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Shock and Activate: FOIA Edition

March 12, 2025

Does the idea that Elon Musk and his minions (someone who calls himself online “Big Balls”? Really?) have been able to access your personal information bother you? If not, skip this post. But if so, there IS something you can do about it. Yesterday, I got an email from US Representative Jamie Raskin, a Democratic … More Shock and Activate: FOIA Edition

Juneteenth 2020

June 19, 2020

I couldn’t help it. I literally laughed out loud this week when I read in the Washington Post that Donald Trump had announced: “I did something good: I made Juneteenth very famous,” Trump told [Wall Street Journal journalist Michael] Bender. “It’s actually an important event, an important time. But nobody had ever heard of it.” … More Juneteenth 2020