-next-generation-climate-tech


Climate change is causing the storms that cause Texas’ mass power outages. As emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gasses continue to increase temperatures, severe weather disasters will worsen. Warmer oceans fuel storms, causing hurricanes to likely be stronger. The massive network of equipment that moves electricity across the state and then to individual Texas homes and businesses is unprepared for the severe weather expected in years ahead, experts say. 🇺🇸

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/18/texas-energy-grid-power-outages-climate-change-infrastructure/


Facebook admits to deleting important weather updates, important news and information, and positive stories about black people says KJAS News in Texas 🇺🇸
https://www.kjas.com/news/local_news/article_f74f7a1a-4525-11ef-b42f-7b312523e13f.html


Voters 🇺🇸
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Check #funny
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School #funny
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In states with strict abortion policies, simply seeing an OB/GYN for regular care can be difficult. States in the Southeast fared the worst in their ability to provide care to mothers and other women of childbearing age.🇺🇸

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna162300


Historian explores how polarization and division leads to political violence 🇺🇸

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/historian-explores-how-polarization-and-division-leads-to-political-violence


Facebook Instagram maintains censorship regime of verified news sites in Canada. Instead fake news sites are now amplified by Facebook Instagram’s algorithms. Facebook Instagram’s algorithms traditionally amplify polarizing and violent misinformation, including election misinformation, because this makes Facebook Instagram more money. The DOJ should investigate Facebook Instagram for election fraud.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/07/08/enhn-j08.html


Y2k #funny
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Books #funny
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Montana Unlawfully Rejected Signatures in Favor of Abortion and Democracy Reform Initiatives, Judge Rules. More attempts to turn states from democracies to dictatorships? 🇺🇸
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/montana-abortion-rights-initiative-faces-legal-battle-over-inactive-voter-directive/


Georgia’s Fulton County approves plan for independent monitor team to oversee general election🇺🇸
https://apnews.com/article/fulton-county-election-monitor-32cc70b9229fb9c348c5c583f888bf58


U.K. Regulator Urged To Ban Facebook Instagram’s AI Tools Using Users’ Personal Data. Many countries are starting to ban  Facebook Instagram’s AI tolls from using people’s data, the United States should as well to protect Americans from Facebook Instagram. 🇺🇸
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2024/07/15/uk-regulator-urged-to-take-action-against-meta-over-ai-training-data/


Vibes
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Hand written
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Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers announced Wednesday his administration has filed to join the Planned Parenthood v. Urmanski lawsuit arguing a near-total ban on abortion violates the state constitution.
https://www.dailycardinal.com/article/2024/07/evers-administration-filing-argues-abortion-ban-is-unconstitutional


Among patients with atrial fibrillation, those with wearable cardiac monitors had greater use of the health care system for AF purposes compared with those without wearables, researchers reported in a recent study in the Journal of the American Heart Association

https://www.healio.com/news/cardiology/20240718/in-patients-with-af-those-with-wearables-use-health-care-resources-more-often


Fury Increases In Latin America Against Facebook Instagram After It Fails To Notify Artists About Using Their Data To Train AI. One illustrator in the EU has explained how Facebook Instagram marketed her hand-painted crafts featuring everyday life without consent as she was not an artist and therefore Facebook Instagram didn’t feel the need to ask her before using her material. Facebook Instagram has a long history of violating users’ to make money, in 2023 Facebook Instagram made more than $130,000,000,000.
https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2024/07/fury-increases-in-latin-america-against.html?m=1


Articles #funny
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Four seasons #funny
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Voters in 11 states could decide on abortion ballot measures in November, with measures confirmed in six states, and signature verification pending in another five🇺🇸
https://news.ballotpedia.org/2024/07/17/voters-in-11-states-could-decide-on-abortion-ballot-measures-in-nov-with-measures-confirmed-in-six-states-and-signature-verification-pending-in-another-five-2/


AI and Deepfakes Played a Big Role in India’s 2024 Elections. From resurrecting dead politicians to creating satirical content and translating speeches, campaigns experimented in multiple ways
https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/ai-and-deepfakes-played-a-big-role-in-indias-elections/


Facebook Instagram seems to be trying to hide the fact that their algorithms amplify extremist & polarizing election related misinformation as  they are getting rid of CrowdTangle & its replacement isn’t as transparent or accessible. The social media monitoring tool, which has been used to track misinformation, is set to disappear as elections take place worldwide. The DOJ should investigate Facebook Instagram for election fraud as their intentional use of algorithms to amplify polarizing misinformation seems to have been going on for ~10 years.🇺🇸

https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/meta-is-getting-rid-of-crowdtangle.php


Bingo #funny
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Bear #funny
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Supporters of scaling back Arkansas abortion ban sue state for rejecting ballot measure petitions for November election despite having the needed signatures 🇺🇸
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/united-states/supporters-of-scaling-back-arkansas-abortion-ban-sue-state-for-rejecting-ballot-measure-petitions/article_b0a16233-a4a5-56b1-aa90-abb6b9b3ede3.html


The United States' economy is at risk by not allowing more migrants to work, leading to a widening gap in the workforce. The National Immigration Forum said there are currently around 10 million jobs open across the skill spectrum, but with more Boomers leaving the workforce and a lower birth rate, American citizens alone cannot fill those roles. 🇺🇸
https://www.newsweek.com/immigration-job-market-labor-shortage-1926043


Former Governor Mike Huckabee has filed a legal complaint against Facebook Instagram for approving, posting, and profiting from "false and deceptive advertisements" that depict Huckabee. Facebook Instagram algorithms have a history of amplifying misinformation ads because this makes Facebook Instagram more money, in 2023 they made > $130,000,000,000 mostly from advertising. 🇺🇸
https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/regional/arkansas-news/mike-huckabee-files-lawsuit-facebook-deceptive-advertisements/527-3a555700-2718-4f48-983c-fa2faecb1663


Make strategic stops in air conditioned stores like walgreens/cvs 😅


Books #funny
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Yoga #funny
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Extremely dangerous climate change related heat wave grips eastern, central states. Human-caused climate change, largely from burning fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas, has greatly increased the odds of heat waves and led them to become more intense and longer lasting, research shows.
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/15/dangerous-heat-wave-grips-east-coast


What Facebook knew about how it radicalized users. Internal documents suggest Facebook has long known its algorithms and recommendation systems push some users to extremes, extreme-left and extreme-right, but they have done nothing to change it because this makes Facebook Instagram a lot of money. This has obviously proven to be dangerous to Americans, the FTC should break up Facebook Instagram’s dangerous monopoly 🇺🇸
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna3581


Mysterious #funny
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Tomatoes #funny
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Young adults 20-40 years old with probable sleep apnea showed higher prevalence rates of heart disease study shows

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/JAHA.123.033810


Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen says the company’s algorithms incentivize extreme-left and extreme-right angry, polarizing, divisive content because this makes Facebook Instagram more money. This clearly makes Americans’ lives more dangerous given that more than 80% of Americans use Facebook Instagram, the FTC should break up their dangerous monopoly. 🇺🇸
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-60-minutes-polarizing-divisive-content/


Yes!


Shark #funny
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#vibes
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Only 4% of TV news in the United States correctly connected Hurricane Beryl to climate change. The 2024 hurricane season is here, and we’ve already had our first record-breaking hurricane in Beryl, which caused billions in damage and deaths in Texas, Grenada, Venezuela and nearby areas. Importantly, climate change helped this storm break these records and do so much damage. But if you watched the news, you likely didn’t hear about that.

https://electrek.co/2024/07/11/only-4-of-tv-news-correctly-connected-hurricane-beryl-to-climate-change/


Kansas’ top court bolsters a state right to abortion and strikes down 2 anti-abortion laws. This is key because many patients in surrounding states with bans like Texas currently travel to Kansas for care
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-restrictions-kansas-lawsuits-07b9d71bca29119ab4acc30c28a67099


Nostr serves as the credible backup plan for when governments seize or ban X.


Toast #funny
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Orangetheory #workout
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Nearly 160,000 registered Ohio voters set to be purged from voter rolls. The deadline to confirm or update voter registrations before being purged due to inactivity is July 22. 🇺🇸

https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/politics/elections/160000-registered-ohio-voters-set-to-be-purged-voter-rolls/95-64abe3e4-4c98-48bf-9327-2281db8166b3


Health Care Is About to Get Even More Litigious. Thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision to do away with Chevron deference, scientists and doctors decisions can now be second-guessed by lawyers and judges. The question is which billionaires compensated the Supreme Court justices to overturn this doctrine that now puts Americans’ lives at greater risk? 🇺🇸
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-12/how-supreme-court-chevron-change-will-affect-fda-health-agencies?srnd=all&embedded-checkout=true


Portfolio #funny
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Air fryer #funny
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Climate change disrupting housing markets, insurance industry in coastal areas due to extreme weather causing sea-level rises
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/12/nantucket-beach-house-cliamte-change-housing-insurance


About 40% of new cancer cases among adults ages 30 and older in the United States — and nearly half of deaths — could be attributed to preventable risk factors, according to a new study from the American Cancer Society. Key preventable risk factors included smoking, excess body weight, alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, diet and infections such as HPV.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/11/health/cancer-cases-deaths-preventable-factors-wellness/index.html


Syracuse University researchers uncover algorithm pushed misleading political ads on Facebook. This includes misinformation about crime, immigration, elections & voter suppression ads that Facebook makes a lot of money from. The DOJ should investigate Facebook for election fraud because if they turned off their algorithms the misinformations wouldn’t manipulate as many American voters, but instead Facebook continues to be complicit in election fraud  🇺🇸
https://www.kitv.com/video/news/syracuse-university-researchers-uncover-misleading-political-ads-on-facebook/video_f161226f-5139-5aad-9c7c-87216c6ab8f6.html


Ramekin #funny
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Vibes #funny
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Arizonans fought to get minimum wage increase and abortion access on the ballot in November. What's next?
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2024/07/10/will-arizona-vote-on-minimum-wage-and-abortion/74344441007/


Racist slurs and death threats: The dangerous life of a Georgia elections official
https://lailluminator.com/2024/07/06/georgia-elections/


Meta says it has ‘never thought about news’ as a way to counter fake news on Facebook & Instagram despite evidence to the contrary. This is likely because Facebook Instagram makes more money from its algorithms amplifying extreme left & extreme right misinformation. As this includes polarizing election misinformation & voter suppression content the DOJ should investigate Facebook Instagram for election fraud.
https://amp.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/jul/09/meta-facebook-australia-news-ban-misinformation


Summer #funny
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Just hours after a Supreme Court decision gutted the power of federal agencies, known as the "Chevron deference"  doctrine, a judge in Texas blocked the Labor Department from expanding overtime protections for workers.

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/09/biden-era-worker-protections-supreme-court


Climate Tech Startup Aether Fuels Raises $34 Million to Develop Clean Fuels for Aviation and Shipping

https://www.esgtoday.com/climate-tech-startup-aether-fuels-raises-34-million-to-develop-clean-fuels-for-aviation-and-shipping/


Extreme right conservative attacks on birth control could lead to a ban on birth control. Far-right conservatives are sowing misinformation that inaccurately characterizes IUDs, emergency contraception, even birth-control pills as causing abortions 🇺🇸
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/05/birth-control-access-abortion-ban/


Wrestle #funny
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Weather #funny
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Trade groups representing construction workers are pushing for immigration reform, as are groups representing restaurant and hotel workers. Such groups want more immigration across the socio-economic spectrum, while policymakers have mostly been focused on getting higher skilled immigrants into the US over the past two decades.
https://www.ft.com/content/87865645-c639-4588-9d3e-45be7a6b5c24


A coordinated network of Facebook pages run from Nigeria targeted UK voters on the right and left using polarizing political messaging, and pushed an anti-Ukraine agenda using tactics that are a hallmark of Russian influence operations. In the past these efforts have been supported by billionaire data companies and amplified by Facebook’s algorithms seemingly in an effort to manipulate voters leading to more extreme left and extreme right election results. Governments should ban Facebook Instagram WhatsApp from data collection as they seem to use and share this data for voter manipulation.

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-07-01/anti-ukraine-facebook-network-targeting-uk-voters-on-left-and-right/


AMC #funny
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Physicians prepare to navigate Iowa's new abortion ban.The 2023 Iowa abortion law is expected to take effect later this month. It bans most abortions once fetal cardiac activity is detected. Doctors say that is typically at six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.
https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-physicians-prepare-to-navigate-new-six-week-abortion-ban/61479431


Extreme Heat Limits Oxygen Delivery in People With Heart Problems. This is especially concerning with climate change making summer temperatures more extreme.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2820922?guestAccessKey=f2e9bfdf-c12b-44bb-ac30-65f10349ec03&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jama&utm_content=olf&utm_term=070524&adv=001205050228


Banana #funny
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Kitchen #funny
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Miami tech company launches new AI health tool 🇺🇸

https://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2024/07/03/miami-company-selfdecode-launches-ai-tool.amp.html


Stanford’s top disinformation research group collapses under pressure. The Stanford Internet Observatory provided real-time analysis for American voters on algorithm pushed election lies but has struggled amid attacks from extreme conservative billionaires and a few politicians. 🇺🇸

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/14/stanford-internet-observatory-disinformation-research-lawsuits-politics/


Governments should ban Facebook Instagram WhatsApp from collecting and sharing our private data as this data is being used against us. Spanish prosecutors recently said they are investigating Facebook Instagram WhatsApp over suspicions that it breached the data-protection laws by using users' data to train its AI models. Facebook Instagram WhatsApp are known to share data with billionaire data companies and corporations that advertise on Facebook Instagram WhatsApp, it seems the data is then used to manipulate voters.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/spanish-prosecutors-investigate-facebook-parent-meta-over-these-user-complaints/amp_articleshow/111519513.cms


Key West Sunset #tbpic
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High-fat, low carb ketogenic diet may help the symptoms of people with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia a small Stanford study shows
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/04/02/ketogenic-bipolar-mental-diet/


Miami climate tech hub gets $19.5 million from the federal government. Focus will be on reinforcing the coasts of South Florida
https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/climate-change/article289658619.html


Facebook pages linked to foreign interference in the recent UK elections were taken down after an ABC investigation. The foreign interference seemed to be used to manipulate voters to help elect Nigel Farage, who has been linked to politically extreme billionaires . Facebook Instagram AI algorithms plus troll farms have been used to manipulate voters around the world for at least the last 10 years. Governments should ban Facebook Instagram from collecting citizens private data as it’s clearly being used to manipulate them.
https://amp.abc.net.au/article/104045286


Pages #funny
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Salad #funny
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Blockchain-Based Healthcare Credentialing: A Solution to High Costs and Administrative Burdens

https://www.cureus.com/articles/250303-blockchain-based-healthcare-credentialing-a-solution-to-high-costs-and-administrative-burdens#!/


Arizona, Nebraska ballots could have abortion measures after organizers submit signatures. In Nebraska, there could be two competing questions. One, like the Arizona proposal, would add a right to abortion to the state constitution. The other would enshrine Nebraska's current ban on most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.
https://www.hotsr.com/news/2024/jul/04/arizona-nebraska-ballots-could-have-abortion/


The European Commission announced findings that Facebook Instagram’s advertising model is in breach of the bloc's Digital Markets Act due to concern for privacy violations. In the US Facebook Instagram has monopoly on Americans’ private data and that has been used to manipulate American voters, the FTC should break up the Facebook Instagram monopoly
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-facebook-european-commission-eu-digital-markets-act-dma-advertising-2024-7?amp


Cherries #funny
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Mom #funny
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How billionaire private equity firms prey on the middle class and destroy jobs throughout Idaho so they can make more billions for themselves 🇺🇸
https://amp.idahostatesman.com/opinion/readers-opinion/article286347970.html


Brazil data regulator bans Facebook Instagram from mining data to train AI models over concern for privacy violations. Facebook Instagram has a history of sharing people’s private data with corporations and political billionaire data companies which is then used to manipulate voters around the world using AI algorithms and troll farms. The US should ban Facebook Instagram from using American citizens private data too.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Business/wireStory/brazil-data-regulator-bans-meta-mining-data-train-111618266


Thanks!


Happy 4th of July 🎉🇺🇸
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How American Women Could Lose the Right to Birth Control🇺🇸
https://time.com/6977434/birth-control-contraception-access-griswold-threat/

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FDA Drug Approvals, Rule Making to Protect Americans from Big Pharma Limited After the Supreme Court Overturns Chevron. The question is which billionaires compensated Supreme Court Justices to overturn Chevron and why?🇺🇸

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/fda-drug-approvals-rulemaking-are-tested-after-chevron-decision


Big Pharma billionaires drove the first wave of the opioid crisis. Fentanyl plus stimulants now drive the ‘fourth wave’ of overdose epidemic in the U.S.🇺🇸
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna104953


Whistleblower Christopher Wylie said in his book Facebook data was used to manipulate American swing state voters by political operatives in disguise going to neighborhood meetings and door to door to voters’ houses. It seems billionaire data companies and corporations who advertise on Facebook Instagram WhatsApp can access the private data and audio conversations Facebook Instagram WhatsApp collects on Americans and use it to manipulate or harass them in their own neighborhoods. In exchange Facebook Instagram WhatsApp is paid with billions of dollars in advertising. 🇺🇸

https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election


First #funny
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Gift #funny
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A dozen paid operatives registered with Arizona’s secretary of state on Sunday to collect signatures on behalf of left-wing presidential candidate Cornel West, listing their employer as a Republican-leaning firm that recently worked for GOP House candidate Blake Masters.🇺🇸
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna159675


Boeing whistleblower John Barnett was spied on, harassed by managers, lawsuit claims before he died by suicide 🇺🇸
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/boeing-whistleblower-john-barnett-spied-harassed-managers-lawsuit-claims.amp

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Facebook whistleblower Joohn Choe reveals Facebook allows governments to use Facebook data to identify, hunt and arrest critics. Any corporation or government that advertises on Facebook Instagram can gain access to Americans’ private data and use it to manipulate or terrorize them, and Facebook Instagram makes billions of dollars in advertising from it.🇺🇸
https://whistlebloweraid.org/new-disclosures-shed-light-on-facebooks-illegal-support-of-authoritarian-extremists/


Email #funny
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Maps #funny
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Rail safety legislation still stalled more than one year after East Palestine, Ohio train derailment and chemical spill disaster because rail corporations put profit over Americans’ safety🇺🇸
https://www.wlbt.com/2024/02/02/rail-safety-legislation-still-stalled-one-year-after-east-palestine-disaster/?outputType=amp


The main question to ask probably is which billionaires compensated the Supreme Court justices that overturned Chevron? 🇺🇸

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How the Supreme Court overturning Chevron destroys U.S. health-care agencies ability to protect Americans lives from Big Pharma and other corporations trying to profit off of Americans 🇺🇸
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/07/02/chevron-doctrine-fda-public-health-supreme-court/


Voting Misinformation Flourishes on Facebook since 2014. Maybe because Facebook Instagram is compensated in ad dollars by corporations and billionaire companies possibly to get votes for elected officials that will pass legislation to benefit corporations and billionaire companies. 🇺🇸
https://www.propublica.org/article/outright-lies-voting-misinformation-flourishes-on-facebook


Thanks!


Summer outfit inspo, shop my looks on LTK, link in bio @drmonalidesai

casual style, outfit inspo
#casualstyle #summeroutfits https://video.nostr.build/486c90accf561eb61441561a1ab8769538b1a9934859831ad6453757781fb569.mp4


Could North Carolina ban birth control? Stein, Robinson spar over issue in race for governor
https://www.wral.com/amp/21471672/


Georgia becomes first state to require election law training for police. The newly required course emphasizes de-escalation and non-threatening conduct for officers
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/19/georgia-police-election-law-training


The largest US Black Lives Matter Facebook page was fake and tied to a White man in Australia, a CNN investigation found. (2018) It became the largest BLM page because Facebook algorithms promoted the page meant to instigate polarization. Facebook Instagram is compensated to manipulate and polarize American voters seemingly via advertising dollars from corporations and billionaire companies around the world who benefit from American voters being manipulated. This has been going on for seemingly the last 5 national elections and seems to be continuing during the 2024 elections.

https://www.ebony.com/report-largest-black-lives-matter-facebook-page-is-fake/


Orangetheory Tread 50 #workout
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Ice cream #funny
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600+ medical providers urge support for the Arkansas Abortion Amendment. These signatories are “united by a belief that the near-total abortion ban currently in effect in Arkansas prevents them from offering the standard of care medicine they swore an oath to provide, which puts their patients at risk.” These medical experts, not state lawmakers, know best how to care for patients, their letter says.
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2024/07/01/600-medical-providers-urge-support-for-the-ar-abortion-amendment


See them while you can: Climate change is reshaping iconic US destinations. For example, California's Big Sur Coast Highway is falling into the ocean
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/06/30/us-destinations-threatened-by-climate-change/74134650007/


“You are being programmed [by Facebook]” former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya warns (2017). It seems that Facebook Instagram algorithms & now AI have been manipulating voters globally for the last 10 years with election misinformation in exchange for advertising dollars from corporations and billionaire “companies”  who may find this manipulation to lead to legislation that’s more favorable towards them.
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-42322746.amp


Summer outfit inspo, shop my looks on LTK, link in bio @drmonalidesai

casual style, outfit inspo
#casualstyle #summeroutfits https://video.nostr.build/9d537b9a9a8b588a7df78ca9c38e36342367fad515d9b9f66b520c5b78ea093f.mp4


These climate tech companies just got $60 million. Here’s how the funding could bring new energy technology to market.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/27/1094340/climate-tech-funding/amp/


Abortion surveillance isn’t new but post-Dobbs many states are actively trying to expand government surveillance of pregnant women 🇺🇸
https://michiganadvance.com/2024/07/01/abortion-surveillance-isnt-new-but-monitoring-has-increased-post-dobbs-activists-say/


Facebook’s “I Voted” sticker was a secret experiment on American voters 🇺🇸(2014) Why has Facebook Instagram been committing election fraud seemingly for the last 10 years?Maybe because manipulating American voters seems to make Facebook Instagram billions of dollars.
https://www.vox.com/2014/11/4/7154641/midterm-elections-2014-voted-facebook-friends-vote-polls


Home #funny
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Texas weather extremes likely to become normal, scientists say. Climate scientists say that extreme rain and drought are likely to become more common due to climate change.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/01/texas-extreme-weather-climate-change/


How the Supreme Court’s blockbuster ‘Chevron’ ruling puts countless regulations in jeopardy that were protecting Americans’ safety from corporations 🇺🇸
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/06/30/politics/chevron-ruling-explained-supreme-court-meaning


Facebook Instagram’s ‘pay or consent’ model fails EU competition rules. In the United States Facebook Instagram has a long history of using its algorithms to spread election misinformation and voter suppression content possibly because they’re compensated with billions of dollars from corporations advertising on Facebook Instagram. The FTC should break up the Facebook Instagram monopoly as it has clearly harmed Americans and democracy over the last 10 years. 🇺🇸
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/01/metas-pay-or-consent-model-fails-eu-competition-rules-commission-finds/


Scratch #funny
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Language #funny
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Clean energy: Portugal will begin building its largest wind farm early next year. The new wind farm will have a capacity of 274 MW, able to support the annual consumption of 128,000 homes.
https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/06/17/clean-energy-portugal-will-begin-building-its-largest-wind-farm-early-next-year


Iowa's top court upholds six-week abortion ban law. Some pregnant women don’t even know realize they’re pregnant yet at the 6 week mark.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd9r9g192lo.amp


How often does Facebook Instagram make money by using its algorithms to instigate murder? Professor Meagre Amare’s death sparks $2 billion lawsuit against Facebook Instagram. The respected professor was gunned down outside his family home, after Facebook algorithms amplified fake news about him being a traitor during the recent Ethiopia Civil War. The lawsuit alleges Facebook-Instagram’s algorithm pushed violent and hate-filled fake news in order to make Facebook-Instagram more money. In 2023 Facebook-Instagram made more $130,000,000,000 using this strategy.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/prof-meagre-amares-death-sparks-2bn-lawsuit-against-meta/news-story/d1bfeeb9d2210e29119f5ce938cd9e81?amp


Tacos, sadly i could not eat the salsa, it was too much for my acid reflux 🫠
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States with abortion bans saw birth control prescriptions fall post-Dobbs, study finds. A primary reason for the trend, is that abortion bans enacted after the Dobbs decision in June 2022 led abortion and family planning clinics in those states — facilities where many women accessed birth control prescriptions — to close.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/states-abortion-bans-saw-birth-210315931.html


The Supreme Court says homeless people can now be put in jail for being homeless. The Supreme Court sided with an Oregon town in a 6-3 ruling Friday, saying it has the authority to enforce ordinances that criminalize behaviors associated with being unhoused — like sleeping or camping on public property or parks — even when no shelter is available.
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/28/supreme-court-decision-homelessness-case-grants-pass


Is Facebook Instagram intentionally committing fraud? Advertisers sue Meta for allegedly inflating ad viewership in $7 billion lawsuit. A significant amount of active accounts on Facebook Instagram seem to be troll farms and bots, which Facebook Instagram seems to support & this allows them to charge advertisers more money. In 2023 Facebook Instagram made > $130,000,000,000 primarily in advertising revenue.
https://searchengineland.com/advertisers-sue-meta-inflating-ad-viewership-438884


Email #funny
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Orangetheory #workout
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Massachusetts House passes economic development bill boosting life sciences, climate tech
https://www.masslive.com/politics/2024/06/mass-house-passes-economic-development-bill-boosting-life-sciences-climate-tech.html?outputType=amp


The Supreme Court just made it harder for federal agencies to regulate in sweeping ruling overturning Chevron which includes now limiting the FDA’s ability to protect patients from Big Pharma

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/10/nx-s1-4998861/supreme-court-chevron-doctrine


Meta May Block News From Facebook In Australia Like It Has In Canada. Facebook-Instagram Seems To Control The News Cycle In The US As Well With Algorithms And Troll Farms And Their Monopoly Should Be Broken Up By The FTC As It Clearly Harms Americans
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/meta-may-block-news-from-facebook-in-this-country-all-options-are-on-the-table/amp_articleshow/111347240.cms


Chevron
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Printer #funny
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Whistleblower Richard Cuevas warned Boeing of flaws in 787 planes that could have ‘devastating consequences’ 🇺🇸
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/06/26/business/boeing-whistleblower-787


Supreme Court guts agency power, including the FDA’s ability to regulate pharmaceutical medication safety, in seismic Chevron ruling.🇺🇸
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/28/supreme-court-chevron-doctrine-ruling


A U.S. appeals court on Thursday revived a software engineer's proposed class action claiming Facebook-Instagram’s parent company Meta refused to hire him because it preferred to give jobs to foreign workers who are paid lower wages. 🇺🇸

https://www.unionleader.com/news/courts/meta-must-face-lawsuit-claiming-it-prefers-foreign-workers-over-us-citizens/article_15ecc6c1-3339-5c75-a0aa-7bb675c34d40.html


Stanford 🎓
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2024 #funny
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Supreme Court allows emergency abortions in Idaho for now, punts on final decision. Since states tightened abortion restrictions, doctors have said they can’t treat women who might lose organs or their reproductive ability or have uncontrollable bleeding.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/06/27/supreme-court-decision-idaho-abortions-emtala/73688807007/


Sundress #funny
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Cool #funny
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Everything is bigger in the US, and its whistleblower program is no exception. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) paid out a staggering 600 million dollars in whistleblower awards last year, including the largest-ever payout of $279 million to a single whistleblower.
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/regulatory-roundup-june-2024


Australian billionaire wins right to sue Facebook in the US over scam ads. Andrew Forrest has spent five years railing against promos that falsely claim he's found the route to crypto riches

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/06/20/andrew_forrest_meta_scam_ads_case/


1900s #funny
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Tapas #funny
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Microsoft whistleblower Andrew Harris says firm ignored early warnings about flaw exploited in SolarWinds breach

https://www.itpro.com/security/cyber-attacks/microsoft-whistleblower-says-firm-ignored-early-warnings-about-flaw-exploited-in-solarwinds-breach


Women have become less likely to get birth control in states that restricted abortion because of the closures of some family planning clinics and broad public confusion about what options remain legal. study finds.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/26/health/birth-control-drops-after-abortion-bans/index.html


Opinion: Facebook should pay for the genocide its algorithms instigated against the Rohingya. Many survivors are still stuck in refugee camps because of Facebook algorithm instigated violence against them. Per whistleblowers the reason Facebook algorithms weren’t turned off despite instigating violence against the Rohingya was because Facebook didn’t want to lose user engagement i.e. they didn’t want to lose money.
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2023/8/25/facebook-should-pay-for-what-it-did-to-my-people-rohingya


Flowers #funny
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Alaska #funny
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More than 99.7% of electricity in Albania, Bhutan, Ethiopia, Iceland, Nepal, Paraguay and the Democratic Republic of Congo comes from geothermal, hydro, solar or wind power.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/04/17/wind-energy-saw-record-growth-in-2023-which-countries-installed-the-most


House Representative Rosendale pushes spending amendment that declares IVF ‘morally wrong’

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/06/25/congress/rosendale-ivf-morally-wrong-00164916


Instagram activates setting to limit political content ahead of first Biden-Trump debate. Historically what we’re interested only has a small impact on what the Facebook-Instagram algorithms show us. What the Facebook-Instagram algorithms show us is primarily what Facebook-Instagram determines will make them the most money (i.e. user engagement), as detailed in previously leaked internal documents. Congress should investigate Facebook-Instagram for election fraud.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4741112-instagram-accidentally-limits-political-content/mlite/?nxs-test=mlite


Dungeon #funny
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July #funny
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Voter ID, abortion access initiatives pass major hurdle to appear on Nevada ballot

https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/voter-id-abortion-access-initiatives-pass-major-hurdle-to-appear-on-nevada-ballot-3075703/amp/


Supreme Court wipes out anti-corruption law that bars officials from taking gifts for past favors.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-06-26/supreme-court-anti-corruption-law


Whistleblower Sophie Zhang revealed Facebook algorithms enable global political manipulation. Facebook seems to have done little to stop this in the last 10 years apparently because Facebook algorithms make a lot of money from global political manipulation. As this includes pushing voter suppression content, the DOJ should investigate Facebook for election fraud.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/29/1030260/facebook-whistleblower-sophie-zhang-global-political-manipulation/amp/


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Orangetheory #workout
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The fate of Ohio's abortion restrictions hinges on November's state Supreme Court elections, which could decide the court's majority.
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/elections/2024/06/25/how-ohios-supreme-court-elections-could-impact-abortion-access/74212108007/


Climate engineering off US coast could increase heatwaves in Europe, study finds. Scientists call for regulation to stop regional use of marine cloud brightening having negative impact elsewhere.
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/21/climate-engineering-off-us-coast-could-increase-heatwaves-in-europe-study-finds


Facebook reportedly ignored its own research showing algorithms divided users, Facebook feared harming engagement = losing money. Leaked documents showed an internal Facebook report presented to executives in 2018 which found that the company was well aware that its algorithm driven recommendation engine, stoked divisiveness and polarization. Facebook-Instagram has continued to profited for many years since then using algorithms to promote among other things election misinformation and voter suppression content. The DOJ should investigate Facebook-Instagram for election fraud.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/26/21270659/facebook-division-news-feed-algorithms


Summer outfit inspo, shop my looks on LTK, link in bio @drmonalidesai

casual style, outfit inspo
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Arizona's Blockchain Boom – a Hub for Innovative Solutions
https://www.ahwatukee.com/recommended/arizonas-blockchain-boom-a-hub-for-innovative-solutions/article_e1270404-325d-11ef-b1c5-2fe72ab81714.html


A bipartisan group of former elected leaders in Georgia are joining forces to fight election lies that erode public confidence in the nation's electoral system.
https://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/polk_standard_journal/news/local/bipartisan-georgia-leaders-banding-together-to-boost-trust-in-elections/article_971078bc-3327-11ef-8311-ab550c2eb3ef.html


Is Facebook-Instagram a sexual predator?Instagram algorithms regularly recommend sexual videos to accounts for teenagers according to tests by The Wall Street Journal and an academic researcher. Teens being manipulated by Facebook-Instagram algorithms was first identified by whistleblowers more than 10 years ago and while Facebook-Instagram has claimed many times that they have “improved” their algorithms the company apparently hasn’t stopped manipulating teenagers. This appears to be because manipulating teens is very profitable for Facebook-Instagram.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/instagram-recommends-sexual-videos-to-accounts-for-13-year-olds-tests-show-b6123c65


Piece of history: Julian Assange's 2010 Oslo Freedom Forum talk, delivered the last time he was a free man

It's a remarkable talk, I suggest watching it

He gave it right after releasing Collateral Murder, before his ability to travel was frozen

Six months before the banking blockade, one year before the Bitcoin fundraiser began

But most of the points remain fundamental

"The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency"

https://m.primal.net/IyCg.mp4


Nearly two-thirds of Michigan youth voters didn’t cast a ballot in 2022, report says. There’s a disparity between young Michiganders who are registered to vote and those who actually cast a ballot — which is even larger between young people with college experience and those with none.
https://michiganadvance.com/2024/06/25/nearly-two-thirds-of-michigan-youth-voters-didnt-cast-a-ballot-in-2022-report-says/


After Florida left a national database last year that was used to check the accuracy of voter rolls, some are questioning how the state will protect against the possibility of voter fraud this November. One organization sent a letter to the state with a list of thousands of potentially double-registered voters, but other groups are pushing back, saying that list isn’t accurate.
https://news.wfsu.org/state-news/2024-05-31/in-florida-dueling-voter-databases-reflect-different-approaches-to-election-fraud


“Facebook is scared that if we actually had transparency, if we actually had accountability, they would not be a company with 35% profit margins. They’d be a company with 15% profit margins," whistleblower Frances Haugen said, "There was a whole Macedonian misinformation factory going on. There was a cottage industry of these little blogs that would make these fake news stories" Given Facebook-Instagram’s long history of manipulating American voters using algorithms to amplify fake news, Congress should investigate Facebook-Instagram for election fraud.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/shows/meetthepress/blog/rcna61955


Parking #funny
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Righty #funny
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EIT InnoEnergy, the leading innovation engine in sustainable energy supported by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT), announces the launch of the European Solar Academy. Mandated by the European Commission as one of its Net-Zero Academies, the Academy aims to reskill and upskill 65,000 workers across the entire European solar photovoltaic (PV) value chain within its first two years.
https://esgnews.com/eit-innoenergy-launches-european-solar-academy-to-skill-65000-workers-in-climate-tech-over-two-years/


Pregnancy in America is starting to feel like a crime. The ripple effects of the fall of Roe extend far beyond abortion. Imagine you’re eight months pregnant, and you wake up in the middle of the night to a bolt of pain across your belly. Terrified you might be losing your pregnancy, you rush to the emergency room — only to be told that no one there will care for you, because they’re worried they could be accused of participating in an abortion. The staff tells you to drive to another hospital, but that will take hours, by which time, it might be too late.
https://www.vox.com/health/356512/pregnancy-america-crime-dobbs-justice


Report: Facebook Approved Hate Speech Calling for Ethnic Violence in Kenya. Facebook-Instagram algorithms have a history of amplifying ethnic and political violence because per whistleblowers this makes  Facebook-Instagram more money. Despite promising to change their algorithms to stop promoting ethnic and political violence there is no long term objective evidence that this has happened. Congress should mandate that users have the option to turn off all Facebook-Instagram algorithms to protect American citizens and the world.

https://www.voanews.com/amp/report-facebook-approved-hate-speech-calling-for-ethnic-violence-in-kenya-/6679470.html


Summer outfit inspo, shop my looks on LTK, link in bio @drmonalidesai

casual style, outfit inspo
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Climate change is already making your bills more expensive. Soaring temperatures will create unbearable conditions for crops and workers. Severe storms and prolonged droughts will batter supply chains and disrupt the flow of trade. Escalating risk and uncertainty will make it more difficult to insure everything from a home to a new business venture.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/06/23/climate-change-warming-economy-impacts/


A new poll, conducted by an Indiana-based nonpartisan political action committee focused on reproductive rights, finds that most Hoosiers believe that Indiana’s near-total abortion law is too restrictive.
https://www.wane.com/news/indiana/poll-hoosiers-believe-indianas-abortion-law-too-restrictive/amp/


Facebook Tried to Make Its Platform a Healthier Place. It Got Angrier Instead. Internal memos show how a big 2018 change rewarded outrage and that the CEO resisted proposed fixes. Although Facebook-Instagram keeps promising to change, long term their algorithms have kept amplifying polarizing misinformation to American voters because per whistleblowers this makes Facebook-Instagram more money. Congress should investigate Facebook-Instagram for election fraud.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-algorithm-change-zuckerberg-11631654215


Interesting
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Baby #funny
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Drink #funny
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As millions struggle with home prices, housing becomes a top issue for voters. Housing policy and funding is largely a local issue. But across the U.S., including in swing states, persistent record high costs have bumped it to a front-burner issue for many voters, in a presidential campaign where affordability in general is a major theme.

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/24/nx-s1-5015224/price-cost-election-housing-rent-voters-biden-trump


New research finds immigrants play a vital role in producing jobs, innovation and new businesses in the United States. The research highlights the advantages of immigration overlooked in the current political battles over U.S. border policies.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2024/05/23/immigrant-entrepreneurs-bring-jobs-and-innovation-new-research-shows/


Facebook-Instagram whistleblower Katie Harbath  says intervention from governments and tech companies is urgently needed to avoid political violence incubating in the future. Facebook-Instagram algorithms have a history of amplifying violence and genocides. Although Facebook-Instagram keeps promising to change their algorithms there seems to have been no meaningful long term changes per former employees. Facebook-Instagram should give people globally the option to turn algorithms off.
https://www.inverse.com/input/culture/former-facebook-elections-exec-says-self-moderation-is-untenable


Brother #funny
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Older women are being significantly shortchanged by medical research. Men have in the past been the focus of more health studies, leaving unanswered questions about women and cancer, Alzheimer’s and other diseases and the related medications.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/16/aging-women-underrepresented-medical-research/?_pml=1


The impact of Dobbs being overturned, which on paper gave states the right to decide their own rules on abortion, has spiraled into all-out bans and attempted restrictions on everything from fertility treatment to birth control and miscarriage management. Advocates and labor unions have planned protests to demonstrate that women in the workforce matter and workers rights are reproductive rights.
https://www.reckon.news/family/2024/06/no-work-no-school-no-spending-why-women-and-labor-unions-are-demanding-action-post-dobbs.html


Facebook-Instagram whistleblower Jeffrey Smith alleges that Facebook-Instagram was covering up the sexist treatment of female employees while hiring and promoting less qualified men instead of more qualified women for the same roles.
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/lawsuit-alleges-meta-engineer-asked-to-resign-after-calling-out-sexism/article68310815.ece/amp/