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Texans brace for Jade Helm 15, massive federal military exercise
About half of Texans are concerned about Jade Helm 15, this week's federal military exercise across the American southwest. Many conspiracy theories advanced by right-wing groups have driven these...
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TSA threatens to stop accepting driver's licenses from nine states as of Jan 10
When Congress passed the 2005 Real ID act -- mandating easy sharing (and intrinsic insecurity) -- of driver's license data, they insisted compliance by states with the rules would be voluntary. (more…)
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America: where hundreds of thousand of underage girls are married off by...
The nonprofit Unchained At Last analyzed US marriage license data from 2000 to 2010 and learned that 167,000 children (almost all girls, some as young as 12) in 38 states were married off to older...
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White House plans to crack down on legal recreational pot
Sean Spicer: There's a difference between medical marijuana and recreational marijuana https://t.co/0g8qHYfgsD— Daniella Diaz (@DaniellaMicaela) February 23, 2017 Today in a press conference, White...
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A preview of the lawsuits that will be filed to save Net Neutrality after the...
Today, the FCC ignored tens of millions of Americans' views, as well as comments from the world's leading internet scientists and the inventors of the internet, and give a huge regulatory gift to the...
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Vermont will be the 9th state to legalize marijuana
Vermont is the ninth state to legalize marijuana, and the first state to do so through a legislative act rather than a ballot initiative. Vermont's Republican governor Phil Scott said he'll sign the...
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Governor of Montana signs executive order banning state from doing business...
Governor Steve Bullock [D-MT] has signed an executive order banning state agencies from procuring internet service from ISPs that violate net neutrality principles like throttling, blocking and paid...
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New York joins Montana in Net Neutrality, bans non-Neutral ISPs from...
Days after Montana Democratic Governor Steve Bullock signed an executive order banning ISPs that violate Net Neutrality from supplying state government agencies, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (also a...
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California joins Montana and New York in creating state Net Neutrality rules
The FCC's order killing Net Neutrality in December 2016 also includes a prohibition on states making their own telcoms rules that restore it (this is a mixed bag -- if states' rights don't permit them...
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California Senate votes to reinstate Net Neutrality, now it goes to the State...
Yesterday, the California Senate passed S.B. 822, voting 23-12 on party lines; the bill restores strong Net Neutrality protections to the state by banning ISPs from providing services to government...
View ArticleAjit Pai: California net neutrality law is "illegal"
California's best-in-America Net Neutrality law goes a long way to restoring the protections that Trump's FCC Chairman Ajit Pai destroyed when he unilaterally and illegally repealed the FCC's national...
View ArticleEbay is full of used voting machines full of real electoral data and riddled...
Back in 2012, Symantec researcher Bryan Varner bought some used US voting machines on Ebay and found them to be incredibly insecure and full of real, sensitive election data; in 2016, he did it again...
View ArticleAn end-run around Citizens United: passing state laws that ban rewarding...
Ray Metcalfe ("two term Alaska state legislator, Alaska’s 2016 Democratic Party Nominee for U.S. Senate, and whistle-blower whose actions resulted in the indictment of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens") has...
View ArticleTelcoms lobbyists have convinced 26 states to ban or restrict municipal...
More than half of the US states have passed laws that ban or severely restrict local governments from investing in broadband: many of these laws were copypasted from "model legislation" circulated by...
View ArticleMaine's new ISP privacy law has both California and New York beat
The Great State of Maine, having jettisoned its far-right lunatic "government" and replaced it with a responsive, progressive, evidence-based one, is now set to pass the nation's most stringent ISP...
View ArticleCongress orders Ajit Pai: hands off San Francisco's broadband competition law
San Francisco passed a law requiring owners of multi-unit buildings to choose which ISP they use, ending the practice of landlords selling access to tenants to ISPs, locking in the tenants to ISPs who...
View ArticleTrump's FCC won a terrible victory in last week's net neutrality ruling, but...
On Oct 1, a coalition of public interest groups and states' attorneys general lost their appeal in a legal bid to block the FCC's dismantling of federal Net Neutrality protections, accomplished...
View ArticleMost "black market" guns in America are purchased legally across state lines
States' rights are one of the greatest impediments to reducing gun violence in the United States. This was something I noticed when I chronicled the journey of getting my gun license in Boston. It's...
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