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The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements,
or “SAVE,” program
was designed to help states verify the citizenship and immigration status of people applying for government benefits.
Some state and local governments also use it to verify citizenship for voting.
But SAVE’s results — sometimes based on incomplete or outdated information — have never been perfect.
For that reason, the information gleaned from the SAVE program should be considered useful, but …

Homeland Security’s “SAVE” Program Exacerbates Risks to Voters
Bad data and a politicized overhaul could spread election fraud lies and disenfranchise voters.

Mit Kraftwerk endete die Ära der Musikvideos bei MTV #mtv #music
https://www.dwdl.de/nac…

Mit Kraftwerk endete die Ära der Musikvideos bei MTV - DWDL.de
Früher als zunächst angekündigt, dafür aber immerhin mit einer sorgfältig kuratierten Playlist endete in den frühen Morgenstunden des 31. Dezember 2025 die Ära der Musikvideos bei MTV. Der letzte Song kam von Kraftwerk.

Article updated (note at the end) because I found errors in both the Guardian article and the original report.
See also the long Tim Parrique piece linked in a post here yesterday.
Decoupling …… again – degrowthUK
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/12/16/decoupling-again/…

Decoupling …… again
Post updated 12 Feb to draw attention to an error in the Guardian article and another in the ICIU report. An article appeared in The Guardian on Thursday, December 11th, entitled “Economic gr…

For a year, the Trump Justice Department has been on an odd mission:
to assist a former FBI informant with ties to Russian intelligence who ended up in prison for passing disinformation about Joe Biden to the bureau.
His crime deeply affected American politics.
The false claim he slipped to the FBI
—that Biden and his son Hunter each were paid a $5 million bribe by a Ukrainian energy company
—became the main evidence in the House Republicans’ reckless and ill-fate…

Trump’s DOJ is helping a convicted FBI informant tied to Russian intelligence
Alexander Smirnov’s lies about Joe Biden were at the core of the GOP’s impeachment drive.

𝗜 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝘆 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲. - 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗱
In December, I ended my race for U.S. Senate and instead am running in the newly drawn (and racially gerrymandered) 33rd Congressional District in Texas.
Democrats have an incredible chance in this coming election to make lasting progress in Texas and across the country.
I truly believe that we can send a Democrat to the Senate for the first time in 30 years, and that we can fight back against the racially gerrymandered maps …