https://www.europesays.com/people/161001/ Which direction is Trump’s job approval rating headed? – Roll Call #2018 #2020 #2021 #agency #AirForce #BrandSafety #Campaigns #Congress #democrats #Drones #election #Elections #ExecutiveBranch #georgia #house #Immigration #Iran #Iraq #JohnThune #maine #national #OpenSeat #Policy #Polling #Primaries #Republicans #Senate #Texas #Trump #washington #WashingtonDc

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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the U.S. Capitol in June as Senate Majority Leader John Thune listens. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

For modern brands, maintaining active public affairs activities is necessary component of long-term sustainability, risk mitigation, and competitive advantage.

Read more: https://mediascope.group/every-brand-needs-active-public-affairs/

#PublicAffairs #brands #PublicRelations #PR #policy #PublicPolicy #lobbying #business

https://www.europesays.com/people/144984/ GOP leaders tried to quell McConnell health questions. It’s not working – Roll Call #BrandSafety #california #CharlesEGrassley #Congress #Conservatives #democrats #DianneFeinstein #ElaineChao #Elections #Ethics #health #healthcare #History #house #Iran #JohnBarrasso #JohnThune #KayGranger #Kentucky #maine #Media #MentalHealth #national #NewJersey #Policy #Polling #Republicans #Russia #Science #Senate #SouthDakota #Texas #ThomasMassie

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Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., arrives to chair a Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on May 19, before his hospitalization in mid-June.

The most-common jobs in Ohio don’t pay enough to meet expenses, report says

Ohio jobs pay so poorly than median wages for 84.5% won’t cover the cost of living if that worker is the sole earner in a family of three.

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#affordability #business #economy #employment #low-wages #ohio-poverty-rate #policy-matters-ohio #poverty #small-businesses #taxpayer-money #workers
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/03/the-most-common-jobs-in-ohio-dont-pay-enough-to-meet-expenses-report-says/

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The most-common jobs in Ohio don’t pay enough to meet expenses, report says

"Relying on private investors to deliver coal phase-outs may be the wrong model."
More radical proposals call for publicly-owned, worker-led transitions.

Freddie Daley, Charlie Lawrie: https://theconversation.com/why-the-worlds-most-ambitious-coal-phase-out-deal-has-failed-and-what-it-means-for-climate-finance-283653

#climateFinance #coal #climatePolicy #greenTransition #publicPolicy #phaseout #coalPhaseout #industrialPolicy #policy #carbon #Indonesia

“A key factor in the rapid acceptance of #ecocide law is the definition itself, which resulted from a drafting program commissioned in 2021. The definition focuses on the level of harm, not on specific activities or sectors. Similar to how criminal law works, a murderer is defined by the outcome, not the method. The ecocide definition emphasizes the harm caused rather than forbidding particular activities. It does not prohibit industrial fishing or mineral mining; rather, it outlines a threshold of harm that should not be crossed. This approach encourages best practices without alienating any sector, which has been hugely helpful in facilitating constructive dialogue. So, while there are countries that are not ready to support ecocide, we have not encountered many that openly oppose it.”

A conversation with Stop Ecocide International’s CEO Jojo Mehta: https://gjia.georgetown.edu/dialogues/criminalizing-ecocide-a-conversation-with-stop-ecocide-internationals-ceo-jojo-mehta/

#law #publicLaw #fossilFuels #climatePolicy #policy #StopEcocide

https://www.europesays.com/people/105517/ This week: FISA fight comes to a head – Roll Call #agency #Congress #democrats #DirectorOfNationalIntelligence #Elections #ExecutiveBranch #Finance #house #Immigration #Intelligence #JohnThune #Leadership #Louisiana #maine #MarkWarner #national #nevada #NorthDakota #Oregon #Policy #Polling #Republicans #RonWyden #Senate #SouthCarolina #SouthDakota #Trump #voting #WhiteHouse

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Lawmakers are looking to pick up the FISA pieces after the president picked Bill Pulte, seen here on Capitol Hill in 2025, as acting director of national intelligence.

Virtue signaling, guilt trips, and wage theft is what corporations do best, that's how they become a big company... 😒

#Company #Policy
#VirtueSignaling #GuiltTrips #WageTheft

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Post by Rebecca Watson I fucking hate grocery store check out screens asking me if I want to donate $20 to end child hunger or whatever. You're a $10 billion corporation. I'm using a coupon to get 50 cents off a bag of potatos. Why don't YOU donate $20 to end child hunger?

Climbing #Inflation

#Prices in the #US are rising at the fastest pace in years.

Officials at the #CentralBank [#FederalReserve] have embraced the possibility of higher #InterestRates [& #JeromePowell is NOT chairing the board anymore] to get resurgent inflation under control.

#economy #affordability #CostOfLiving #recession #trumpcession #Trump #policy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/business/inflation-pce-gauge.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

A judge Monday largely barred federal agents from making arrests in #immigration #courts in #NYC, putting an abrupt halt to a #policy that emerged last year as the
centerpiece of the #Trump admin’s immigration crackdown in #Manhattan.

The federal judge, P. Kevin Castel, issued the ruling 2 months after the Manhattan US attorney’s office sent a highly unusual letter to the court saying that it had mistakenly relied on a #DHS policy memo when detaining noncitizens in immigration court.

#law

In an interview at the Colorado State Capitol, the governor said his commutation was not an attempt to placate #Trump [sure], who has leveled a barrage of #funding cuts & #policy attacks at #Colorado in a hostile effort to free #TinaPeters.

Instead, Polis said he believed that Peters, a nonviolent first-time offender, had received too harsh a sentence because of her embrace of #ConspiracyTheories about Trump’s 2020 election loss. [cuz yeah, who cares about #democracy]

#law #SeditiousConspiracy

LGBTQ+ Ohioans testify for the first time and encounter ‘bullying’ from the lawmakers elected to represent them

They stepped up to respectfully participate in the legislative process and ran headfirst into the ‘truly shameful behavior’ of Republi...

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#gay-ohio #lgbt-ohio #lgbtq-ohio #policy-legislation #transgender-ohio
https://thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/04/24/lgbtq-ohioans-testify-for-the-first-time/

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LGBTQ+ Ohioans testify for the first time and encounter ‘bullying’ from the lawmakers elected to represent them

Maine Governor Rejects Data Center Ban While Proposing Study and Limiting Tax Incentives

📰 Original title: Maine Governor Vetoes Data Center Moratorium Bill

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/maine-governor-rejects-data-center-ban-while-proposing-study-and-limiting-tax-incentives/?redirpost=2a1664fd-2540-4cc9-aa6f-4fa4c6329424

#politics #datacenters #maine #policy

Maine Governor Rejects Data Center Ban While Proposing Study and Limiting Tax Incentives

📰 Original title: Maine Governor Vetoes Data Center Moratorium Bill

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/maine-governor-rejects-data-center-ban-while-proposing-study-and-limiting-tax-incentives/?redirpost=2a1664fd-2540-4cc9-aa6f-4fa4c6329424

#politics #datacenters #maine #policy

Report shows 616,700 Ohio workers would benefit from minimum wage increasing to $15 an hour by 2030

Policy Matters Ohio recommends the state increase the minimum wage one dollar each year until reaching $15 per hour in 2030. 

#affordability #economy #minumum-wage #ohio-house-democrats #ohio-minimum-wage #ohio-minimum-wage-affordability #ohio-senate-democratic-caucus #policy-matters-ohio #politics-&-gov #workers
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/13/report-shows-616700-ohio-workers-would-benefit-from-minimum-wage-increasing-to-15-an-hour-by-2030/

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Report shows 616,700 Ohio workers would benefit from minimum wage increasing to 5 an hour by 2030

#Idaho Cut Services for People With Schizophrenia. Then the #Deaths Began.

Eliminating outreach to people with severe mental illness set off such a cascade of bad outcomes that Idaho has scrambled to reverse.

#law #policy #PublicHealth #health #government #SocialServices #MentalHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/health/idaho-mental-health-act-cuts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

New #Linux #kernel #policy: when writing code, humans can be "assisted" by "#AI", but they have to disclose it, and take full responsibility, as contributors.

While this gets celebrated as a "pragmatic stance", it simply delegates responsibilities to individual contributors that no one in good conscience can reasonably take.

Would you be willing to guarantee, legally binding, with all consequences, that your "AI" "assistant" didn't copy-paste code that's under an incompatible license? Or even proprietary, stolen one?

This is a cop out, not a responsible policy. Basically the dirty #subcontractor pattern: Everybody knows that nobody can actually guarantee what they're promising, but hey, wink wink here's their signature, they "promised" it wink wink

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-lays-down-the-law-on-ai-generated-code-yes-to-copilot-no-to-ai-slop-and-humans-take-the-fall-for-mistakes-after-months-of-fierce-debate-torvalds-and-maintainers-come-to-an-agreement

“These numbers could have been cleared up in a phone call, so it’s really slapdash,” said Fiscal Policy Institute senior #health #policy adviser Michael Kinnucan, whose recent analysis called attention to the #Trump admin’s inaccurate claim.

The mistake appeared in comments made last month by Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for #Medicare & #Medicaid Services, in a social media video & in a letter to #NewYork’s #Democratic governor announcing the “fraud”investigation.

#law

This does not mean that every individual in the government is emotionally or psychologically unstable. Nor is it a clinical diagnosis of #Trump himself [though, if it walks like a duck & talks like a duck…]. The issue is that the admin as a whole lacks a consistent attachment to #reality & the ability to organize its thinking coherently. Trump’s grandiosity, his impulsivity, inconsistency & his outright breaks with reality have become state #policy.

#PsychoticState

The NSA Would Like You To Secure Your Router...some of the same ones the FCC just ruled could no longer be updated in a year without special approval. 🤔 (Bonus update post)

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-nsa-would-like-you-to-secure-your-router-bonus-mini-update

#blog #nsa #fcc #geopolitics #isp #networking #policy #routers #security #selfhosting #userhostile

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Представник СБУ запропонував кримінальну відповідальність за ухиляння від мобілізації
Представник Служби безпеки України висловив пропозицію щодо введення кримінальної відповідальності за ухиляння від мобілізації. Ця заява пролунала на тлі триваючих обговорень щодо ефективності системи призову в Україні.

Висновок: Заява свідчить про триваючі дискусії щодо вдосконалення системи мобілізації в Україні.
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SBU Official Proposes Criminal Liability for Draft Evasion
A representative of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) has proposed introducing criminal liability for draft evasion. This statement comes amid ongoing discussions about the effectiveness of Ukraine's mobilization system.

Conclusion: The statement indicates ongoing discussions about improving Ukraine's mobilization system.
💬 SENTINEL: Пропозиція не є офіційною позицією уряду, а лише думкою окремого представника. Необхідно очікувати офіційних заяв Міноборони.

#Ukraine #Mobilization #SBU #Military #Policy

https://www.europesays.com/people/9963/ In the Senate, Thune resurrects idea of reconciliation – Roll Call #Appropriations #Budget #Conservatives #democrats #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #DonaldJTrump #DonaldTrump #election #Elections #ExecutiveBranch #Filibuster #Florida #HomelandSecurity #house #Iran #JamesLankford #JohnThune #Leadership #LindseyGraham #maine #MarkwayneMullin #MikeLee #Missouri #NorthCarolina #Oklahoma #Pennsylvania #Policy #Republicans #RonJohnson #Senate #SouthCarolina #SouthDakota #Summer

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters as he returns from the Senate floor to his office in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, March 24, 2026.

Meet the members of Cincinnati’s historic LGBTQ+ commission

Cincinnati appointed 12 members to Ohio’s first LGBTQ+ commission in March.

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#carson-hartlage #cincinnati #jan-michele-kearney #jeniece-jones #jeremy-jay-phillippi #jonah-yokoyama #karen-morgan #lgbtqia+-commission #policy-legislation #sarah-pickle #storm-boyd
https://thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/04/01/cincinnati-appoints-lgbtq-commission/

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Meet the members of Cincinnati’s historic LGBTQ+ commission

Group Pushing #AgeVerification Requirements For #AI Sneakily Backed By #OpenAI

OpenAI hasn't been shy about spending money #lobbying for favorable laws and regulations. But when it comes to its involvement with #childSafety advocacy groups, the company has apparently decided it's best to stay in the shadows -- even if it means hiding from the people actually pushing for #policy changes.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/04/02/0345206/group-pushing-age-verification-requirements-for-ai-sneakily-backed-by-openai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Republicans bus in ‘lesbian Democrats’ to support Ohio bill protecting parents who reject their trans children

Wednesday’s hearing featured the claim that gender-affirming care is

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#alliance-defending-freedom #gay-ohio #hb-693 #heritage-foundation #lgbt-ohio #lgbtq-ohio #policy-legislation #transgender-ohio
https://thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/03/27/hb-693-second-hearing/

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Republicans bus in ‘lesbian Democrats’ to support Ohio bill protecting parents who reject their trans children

New Scientist has used freedom of information laws to obtain the ChatGPT records of Peter Kyle, the UK's technology secretary, in what is believed to be a world-first use of such legislation

These records show that Kyle asked ChatGPT to explain why the UK’s small and medium business (SMB) community has been so slow to adopt AI. ChatGPT returned a 10-point list of problems hindering adoption, including sections on “Limited Awareness and Understanding”, “Regulatory and Ethical Concerns” and “Lack of Government or Institutional Support”.

#GPT #ChatGPT #AI #UKPol #policy #BadIdeas