Debra Nutter

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Retired. Single. Mother. Cat lover. Love spending time with my daughter.

Deregulation is just another form of trickle-down economics. Republicans in Congress have cut protections for workers and the environment on the promise it would boost the economy.

Instead, the gains haven’t trickled down and the American people have been left holding the bag.

The assault weapons ban must be reinstated — the greed of gun manufacturers be damned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-lives-of-our-children-or-the
The lives of our children or the greed of gun manufacturers?

Friends, Yesterday morning, a 28-year-old armed with assault rifles entered a Christian school in Nashville and fatally shot three nine-year-old children and three staff members before she was shot and killed by the police. It makes me weep. It’s happening again and again and again. Our

Robert Reich
"I think the current president is better, so I want him to be re-elected," says #Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz when asked by a Berlin primary school student about a possible #Election2024 Trump vs. Biden rematch.
Today’s meeting between President Biden and Speaker McCarthy on the #debtlimit is now scheduled for 17:30 EDT (21:30 UTC).
"One Patriot system was damaged but it has now been fixed," says DoD spokesperson Sabrina Singh when asked for details about the Russian strike on the US-made air defense system in #Ukraine.
Josh Blackman and Seth Tillman argue there are good reasons to conclude that former President Donald Trump was not an “officer of the United States." This would nullify Trump’s attempt to move DA Bragg’s New York state “hush money” case to federal court: https://www.lawfareblog.com/why-manhattan-das-trump-case-cannot-be-removed-federal-court
Why the Manhattan DA’s Trump Case Cannot Be Removed to Federal Court

Fortunately for Bragg, there are good reasons to conclude that the elected president was not an “officer of the United States.”

Lawfare

For me this was the key moment for Amy Chozick as author of "Liz Holmes Wants You to Forget About Elizabeth."

Chozick writes:

"She thinks if she’d spent more time quietly working on her inventions and less time on a stage promoting the company, she would have revolutionized health care by now."

That Holmes still believes she could transform health care tells us she is nowhere in her recognition of reality, which in turn means the con goes on. And that— 1/2
#journalism #science #nytimes

If thoughts and prayers did any good, all of mine would have seen Ted Cruz lose his job long ago.

Every time they show up and kill or capture a mass shooter, or they kill themseves, all the newspaper stories end by quoting the local police saying, “There is no longer any threat to the public.”

They’ve told us there was no longer any threat to the public 203 times so far this year.

I’m starting to think there might still be a danger to the public.

"Microsoft Edge sends a request to bingapis .com with the full URL of nearly every page you navigate to"

Microsoft secretly tracks people across myriads of websites/apps via pixel. Now it was caught tracking them directly in the browser, by default. Wild.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/25/23697532/microsoft-edge-browser-url-leak-bing-privacy

Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing

Microsoft is investigating an issue with its Edge browser that is leaking the sites you visit to Bing. A new creator follow feature appears to have some privacy issues.

The Verge