Here's your wins for this week! Four. Democrats Call For Hearing On Chatbot-Enabled Mass Shootings You’ve likely heard about how AI chatbots have helped users not only kill themselves, but plan and execute mass shootings to kill OTHER people, including a couple of incidents in Florida. The more people hear about this, the more agitated they will get about AI. News from the States has a story about Congressional action. Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-NC) and about 30 of her colleagu

Your top five wins this week. Five. Business Organizes To Fight For Immigrants Businesses across the country who depend on immigrant labor and customers are feeling the pain from Trump’s immigration crackdown. Finally, a response. It’s limited, but it’s a start! The Texas Restaurant Association and business leaders across the country have started a coalition, called Seat the Table, demanding that Congress and the White House create work permits for “long-term, law-abidi

Four. Pentagon releases Ukraine aid after Mitch editorial Say what you will about outgoing KY Senator Mitch McConnell, he has always been a stalwart supporter of Ukraine. His recent op-ed on money for Ukraine that had been promised, but mysteriously held back, made a difference. Late in April, Rep. Sarah Elfreth (D-Md.). asked Pete Hegseth about it, and he said the money had been released. In the op-ed in the Washington Post, McConnell said that “Republican majorities

Your top five wins this week! 5. Zohran Puts Another Advocate in Driver’s Seat NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has wasted no time putting “our” people into positions of power in his administration, especially on his top issues. On Day One, he appointed tenant organizer Cea Weaver as head of his “newly revitalized” Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants. On April 27, he chose Elizabeth Adams, a former top executive at longtime transit advocate Transportation Alternatives, to spearh

Your top five wins this week! 5. Federal Judge Tells DOJ To Back Off Rhode Island Voter Files By February 2026, according to the Brennan Center, at least 10 states, including Texas, had handed their voter files over to the Justice Department. Most states have refused, and the administration is suing 29 of them over that issue. DOJ is asking them to sign an agreement to allow the Federal government to, among other things, remove specific voters from the rolls. On April 17

Pearl Jam. Five. “Stop The Steal” leader John Eastman loses his CA law license. According to Politico , the CA Supreme Court turned down Eastman’s final bid to salvage his law license, upholding the decision by lower-court judges to order Eastman’s disbarment over his role in the 2020 scheme. The court ordered that his name be “stricken from the roll of attorneys.” He’s been suspended from practice for the past few years, as cases against him have wound through the courts

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