U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Congress can boost long-term growth in the economy if it finds a way to pass the remainder of the Biden administration’s economic policy proposals.
“It’s an economic policy that aims to expand our nation’s economic potential through productivity-enhancing investments along with policies to encourage more people to join the labor market,” Yellen said in remarks Wednesday at an event in Chicago."
12 hours ago · Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen suggested the crypto sector wasn't one Russia could easily use to evade sanctions.
Yellen Monitoring Russian Efforts to Evade Sanctions with Cryptocurrency, Other Means
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15 hours ago · CHICAGO—Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Wednesday that the U.S. would continue to monitor Russian efforts to evade the bevy of sanctions placed on...
Toxic Nostalgia, From Putin to Trump to the Trucker Convoys
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The whole video is worth watching, and discusses how politicians, law enforcement, and sketchy “advocacy” groups repeatedly falsely try to conflate all sex work with sex trafficking
John Oliver Explains How FOSTA (And Lots Of Other Policies To ‘Help’ Sex Work) Has Backfired Badly
"For not the first time, John Oliver is taking on topics we often cover at Techdirt, and doing a fantastic job of it. His latest show went deep on just how screwed up laws and law enforcement about sex work are, including a specific look at FOSTA.
The whole video is worth watching, and discusses how politicians, law enforcement, and sketchy “advocacy” groups repeatedly falsely try to conflate all sex work with sex trafficking. But, more importantly, it discusses how nearly all of the laws written about sex work and sex trafficking are done without talking to actual sex workers, and because of that it creates laws, such as FOSTA, that actually do a lot more harm than good, and often focus on punishing sex workers while pretending to “help” them.
The part on FOSTA doesn’t go that deep, but does make the key point (as we and others have been making for years) that (1) after insisting that FOSTA was “needed” the government basically never used it, and (2) that it actually has made it much, much, much more difficult for law enforcement to track down and arrest actual sex traffickers. In a clip I hadn’t seen before, Oliver shows a law enforcement official noting that Backpage used to work with law enforcement, but after it was shut down, overseas sites rushed in to fill the void, and none of them are willing to work with law enforcement at all.
Indeed, the episode provides even more support to leaked DOJ documents that showed that Backpage was actually a very helpful partner to law enforcement in helping to track down actual sex trafficking, but balked at… extending that to consensual sex work. In other words, the very point that Oliver tried to raise in this episode.
And, of course, as we see all of this, Congress still refuses to recognize how much harm that FOSTA has done and is, instead, still focused on passing a new law, the EARN IT Act, that is in many ways even worse than FOSTA.
It is that time again - District 5 Councilmember David Luna and District 6 Councilmember Kevin Thompson are termed-out. They can't run again for a seat on the Mesa City Council - but Kevin Thompson may have plans to get elected to the Arizona Corporate Commission.
Jennifer Duff is the incumbent in District 4 after serving four years - her position is open for new challengers.
City of Mesa Primary Election Called
February 28, 2022 at 7:21 pm Mesa City Council has called a Primary Election for Aug. 2, 2022 for nominating a Councilmember candidate in Districts 4, 5 and 6.
Their new terms expire in January 2027.
Key Primary Election Dates are as follows:
First day to request an early ballot - May 1, 2022
Voter registration cutoff - July 5, 2022
Early voting begins - July 6, 2022
Early voting in person ends - July 29, 2022
PRIMARY ELECTION DAY - Aug. 2, 2022
More info about primary election dates is available at mesanow.org
