We’ve all heard about and seen the devastation in Australia resulting from the wildfire bushfires. Estimates are that more than 1 billion animals have lost their lives. Veterinarians for Compassion (a/k/a Vets for Compassion) now has vets on the ground, ministering to the injured, burned, and orphaned wildlife as a result of the wildfires. Here’s how you can help.
Category: Society
Thomas Hofeller’s daughter Stephanie has made the Hofeller files and documents public. These are Tom Hofeller’s hard drives, thumb drives, and files, many pertaining to both redistricting efforts and efforts to get the citizenship question on the U.S. Census.
Uber, Lyft, PostMates and DoorDash gig workers, among others, are all covered by California’s new gig worker law, AB5, which into effect last week on January 1st, 2020. How has it affected you?
There’s a lot of confusion around the Internet about the FBI’s recently announced idHSC program (seen by some as ldHSC), where you can voluntarily submit your fingerprints at the post office (USPS) to find out what agencies have associated with your fingerprints. Here’s the real info.
Below is the full, searchable text of the testimony submitted by National Security Council Ukraine Expert Alexander Vindman to the House Intelligence, Oversight and Reform, and Foreign Affairs Committees on Tuesday, October 29, 2019.
Below is the full, searchable text submitted by Ambassador Gordon Sondland to the House Intelligence, Oversight and Reform, and Foreign Affairs Committees on Thursday, October 17th, 2019.
Below is the full, searchable text of the text messages produced by Ambassador Kurt Volker to the House Intelligence, Oversight and Reform, and Foreign Affairs Committees on October 3, 2019.
Below is the full, searchable transcript of the whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump, Attorney General William Barr, and Attorney Rudy Giuliani.
Below is the full, searchable transcript of the telephone call between U.S. President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky. The Internet Patrol makes no judgement nor offers any opinion about the content of the call. The Internet Patrol is simply making it available because we know how, and people are searching for it.
Move over kittenfishing, mosting, and paperclipping, the new dating term is Houseplanting. Houseplant dating is basically when you date several people at once, leading to one or more of them not getting ‘watered’.
The Facebook event “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us” was put up as a joke. This is the story about how a seemingly innocent joke can turn viral and become fake news. In other words, it is a cautionary tale for us all.
Move over, dark patterns, you’re being.. er.. nudged out by digital nudging. What is digital nudging? Well, you get a digital nudge any time you use a digital platform and, where you have a choice to make, the ‘right’ or ‘correct’ choice is made the easiest to choose, or the most attractive. Of course, right and correct are in the eyes of the marketer or website providing the nudge, not the consumer.
As a public service, as many do not have the ability to or know how to navigate the Internet to find such documents, the Internet Patrol is providing access to the full text of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report. Even this public version, while heavily redacted, is still an historic moment in our democracy. Here is the full text of the Mueller Report.
You may recently have heard about the ‘Florida Man Challenge’ – where you Google the phrase ‘florida man’ followed by the date of your birthday. Or maybe you saw a friend post it on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or elsewhere. And now you are wondering what it is and how the Florida Man Challenge got started. Here are the answers to the questions that you have about Florida Man, and the Florida Man Challenge.
Here is the full transcript of the opening statement testimony of Michael Cohen, former lawyer to President Donald J. Trump, before the Committee on Oversight and Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives on February 27, 2019.