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View on the web The Senate just voted to let the government keep surveilling your online life without a warrant Remember the Patriot Act?  Well, it's still around, albeit in amended form after whistleblower Edward Snowden showed the world just how much the NSA surveilled Americans. On Wednesday, the US Senate had the chance to strike down some more of the surveillance measures in the laws. It did not. A bipartisan amendment to forbid the government from secretly collecting information about Americans' internet habits failed by just one vote. This was after Majority Leader Mitch McConnell attracted attention by introducing his own amendment that would effectively erase the bipartisan amendment should the Senate approve it. . ." ____________________________________________________ MORE?  Get ready for a vaccine information war Social media is already filling up with misinformation about a Covid-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists. [ Kevin Roose / New York Times ] We don’t have a president, or a plan 60 days into the coronavirus crisis, the White House does not have a plan, a framework, a philosophy, or a goal. [ Ezra Klein / Vox ]