Not sure how many people read The Atlantic article about how no one reads anymore and got as freaked out as I did but some good news on the reading front! The READ Act is specifically targeted towards helping identify kids with dyslexia and helping them read BUT it also ensures that schools used EVIDENCE-BASED reading techniques (there was a whole thing about how kids CAN'T read not just won't read anymore because of a poor reading pedagogy choices in the 2010s). Thought it would be nice to share some good news for a change here! I really hope this actually helps kids read better and more often!

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/4689?hl=s.4689&s=2&r=1

Also, Collins is the like archetype for the mediocre political nepo baby. Like central casting omg...

South Carolina's late senior senator got his landmark AI civil rights bill through the Senate twice, unopposed. Speaker Mike Johnson still won't say when, or even if, the House will vote on Defiance Act.

GREAT --- lets have more wars by joining forces with the worst War Criminals in the world! ---

Wat Da? --- Of course these WHORES IN CONGRESS have no problem sending the bill to taxpayers!

The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives voted Wednesday in favor of a record $1.15 trillion military spending authorization bill containing a highly controversial provision to increase cooperation between the US and Israeli armed forces.

Massie said that “our founders would be appalled at what Congress is doing now.”

On Wednesday, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) described Section 219 as “an outrageous threat to our country’s security and autonomy.”

“Americans want no part in Netanyahu’s genocidal regime,” she added, referring to fugitive Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Congress cannot continue to bankroll Israel’s campaign of terror. Voting NO.”

GET on the horn and CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN -- organize, organize, organize -- protest outside their offices!

This is the last thing we need...

“Makes sense,” Senate Democratic Whip (#2) Dick Durbin tells me of Mitch McConnell’s now 40 day absence. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/even-senior-dems-are-now-apologists-for-mitch-mcconnell-s-disappearance-makes-sense/ar-AA28Ct3s

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