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An 18-Million-Subscriber YouTuber Just Explained Section 230 Better Than Every Politician In Washington

4 months ago
Over the years, we’ve written approximately one million words explaining why Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is essential to how the internet functions. We’ve corrected politicians who lie about it. We’ve debunked myths spread by mainstream media outlets that should know better. We’ve explained, re-explained, and then explained again why gutting this law […]
Mike Masnick

Durbin Celebrates $61 Million In Federal Funding Secured Over The Course Of Eight Years For His Open Textbook Pilot Program

4 months ago
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced the inclusion of $7 million for the Open Textbook Pilot Program in the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Fiscal Year 2026 bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. Since 2018 when Durbin helped create the Open Textbook Pilot Program, he has secured $61 million in total federal funding to support college students across the country in accessing

The Wedge to Host Entrepreneurship Week Speaker Series

4 months ago
ALTON - The Wedge Innovation Center has several exciting events planned for Entrepreneurship Week. The Congressionally-recognized week celebrates the work of entrepreneurs and aims to help business owners learn and connect with resources. At The Wedge, there will be featured speakers and events from Tuesday, Feb. 17 through Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. “Entrepreneurship Week launched in 2006. It’s a Congressionally-recognized thing that really is by design to boost the entrepreneurial

Durbin Questions Telecommunication Witnesses During Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing On Arctic Frost

4 months ago
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned witnesses at a Judiciary Subcommittee hearing entitled “Arctic Frost Accountability: Oversight of Telecommunications Carriers’ Responses to Jack Smith’s Witch Hunt.” Instead of allowing Jack Smith to testify, Senate Judiciary Republicans are proceeding with a wasteful series of eight subcommittee hearings to relitigate the 2020 presidential

Attorney General Raoul Obtains 48-Year Prision Sentence For Jefferson County Man Who Disseminated Child Sexual Abuse Material

4 months ago
CHICAGO – Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced a Mt. Vernon, Illinois man was sentenced to 48 years in prison for disseminating child sexual abuse material. The case is part of Raoul’s ongoing work, in collaboration with federal law enforcement agencies and local law enforcement officials throughout Illinois, to apprehend offenders who download and trade child sexual abuse material online. Dustin Phillips, 34, was sentenced today by Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Jerry E

Attorney General Raoul Leads Coalition Opposing Repeal Of Reporting Requirements That Expose Race And Ethnicity-Based Disparities In Special Education

4 months ago
CHICAGO — Attorney General Kwame Raoul co-led a coalition of attorneys general in filing a comment letter opposing a U.S. Department of Education proposal to remove certain reporting requirements that help the department uncover significant disproportionality in the identification and placement of children in special education programming and in the discipline of children, based on race and ethnicity. “Data and research have shown for decades that students are disproportionately

Durbin, Reed, Delauro Introduce American Business For American Companies Act

4 months ago
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), and U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) today reintroduced the bicameral American Business for American Companies Act, legislation that would extend the year-to-year government wide ban on federal contracts for inverted corporations by moving it out of the annual appropriations process and into permanent law. Corporate inversions allow U.S. companies to shift their corporate citizenship