I wrote Nancy Pelosi, letting her know that electronic voting machines are problematic and voter-verified paper ballots are essential. She wrote me back: Like her colleague Diane Feinstein, she is having trouble finding competent correspondence staff. Note the key paragraph here: Senator Bill Nelson (D-NB) introduced the companion Senate bill, S. 1431, on July 9th, …
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As part of a letter-writing campaign, I recently asked Senator Diane Feinstein to support health care (health insurance?) reform. The form letter I got back is simply wrong. She wrote “However, neither the Senate nor the House has adopted a single, comprehensive bill for consideration.” The House passed “a single comprehensive bill” (HR 3962, the …
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Reposted from my daily kos diary: A while ago, I wrote about Stories of Health, our project to document how America’s broken health care system affects us all. On the eve of Congress’ historic health care vote, I have some more stories to share. Since that time, we’ve continued to travel. We spent a week …
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Operation Hey Mackey! – Whole Foods, Oakland from Jamie LeJeune on Vimeo. via Venice for Change.
Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell
If you haven’t heard of MAPLight.org before, here’s what they do (which is fantastic): MAPLight.org, a groundbreaking public database, illuminates the connection between campaign donations and legislative votes in unprecedented ways. Elected officials collect large sums of money to run their campaigns, and they often pay back campaign contributors with special access and favorable laws. …
Recently, I received an email from Nancy Pelosi: Apparently no one explained to her (despite representing Internet central), that scanning your letterhead and pasting it in to your email is a bad idea. It looks worse when it’s on a funny angle. Having text as images this must be some sort of ADA violation. Finally, …
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Writing for The Guardian, Cory Doctorow explains why net neutrality is essential and dispells myths about billing to show us we need a free and open Internet to allow for innovation: Take filtering: by allowing ISPs to silently block access to sites that displease them, we invite all the ills that accompany censorship – Telus, …
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Seen those annoying ads for freeCreditReport.com? Been, er, annoyed? Not only are they annoying (sense a theme here?), they’re also misleading. The FTC has their own ads, promoting AnnualCreditReport.com, which actually is free.