Alexander B. Howard
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🛠️Dad, writer, citizen 💡🤳Author @CivicTexts: https://t.co/V7AmqJ7zMP ☀️ Advocate @OpenGov 🇺🇸Editor @ePluribusUnum 📲4108499808
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Joined March 2007
Of 111 people infected, 105 were unvaccinated. Public health experts and pediatricians overwhelmingly agree: the measles vaccine is safe, effective, and essential to preventing outbreaks—despite what Trump and Secretary Kennedy claim. Get vaccinated.
The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.
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In a proof-of-life video sent to U.S. officials & shared with The Wall Street Journal, Machado tries to steady herself as the boat tosses on the waves. “My name is María Corina Machado,” she says, “I am alive, safe, and very grateful.” With the great @Jose_deCordoba &
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The Nobel Peace Prize winner was lost in the Caribbean with no communication for hours before an extraction team found her.
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One future is already here, its contours defined by geofences & invisible strands of barbed wire connected to wearable computers forcibly strapped to refugees, migrants, & inmates. Watch for adoption of smartwatches for ATD: https://t.co/aqv9LVtk0r …& smartglasses with AI &
Dear @Sec_Noem, When health care workers treat patients wearing a monitor issued by a state department of corrections, there is a protocol. When will @ICEgov issue guidance about removing smartwatches & ankle monitors when it becomes medically necessary? https://t.co/sgaZMNlSv6
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Dear @Sec_Noem, When health care workers treat patients wearing a monitor issued by a state department of corrections, there is a protocol. When will @ICEgov issue guidance about removing smartwatches & ankle monitors when it becomes medically necessary? https://t.co/sgaZMNlSv6
theguardian.com
Pregnant immigrants in ICE monitoring programs are avoiding care, fearing detention during labour and delivery
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If the Justice Department is in fact compiling an “enemies list” & directing FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces to map networks “inside & outside the United States,” news outlets should confirm & advancing the story — and Congress should be holding hearings:
kenklippenstein.com
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
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This is fair criticism of one of the worst practices of newsrooms (not publishing a document online as evidence for skeptical publics & politicians) & of mainstream US news outlets failing to cover policy shifts at @TheJusticeDept that pose a danger to our constitutional rights.
There's a media blackout on the FBI's new enemies list and cash fund for snitching on people harboring things like "anti-Americanism." What little coverage its gotten has been laughably bad: https://t.co/uLtgksUyxu
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A grand jury declined for a second time in a week to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday in another major blow to the Justice Department’s efforts to prosecute the president’s political opponents.
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A grand jury declined for a second time in a week to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday in another major blow to the Justice Department’s efforts to prosecute the preside...
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NEW: President Donald Trump says he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters, who was convicted on state charges related to tampering with Colorado's election systems. Legal experts say presidential pardons do not apply to state charges.
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Read to the end. NPR asked why the Trump team ended a low-cost program that cured millions of tropical diseases w drugs donated by pharma. The spokesperson replied with an NPR headline—“Farewell to USAID”—and said: “What do you think farewell meant?”
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The campaign to prevent and treat these diseases has seen great success thanks to a USAID program. Now that program is gone.
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I loved my time at Heritage Action and was proud to be a co-founder of what was such an important part of the conservative movement. So I say this with respect and sadness: There is nothing conservative about backing threats to a state’s federal funding because it declines to
President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders: if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state. Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to
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In 2019, the House impeached Trump for trying to do this to a foreign country. Now he's doing it to American states.
President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders: if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state. Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to
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Trump admin officials are "trolling citizens and judges," @LaurenLeHarper told @nytimes' @minhokimdh." "It indicates that ICE continues to feel increasing impunity and that it has the right to behave as a secret police that’s exempt from accountability." https://t.co/UPKw36Q6HB
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The response to an information request contradicted the administration’s public testimony and raised concerns that it may be trying to evade oversight.
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The most important and thoughtful paragraph in an important and thoughtful story about Trump’s assault on the free press from the great @dfriedman33
https://t.co/oX6Pd1xDfc
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what distinguishes Trump 2.0 is the breadth/depth of its corruption: graft, abuse of power, subversion of the Constitution and rule-of-law, top-to-bottom dishonesty, acts of violence including murder my @zeteo_news column please read/share/subscribe
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Donald Trump’s second term has been marked by personal graft, rampant abuse of power, and subversion of the rule of law and the Constitution.
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Dear @potus: this would be a timely gift for all of the civil servants and appointees in the @WhiteHouse & across the executive branch this holiday season, at a price taxpayers can afford.
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It’s unclear what the US national Anti-Corruption Strategy is.
1️⃣ Côte d’Ivoire adopted its first National Anti-Corruption Strategy 🇨🇮 A practical step to strengthen cooperation between government, civil society, and the private sector in tackling corruption. 📑 Learn more in IRM's report: https://t.co/yejOP7ekMJ
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Former National Security Council director on China affairs, under Biden:
This is a big deal. Essentially a reversal of the US export control policy on advanced chips. Possibly decisive in the AI race. Compute is our main advantage — China has more power, engineers, and the entire edge layer — so by giving this up we increase the odds the world runs on
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"Trump may have pardoned the former president of Honduras who helped move tons of cocaine into the U.S. But the government of Honduras issued its arrest warrant yesterday, determined to administer the justice the U.S. government has little concern for." https://t.co/VusCgqJ3cL
thebulwark.com
The president alone will determine who wins the streaming wars.
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We’re representing @protctdemocracy in a lawsuit about the Trump admin’s efforts to target nonprofit groups it labels as “Antifa.” The government didn’t respond to FOIAs about who it is investigating, or what proof it has to justify its investigations. https://t.co/8XoCLtsNfm
americanoversight.org
Represented by American Oversight, group seeks transparency on executive actions that could punish perceived political opponents
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