DoNotPay has announced that its robot lawyer will now be able to help refugees via Facebook Messenger with immigration forms in the US, Canada and the UK Source: This Facebook Messenger chatbot … Continue reading This Facebook Messenger chatbot gives refugees free legal aid

Trump’s previous executive order caused chaos at airports and inspired protests and dozens of lawsuits. The new version omits Iraq, doesn’t apply to existing visas and isn’t in effect immediately. Source: Trump … Continue reading Trump Signs New Order Blocking Arrivals From 6 Majority-Muslim Countries

Michael Hudson provides an MMT perspective on why governments are avoiding deficits. It hurt’s their banking donors profitability. The aim of neoliberals is to prevent governments from spending money to revive growth … Continue reading Why Deficits Hurt Banking Profits

Is Trump the new Nixon? In 1987, Richard Nixon wrote to Donald Trump, expressing his optimism about Trump’s future political prospects. Was it a bad omen for Trump? Source: Podcast Extra: The “Remarkable Parallels” Between Nixon and Trump – The New Yorker Continue reading Podcast Extra: The “Remarkable Parallels” Between Nixon and Trump – The New Yorker

The most astonishing aspect of the discourse on Russia is how little attention is paid to the risks of fueling a new Cold War. Great article and very true… do we really … Continue reading The New Yorker’s Big Cover Story Reveals Five Uncomfortable Truths About U.S. and Russia

The food and drink lobby is winning the fight over EU sugar regulation. As Corporate Europe Observatory’s new report “A spoonful of sugar” illustrates, existing laws are being undermined and much-needed measures … Continue reading Food lobby rigs EU sugar laws while obesity and diabetes spiral out of control

GOP lawmaker Devin Nunes says there is no need for a special prosecutor. Both the House and Senate Intelligence committees are probing what intelligence officials say is Russia interference in last year’s … Continue reading House Intelligence chairman denies evidence of Trump team’s ties to Russia

Trump has repeatedly promised to quickly repeal and replace Obamacare, the healthcare law formally known as the Affordable Care Act. Unfortunately, the whole healthcare issue is a lot more complicated than Trump … Continue reading Trump: ‘Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated’

President Trump will instruct federal agencies on Monday to assemble a budget that would also make major cuts to agencies like the E.P.A. but not reduce funding for the largest entitlement programs. … Continue reading Trump to Ask for $55B increase in Military Spending while cutting similar amount from other agencies

The Federal Communications Commission plans to halt implementation of a privacy rule that requires ISPs to protect the security of its customers’ personal information. The data security rule is part of a broader privacy … Continue reading FCC to halt rule that protects your private data from security breaches

As transgender rights get rolled back, America needs more bathroom cops   Source: As transgender rights get rolled back, America needs more bathroom cops / Boing Boing Continue reading As transgender rights get rolled back, America needs more bathroom cops

Media outlets published video of cyclist responding to cat callers without checking its authenticity. The race for clicks is undermining claims people should trust the news It’s all about the clicks and … Continue reading If newspapers won’t check viral stories, who will listen to them about fake news