Monday, February 19th, 2024

Time	Event
2:12p	Urgent: Funding bills that do not also restrict services US citizens: phone your congresscritter and insist on clean funding bills that attach no new restrictions to government services. These bills need to be passed by March 1 to avoid shutdowns of parts of the government. I think Democrats should stand by as SCROTUS shut down some large part of the government, rather than join with them in a compromise that would damage government programs and policies. With courage we can defeat those disinformation-wielding saboteurs. (Comment on this)
5:40p	Trump fined hundreds of millions of $US The verdict in the insurrectionist's fraud trial fined him 364 million dollars. It was not a criminal trial on charges of fraud. If it were, he could have ended up in prison once found guilty. *The "law-and-order" candidate is an adjudicated fraudster.* He is already responding by escalating the super-big-lie. (Comment on this)
7:14p	PFAS as a govt. secret The EPA is concealing the measurements of the amount of PFAS in plastic containers from he public, calling it a "trade secret". In general, the US government gives businesses' desired for secrecy much more weight than it deserves. Trade secrecy is fundamentally antisocial. At the same time, compelling people to publish everything they know would be tyranny; therefore, when a business's secrecy about some specific thing does no particular harm, we should go along with it. However, when trade secrecy collides with anything important for society or the public, trade secrecy must yield. (Comment on this)

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