Posted By Electronic Frontier Foundation on Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 9:57 AM click to enlarge And the worst offenders of the year are. The day after the 2021 inauguration, Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut took to Twitter to declare: Biden is making transparency cool again. This was a head-scratcher for many journalists and transparency advocates. Freedom of Information the concept that government documents belong to and must be accessible to the people has never not been cool. Using federal and local public records laws, a single individual can uncover everything from war crimes to health code violations at the local taqueria. How awesome is that? If you need more proof: There was an Australian comic-book series called Southern Squadron: Freedom of Information Act ; the classic anime Evangelion has a Freedom
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Today is day 93 of the 105-day legislative session. For such an abnormal period of time, with most of the session activities conducted virtually, this has been a somewhat ambitious session for Democratic majorities. Recent long sessions have seen some significant progressive legislating, like the public option bill and the long term care trust from 2019. This is a shift from a previously divided legislature and even the recession-hardened legislatures of most of the Gregoire years. Prior to that, the Locke years were largely centrist, too.
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And while we’re on the subject of what the late Marvin Gaye sussed out as “trigger-happy policin’” all the way back in 1971, the
New York Timesdid a long, deep dive into a semi-famous shooting and the investigation thereof. Last September, U.S, Marshals shot and killed an activist named Michael Reinoehl in the aftermath of unrest in Seattle over police violence. Reinoehl was being sought in connection with the shooting death of a Patriot Prayer activist named Aaron Danielson. Reinoehl fled and was cornered in the town of Lacey, Washington, where he was shot. The official story is that he fired on law-enforcement officers. A local investigation recently cleared the officers on that basis. However, as the
Police Say an Antifa Activist Likely Shot at Officers His Gun Suggests Otherwise nytimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nytimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.