Tootfinder

Parts of this bill seem poorly thought out. I like this:
"Slow Streets Speed Limits. Cities that have already adopted a slow streets program would gain the authority to set lower speed limits on those streets by ordinance or resolution, without having to first conduct an engineering and traffic survey, a process that can be time-consuming and costly."
Then again, we could road-diet slow streets to reduce the design speed today if we had political will.

Buffy Wicks Pushes Legislation to Cut Red Tape for Transformational Bicycle and Pedestrian Projects - Streetsblog California
AB 1976 would impact a lot of projects including pedestrian malls, neighborhood greenways, safe routes to schools projects, and more.

The President and his lickspittles in Congress are introducing legislation to shield fossil fuel companies from liability for their intentional and knowing actions to emit GHGs, fully aware of the damage, destruction and death that would cause.
Please, if you live in California, write you congress people and tell them to oppose this legislation. It's easy, I just did it using this action network link:

Tell California Congressmembers: No Immunity for Big Oil
As climate disasters like wildfires, floods, and heatwaves grow more extreme, communities around the country are seeking to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable. The State of California and eight local municipalities in California are currently suing Big Oil companies for climate damages. Big Oil companies have known for decades the harm their products would cause to the global climate, yet have continued to lie to the public and policymakers to delay climate action for their profit. …

The President and his lickspittles in Congress are introducing legislation to shield fossil fuel companies from liability for their intentional and knowing actions to emit GHGs, fully aware of the damage, destruction and death that would cause.
Please, if you live in California, write you congress people and tell them to oppose this legislation. It's easy, I just did it using this action network link:

Tell California Congressmembers: No Immunity for Big Oil
As climate disasters like wildfires, floods, and heatwaves grow more extreme, communities around the country are seeking to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable. The State of California and eight local municipalities in California are currently suing Big Oil companies for climate damages. Big Oil companies have known for decades the harm their products would cause to the global climate, yet have continued to lie to the public and policymakers to delay climate action for their profit. …

EU legislation allowing voluntary CSAM scanning by tech and social media companies expired April 3 after lawmakers failed to agree on the terms of an extension (Sam Clark/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/tech-firms-enter-legal-limbo-over-child…

Tech firms enter legal limbo over child abuse scanning
Scanning private online spaces for child abuse material becomes illegal in Europe on Saturday.

Do you solve that by banning Utah residents from using your website? 🤷‍♂️
"Utah's Online Age Verification Amendments, formally Senate Bill 73, take effect on May 6, making the state the first in the U.S. to explicitly target VPN use as part of age verification legislation."
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/vpn/utah-becomes-first-us-state-to-target-vpn-use-with-age-verification-law

Two House lawmakers unveil bipartisan AI legislation that would override some state AI laws and require top AI developers to implement risk-management plans (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/04/obernolte-trahan-ai-bill-lands-on-the-…

Even though I'm not running for re-election this November, I still get one more filing period for new legislation in September for my potential successors to pick up from me, so I'm still attempting to keep my legislation ideas repository at least somewhat up-to-date:
#NHPolitics

2026 Chatbot Legislation Tracker
https://fpf.org/blog/2026-chatbot-legislation-tracker/
@…
Co-authored by Rafal Fryc With nearly 100 chatbot…

The White House's latest effort to enact legislation that would preempt state AI laws stalls as multiple Democrats dismiss the proposal as a partisan play (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/03/trumps-partisan-ai-pitch-stalls-on-…

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday announced he will soon introduce legislation that would give the American public
“a direct ownership stake” in the largest artificial intelligence companies in the U.S.
by establishing a sovereign wealth fund, which would ensure everyone benefits from the rapidly advancing technology.
Sanders (I-Vt.) wrote in a New York Times op-ed that his
"American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act" would create the new fund by imposing a one-time,…

Sanders Sovereign Wealth Fund Plan Would Give US Public 'Direct Ownership Stake' in AI Giants | Common Dreams
Sen. Bernie Sanders said his new bill would "guarantee that the trillions of dollars potentially generated by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us—not simply to make the richest people in the world even richer."

Push for raw milk intensifies across the US, despite illness outbreaks and scientists' warnings (Associated Press)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/health/raw-milk-legislation-outbreak?Date=20260430&Profile=CNN
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p158#a260429p158

Here’s a petition by MP Jenny Kwan to the House of Commons to withdraw Bill C-22
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7416
Simply:
1) Withdraw the bill
2) Don’t collect & retain metadata
3) Don’t wea…

The year is 2026 and people still understand GDPR so fucking badly that my daughter's school has just emailed me to say that they require my written consent to transfer data about her to the new school she is going to in September, something the school is in fact *required* to do under section 9 of The Education (Pupil Information) (England) Regulations 2005

An Incomplete List of Successful Anti-Data Center Legislation https://www.404media.co/an-incomplete-list-of-successful-anti-data-center-legislation/

Outstanding news out of Nebraska for homeschooled kids. This legislation prevents "reactive withdrawals" for 14 days & blocks perpetrators with specific convictions of crimes against children from homeschooling. Congratulations to CRHE on getting this legislation passed.
https://

“The new legislation, expected later this year, would give ministers a fast-track route for introducing draft laws to align with future European standards designed to ensure a single market in the trade of goods and services.
The new powers would apply to agreements they are planning with the EU on food standards, carbon pricing for industry and electricity trading.
New rules would be introduced as "secondary" legislation, which receives less scrutiny and gives MPs a mo…

UK could adopt EU single market rules under new legislation
The move has raised questions over parliamentary scrutiny of future rules to deliver planned EU deals.

The EU is set to fine Google a record amount for favouring its own services in search. At the same time, Google is turning search into an AI‑driven “experience”.
Hard to see how keeping users inside that interface won’t collide with the same rules.

Brussels moves toward record fine against Google search business
German media reports that the EU Commission is limbering up to issue Google with a record fine for breaching the Digital Markets Act. It’s unlikely ...

Senate Democrats announced plans last week for new legislation to restore the independence of Stars and Stripes, including mandating a civilian publisher (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/21/2026/democrats-move-to-restore-…

Exclusive: Democrats move to restore military paper’s independence
The new legislation from Senate Democrats aims to insulate Stars and Stripes from the Trump administration’s efforts to assert control.

Guess who's behind the sudden rush of age verification legislation?
In the US, #Meta is spending $26.3 Million to hire at least 86 Lobbyists from 40 lobbying firms, and lobbying in at least 45 states. It is confirmed that Meta wrote the Louisiana age verification bill.
In the EU, Meta is spending ten million euros annually on lobbying, retaining 18 lobbying firms.
Age verificat…

"same punishments as those convicted of crimes such as sexual battery, solicitation of prostitution, or aggravated stalking"
Georgia protesters could face severe penalties under new legislation - Cobb Courier
https://cobbcountycourier.com/2026/04/georgia-protesters-could-face-severe-penalties-under-new-legislation/

The ruling from the US supreme court destroying one of the last pillars of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA)
marks the end of a long and painstaking campaign to roll back civil rights legislation
by two titans of the court’s rightwing majority,
Chief Justice John Roberts and Samuel Alito.
The duo have chipped away at what has been called the crown jewel of the civil rights movement.
Wednesday’s ruling in
"Louisiana v Callais"
is the fifth ma…

First off, I’m HAPPY with the EU replaceable batteries legislation, but the number of people who are like “ha ha! This will get Apple, who screw people on batteries!”
C’mon y’all:
IPhone XS Pro Max ($999 new, 8 year old phone)
Apple replacement: $89
iFixit battery: $34
That’s what, $55 labor?

US kid safety groups say they didn't know OpenAI had entirely funded the Parents & Kids Safe AI Coalition to promote CA legislation until after it was announced (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/01/openai-ai-kids-safety-coa…

Kids groups say they didn’t know OpenAI was behind their child safety coalition
‘A very grimy feeling’: OpenAI quietly helped build a “‘parents and kids”’ AI safety group. Some members quit when they found out.

Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski,
fed up with being kept in the dark on combat operations,
is quietly drafting legislation that would force Congress to take a potentially explosive vote
on whether to formally authorize using military force against Iran.
Such a move signals deep fractures within GOP ranks just months before midterms.
"Ms. Murkowski described the move on Thursday as an act of desperation
to try to put some parameters around the o…

Fed-up Senate Republican may trigger explosive vote to rein in Trump
Sen. Lisa Murkowski may throw down the gauntlet, taking aim squarely at the Trump administration's Iran war, according to a report.The Alaska Republican, fed up with being kept in the dark on combat operations, is quietly drafting legislation that would force Congress to take a potentially explosive...

"The Star collected 4,242 decisions and directives from municipal websites across Ontario, either as existing PDFs *or by converting text versions into PDFs*" (emphasis mine) and then analyzed the text using an LLM. Points for using LLMs for what they're meant to be used for, but requiring input be in PDF format instead of plain text is *insane*.

Ranking Member Raskin Introduces Legislation Establishing Independent Commission on Presidential Capacity (House Committee on the Judiciary)
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/ranking-member-raskin-introduces-legislation-establishing-independent-commission-on-presidential-capacity
http://www.memeorandum.com/260414/p114#a260414p114

OpenAI announces partnerships to combat election misinformation, offering cybersecurity products to state officials and backing legislation to curb deepfakes (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/27/openai-cyber-misinformation-defenses-elections

Exclusive: OpenAI readies cyber, misinformation defenses ahead of elections
OpenAI is offering its cybersecurity products to state officials and backing legislation ahead of elections in the U.S. and globally.

This x1000.
For every "[corporate] social media harms kids because" comment, I see the exact same concern for adults that we're doing NOTHING about.
Facebook has literally promoted a genocide in Myanmar, but for some reason they're still in business and probably promoting another genocide somewhere. How many kids got butchered in that massacre? These toxic cesspools of hate are a problem for ALL age groups, but targeting kids is only pretending to do something a…

kegsbreath and the orange mistake humiliate the US while hurting people in their elective war.
And @fetterman.senate.gov can't be bothered to stop them.
https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2026-05-14/fetterman-democrat-war-iran

Pa. Sen. Fetterman only Democrat to vote against limiting Trump's war in Iran
The war powers legislation ultimately failed to advance 49-50, with Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania the only Democrat to oppose it, yet the close tally reflected growing unease with Trump's war.

Investigators have discovered that the European Commission bowed to the demands of Big Tech lobbyists that the environmental impact of individual datacentres be kept out of the public eye.
https://www.…

EU bowed to Big Tech lobbying to keep datacentre impact secret
Investigators have discovered that the European Commission bowed to the demands of Big Tech lobbyists that the environmental impact of individual datacentres be kept out ...

Is this allowed? This feels really really gross if it is. You shouldn’t just be able to appoint your own staff people to Senate positions.
G&M:
“Two other senior Liberals say there are also active discussions to appoint the Prime Minister’s principal secretary, Tom Pitfield, to the Senate with a mandate to get legislation passed quickly. The Globe is not naming them because they are not authorized to speak publicly about internal party matters”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Senate #Liberals

As US lawmakers struggle to pass online safety laws, LA and New Mexico juries take the lead, holding social media companies accountable for harming young users (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/technology/social-media-verdi…

Juries Take the Lead in the Push for Child Online Safety
A pair of verdicts held social media companies accountable for harming young users, highlighting a growing backlash as Congress struggles to pass legislation.

Legislation cares a lot about information #security these days. When do we laws that keep companies from tainting security's public reputation by demonstrably abusing it for their own commercial interest against the interests of consumers?
Just one example: Bank uses proprietary hardware over #WebAuthn

What if the US #Congress passed legislation (you remember when that used to happen, right?) that nationalized all #AI servers and all the traffic between them. I know, not gonna happen, but maybe a lunatic president could issue an edict to make it so.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Klaxun/116225174438565613
What happened to anti-monopoly legislation in the US?

I remember Dunblane shootings happening as clear as anything, I did not know that 2 opposing politicians, both with links to the town, were witness to the crime scene directly afterwards. I imagine this was key to get the legislation banning hand guns through.

Perhaps the US could learn from this approach when it comes to school shootings?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9m8zmxe25o

Here’s a half-block stretch in the Avenues with no trees.
Legislation by Mayor Lurie and Alan Wong made it harder to remove these driveways by allowing them to remain when garages are converted to housing.
Now the Lurie-Wong legislation to let developers not plant trees and limit tree removal appeals is going to Planning Commission tomorrow.
#sfpol

Venezuela’s new mining law could spell disaster for the Amazon, critics warn https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/venezuelas-new-mining-law-could-spell-disaster-for-the-amazon-critics-warn/

Venezuela’s new mining law could spell disaster for the Amazon, critics warn
Venezuela is close to passing a law to update the country’s mining regulations and attract private investment in gold, silver, coltan and other minerals. But advocacy groups say the law may end up exacerbating deforestation and pollution in mining areas where environmental damage is already an issue. The legislation is part of a broader effort […]

It should be illegal to draft legislation without consulting the demographics it's expected to impact, I know this sounds like a 12 year olds idea of govt but I don't care you know why this would be a gnawing issue for me.

If the "SAVE act" passes most people registering to vote would have to present documents in person at an elections office, including people who vote by mail.
Advocacy groups that oppose the legislation say that the bill would crush voter registration efforts ahead of this year’s elections.
The bill would create new penalties for election officials who register applicants who have not presented documentary proof of citizenship.
Opponents say that provision could pot…

What’s in the Voting Bill That Republicans Are Pushing to the Senate Floor
Legislation that would force voters to prove they are U.S. citizens is being debated on the Senate floor this week.

"Democrats peeled away their support after it was amended to allow the president to “designate an alternative site for the Museum within 180 days” of the measure’s enactment. The legislation notes that the museum’s location will be designated as the South Monument site, located on the National Mall.
The amended measure also includes a transgender ban’’
House rejects bill for Smithsonian Women's History Museum
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5890090-smithsonian-womens-museum-bill/

Venezuela’s new mining law could spell disaster for the Amazon, critics warn
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/venezuelas-new-mining-law-could-spell-disaster-for-the-amazon-critics-warn/

Venezuela’s new mining law could spell disaster for the Amazon, critics warn
Venezuela is close to passing a law to update the country’s mining regulations and attract private investment in gold, silver, coltan and other minerals. But advocacy groups say the law may end up exacerbating deforestation and pollution in mining areas where environmental damage is already an issue. The legislation is part of a broader effort […]

FPF on the Securing and Establishing Consumer Uniform Rights and Enforcement Over Data (“SECURE Data”) Act
https://fpf.org/press-releases/fpf-on-the-securing-and-establishing-consumer-uniform-rights-and-enf…

In and of itself these bills are a good thing, but it seems bad that that we're essentially letting landlords off the hook and expecting tenants to make this investment in solar power. It should be treated like other appliances, such as ovens and refrigerators, that we expect landlords to provide. Furthermore, it's not apparent that this legislation forces landlords (or HOAs for that matter) to allow for these systems to be installed.

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The Senate succeeded in advancing legislation Tuesday to force Donald Trump to withdraw from the Iran war,
Since Trump ordered the attack on Iran at the end of February, Democrats have forced repeated votes on war powers resolutions that would require him to either gain congressional approval for the war or withdraw troops.
Republicans had been able to muster the votes to reject those proposals,
-- but Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy
— fresh off a primary election loss in…

Senate advances bill aimed at ending Iran war as Cassidy, after primary loss, flips to support it
The Senate advanced legislation Tuesday that seeks to force President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Iran war, as a growing number of Republicans defied the president's wishes.

Push for GOP voting law has many switching sides on filibuster issue (Paul Kane/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/14/senate-filibusters-election-legislation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p35#a260314p35

Oddly enough the only way to share easily (by clicking a box "Share on Mastodon") is confined to one instance (mastodon.social)
I hope someone notices this and changes how we work
We need to stop Bill C-22 and we need to stop it now. That’s going to require your MP hearing from as many constituents as possible before this bill moves further. Please share this campaign with your friends and family today!

Stop the Surveillance State: Stop Bill C-22!
🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US. Shut the backdoor: https://openmedia.org/StopC22 #BillC22

Illinois Legislature passes SB 315, a bill requiring annual independent third-party safety audits of leading AI companies; the bill heads to the governor's desk (Jared Perlo/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/illinois-legislatu…

Illinois Legislature passes historic AI bill that would require third-party safety audits
The measure, SB315, goes beyond legislation from California and New York regulating America’s largest AI companies. It still needs to be signed by the governor.

(Via @… )
Why o why did I surrender to curiosity and peek? ... It seems that five years metaphorically lying down in a darkened room isn't long enough for the fundamental impossibility of #infosec to change or evolve.
"This pa…

The UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill: A Practitioner's Guide to Legislative Reform, Compliance, and Organisational Readiness
The Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill, introduced to Parliament in November 2025, represents the most significant reform of UK cyber security legislation in nearly a decade. This paper provides a comprehensive practitioner-oriented analysis of the Bill's provisions, their practical implications, and the steps organisations must take to achieve compliance. It examines the expanded regulatory scope covering managed service providers, data centres, and designated…

The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has given the green light for a major collective action against Apple to proceed, allowing consumer group Which? to bring damages claim on behalf of around 38.5 million UK iPhone and iPad users.

UK tribunal greenlights £3bn claim against Apple iCloud
The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has given the green light for a major collective action against Apple to proceed, allowing consumer group Which? to bring ...

"The move comes as the American Petroleum Institute and Republicans in Congress push legislation in the U.S. to shield the oil and gas industry from climate accountability."
New Zealand Moves to Ban Tort Liability for Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Damage - Inside Climate News
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19052026/new-zealand-amends-climate-law-protects-polluters/

It's fun to be actively fighting Bilal Mahmood's legislation that would strip $500 million in voter-approved funds for affordable housing over the next five years, all to give a tax cut to the rich, and see that Garry Tan called Mahmood "too progressive."
The billionaire/VC class in SF are not reasonable people we can work with. They must be defeated.
#sfpol

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez plan to introduce legislation to pause new data center construction until AI safeguards are in place (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/25/sanders-aoc-data-center-moratorium-bill

Sanders and AOC unveil data center moratorium bill
Sanders and AOC are staking out one of the most aggressive AI policy positions yet this Congress.

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think
It seems the #threats from #AI are many and varied. And the legislation addressing dangers from AI seemed to focus on an AI intent on killing off humans, rather than the myriad problems we are slowly identifying - mu…

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think
It seems the #threats from #AI are many and varied. And the legislation addressing dangers from AI seemed to focus on an AI intent on killing off humans, rather than the myriad problems we are slowly identifying - mu…

French MPs are preparing to vote on a law that treats criticism of Israel as antisemitic and widely expands the scope of terrorism legislation. 
Lawmakers will debate the bill informally dubbed Yadan’s Law
– in reference to the MP who proposed the bill, Caroline Yadan
– on 18 April. 
Under current law, “direct” incitement to terrorism is punishable by five years in prison and a €75,000 fine.
The bill would expand that to “implicit” incitement or glorification of …

French MPs to Vote on Bill That Would Treat Anti-Zionism As Terrorism
French MPs are preparing to vote on a law that treats criticism of Israel as antisemitic and widely expands the scope of terrorism legislation. 

GOP leaders, Trump see tensions flare over Senate filibuster (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5775907-trump-threat-senate-legislation-save/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p29#a260310p29

Lawmakers and lobbyists say the Trump administration has lobbied against legislation that would regulate AI in at least six Republican-led states (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-

While this is another example of the far right's naked assault on ecosystem and geophysical system stability, the scramble for copper, gold and silver is driven largely by the ever increasing demand for electrical goods, including renewable energy capture systems.
Argentina approves Milei's bill that eases protections for glaciers despite environmental backlash

Argentina approves Milei's bill that eases protections for glaciers despite environmental backlash
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s Congress on Thursday approved a bill promoted by libertarian President Javier Milei that eases protections on glaciers to facilitate investments in mining for metals — a move that environmental groups vow to challenge in courts. The legislation, approved by the Senate in February, was passed with 137 votes in favor, 111 against and […]

Docs show how the UK's Society of Media Lawyers lobbied government officials to push back on anti-SLAPP legislation, arguing it will enable abuse by the press (Democracy for Sale)
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-lawyers-to-the-super-rich-strang…

How lawyers to the super-rich strangled Labour's Slapp bill
Exclusive: Lawyers who have acted for Russian oligarchs, Michelle Mone and Jeffrey Epstein lobbied government into stalling long-promised libel reform.

Ahead of a lengthy Senate debate on the Save America act, Donald Trump took to social media to rally lawmakers to get the legislation passed.
A reminder that the president has threatened to not sign any further bills under the sweeping voter ID bill makes its way to his desk.
A short while ago Trump insisted that the Save America act is “one of the most IMPORTANT & CONSEQUENTIAL pieces of legislation in the history of Congress” in a post on Truth Social.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/mar/17/us-senate-voter-id-donald-trump-iran-hormuz-latest-news-updates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

A 31-year-old U.S. Army veteran from Kingsland has been charged with attempted murder,
the first time that a mother has been charged under Georgia’s restrictive abortion law.
The arrest comes two months after Alexia Moore was rushed to the emergency room in Camden County, pregnant and in extreme pain.
Doctors at the Southeast Georgia Health System hospital delivered a severely premature baby girl who lived for approximately two hours, according to police.  
On March 4, …

Fingers crossed. Since 1989, Missouri has exonerated 56 people. They tried to kill four of them.
https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2026-03-10/bill-abolish-death-penalty-missouri?sfnsn=mo

Bill to abolish the death penalty in Missouri gets hearing for the first time in years
Proponents of the legislation who spoke at a Monday committee hearing, including St. Louis Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski, said life in prison without parole is more humane and still effective.

As US lawmakers struggle to pass online safety laws, LA and New Mexico juries take the lead, holding social media companies accountable for harming young users (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/technology/social-media-verdi…

Juries Take the Lead in the Push for Child Online Safety
A pair of verdicts held social media companies accountable for harming young users, highlighting a growing backlash as Congress struggles to pass legislation.

“Many IDPs (internally displaced persons) have relocated from states such as Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Kansas, and Idaho due to anti-trans legislation, threats to personal safety, and barriers to healthcare and legal recognition,”
Trans people fleeing Texas and Florida head to Seattle | Advocate.com
https://www.advocate.com/news/seattle-trans-refugee-crisis

Maryland passed a bill directing half of the state government's ad money to local news outlets, with a few exceptions; it is slated to take effect October 1 (Rebuild Local News)
https://www.rebuildlocalnews.org/maryland-

Maryland Legislature Passes the Nation’s First State Advertising Set-Aside for Local Newsrooms
The legislation, backed by bipartisan support, will require state agencies to direct 50 percent of their advertising budgets to eligible local news outlets and mandate public reporting of their ad spending.

Me when I meet literally anyone who lives in District 6: Have you considered running for supervisor? Did you know there's still time to file? Can I cover your filing fee?
(This a-hole is running for re-election unopposed when there are parts of the district like Western SoMa that are actually quite progressive)
http…

S.F. supe Matt Dorsey says he’d have deserved being evicted for drug-use, as his legislation now proposes
S.F. supervisor Matt Dorsey says that he feels that, had he used drugs in supportive housing, he should have been evicted to the street.

Senators Adam Schiff and John Curtis introduce bipartisan legislation to ban sports betting on CFTC-regulated prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket (Krystal Hur/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Utah has made it nearly impossible for residents to hold fossil fuel companies legally accountable for climate damages
in a move one advocacy group described as putting
“profits for the biggest polluters over communities”, with other states expected to follow suit.
The new state legislation comes as part of a push from big oil and its political allies
– including groups tied to rightwing impresario Leonard Leo
– for legal immunity in red statehouses and Congress…

The Price is Right: Responsible Uses of Personal Data in Pricing
https://fpf.org/blog/the-price-is-right-responsible-uses-of-personal-data-in-pricing/
@…

Maine Is Close to Passing a Moratorium on New Datacenters https://www.404media.co/maine-datacenter-construction-bill-ld-307/

Turkey's parliament passes a bill requiring social media and online game companies to restrict access for children under 15, following a school shooting (Andrew Wilks/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-social-medi…

Turkish lawmakers pass bill to restrict social media for children under 15
State-run media says Turkish lawmakers have passed a bill that includes restricting access to social media platforms for children under 15. The legislation is the latest in a global trend to protect young people from dangerous online activity. Its passage late Wednesday comes a week after a 14-year-old boy killed nine students and a teacher at a middle school in Kahramanmaras, southern Turkey. Police are investigating the online activity of the perpetrator in a bid to uncover his motivation for…

With Disputed Legal Maneuver, Trump Tries to Set Policy Without Legislation (Zach Montague/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/us/politics/trump-lawsuits-settlements.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p134#a260312p134

The Senate defeated legislation aimed at halting the U.S. military campaign against Iran,
-- the second unsuccessful attempt to rein in Donald Trump as the conflict nears the three-week mark.
The 47-53 vote Wednesday on the Democratic-led bid to require congressional approval to continue the military campaign is identical to a vote that failed earlier this month.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who has tangled with the administration on Iran and other foreign interventions, was th…

This is clearly timed to take the heat off Mahmood after he introduced legislation to slash $100 million a year in funding for affordable housing.
There’s a new streamlining bill or measure every year, and we’re clearly hitting diminishing returns. Meanwhile all over the city thousands of affordable homes are stalled for lack of funding. Want to speed up housing? Fund it.

S.F. supervisor to ‘explore’ ballot measure to speed up housing
Bilal Mahmood wants to address the bottlenecks created by having five separate departments involved in issuing building permits

3/10/26☀️ AM: ... Pass the SAVE America Act. That's the legislation requiring photo ID ... (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/archive/31026-am/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p15#a260310p15

"How Viktor Orbšn laid traps to stop his successor from running #Hungary"
"The country’s current leader has put loyalists in key public institutions who will be able to thwart the budgets and legislation of any new prime minister. "
Let's cross fingers
https://www.politico.eu/article/viktor-orban-laid-traps-stop-successor-running-hungary/

Trump is pressuring lawmakers to pass the SAVE America Act voter suppression bill
by attaching it to housing and foreign intelligence surveillance legislation currently pending before Congress.
The SAVE America Act would take a giant leap towards the Trump administration’s goals of wresting control of elections away from states.
It would also potentially disenfranchise millions of voters through its provisions requiring documentary proof of citizenship for voter registrati…

Trump seeks passage of SAVE America Act via housing and FISA bills
Trump is still hoping he can save the anti-voter SAVE America Act by attaching it to other bills pending in Congress.

OpenAI's disavowal of a liability shield in Illinois SB 3444 bill and endorsement of a stronger SB 315 suggest it is open to meaningful AI safety legislation (Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/is-openai-changing-its-tune-on-ai-laws-…

Is OpenAI changing its tune on AI laws?
Transformer Weekly: US-China talks, AI executive order, and Anthropic’s $900b valuation

Sen. Chris Murphy Says Democrats Need to Block Legislation Until There's an Iran War Authorization Vote (Nora Toscano/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/senate/chris-murphy-iran-war-powers-authorization
http://www.memeorandum.com/260309/p25#a260309p25

The U.S. House of Representatives offered a rare rebuke of ‌President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement agenda on Thursday
as a handful of Republicans joined Democrats to vote to extend temporary protections for 350,000 Haitians living in the United States.
The House voted 224-204 in ⁠favor of legislation allowing Haitians to remain eligible for
"Temporary Protected Status" for three years
after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security terminated t…

Canadian DND deploying anti-drone defenses in and around naval bases, airbases and overseas deployments.
The new-era of warfare and defense has come.
#Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Drone
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/drones-attack-military-bases-legislation-9.7188515

Thomas Massie, 55, is already the exception to the rule of Republican politics.
While others have capitulated and genuflected to the president over the past decade, eliciting comparisons with a personality cult,
the seven-term congressman with a libertarian bent has emerged as ever more defiant.
He voted against Trump’s sprawling tax and spending cuts bill; co-authored legislation compelling the justice department to release the Jeffrey Epstein files;
sought to revoke…

The list of qualifying documents in the SAVE Act for proving citizenship appears long -- but many of them come with qualifiers.
Under the bill, a REAL ID -compliant driver’s license would have to indicate that “the applicant is a citizen,”
--- but not all do.
Only five states
— Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont and Washington
— offer the type of enhanced REAL IDs that explicitly indicate U.S. citizenship.
Standard driver’s licenses, generally available…

Documents required by GOP's voting bill can be difficult and costly to get
Congressional Republicans are pushing voting legislation that's backed by President Donald Trump and would require voters to produce documentary proof of citizenship in order to register for federal elections. Obtaining those records and paying for them may not be as easy as the bill’s promoters make it sound. There's a range of hurdles, including the time and money involved in getting birth certificates or passports. A University of Maryland study estimates that 21.3 million Americans who ar…

OpenAI releases the Child Safety Blueprint tackling AI-enabled child sexual exploitation, focusing on updating legislation and improving detection and reporting (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/open

OpenAI releases a new safety blueprint to address the rise in child sexual exploitation | TechCrunch
OpenAI's new Child Safety Blueprint aims to tackle the alarming rise in child sexual exploitation linked to advancements in AI.

Trump issues blunt
message to Senate majority leader
to pass voter ID legislation
As John Thune battles conservative blowback for refusing to alter Senate rules
and mandate a traditional “talking” filibuster that would force Democrats to hold the floor to block the Save America Act,
Donald Trump had a blunt message for the Senate majority leader.
“He’s got to be a leader,” the president told reporters outside the White House today.
The upper chambe…

EU warns that VPNs are being used to bypass online age-verification systems, calling their use "a loophole in the legislation that needs closing" (Alex Lekander/CyberInsider)
https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs…

EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push
The European Parliamentary Research Service has warned that VPNs are increasingly being used to bypass online age-verification systems.

House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries has said that DHS leadership change is not enough to reopen the government
and starting to fund the Department of Homeland Security again.
It comes as Republican Senator Thom Tillis said he believes White House adviser Stephen Miller “should go”
and that his role in the Trump administration has been a “big problem”.
The senior senator representing North Carolina, when asked on CNN’s State of the Union if he thinks Miller should go…

Rep. Andy Ogles said on Monday that Muslims have no place in America,
-- an Islamophobic attack from a sitting member of Congress.
“Muslims don’t belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie,”
the Tennessee Republican posted Monday morning on X.
It is not the first bigoted social media post Ogles has made.
He has also said that “America and Islam are incompatible,”
and has introduced legislation to halt immigration from Muslim-majority nations.

On Tuesday, Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan threatened to “flood the zone” with immigration agents if states like New York attempt to limit coordination with federal immigration agencies.
In his opening keynote at the Border Security Expo, an annual conference bringing together law enforcement, government, and private contractors in Arizona, Homan said,
“What’s going to happen with places like New York, [where] people want to pass this ridiculous legislation not to work with us?

Trump’s Border Czar Threatens to “Flood” New York With ICE Agents
“I don’t take well to threats,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said in response.