Mastodawn

#US #Government Uses Targeted #Advertising to Track Your #Location.
CBP admits what #EFF has been saying: systems powering creepy targeted #ads allow federal agencies to track you
Advertising has built a #surveillance machine, the gov co-opts to spy on us.
Here's What to Do.
1. Disable your mobile advertising ID
2. Review apps you’ve granted location permissions to
#Legislators and #tech companies must act so that individuals don’t bear the burden of defending their data!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/targeted-advertising-gives-your-location-government-just-ask-cbp

The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here's What We Need to Do.

The online advertising industry has built a massive surveillance machine, and the government can co-opt it to spy on us.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Don Hawkins - W7DAH Mar 11

@BlogWood @GhostOnTheHalfShell #Florida #Legislators who vote against organized labor are traitors & enemies of the state & should be treated as such.

Trevor McLeod Feb 25

The trend for #datacenters to generate their own #electricity using #naturalgas is only going to accelerate. Why don't #legislators require them to use #carboncapture #technology ?

#ai #artificialintelligence

https://grist.org/business/ai-utah-data-center-boom-fossil-fuels-gas/

To power Utah’s data center boom, companies are turning to fossil fuels

The rush to meet AI's energy needs is going to rely on natural gas, raising worries about air pollution in the state's urban corridor.

Grist

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Feb 18

“The defection means the #Liberals have 169 seats in the 343-seat #HouseofCommons elected chamber, three short of majority. Three seats formerly occupied by #Liberal #legislators are vacant and if the party wins all three, #Carney would have a #majority.” #Canada #cdnpoli apple.news/AnMZT24fSSj2...

Canada's Carney edges closer t...

Canada's Carney edges closer to majority government as legislator defects to Liberals — Reuters

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday edged closer to a parliamentary majority that could help him counter U.S. tariffs when an opposition legislator defected to the ruling Liberals.

Gravitas Feb 4

NY legislators voted in their own $32,000 pay raise - you've got to be fng kidding me

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/8rXJJezzAVQbDcdBLdzZsW

NY legislators voted in their own $32,000 pay raise - you've got to be fng kidding me

PeerTube

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Quasit Jan 29

@jennycohn.bsky.social
I worked at a law firm for seven years (I'm not a lawyer). One thing I noticed was that every year, a bill was proposed by a state legislator. It mandated the death penalty for any woman who had an abortion.

The only difference from year to year was the *method* of execution required. One year it was death by hanging, the next by electric chair, then firing squad, lethal injection, etc. etc. etc. I imagine the guy jerked off while writing those bills!

But note, he never lost his office. The voters and the corrupt system kept that psycho securely in place. And this is a famously "liberal" state.

#Politics #Abortion #DeathPenalty #Legislators #Law

LoC Appreciation Society Jan 9

Dow H. Drukker, Republican representative from New Jersey, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left [between ca. 1913 and 1918]

1 photographic print.

Dow Henry Drukker was an American Republican Party politician from New Jersey who represented the state's 7th congressional district from 1914 to 1919. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_H._Drukker
New Jersey is a state located in both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. Located at the geographic hub of the heavily urbanized Northeast megalopolis, it is bordered to the northwest, north, and northeast by New York State; on its east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on its west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on its southwest by Delaware Bay and Delaware. At 7,354 square miles (19,050 km2), New Jersey is the fifth-smallest state in land area. According to a 2024 U.S. Census Bureau estimate, it is the 11th-most populous state, with over 9.5 million residents, its highest estimated count ever. The state capital is Trenton, and the state's most populous city is Newark. New Jersey is the only U.S. state in which every county is deemed urban by the U.S. Census Bureau. It is the most densely populated U.S. state.

#DowHDrukker #DowDrukker #Drukker #Republican #Portrait #NewJersey #Legislators #Photograph #news #photography #EarlythCentury
https://www.loc.gov/item/2009630226/

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Oct 16

#Farmers Push #Legislators to Keep #California #AnimalWelfare Law on the Books

https://civileats.com/2025/10/14/farmers-push-legislators-to-keep-california-animal-welfare-law-on-the-books

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Sep 1, 2025

#Louisiana's #TenCommandments Statute: With #Litigation Updates from #Arkansas and #Texas

University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2025-40
8 Pages Posted: 29 Aug 2025
Carl H. Esbeck
University of Missouri School of Law

#Legislators in conservative states are drawn to a belief that the #10Commandments [“10/Cs”] underscore #American’s moral, jurisprudential, and historical heritage.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5416874

#separationofchurchandstate #SOCAS

Louisiana's Ten Commandments Statute: With Litigation Updates from Arkansas and Texas

<p><span>Legislators in conservative states are drawn to a belief that the Ten Commandments [“10/Cs”] underscore American’s moral, jurisprudential, and historic

Catherine Schmidt Aug 5, 2025

#Satire #Humor #RickAbbott #Texas #Democrats #Legislators

Borowitz Report Satire
How to Identify Fugitive Democrats
By Texas Governor Greg Abbott
My fellow Americans: