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Justice Department watchdog probes compliance with Epstein Act (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/justice-department-watchdog-probes-compliance-epstein-act-rcna341655
http://www.memeorandum.com/260423/p86#a260423p86

A group of 75 civil rights advocates, former FCC officials, and academics urges FCC Chair Brendan Carr to withdraw his threats to broadcasters' licenses (Wendy Davis/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/4…

Free Speech Watchdogs Urge FCC Chair To Withdraw Threats To Broadcasters
"The Communications Act explicitly denies the Commission any 'power of censorship' or power to 'interfere with the right of free speech,'" the ACLU and others say in a letter to FCC Chair Brendan Carr.

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Watchdog sues DOJ to block national voter database | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/watchdog-sues-doj-to-block-national-voter-database/

Justice Department's watchdog is reviewing compliance with the law mandating Epstein files release (Eric Tucker/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/epstein-files-justice-department-release-watchdog-bd1f97448163f69311917e768a5d2a9f
http://www.memeorandum.com/260423/p66#a260423p66

“‘For Orbšn in Hungary, it took about four years, for Vučić in Serbia, it took eight years, and for Erdoğan in Turkey and Modi in India, it took about 10 years to accomplish the suppression of democratic institutions that Trump has achieved in only one year’
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US democracy is now back at the worst recorded level since 1965, when US civil rights laws first introduced de facto universal suffrage. All progress made since then has been erased, according to the report.
Worldwi…

Watched Sinners yesterday, and while there were parts I enjoyed, overall it was a "meh" movie.
I think the problem for me was that the entire movie was exposition about WWII, organized crime, Jim Crow, the death of loved ones, etc. All the stuff that would have been great storytelling.
You rarely saw what was being described; you just had to imagine it the whole time.

If you never saw it or haven't re-watched it lately, binge #WestworldTVSeries. Apart from being great telly, it's horribly prophetic re-AI, warfare, social media.
Most disturbingly, it feels like the AI billionaire overlords, Thiel, Altman et al, are using it as blueprint and not as a warning.

Trump consumer finance watchdog ends key civil rights-era anti-discrimination protection (Douglas Gillison/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-consumer-finance-watchdog-ends-key-civil-rights-era-anti-discrimination-2026-04-21/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p125#a260421p125