Kinda just stalked www.nytimes.com for 15 minutes
Oh geez was there some news lately. Like, some very potentially huge news. SO! 3 main takeaways from this news reading session. 1. The government isn't all powerful, and will listen to the people if they speak up 2. To quote Judge Jennifer G. Schecter "It is settled that the president of the United States has no immunity and is ‘subject to the laws’ for purely private acts." And not only is it possible, it'll probably happen. 3. Probs shouldn't trust Facebook Starting with the thing that I originally got curious about , the teacher's strike. This article did a really wonderful job of getting all the important information out in the first couple of paragraphs. It felt like everything it had to say was important too, so it avoided that feeling that you're just kinda wasting your time reading about stupid unimportant stuff. That handles the stylistic appreciation, lets quickly just discuss why I think this was important. To me, it feels sometimes like the government just has so much power over the every man, and it feels like there's nothing we can do about it unless we're extremely rich to buy influence. But the situation in West Virginia proves that people's voices will be heard if they just band together. It's kinda a beautiful (and super reassuring) thought. Also to quickly summarize the other two articles. The second one is more Trump scandals (because of course it was), but this one could potentially be an actual issue because according to the judge Trump could be called to defend himself for sexual harassment charges, which would be problematic cuz Pence. And the other one is that Facebook, with it's vast amounts of data on everyone, accidentally gave it to a company that has essentially sold it to politicians. It's super slimy and awful and come on Facebook. Not cool. So yeah lots of people are deleting Facebook now. Thus ends my blogging. Pretend this came out like, mid February.
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