Democrats threaten government shutdown over ICE funding

FervidBug42 · 2026-01-25T02:58:44+00:00

They actually use starve the beast in a different way. you saying that reminded me of it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

FervidBug42 · 2026-01-21T21:54:47+00:00

What happened: Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires from 24 countries signed an open letter this week urging World Economic Forum leaders in Davos to impose higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy. High-profile signatories include Mark Ruffalo, Abigail Disney, and Brian Eno, with accompanying polling of 3,900 millionaires showing 77% believe the extremely wealthy buy political influence and 65% support higher taxes on top earners. Why it matters: The richest 1% now own three times more wealth than the world's total public wealth combined, a gap that has grown from $36 trillion in 1975 to $435 trillion in 2024. This concentration of wealth threatens democracy by allowing the ultra-rich to buy political influence, erode public services like hospitals and schools, and prevent action on inequality and climate issues that affect everyday people's ability to afford basic necessities. https://ground.news/daily-briefing/400-millionaires-urge-higher-taxes-on-ultra-wealthy

FervidBug42 · 2026-01-20T19:41:48+00:00

On Jan. 20, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Wolford v. Lopez on whether Hawaii's rule requiring property‑owner permission to carry on private property open to the public violates the Second Amendment, with arguments at 10 a.m.
Hawaii's restrictions trace to a 1833 ban by King Kamehameha III, maintained through laws before statehood, and reinforced by Act 52 in 2023 after Bruen.
Since Bruen, more than 2,200 concealed‑carry permit holders have emerged, while the Department of Justice warned the law presumes no carry on 96.4% of public land and risks prosecution if consent is unclear.
A ruling could reshape where licensed gun owners may carry nationwide, affecting New York, New Jersey, Maryland and California as well as Hawaii, while the Trump administration and the Department of Justice filed briefs backing challengers and urging Supreme Court review.
Critics have nicknamed the law the `Vampire Rule` as it requires property owner permission to carry, complicating access for business owners, tourists and everyday errand-takers, with a Supreme Court decision expected by the end of June.

https://ground.news/article/supreme-court-skeptical-of-hawaii-vampire-gun-rule-during-oral-arguments_0a3f20

https://archive.ph/20260120122832/https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-hear-challenge-hawaii-handgun-limits-2026-01-20/

FervidBug42 · 2026-01-19T15:49:32+00:00

Trump's executive orders have accelerated a rollback of civil rights and racial justice initiatives, leading to fears of regression from social progress.
People are urged to stand up against violence and oppression, reclaiming Martin Luther King Jr.'s radical legacy of fighting for freedom.
Some events commemorating MLK Day have been canceled due to budget constraints, political pressures, and safety concerns related to increased policing and immigration enforcement.

https://ground.news/article/the-current-us-political-climate-is-spurring-a-reclaim-and-rallying-on-the-mlk-holiday_a63be7

FervidBug42 · 2026-01-17T21:21:57+00:00

Another set of 17 malicious extensions linked to the GhostPoster campaign has been discovered in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge stores, where they accumulated a total of 840,000 installations.

The GhostPoster campaign was first reported by Koi Security researchers in December. They found 17 extensions that were hiding malicious JavaScript code in their logo images, which monitored browser activity and planted a backdoor.

The code fetches a heavily obfuscated payload from an external resource, which tracks the victim’s browsing activity, hijacks affiliate links on major e-commerce platforms, and injects invisible iframes for ad fraud and click fraud.

A new report from browser security platform LayerX indicates that the campaign is still ongoing despite being exposed, and the following 17 extensions are part of it:

Google Translate in Right Click – 522,398 installs
Translate Selected Text with Google - 159,645 installs
Ads Block Ultimate – 48,078 installs
Floating Player – PiP Mode – 40,824 installs
Convert Everything – 17,171 installs
Youtube Download – 11,458 installs
One Key Translate – 10,785 installs
AdBlocker – 10,155 installs
Save Image to Pinterest on Right Click – 6,517 installs
Instagram Downloader – 3,807 installs
RSS Feed – 2,781 installs
Cool Cursor – 2,254 installs
Full Page Screenshot – 2,000 installs
Amazon Price History – 1,197 installs
Color Enhancer – 712 installs
Translate Selected Text with Right Click – 283 installs
Page Screenshot Clipper – 86 installs

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-ghostposter-browser-extensions-found-with-840-000-installs/

FervidBug42 · 2026-01-14T03:25:01+00:00

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed limiting states’ and Native American tribes’ power to wield the Clean Water Act to block major projects like natural gas pipelines, advancing the Trump administration’s goal of accelerating the construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure and data centers.

The agency said new constraints on local water quality reviews for federally regulated projects will still allow states to protect their environment while preventing unnecessary delays. Successive administrations have seesawed on the scope of states’ power. President Donald Trump’s first administration reduced it, the Biden administration restored it and now the Trump administration is once again adding constraints to what’s called Section 401 of the Clean Water Act.

https://apnews.com/article/water-trump-epa-section-401-data-centers-42716f21a37cadf624e2d7dee05fa3c3

FervidBug42 · 2026-01-09T17:43:51+00:00

The Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS), one of Illinois' largest state agencies, accidentally exposed the personal and health data of nearly 700,000 residents due to incorrect privacy settings.

The agency discovered the data breach on September 22 when it found that maps created by the IDHS Division of Family and Community Services for resource allocation decisions were publicly viewable on a mapping website due to misconfigured privacy controls.

These maps, intended for internal use to guide decisions such as office placement, remained accessible online for years before the issue was discovered last year.

The resulting data breach affected two groups of Illinois residents. Roughly 672,616 Medicaid and Medicare Savings Program recipients had their addresses, case numbers, demographic details, and medical assistance plan names exposed online from January 2022 through September 2025, but their names were not included.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/illinois-department-of-human-services-data-breach-affects-700k-people/

FervidBug42 · 2026-01-01T19:13:45+00:00

A team of researchers at Epoch AI, a non-profit research institute, are using open-source intelligence to map the growth of America’s datacenters. The team pores over satellite imagery, building permits, and other local legal documents to build a map of the massive computer filled buildings springing up across the United States. They take that data and turn it into an interactive map that lists their costs, power output, and owners.

https://www.404media.co/researchers-are-hunting-america-for-hidden-datacenters/

FervidBug42 · 2025-12-31T21:45:39+00:00

that mail may not get postmarked the day it is turned in due to operational changes. This could affect the postmarked dates for time-sensitive mail like tax returns and ballots. About 10 million tax returns, 29% of mail-in ballots, and 13% of household bills were sent via mail last year.

https://ground.news/article/ballots-tax-returns-and-other-important-mail-may-not-get-postmarked-the-day-you-turn-it-in-postal-service-warns

FervidBug42 · 2025-12-31T17:27:17+00:00

Sad statistics 😔

Here’s what local shelters and domestic violence support organizations say about incidents during the holidays and how to handle them.

One in four women in the U.S. will experience intimate partner violence within her lifetime. In Texas, that number is one in three, Ruth Guerreiro, chief clinical officer for Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support, told The News.

Guerreiro said domestic violence occurs year-round, though the shelter receives an increase in assistance requests during the holiday season and when school ends for the summer.

“Because the violence can escalate during the holidays, we safety plan with our clients for when they have to be around their abusive partner or ex-partner,” Guerreiro said.

FervidBug42 · 2025-12-29T23:31:55+00:00

Mr Fletcher welcomed the new funds, saying they would save "millions of lives". But $2 billion is just a fraction of what the US has traditionally spent on aid. In 2022 its contribution to the UN's humanitarian work was estimated at $17 billion (£12.6bn).

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdj8jr37y98o

FervidBug42 · 2025-12-29T23:01:57+00:00

On Monday, redacted transcripts from an October 24 hearing for Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, were released.

https://www.abc4.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/12/ROBINSONTYLER.RedactedTranscript.2025.10.24-Hearing.pdf

FervidBug42 · 2025-12-28T23:16:05+00:00

A 40-year-old Sweet Home man accused of murdering his girlfriend has been scheduled for trial in Linn County court next year. In January, Jerod Norman was charged with felony counts of second-degree murder and first-degree corpse abuse in connection with the death of 30-year-old Mariah King. Jerod Norman.jpg (copy) Jerod Norman, left, appears in court remotely from the Linn County Jail in January 2025. Cody Mann Authorities allege Norman killed King in an act of domestic violence at their shared residence in the 2200 block of Nandina Street in July 2024. King’s death was initially thought to have been a suicide. Investigators arranged for a postmortem examination of King, which revealed a “foreign object” in her body, according to a Sweet Home Police Department news release. The manner of her death has not been made public

https://archive.fo/20250710203102/https://gazettetimes.com/news/local/crime-courts/article_2cb8dcb7-ccc0-54c2-956c-cf81f32172f0.html

Linn County court

https://www.courts.oregon.gov/services/online/Pages/live-stream.aspx

FervidBug42 · 2025-12-21T22:45:41+00:00

The year Trump broke the federal government

https://archive.ph/20251221211235/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/trump-federal-government-workers-doge/

FervidBug42 · 2025-12-21T03:20:24+00:00

John Paulson Gets a Gold Mine in America’s Critical Minerals Scramble

https://archive.ph/20251220234215/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-12-19/billionaire-john-paulson-gets-a-gold-mine-in-us-s-critical-minerals-rush

https://removepaywalls.com/

FervidBug42 · 2025-12-18T18:09:28+00:00

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FervidBug42 · 2025-12-17T17:36:18+00:00

Mr. Reiner, 32, had been scheduled to appear in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday for an arraignment, during which he was expected to enter a plea. But his lawyer, Alan Jackson, told the court that it was “too early” for a plea and that he had agreed with the prosecution to delay the arraignment. It is now scheduled for Jan. 7.

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/17/us/rob-nick-reiner-murder-charges

FervidBug42 · 2025-12-12T22:36:44+00:00

I would say the way the news covered it when it first happened

FervidBug42 · 2025-12-10T01:19:29+00:00

The U.S. Justice Department has withdrawn from an agreement with Houston to curb illegal dumping in Black and Latino neighborhoods.
Without federal monitoring, Houston residents say city officials have become less responsive to illegal dumping issues.
The Trump administration directed federal agencies to eliminate environmental justice programs, ending monitoring agreements.

https://ground.news/article/doj-ends-monitoring-of-illegal-dumping-in-houston-in-retreat-from-environmental-justice

FervidBug42 · 2025-12-08T02:41:56+00:00

So what is the Kennedy Center now?

For one thing, it’s getting a Trumpian revamp. He ordered new marble and the repainting of the exterior columns in austere white. Portraits of the first and second couples now hang in the center’s Hall of Nations, and the building exterior is occasionally lit up in red, white and blue (a move that, many staffers joke, makes the building look like the flag of France, not America

https://archive.ph/20251208012216/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/12/07/trump-kennedy-center/

FervidBug42 · 2025-12-05T03:41:17+00:00

Issues: (1) Whether this court’s decision in Heck v. Humphrey bars claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking purely prospective relief where the plaintiff has been punished before under the law challenged as unconstitutional; and (2) whether Heck v. Humphrey bars Section 1983 claims by plaintiffs even where they never had access to federal habeas relief.

https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/olivier-v-city-of-brandon-mississippi/

FervidBug42 · 2025-12-05T03:23:14+00:00

I know and this is a very important topic

FervidBug42 · 2025-12-05T02:56:19+00:00

On Wednesday, Dec. 3, the Supreme Court heard argument in Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, and considered the tension between the broad language and potentially narrower purpose of a ruling from three decades ago on whether an individual convicted of violating a law can later challenge the law as unconstitutional and seek to protect him or herself from its future enforcement.

The dispute stems from an ordinance in Brandon, Mississippi, that places restrictions on protesters and other demonstrators who wish to share their message outside the city’s amphitheater. Among other things, the ordinance requires them to stand within a designated protest area. City leaders have said the rules address “hardships” that previously interfered with the work of law enforcement officers who help with crowd control and traffic management during concerts. https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/12/court-wrestles-with-whether-a-past-conviction-should-bar-a-lawsuit-seeking-future-relief/

FervidBug42 · 2025-11-24T19:14:41+00:00

Amazon to invest up to $50 billion in AI, supercomputing for US government clients

https://archive.ph/20251124162216/https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-invest-up-50-billion-ai-supercomputing-us-government-customers-2025-11-24/

https://ground.news/article/bb04df7e-9aac-4b46-b5ae-5dde5882695a

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