Politico: Ed Artau, a judge who behind the scenes was lobbying for a seat on the federal bench. After he sided with the Felon in a defamation case against the Pulitzer Prize Board, he received the Federal judgeship.

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Rethinking the state isn’t about mimicking the logic of start-up culture–rapid iteration, disruption and scaling to increase profits. Rather than learning how to win at all costs, governments need to learn how to collaborate, share, and diffuse better practices

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Lies fail always

This news outlet is not what it used to be… Jeff’s grip is turning it slowly into a propaganda outlet.
Just announced only his opinion will be allowed in the opinions columns
#WashingtonPost #DemocracyDiesWithJeff

Closed my Twitter/X account today. It feels liberating

Freedom of expression is not chaos.

There is no freedom without truth. Man has the right to speak, but also the duty not to deceive. Speech that liberates is not speech that manipulates, and censorship does not begin when we refuse to spread a lie, but when we prevent honest debate.

Rising cases of measles in the UK and USA.

Measles is one of the deadliest infectious diseases in human history. Before a vaccine became available in 1963, around 30 million people were infected annually, and 2.6 million died worldwide each year.

www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...

Folks, I don't intend to post about every single horrible thing that's happening at the moment because I'm not a direct news source and also because my mental health has an upper limit. Don't confuse lack of obsessive news updating for lack of concern or lack of personal action. Also, here's a cat.

New target of Paragon spyware comes forward

U.S. Democratic Representative Mark Pocan plans to introduce a bill designed to ban “special government employees” like Elon Musk from having federal contracts so they can’t steer spending towards their own self-interest.

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