Building trust in media

Biden signs bill to boost social security payments for millions of public workers

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President says Social Security Fairness Act will benefit ‘Americans who have worked hard all their lives’

Joe Biden has signed into law a measure that boosts social security payments for current and former public employees – such as teachers, firefighters, police officers and other public-service workers – in what the White House has described as the first expansion of such benefits in 20 years.

“The bill I’m signing today is about a simple proposition: Americans who have worked hard all their lives … should be able to retire with economic security and dignity,” Biden said. “That’s the entire purpose of the social security system crafted by Franklin Delano Roosevelt nearly 90 years ago.”

The Senate voted last month to approve the Social Security Fairness Act, which advocates say rights a decades-old disparity, though it will also put strain on social security trust funds, which face a looming insolvency crisis.

<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/05/biden-social-security-fairness-act>

 

 

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Did Trump call Liz Cheney a “Chicken Hawk” or Call for a Firing Squad?

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Authors who cite a quotation should share the context from the full video.  Here’s what Mary Trump’s post would look like.

“Last night, in conversation with fascist and Russian stooge Tucker Carlson, the Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States said this about Liz Cheney, somebody he considers a political enemy:”

Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her. Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink is seeking a second person to test its brain chip

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CNN’s Clare Duffy writes:

Ultimately, Neuralink’s ambition is to use implants to connect human brains to computers to help, for example, paralyzed people to control smartphones or computers or blind people to regain sight. Like existing brain-machine interfaces, the company’s implant would collect electrical signals sent out by the brain and interpret them as actions.

Gulf War: babies in incubators — Nayirah Episode of 60 Minutes

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I happened to be over at the White House the afternoon later in the evening after the afternoon of the hearings and the president said that he had seen it on CNN and that he was shocked at some of the things that he had heard and they were thrown out of the incubators. President Bush repeated the incubator story at least 10 times in the following weeks babies pulled from incubators and scattered like firewood across the floor.

 

Cited by Senators

In the senate the war resolution passed by five votes and incidentally six senators referred to the baby incubator story as a reason to go to war.

 

Craig Fuller who until last week was president of Hillary Knowlton was George H.W. Bush’s chief of staff when he was vice president andi was involved in President Bush’s campaign.

 

An Unaware and Compliant Citizenry

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From:bi@globalculturalstrategies.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Date: 2016-03-13 17:06
Subject: From Bill Ivey

we’ve all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry