The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband https://thever.ge/bqvS #Entertainment #Politics #Policy #News
The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband https://thever.ge/bqvS #Entertainment #Politics #Policy #News
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/02/upshot/trump-science-funding-cuts.html
Many clinicians ask for #consent to record appointments.
Do patients?
A 2015 paper found 77% of patients WANT clinics to allow recording.
- 35% CONSIDERED secretly recording
- 15% DID secretly record
Though #MikeJohnson had signaled openness to allowing debate on the proposal, he ultimately rejected a bid to do so by politically vulnerable #Republicans who had hoped for a vote that would, at the very least, allow them to show voters they had tried to avoid rising premiums.
#Trump #House #Congress #healthcare #law #policy #HealthInsurance #insurance #AffordableCareAct #ACA #subsidies #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying
Speaker #MikeJohnson on Tuesday shut the door on a vote to extend #AffordableCareAct subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, bucking moderates in his party who had urged action to prevent millions of Americans from facing higher #health care costs starting Jan 1.
#Trump #Republicans #Congress #healthcare #law #policy #HealthInsurance #insurance #ACA #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/politics/obamacare-subsidies-house.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Today is.... Podcast Friday! 📻 Our last 2025 episode of our Policy & EU series is here!🚀
Listen to @annabonnie and @lexelas talk about EU’s public procurement rules.
The answer for a digital sovereign future? It must be #FreeSoftware
This story about the causes of Parkinson’s is a microcosm of how lifestyle and environment are way more predictive of disease and mortality than #genetics.
https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-thought-parkinsons-was-in-our-genes-it-might-be-in-the-water/
#EPA #toxicology #policy #exercise #diet #nutrition #epidemiology #wellbeing #health #science
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"If someone threatens to burn your house down unless you follow orders, and then they burn it down anyway, you really don't have to keep following their orders."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/16/k-shaped-recovery/#disenshittification-nations
"If someone threatens to burn your house down unless you follow orders, and then they burn it down anyway, you really don't have to keep following their orders."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/16/k-shaped-recovery/#disenshittification-nations
We are proud to share with you the schedule for the #FOSDEM #Legal & #Policy DevRoom where
hackers, developers, contributors,
lawyers, and decision-makers alike will share their knowledge with the #FreeSoftware #OpenSource community:
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/legal/
(We = @richardfontana @tmarble
@conservancy 's
@bkuhn @karen and @fsfe 's @lexelas & myself + our speakers and of course the @fosdem crew without whom this would not exist 👏 )
Speaker #MikeJohnson on Tuesday shut the door on a vote to extend #AffordableCareAct subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, bucking moderates in his party who had urged action to prevent millions of Americans from facing higher #health care costs starting Jan 1.
#Trump #Republicans #Congress #healthcare #law #policy #HealthInsurance #insurance #ACA #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/politics/obamacare-subsidies-house.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Though #MikeJohnson had signaled openness to allowing debate on the proposal, he ultimately rejected a bid to do so by politically vulnerable #Republicans who had hoped for a vote that would, at the very least, allow them to show voters they had tried to avoid rising premiums.
#Trump #House #Congress #healthcare #law #policy #HealthInsurance #insurance #AffordableCareAct #ACA #subsidies #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying
Speaker #MikeJohnson on Tuesday shut the door on a vote to extend #AffordableCareAct subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, bucking moderates in his party who had urged action to prevent millions of Americans from facing higher #health care costs starting Jan 1.
#Trump #Republicans #Congress #healthcare #law #policy #HealthInsurance #insurance #ACA #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/politics/obamacare-subsidies-house.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
We are proud to share with you the schedule for the #FOSDEM #Legal & #Policy DevRoom where
hackers, developers, contributors,
lawyers, and decision-makers alike will share their knowledge with the #FreeSoftware #OpenSource community:
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/legal/
(We = @richardfontana @tmarble
@conservancy 's
@bkuhn @karen and @fsfe 's @lexelas & myself + our speakers and of course the @fosdem crew without whom this would not exist 👏 )
Amazon’s Ring is rolling out “Familiar Faces,” an opt-in facial-recognition tool that catalogs up to 50 known visitors 🚪
Amazon says data is encrypted, but past law-enforcement partnerships and security issues raise concerns about biometric handling 🔒
#TechNews #Privacy #AI #Surveillance #Security #Data #Biometrics #ConsumerRights #SmartHome #BigTech #Policy #Safety #Ethics #DigitalRights #Accountability #Amazon #Ring #Encryption
Age-verification laws now cover half the US, requiring IDs or face scans to access “harmful” content 📄
Advocates warn these mandates expand surveillance, increase breach risks, and could enable censorship under bills like KOSA ⚠️
Groups like @fightforthefuture.org are pushing for safer alternatives 🛡️
🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/age-verification-is-sweeping-the-us-activists-are-fighting-back/
#TechNews #Privacy #DigitalRights #Censorship #Security #Data #AI #Policy #Internet #Safety #Freedom #Surveillance #USA #OnlineSafety #AgeVerification #US
