Dr. Whitney, PhD (she)

Ajike Owens’ children were playing in a field near an apartment complex when a white woman yelled racial slurs at them and said to get off her land. The children left behind an iPad which she stole. When one of the children came back to retrieve it she threw it at him and hit him with it. Owens knocked on the woman’s door and without even opening it she shot through the door, killing Ms. Owens. Today the woman had been convicted of manslaughter by a jury of her peers

"My student loans have made it so I have not been approved for financing to buy a home. I have tried many times over the years. All the lenders have told me that my student loans make it so my debt-to-income ratio is too high so I'm denied financing. It has devastated me."

The older I get, the more I realize that most people absolutely live in a mystery. They don't know how anything works except whatever thing pays their bills and maybe one other thing they like, and that's it. They know what they see on TV and TikTok and social media. That's it.

We should be able to track a ballot just like we can track a package. California already does this, but my Vote By Mail Tracking Act—which just passed the House—would add a barcode to each ballot nationwide, so every American can have confidence their vote is counted.

A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, the health care we can access and, now, the information we receive. This is what oligarchy looks like.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will have to divest their business holdings if they want to join the Trump administration, to avoid violating conflict-of-interest laws. So if Elon takes a job, could he be forced to sell his stock in Tesla? Or could he be forced to sell Twitter?

ATLANTA (AP) The letter sent by nearly two dozen computer scientists, election security experts and voter advocacy organizations asks for a federal probe and a risk assessment of voting machines used throughout the country, saying the software breaches have "urgent implications for the 2024 election and beyond." The breaches affected voting equipment made by two companies that together count over 70 percent of the votes cast across the country, according to the letter. #PBS

If you work at a government agency, CDC, FDA, CIA, FBI, NASA, NTSB, NOAA, anywhere, you need to start saving every gig of data you can find. Studies, organizational charts, employee manuals, policies and procedures. Anything that can be used to recreate your agency from scratch.

We respectfully acknowledge the U of A is on the land and territories of Indigenous peoples. Arizona is home to 22 federally recognized tribes, with Tucson being home to the O’odham and the Yaqui. Skoden (Let’s go) Wildcats!