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socialjusticeinamerica · 9 months

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artsformyvoid · 2 years

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“DOCUMENT REQUESTS AND SUBPOENAS AND DEPOSITIONS”: GOP REPORTEDLY PLANNING A WAR AGAINST BIG TECH

Representative Jim Banks, a Republican from Indiana, speaks at the U.S. Capitol on Aug. 24, 2021. STEFANI REYNOLDS/BLOOMBERG

Conservative operatives and think tankers have been scheming with congressional staffers on ways to put Big Tech under a microscope if they win back control of Congress, Axios reports.

BY CALEB ECARMA

Silicon Valley will reportedly be a top target on the GOP’s revenge list if Republicans take back control of Congress in the midterms. Conservative operatives and think tankers met with Republican congressional staff to strategize ways to launch investigations into platforms like Facebook, Google, and Twitter, Axios reported Wednesday—a window into how Republicans intend to put the full weight of government behind their outrage toward mainstream social media platforms and search giants, which they contend are using algorithms to manipulate Americans against conservatives.

Big Tech companies are “going to be subject to document requests and subpoenas and depositions,” Heritage Foundation’s Mike Howell, who leads the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, and used last month’s retreat to help train Republican aides on how to utilize the Freedom of Information Act, told Axios. Notably, Howell said he’s advising Republicans to take cues from Democrats’ tactics on the January 6 select committee, which has used its subpoena powers to probe phone, bank, and email records to get a fuller picture of the Trump-fueled attacks on the Capitol. “It’s really a whole new frontier that has been opened with a whole bevy of new tactics and techniques, which were once thought out of bounds,” he said. “They’re now going to be a tool in the hands of the other side.”

According to Axios, groups like Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI), the American Accountability Foundation (AAF), and the Heritage Foundation hosted the two-day strategy retreat last month. Attendees included, a staffer for GOP House leadership prospect Representative Jim Banks of Indiana, as well as aides to senators Rick Scott, Mike Braun, and Pat Toomey. Alexa Walker, the Banks aide and the Republican Study Committee’s coalitions director, and Scott Gast, a former senior Trump aide, reportedly held a discussion on how Republicans can coordinate congressional oversight probes with third-party investigative groups. The conservative activists and think tankers at the retreat also reportedly discussed building a more robust legal strategy. According to Axios, Gene Hamilton, a former top aide in Trump’s Justice Department who now serves on the board of America First Legal Foundation, a legal group formed by ex-Trump officials aimed at helping push a conservative agenda through the courts, also illustrated how to use the federal judicial system to advance these investigations.

Republicans zeroed in on Big Tech entities like Meta, Alphabet, and Twitter under Donald Trump, a sentiment that reached a fever pitch in the aftermath of Trump’s 2020 defeat, when top Republican figures, such as Senator Josh Hawley and Governor Ron DeSantis, claimed these companies were rigged against conservatives. Last year, Hawley introduced an antitrust bill designed to break up “Woke Big Tech companies like Google and Amazon” and limit the “colossal amounts of power…they use to censor political opinions they don’t agree with.” In his 2021 book, The Tyranny of Big Tech, Hawley delineated that Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos are the robber barons of the Information Age, accusing them of infecting the media ecosystem with “corporate liberalism” and adding, “Big Tech and Big Government seek to extend their influence over every area of American life.”

DeSantis, a potential Republican presidential choice in 2024, signed statewide legislation in Florida last year that claimed to ban Big Tech from “deplatforming” Floridian political candidates, an apparent counterpunch to Meta and Twitter banning Trump from their platforms following the Capitol riot. A federal court shot down the law last month, a decision that the Florida governor could still appeal.

The U.S. Supreme Court also just blocked a Texas social media law on Tuesday that sought to punish social media platforms for removing political speech based on viewpoint. The law, which Governor Greg Abbott signed and has defended by accusing platforms like Facebook and Twitter of conspiring “to silence conservative viewpoints,” was blocked in a 5–4 emergency decision. Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Samuel Alito filed a written dissent that called for upholding the law. The Supreme Court may rule on the Texas law again in the future, as the Fifth Circuit panel is expected to uphold it in contradiction to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

Despite the legal setbacks, it seems that the issue could soon return to the fore in congressional hearing rooms.

#gop #corrupt gop #big tech #war on big tech #congress #democrat congress #democratic congress #republican war on america

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mysharona1987 · 6 months

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He should of course be in jail, but we can surely lament that America will never have a congressman this hilarious again.

#George santos #news #new york #congress #democrats #republicans #politics #santos #campaign fraud

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reasonsforhope · 7 months

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Holy crap, I didn't think Biden would be able to get the Climate Corps established without Congress. This is SUCH fantastic news.

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"After being thwarted by Congress, President Joe Biden will use his executive authority to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps that will serve as a major green jobs training program.

In an announcement Wednesday, the White House said the program will employ more than 20,000 young adults who will build trails, plant trees, help install solar panels and do other work to boost conservation and help prevent catastrophic wildfires.

The climate corps had been proposed in early versions of the sweeping climate law approved last year but was jettisoned amid strong opposition from Republicans and concerns about cost.

Democrats and environmental advocacy groups never gave up on the plan and pushed Biden in recent weeks to issue an executive order authorizing what the White House now calls the American Climate Corps.

“After years of demonstrating and fighting for a Climate Corps, we turned a generational rallying cry into a real jobs program that will put a new generation to work stopping the climate crisis,” said Varshini Prakash, executive director of the Sunrise Movement, an environmental group that has led the push for a climate corps.

With the new corps “and the historic climate investments won by our broader movement, the path towards a Green New Deal is beginning to become visible,” Prakash said...

...Environmental activists hailed the new jobs program, which is modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps, created in the 1930s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, as part of the New Deal...

Lawmakers Weigh In

More than 50 Democratic lawmakers, including Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, had also encouraged Biden to create a climate corps, saying in a letter on Monday that “the climate crisis demands a whole-of-government response at an unprecedented scale.”

The lawmakers cited deadly heat waves in the Southwest and across the nation, as well as dangerous floods in New England and devastating wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui, among recent examples of climate-related disasters.

Democrats called creation of the climate corps “historic” and the first step toward fulfilling the vision of the Green New Deal.

“Today President Biden listened to the (environmental) movement, and he delivered with an American Climate Corps,” a beaming Markey said at a celebratory news conference outside the Capitol.

“We are starting to turn the green dream into a green reality,” added Ocasio-Cortez, who co-sponsored the Green New Deal legislation with Markey four years ago.

“You all are changing the world,” she told young activists.

Program Details and Grant Deadlines

The initiative will provide job training and service opportunities to work on a wide range of projects, including restoring coastal wetlands to protect communities from storm surges and flooding; clean energy projects such as wind and solar power; managing forests to prevent catastrophic wildfires; and energy efficient solutions to cut energy bills for consumers, the White House said.

Creation of the climate corps comes as the Environmental Protection Agency launches a $4.6 billion grant competition for states, municipalities and tribes to cut climate pollution and advance environmental justice. The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants are funded by the 2022 climate law and are intended to drive community-driven solutions to slow climate change.

EPA Administrator Michael Regan said the grants will help “communities so they can chart their own paths toward the clean energy future.”

The deadline for states and municipalities to apply is April 1, with grants expected in late 2024. Tribes and territories must apply by May 1, with grants expected by early 2025."

-via Boston.com, September 21, 2023

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skyethebisexualwolfwizard · 1 month

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Stop the bill, sign as many petitions as possible, protest and help organize protests, mail and email representatives, bombard your reps and your government with demands to stop KOSA.

We won't let this pass, we won't.

Do everything you can, spread this message, to other platforms other than [tumblr].

To people with voices, to everyone, to stop it.

It will not pass with our collective effort.

Don't vote red, don't let any censorship pass. Stop KOSA

#kosa #kosa bill #kids online safety act #stop kosa #anti kosa #us #usa #us politics #democrats #republicans #joe biden #congress #senate

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akonoadham · 6 months

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simply-ivanka · 1 month

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#liz cheney #RINOS #democrats #J6 #trump #biden.#Obama #schumer #schiff #jamie raskin #congress #trump 2024 #ivanka #president trump #repost #america first #americans first #america #donald trump

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politijohn · 5 months

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Desperately needed

#housing #housing crisis #government #politics #us politics #the left #progressive #capitalism #news #congress #democrats #eat the rich #racism

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capitalism-and-analytics · 1 year

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decolonize-the-left · 6 months

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Libs and Dems love using that "leopards eating my face party" meme to poke at Republican women and queers but like

Youre asking us to vote for man committing genocide overseas because you think he wouldn't do the same to you. Even though it's him opening the wallet for it to happen and he didn't give a shit when you protested and called and marched for him to stop, did he?

In fact let me see here, what he did was *checks notes* tell the collective USA to get fucked cuz he's gonna keep supporting Israel committing war crimes. Which is currently causing a massive party divide. Headlines from today:

Oh right and he did this.

After he did this already

And hows your healthcare look? Your rent? Your gas tank? Groceries? Your paycheck? Winter is coming up for the USA and how often are you gonna worry about paying the electric bill?

And he wants to use more of your taxes to keep committing war crimes, knowing full well that you're already struggling.

And you think that guy will protect you from Republicans and Fascists?

Him? He's gonna protect y'all from fascism?? The dude cutting educational funding and student work programs for this?

#am i in the fucking twilight zone #biden #joe biden #Claudia de la cruz #2024 elections #us elections #voting #current events #democrats #liberals #congress #senate #third party #lesser evil my whole ass

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bonesashesglass · 5 months

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God. You know, with everything going on, I don’t understand how we find ourselves moving backwards instead of forwards.

I’ve never seen people mobilized like this in my lifetime. The amount of outcry and backlash the US government is getting because of their support of Israel is bigger and louder than any I’ve ever experienced.

I’ve also never seen the democrat party so against what their actual voters are advocating for.

Republicans and democrats are finally agreeing on something, and that something is the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

Not only that, but apparently they’re working together to create a bill that will send aid to Israel, and restrict immigrant rights. And they’re both so proud of it.

Where is the humanity? Where is the party that actually cares for and values human life? Turns out there isn’t one. Republicans and democrats are the same: they only care about maintaining power.

It’s days like this that I just feel so hopeless, I want to curl up in a ball and hide, or move to a different country completely.

You know something? I used to roll my eyes whenever a book or movie character would preach about hope. It just seemed like lazy writing or an annoying character trait. But I get it now. I see the real value of hope. It’s what drives people to keep fighting when everything around you makes you want to curl up into a hall and hide.

Don’t give up hope. Keep fighting, even when things suck as much as they do now, never stop fighting.

Palestine will be free in our lifetime. That we know for sure. But you know what? I truly believe that we will all, Americans included, be free of the corruption and greed of the US government in our lifetime too.

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 1 year

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#us politics #2023 #118th congress #twitter #tweet #us house of representatives #speaker of the house #david pakman #conservatives #republicans #gop #Democrats

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mysharona1987 · 2 months

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The House: Trust me, bro. This timing is totally a coincidence.

Also, the real craziness is the IDF have been using TikTok to broadcast their antics (war crimes) to the world.

#free palestine #tiktok #Gaza #democrats #republicans #politics #social media #congress #israel #war crimes #Biden #Muslims #poc #women of color

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reasonsforhope · 10 months

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The US passed the world's biggest climate bill EVER (so far!) in 2022 and most people have no idea!!!

This video digs into all of the different awesome things the Inflation Reduction Act does - and why it puts the US back on track to potentially meet our Paris Agreement commitments.

Yall, the Inflation Reduction Act changed the whole game when it comes to climate change in the US. In fact, it's in large part why climate experts (and Hank Green, in this video) say that as of 2022,

We have more reason to have hope that we can save ourselves than we have EVER had, since we started to realize the true extent of climate change

Note: If you're wondering why the biggest climate bill in US history was passed under the name "Inflation Reduction Act," the answer seems to mostly be that it's easier to actually get shit done on climate if the name of the bill doesn't tell everyone that's what you're doing. (Also like. It was designed to reduce inflation too. Just, yknow. Not only.)

Transcript here! (There is a full transcript, it just might not look like it because it's not super clear that the text scrolls at first. Ask me how I know lol.)

-via Vlogbrothers, August 12, 2022

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skyethebisexualwolfwizard · 1 month

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intersectionalpraxis · 2 months

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The US House of Representatives passed a bill recently, which could very well effectively ban TikTok -ALL across party lines these so-called politicians who care about the people -are trying to silence an app that has been showcasing what is happening to Palestinian people in Gaza -what western mainstream media won't -the rampant war crimes and genocide being committed by the settler-colonial state of Israel.

I don't care if you hate TikTok. I don't care if you prefer YouTube or Twitter or any other social media site to get your news/create content/to engage with creators you like -this is censorship by the United States government and it SHOULD worry you. I just watched Nancy Pelosi say that this is not "an attempt" to ban the app but to "make it better" and that is utterly horrifying to me. Especially when we know zionists wanted to meet with TikTok executives to 'discuss' the troubling content they keep seeing there -they mean -they don't like how people have been sharing stories of what the IOF has been and is doing -they don't like people advocating for Palestinian liberation. For a free Palestine in our lifetime.

Can you imagine being THAT scared of how much impact an app has to impress upon people this way -to see it as a threat to not only their national security -but to their violent imperialistic agenda? The US government wants to control the narrative -that's what this is about. From the sinophobia, to the covering of a genocide happening in Gaza, to wanting to proliferate and normalize their American propaganda... this is all terrifying. And it's something you should NEVER turn away from.

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