If you live in Minnesota, vote for Peggy Flanagan for Senate. If elected, she’ll be the first Native American woman to ever serve in the U.S. Senate.
FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/17/brendan-carr-fcc-independent-senate-testimony-website
#HackerNews #FCC #Independence #FCC #Mission #Statement #Brendan #Carr #Senate #Testimony #Media #Regulation
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Sen. Ron Johnson Endorses Book Touting Chlorine Dioxide's Unproven Health Benefits
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Wisconsin's Ron Johnson has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation. Now he's giving credence to assertions about the therapeutic powers of chlorine dioxide, a disinfectant and deodorizer. “It is all lunacy," one expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ron-johnson-wisconsin-chlorine-dioxide-pierre-kory-endorsement?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Wisconsin #Health #Misinformation #Congress #Senate #USPolitics
After reporting by ProPublica revealed industry connections among Transportation Department regulators and showed how they are seeking to loosen oil and gas pipeline safety regulations, Sen. Maria Cantwell is demanding answers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dot-oil-gas-pipeline-ethics-questions-senator-cantwell?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Transportation #Industry #Business #Government #Regulation #Senate
Senator Demands Federal Agencies Halt Small Business Contracts, Citing Investigation of Native Hawaiian Firm
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Joni Ernst, chair of the Senate Small Business Committee, sent letters to 22 federal agencies saying the no-bid contracts granted through a Small Business Administration program are a “fraud magnet.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/sb8a-native-hawaiian-republican-senate-oversight?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Sen. Ron Johnson Endorses Book Touting Chlorine Dioxide's Unproven Health Benefits
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Wisconsin's Ron Johnson has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation. Now he's giving credence to assertions about the therapeutic powers of chlorine dioxide, a disinfectant and deodorizer. “It is all lunacy," one expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ron-johnson-wisconsin-chlorine-dioxide-pierre-kory-endorsement?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Wisconsin #Health #Misinformation #Congress #Senate #USPolitics
Alex Akselrod
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"Blacklock's Reporter says Mohammed Hashim, CEO of the taxpayer-funded #Canadian #RaceRelations Foundation, told the #Senate #humanrights committee that criminals targeting #Jewish institutions are deliberately sending a message meant to intimidate the community.
“All these incidents across the country are to send a message, that #Jews cannot be safe here,” he said.
Hashim said Jewish #schools and #synagogues have been hit repeatedly.
#Toronto’s Kehillat Shaarei #Torah #Synagogue, he noted, has been #vandalized 10 times despite cameras, reinforced windows and fencing.
A Toronto day school, Bais Chaya Mushka, was shot at on three separate occasions.
“To every Jewish Canadian who feels unsafe or alone, who fears they need to be hidden, I want to say #Canada will always be a place of safety for you,” Hashim told senators.
Sen. Marilou McPhedran pressed him on how he could make such a promise.
“Hope,” he replied. “No one knows what the future is going to hold.” 😂
"Blacklock's Reporter says Mohammed Hashim, CEO of the taxpayer-funded #Canadian #RaceRelations Foundation, told the #Senate #humanrights committee that criminals targeting #Jewish institutions are deliberately sending a message meant to intimidate the community.
“All these incidents across the country are to send a message, that #Jews cannot be safe here,” he said.
Hashim said Jewish #schools and #synagogues have been hit repeatedly.
#Toronto’s Kehillat Shaarei #Torah #Synagogue, he noted, has been #vandalized 10 times despite cameras, reinforced windows and fencing.
A Toronto day school, Bais Chaya Mushka, was shot at on three separate occasions.
“To every Jewish Canadian who feels unsafe or alone, who fears they need to be hidden, I want to say #Canada will always be a place of safety for you,” Hashim told senators.
Sen. Marilou McPhedran pressed him on how he could make such a promise.
“Hope,” he replied. “No one knows what the future is going to hold.” 😂
ProPublica
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Lawmakers Call for Probe of How Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
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The demands for an investigation come after a ProPublica story revealed that the Noem-connected Strategy Group was secretly a subcontractor on the ad campaign.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-strategy-group-senate-probe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
It would mark the 2nd investigation tied to the video, coming a day after the #Pentagon said it was reviewing Sen #MarkKelly (D-AZ) over potential violations of #MilitaryLaw (also bullshit). The #FBI & Pentagon actions come after #Trump accused the lawmakers of sedition “punishable by DEATH” in a social media post.
#law #military #UCMJ #despotism #fascism #tyranny #dissent #democracy #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech
“ #Trump is using the #FBI as a tool to intimidate & harass Members of #Congress,” a group of 4 #Democratic #House members said in a stmnt Tues. “Yesterday, the FBI contacted the House & #Senate Sergeants at Arms requesting interviews.”
#Michigan Sen #ElissaSlotkin, 1 of the 6 Democrats in the video, told reporters Tuesday that “last night the counterterrorism division at the FBI sent a note to the members of Congress, saying they are opening what appears to be an inquiry against the 6 of us.”
Lawmakers Call for Probe of How Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
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The demands for an investigation come after a ProPublica story revealed that the Noem-connected Strategy Group was secretly a subcontractor on the ad campaign.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-strategy-group-senate-probe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
S3197
A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to establish a rebuttable presumption that a defendant who is not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident poses a danger to the community and a serious risk of flight, for purposes of determining whether to release or detain the defendant pending trial.
📢 Introduced in Senate
Sen. #BillCassidy (R-Louisiana), a #physician who chairs the #Senate #Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee, decided to set aside his misgivings & support #RFKJr after receiving a range of commitments, which he detailed in a Feb. 4 speech on the Senate floor. They INCLUDED that the “ #CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that #vaccines do not cause #autism.”
#science #medicine #PublicHealth #policy #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #eugenics #USpol
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#House votes overwhelmingly to compel release of #EpsteinFiles
The move sends the legislation to the #Senate, where pressure is growing to make the #DOJ release more documents.
#Congress #law #criminal #Trump #Epstein #BestFriendsForever #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #ChildSexCrimes #felon47 #CoverUp
#House votes overwhelmingly to compel release of #EpsteinFiles
The move sends the legislation to the #Senate, where pressure is growing to make the #DOJ release more documents.
#Congress #law #criminal #Trump #Epstein #BestFriendsForever #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #ChildSexCrimes #felon47 #CoverUp
Hmmm, what’s been purged since his last refusal?
#Trump says #House #Republicans should vote to release #EpsteinFiles, a startling reversal after previously fighting the proposal.
“We have nothing to hide, & it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party,” Trump posted after landing at Joint Base Andrews following a weekend of golf in Florida.
#law #rape #CoverUp
https://apnews.com/article/epstein-files-house-sex-trafficking-investigation-c46716743f6f65f2f3b74906365da58b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-16-Breaking+News
#Democrats & some #Republicans have been pushing a measure that would force the #DOJ to make public more documents from the case.
#Trump’s shift is an implicit acknowledgement that supporters of the measure have enough votes to pass the #House, although it has an unclear future in the #Senate.
#law #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #criminal #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
…The Wall Street Journal reported this week that some #FannieMae #ethics & #oversight officials who were fired last month had been investigating whether #BillPulte improperly obtained #mortgage information for #LetitiaJames, who was charged last month with bank fraud after Pulte sent a criminal referral to the #DOJ. She said the charges, which she denies, are politically motivated.
#law #scammers #housing #HousingCrisis #affordability #CostOfLiving #WealthGap #Trump
#BillPulte ’s power over the #mortgage lending industry is unusual. Not long after his #Senate confirmation, he appointed himself chairman of both #FannieMae & #FreddieMac, which hold trillions of dollars in assets. The companies serve as a crucial backstop for the home lending industry by buying up mortgages from individual lenders, which are packaged together & sold to investors.
#law #scammers #housing #HousingCrisis #affordability #CostOfLiving #WealthGap #Trump
While Smith still holds her position, the senior #FannieMae officials who called her conduct into question were all forced out of their jobs late last month, along with internal #ethics #watchdogs who were investigating #BillPulte & his allies.
The dismissals rattled the #housing industry & drew condemnation from #Democrats. It also gave more evidence to support claims that Pulte has leveraged the nonpublic information available to him to further his own political aims.
“This is another example of #BillPulte weaponizing his role to do Donald Trump’s bidding, instead of working to lower costs amidst a #HousingCrisis,” said Sen. #ElizabethWarren, of Massachusetts, the ranking #Democrat on the #Senate #Banking Committee. “His behavior raises significant questions, & he needs to be brought in front of #Congress to answer them.”
#law #scammers #housing #affordability #CostOfLiving #WealthGap #Trump
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Rep #JamieRaskin (D-MD) called the provision “one of the most blatantly #corrupt provisions for political self-dealing & the plunder of public resources ever proposed in #Congress.”
The provision, which is retroactive to 2022, only applies to members of the #Senate & would allow them to sue for $500,000 if data was sought without their being notified, as well as once it was obtained.
“That’s a cool one million per Senator,” Raskin said in a stmnt.
#law #Trump #Jan6
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5601358-senate-phone-record-legal-challenge-raskin/