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commiepinkofag · 3 months

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The 'Kids Online Safety Act' [KOSA] continues to move forward

Microsoft now endorses this legislation, which will likely help garner political support. Help counter this bill!

HELP STOP KOSA

Contact your representatives

KOSA is a bipartisan bill introduced to censor content on the internet deemed 'inappropriate' for minors. This bill is intended to target the LGBTQIA+ community and otherwise cause harm to minors.

Access to any supportive resources like queer-youth support groups, suicide hotlines, and important health information can be targeted.

#stop kosa #kosa #Kids Online Safety Act #internet #queer #trans #lgbtq #lgbqti #lgbt #anti trans legislation #richard blumenthal #the transgender #marsha blackburn #censorship #right wing #puritanical nationalism #heritage foundation #us politics #2024

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gwydionmisha · 11 months

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#Richard Blumenthal #AI Deepfake #AI #News #ChatGPT

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kp777 · 1 year

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By Jordan Rubin

MSNBC

April 27, 2023

By now, the Senate Judiciary Committee has seen that taking a soft approach to the Supreme Court's ethics crisis won't work. The committee didn't even invite testimony from the man at the center of the crisis, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and Chief Justice John Roberts just pathetically declined to testify on the subject in response to the committee's invitation.

Committee Chair Dick Durbin, D-Ill., scheduled an ethics hearing for Tuesday, May 2. But it's unclear what will come of it, or whether the committee will use whatever muscle it has to shed real light on the court's ethical failings or impose meaningful solutions on a reluctant court.

Yet, strong words on the show Wednesday from one of Durbin's committee colleagues, Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., suggest there's a desire from at least some corners of the committee to be more aggressive. Blumenthal told Nicolle that the committee should consider subpoenas not only for justices but for other potential evidence and witnesses, including Harlan Crow, the GOP megadonor whose years of lavish gifts to Thomas weren't disclosed by the justice.

Indeed, Blumenthal called Thomas’ failure to disclose gifts “potentially criminal” and said the Justice Department should investigate as well. He said Thomas created the appearance that the Supreme Court is "open to the highest bidder."

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linusjf · 23 days

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Brian K. Blackden: Justice and privacy

“Justice: To seek it, one must be willing to give up the right to privacy, as nothing more private will become more public.” —Brian K. Blackden.

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#Brian K. Blackden #Facebook #government #Justice Department #Louis Brandeis #Privacy #Privacy law #Richard Blumenthal #United States

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conandaily2022 · 1 year

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2022 Connecticut senate election results: Richard Blumenthal, Leora Levy

election date: November 8, 2022 country: United States state: Connecticut position: member of the U.S. Senate incumbent senator (party): Richard Blumenthal (Democratic) term: January 3, 2023 – January 3, 2029 ELECTION RESULTS (Connecticut senator) PARTYCANDIDATE VOTESRepublicanLeora LevyDemocratic Richard Blumenthal

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#Connecticut #Leora Levy #Richard Blumenthal

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news-folds · 2 years

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More than 300 US flights canceled, thousands delayed during Labor Day weekend

More than 300 flights into, within or out of the U.S. during Labor Day weekend were canceled as of Saturday, as well as thousands delayed. Saturday evening found 346 flights canceled from Friday through Monday, in addition to 8,228 flights delayed on Friday and Saturday. The numbers were larger including international flights, 7,263 canceled across all four days and 35,382 delayed during the…

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#Canceled #canceled flights #Cash Refunds for Flight Cancellations Act #Day #delayed #delayed flights #Ed Markey #Elizabeth Warren #Flights #Labor #Labor Day weekend #memorial day weekend #Richard Blumenthal #Thousands #Weekend

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news-tey · 2 years

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More than 300 US flights canceled, thousands delayed during Labor Day weekend

More than 300 flights into, within or out of the U.S. during Labor Day weekend were canceled as of Saturday, as well as thousands delayed. Saturday evening found 346 flights canceled from Friday through Monday, in addition to 8,228 flights delayed on Friday and Saturday. The numbers were larger including international flights, 7,263 canceled across all four days and 35,382 delayed during the…

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#Canceled #canceled flights #Cash Refunds for Flight Cancellations Act #Day #Delayed #delayed flights #Ed Markey #Elizabeth Warren #flights #Labor #Labor Day weekend #Memorial Day weekend #Richard Blumenthal #Thousands #weekend

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don-lichterman · 2 years

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Google Agrees to $90 Million Settlement With App Developers

Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev (Getty Images) Small app developers pried $90 million from Google in a legal settlement announced Friday, hot on the heels of a similar agreement with Apple. In a blog post Friday, Google said it had agreed to pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit with app developers who claim the Android maker abused its market dominance to unfairly charge them a 30% fee for in-app…

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elloras · 8 months

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Ted Lasso: The Signal

#ted lasso #tedlassoedit #ted lasso by episode #roy kent #richard montlaur #jamie tartt #roy x jamie #royjamie #coach beard #mae green #baz primrose #paul le fleur #jeremy blumenthal #afc richmond #panic attack cw #*#i didn't know this until i started listening to the podcast #but 'temper your chocolate you twat' is the most brett goldstein joke ever and it's so endearing

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charliejaneanders · 3 months

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This interview with Senator Blumenthal about KOSA is interesting. He claims KOSA won't stop kids from finding queer content if they want to find it, but will prevent "algorithms" from serving it to them against their wishes.

My guess? He doesn't understand algorithms.

He thinks kids go on YouTube or Tiktok looking for cool sneakers and are somehow bombarded with content about eating disorders or bullying. My guess, though, is that it's more like if you look for content on those topics, the algorithm will serve you more of that. Which could be good or bad, depending on the situation.

In any case, it's nearly impossible to legislate "show people LGBTQIA+ content if they want it, but don't serve it up to them algorithmically." Like, that's not how anything works.

tl;dr: The people pushing this bill are a mixture of bigots who think it'll advance their bigotry, and useful fools who don't understand how the internet works and thinks that they can regulate "algorithms" without censoring anything.

PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS.

#politics #kosa #stop kosa #kids online safety act #lgbtqia #censorship #internet censorship #blumenthal #senator richard blumenthal

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to-dance-beneath-the-diamond-sky · 6 months

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physically shaking with rage at the response I got from my Senator after calling and emailing him to stop funding Israel. He calls himself a liberal democrat but even so called liberal democrats are racist Islamophobic genocide supporters.

I literally want to throw up

#Senator Richard Blumenthal supports genocide #I told him I would make it my life’s fucking mission to make sure everyone knows that and that he never gets re-elected to office again #I also told him he should be ashamed of himself and he has blood on his hands #I told him a lot of things #And I doubt he’ll even read them #But fuck I want him to #I want to storm into his office and call him a racist Zionist to his face #I want to show him the bodies of the children who’s death warrant he signed #I want him to fucking care and stop fucking funding genocide #I hate this world so much #free palestine #gaza #free palestine 🇵🇸#palestine #🇵🇸#israel

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uwmspeccoll · 6 months

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Milestone Monday

On this day, October 30, 1811, Jane Austen’s (1775-1817) Sense and Sensibility was published anonymously as written “by a Lady.” Austen's brother negotiated the printing with publisher Thomas Egerton who agreed to publish the book on commission at Austen’s financial risk. With presumed great relief, Sense and Sensibility received favorable reviews and the first printing of 750 copies sold out in 1813. A second printing was run later that year, and the novel has been in continuous publication ever since.

In honor of Sense and Sensibility’s publication anniversary, we’re looking at both of the Special Collections copies! The first was published in 1856 by Richard Bentley (1794-1871). Bently purchased the copyrights to Austen’s work after her death and began publishing her novels as part of his Standard Novel Series in 1833. He hired illustrator Ferdinand Pickering (c. 1811-1882) to create an engraved frontispiece as illustration for each novel. This was the first time Austen’s work was released in collected editions and the first time her novels were illustrated.

Sense and Sensibility has since been illustrated many times over, shedding a contemporary light on Austen’s characters, including our second holding published by the Limited Editions Club. Limited Editions Club printed 1,500 copies of Sense and Sensibility in 1957 for its members. It includes a contemporary introduction by novelist Stella Gibbons and distinct pen and ink illustrations by Caldecott Medal honoree Helen Sewell. The edition was designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed by him at the Spiral Press in New York. Our copy is from the collection of long-standing LEC member Austin Fredric Lutter of Waukesha, Wisconsin.

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– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#milestone monday #milestones #jane austen #sense and sensibility #thomas egerton #richard bentley #limited editions club #stella gibbons #helen sewell #joseph blumenthal

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gwydionmisha · 1 year

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#Richard Blumenthal #Leora Levy #Connecticut #US Election #News

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ivygorgon · 19 days

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AN OPEN LETTER to THE U.S. CONGRESS

Hold Bank Execs Financially Accountable for Mismanagement! Pass the DEPOSIT Act.

274 so far! Help us get to 500 signers!

I am writing to urge you to pass the Deliver Executive Profits on Seized Institutions to Taxpayers (DEPOSIT) Act that was recently introduced by Sen. Richard Blumenthal and U.S. Reps Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Mike Levin (D-CA).

This important legislation would hold executives at failed banks financially responsible for their mismanagement and prevent them from selling off shares of stock, potentially profiting from their bank failure -- like Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker might have done when he sold $3.6 million of stock shortly before the collapse of SVB.

American taxpayers shouldn’t be left holding the bag and bailing out banks while their executives are walking away with multi-million dollar compensation and bonus packages. Please respond in writing and let me know you co-sponsored this bill. Thanks!

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 2 years

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told CNN on Thursday he met earlier in the day with Texas Sen. John Cornyn and encouraged the senior Republican senator to begin discussions with Democrats, including Sens. Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, to see if they can find a middle ground on legislation to respond to the tragic Texas elementary school shooting.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are facing enormous pressure to take action in the wake of the horrific shooting, but members on both sides acknowledge the uphill battle to find common ground given the highly polarized political climate around gun legislation and widespread GOP opposition to stricter gun control.

It is significant, though, that McConnell has decided to weigh in and is giving a greenlight to a bipartisan effort on a potential legislative response to the shooting. But it still remains to be seen what, if anything, talks will amount to given that countless mass shootings in recent years have failed to break the partisan stalemate over the issue of gun policy in Congress.

McConnell would not say specifically what the contours of that legislation should be, instead signaling he wants Cornyn to be the one to negotiate.

"I met with Senator Cornyn this morning. As you know he went home yesterday to see the family members and begin the fact finding of this awful massacre and I have encouraged him to talk with Sen. Murphy and Sen. Sinema and others who are interested in trying to get an outcome that is directly related to the problem. I am hopeful that we could come up with a bipartisan solution," McConnell told CNN.

Legislation to respond to mass shootings and counter gun violence has long been one of the most divisive and intractable policy issues facing lawmakers.

Cornyn said earlier on Thursday that he is going to meet today with Murphy, one of the most prominent Democrats on the issue of gun policy, to see what can be worked on. He and Murphy have actually met on and off for the last year on this issue and are going to try and resume some of their talks.

He said he doesn't know if they can get there on background checks or other bills, but he did say "this hopefully will provide a new, greater sense of urgency."

Cornyn has also said that he does not want to see the shooting used as a way to infringe on gun rights.

"There's a whole list of things that we can consider, but I think particularly mental health, access to mental health treatment is high on that list," he said, adding, "I think we need to be open to whatever, wherever the evidence leads us. I would say that this is not an excuse to infringe the Second Amendment rights of law abiding citizens doing that will do nothing to fix tragedies like this."

TALKS 'JUST GETTING STARTED'

Later on Thursday Cornyn said he had "touched gloves" with Murphy and that their talks are "just getting started."

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has indicated that Democrats are willing to give some time and space for efforts to reach some kind of bipartisan compromise on gun legislation, though he has noted the odds are long. He has also made clear that these efforts will not be given an unlimited amount of time to play out.

"We have to try everything. We must not leave a single stone unturned," Schumer said earlier on Thursday.

He added, however, "this is not an invite to negotiate indefinitely. Make no mistake about it, if these negotiations do not bear fruit in a short period of time, the Senate will vote on gun safety legislation."

Senate Democrats took steps on Tuesday night to place two House-passed background checks bills onto the legislative calendar so they can be voted on. It's unclear, however, when the Senate might vote on the measures and they would not be expected to overcome a GOP filibuster.

Murphy described the effort he is engaged in, saying, "we'll have a series of meetings today to set the table for next week and then we will work really hard to try to find a bipartisan product."

He sounded a note of caution similar to Schumer however, adding, "I'm not going to negotiate forever."

"I've been through this before," he said. "I know sometimes Republicans are more interested in talking than doing, so if we can't get some progress by the end of next week, then I'll say to Sen. Schumer it's time to take votes. And Sen. Schumer has committed that we're gonna have votes one way or the other on the floor of the Senate on issues like background checks."

A number of Democrats are expressing optimism about the prospects, despite the extremely long odds of any kind of agreement.

Sen. Joe Manchin, a moderate West Virginia Democrat, called the bipartisan meeting on gun reform "very encouraging."

He said that members involved were looking at "a little bit of everything" -- such as background check expansion and red flag laws -- to see what could get bipartisan support.

Asked if he believed Democrats could get 10 Republicans on board, he said that he "always" believes they will. "You quit thinking about the politics and can you get elected on these votes. This is about basically protecting children. If they can't rise to that, they ought to deep, deep dig inside and find out why in the heck we're here."

Most legislation requires at least 10 Republican votes to overcome a filibuster in the Senate given the current 50-50 partisan split.

Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, who has been engaged in gun reform talks with colleagues on both sides of the aisle for years, said Thursday when asked about red flag laws and other gun-related measures that "for the first time," he and Cornyn and other Republican colleagues are "talking seriously," after the shooting in Texas.

"That's a major cause of encouragement to me," he said. "I'm hoping now we can reach that critical mass that will get us to 60 votes. I'm hopeful for the first time in a long time."

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realjediverse · 8 months

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The Equalizer 3 Movie Review!

The Equalizer 3 is a 2023 American action thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Richard Wenk. It is the third installment in the Equalizer film series and stars Denzel Washington as Robert McCall, a former government agent who becomes a vigilante. The film also stars Dakota Fanning, Bill Pullman, Melissa Leo, and Pedro Pascal. The film follows McCall as he settles into a quiet…

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#Andrea Dodero #Antoine Fuqua #Dakota Fanning #Daniele Perrone #David Denman #Denzel Washington #Eugenio Mastrandrea #Gaia Scodellaro #Jason Blumenthal #Remo Girone #Richard Wenk #Steve Tisch #The Equalizer 3 #Todd Black #Zakaria Hamza

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