When one house of Congress won't even vote on such a thing it is not a functioning democracy. House Republicans poised to reject Senate-passed DHS funding bill, likely extending standoff House conservatives oppose Senate bill funding DHS except ICE, risking continued airport delays as over 11% of TSA workers miss shifts amid a 42-day funding stalemate. On Friday, Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republican leadership declared they will not vote on the Senate's DHS funding bill, which excludes funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. Senators approved the partial funding package by unanimous consent early Friday before starting a two-week recess, leaving the House to resolve the 42-day shutdown that has caused significant airport delays and staff resignations. House Conference Chair Lisa McClain called the plan "garbage," demanding the restoration of ICE and Border Patrol funding alongside voter identification provisions before any House vote occurs. President Donald Trump announced plans to pay TSA agents using 2025 tax bill funds to stem airport "Chaos at the Airports," though the stalemate persists amid the funding impasse. Sixty-Day funding measures are being considered as the legislative impasse leaves the department's operations uncertain, with federal workers facing potential continued financial hardship during the ongoing government shutdown.

Supreme Court Blocks Music Industry's Push to Cut Millions Off the Internet Over Piracy Claims ============================================================================================== The Supreme Court has unanimously refused to let the recording industry turn internet providers into copyright enforcers with the power to cut millions of people off from modern life. The ruling, handed down Wednesday in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment, kills a legal theory that would have given ISPs one rational choice when they received a copyright complaint: sever the connection first, figure out the truth later.

All this age verification control freakery is another clear proof that it is more important than ever to develop privacy tech preserving and extending online freedom. If they extort and control regular fully compliant companies then build business under pseudonyms not tied to true name at all and build up your reputation - which means we need really good reputation and trust networks. We gave the tech. We have had the signing and provable identity tech since PGP. With privacy oriented blockchains capable of smart contracts we can build out much of the rest. I am myself trying out ideas of how to have multiple online businesses without exposure of IP addrs linked to my home on any compute center (paid anonymously) that I may use. We need the means to truly live free and do business freely. It ain't going to get any easier than it is now. It will get hard to build and disseminate this tech.

WTF is wrong with primal.net online? It freezes up every few page changes. I have seen this on both Brave and Firefox and across three computers of different capacities lately.

All this age verification control freakery is another clear proof that it is more important than ever to develop privacy tech preserving and extending online freedom. If they extort and control regular fully compliant companies then build business under pseudonyms not tied to true name at all and build up your reputation - which means we need really good reputation and trust networks. We gave the tech. We have had the signing and provable identity tech since PGP. With privacy oriented blockchains capable of smart contracts we can build out much of the rest. I am myself trying out ideas of how to have multiple online businesses without exposure of IP addrs linked to my home on any compute center (paid anonymously) that I may use. We need the means to truly live free and do business freely. It ain't going to get any easier than it is now. It will get hard to build and disseminate this tech.

Primal keeps freezing up on me on the web. Anyone know why?

For those that miss Democrats or Modern Liberals read up on what Canada is doing. It doesn't matter what political flavor of ruler over you and everyone is in power. The very idea of a few humans lording over the rest is fundamentally evil. You can't vote your way out of the evil.

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Canada's Public Safety Minister Defends Mass Surveillance Bill

The minister insists the bill targeting every Canadian's location data, movement patterns, and daily routines isn't a surveillance bill.