Open Records Should be the Real Life Default. Time to Revamp FOIA

Elon Musk:

I think the strong bias with respect to government information should be to make it available to the public, like it should be, as transparent as possible. Fully transparent, unless it's a massive risk to the country, you know, we don't want to give, say, exact instructions on how to make a nuclear bomb or something like that. But unless there's a genuine risk to the country, all information in the government should be public.

Anyone who has dealt with FOIA knows how readily the U.S. government obstructs the production of government information. Therefore, I completely agree with Musk. All government information should be presumptively open and available online, with only necessary and compelling exceptions. This includes all government efforts to censor Americans, either directly or through U.S. security state cutouts. Government are our employees who work for us. We the People are their bosses.

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“That’s How People Really Are”: An Important Message for These Times

That video is one of the most wonderful things I've ever seen on the Internet. The story begins south of Bakersfield, California.

Don't believe the endless stream of divisive rhetoric you see on Corporate Media. It will destroy your ability to be part of a community.

I don't know who this man is, but I applaud this message. I hope all of us continue to share it widely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhctl_lEj3I

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Why the U.S. Has Ukrainian Blood on its Hands: Jeffrey Sachs Offers this Primer

So many people I know proudly ignore the indisputable history of US meddling in Ukraine. Because they are ignorant, they deny that the US is responsible for the needless deaths of 600,000 Ukrainians and 70,000 Russians (and the squandering of the U.S. treasury). The Neocons in the Biden-Harris cabinet (including Biden and Harris) have blood on their hands, but you wouldn't know it because the corporate media has been covering it up and lying to you. The history of Ukraine did not begin in 2022. Please consider listening to Jeffrey Sachs for 10 minutes. These facts are not disputed by anyone who has been paying attention.

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Democrats Embracing the Warmongers

This wasn't on my Bingo card either . . .

The NYT did a mea culpa for its Iraq war lies:

But we have found a number of instances of coverage that was not as rigorous as it should have been. In some cases, information that was controversial then, and seems questionable now, was insufficiently qualified or allowed to stand unchallenged. Looking back, we wish we had been more aggressive in re-examining the claims as new evidence emerged -- or failed to emerge.

But now the NYT is back to lying with vigor:

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