Jay Young

@impactofficer.bsky.social

Senior Director of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties for Common Cause. Ultracrepidarian. My views and opinions (particularly on Arsenal Football Club) are my own.

“If you take the deal, you’re going to be exploited. If you don’t take it, you’re going to die,” said attorney Frank Ssekamwa about the U.S. demand to access the health data of millions of Ugandans. “It’s the essence of digital colonialism.”

“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns

The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...

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Senate leaders on Wednesday sent a strongly worded letter to the nation’s regulator of buses that oversees transportation safety. The move comes after a @wbur.org and ProPublica report found dozens of fatal crashes missing from the federal safety record:

Senators Push Federal Regulator to Prove School Bus Safety Data Is Accurate

The request from two Democratic lawmakers comes after WBUR and ProPublica found that the federal safety record was missing dozens of fatal crashes involving one of the nation’s largest public transit ...

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I definitely think that the shadow hearing that @booker.senate.gov pulled together on the Blanche nomination has a lot to do with where we find ourselves tonight. The testimony from career DOJ staffers and one of the Epstein survivors was devastating.

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · last wk.

TABLES TURN: Democrats are using “Shadow hearings” to press issues and secure millions of on-line views. And clips Even without control of Congress Just filed open.substack.com/pub/macfarla...

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Service felt pressure from the Trump admin to surveil James Comey. Documents detail worries about the legality of the directive to surveil Comey — including surreptitiously tracking Comey's phone without a warrant — in the wake of his 'seashells' photo.

Secret Service felt pressure from administration to surveil James Comey, new documents reveal

Documents detail worries about the legality of a directive to surveil the former FBI director after the “seashells” photo the government claims amounts to a threat to President Donald Trump’s life.

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New: Kentucky governor tells Mitch McConnell to prove he can serve or ‘resign’ from Senate In letters to McConnell & Thune, Andy Beshear says the KY senator needs to "verbally address the people of Kentucky" or have his health investigated—and perhaps get replaced. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Kentucky governor tells Mitch McConnell to prove he can serve or ‘resign’ from Senate

Gov. Andy Beshear issued his ultimatum in letters to McConnell and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., warning that he may begin the process of replacing him.

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Illinois is now among the best states for K-12 education in the nation. US News ranks us 4th. World Population Review ranks us 5th. CNBC ranks us 7th. A credit to our students, parents, and educators in the Land of Lincoln.

FIFA "confirmed a Times report last night that it planned to sell about 30 per cent of a new company set up to handle its tournaments’ commercial interests — with Joshua Kushner, the brother of President Trump’s son-in-law Jared, confirmed as lead investor." [Times front page]