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The FCC just voted to throw out the Net Neutrality protections. Now cable and phone companies are free to block, slow down, or charge for fast lanes for content on the internet. This vote was a complete disregard for public opinion, facts and the law itself.

Free Press will be suing the FCC and fighting this in Congress in the coming months. I'm a lawyer for Free Press here with our friends & allies and we're happy to answer any of your questions on Net Neutrality. AMA!

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After two weeks abroad, I was looking forward to returning to the U.S. this weekend, but as I got off the plane at LAX on Sunday, I wasn't sure what country I was coming back to.

President Trump’s recent executive order is not only potentially unconstitutional, but deeply un-American. We are a nation of immigrants, after all. In the tech world, we often talk about a startup’s “unfair advantage” that allows it to beat competitors. Welcoming immigrants and refugees has been our country's unfair advantage, and coming from an immigrant family has been mine as an entrepreneur.

As many of you know, I am the son of an undocumented immigrant from Germany and the great grandson of refugees who fled the Armenian Genocide.

A little over a century ago, a Turkish soldier decided my great grandfather was too young to kill after cutting down his parents in front of him; instead of turning the sword on the boy, the soldier sent him to an orphanage. Many Armenians, including my great grandmother, found sanctuary in Aleppo, Syria—before the two reconnected and found their way to Ellis Island. Thankfully they weren't retained, rather they found this message:

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

My great grandfather didn’t speak much English, but he worked hard, and was able to get a job at Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company in Binghamton, NY. That was his family's golden door. And though he and my great grandmother had four children, all born in the U.S., immigration continued to reshape their family, generation after generation. The one son they had—my grandfather (here’s his AMA)—volunteered to serve in the Second World War and married a French-Armenian immigrant. And my mother, a native of Hamburg, Germany, decided to leave her friends, family, and education behind after falling in love with my father, who was born in San Francisco.

She got a student visa, came to the U.S. and then worked as an au pair, uprooting her entire life for love in a foreign land. She overstayed her visa. She should have left, but she didn't. After she and my father married, she received a green card, which she kept for over a decade until she became a citizen. I grew up speaking German, but she insisted I focus on my English in or

Joe Biden became the 46th President of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that "democracy has prevailed." He swore the oath of office to take the helm of a deeply divided nation and inheriting a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his predecessors.

##Submissions that may interest you

[Biden and Harris sworn in during historic inauguration](https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/20/politics/joe-biden-presidential-inauguration/index.html?utm_content=2021-01-20T17%3A03%3A07&utm_term=link&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR2Wd8brggLum2K9Sjd3v_QD0Qoe7he8

Greetings!

As you may have imagined, the person typing and facilitating this AMA is not the 100 year old human, but his granddaughter, me!

A little bit about my grandpa: he grew up in Washington State, and has traveled quite a bit. He worked for the FDA for many years, some as an investigator, some as a pharmacist. He served in the air force during World War 2 as a photographer.

Clearly there's more to him than this, so ask him some questions!

Proof: https://imgur.com/pFBHcWZ

Y'all he is enjoying this so much! He's flabbergasted at how many people are asking questions and upvoting him, at first he thought it was all people I knew haha. He's so happy! We're gonna take a little break, some of my family just arrived for a visit.

4:14 PM ET: we're back! gonna knock out some more questions until I have to dip. Appreciate all the interest! Sorry he sometimes misunderstands some questions aha.

With a lot of these I'll ask him and he says 'let me think about that a bit' and I'll circle back and I guess he hasn't finished thinking about them - so sorry for those still waiting! lol

5:05 PM ET: So he's starting to fall asleep as I ask him questions, so I think we're gonna call it a day aha. He's in rehab for a broken hip right now, and a bit forgetful and confused at times, so hopefully that will give some explanation to some of the stranger answers he's said. Thank you so much for everyone who asked things and commented and told stories and thanked him, he is just so pleased!!! I'll go through this as I'm able and answer what I can from my perspective. Next time I visit him, I'll try to get a few more answered. He'll remember this for a long time. Thank you all, SO MUCH!!!

11/6/19 5:39 PM ET: Hi all! I stopped by my grandpa's current place today and asked and answered a few more questions! He gets tired pretty quickly, and tends to say "I need to think about that" for things that aren't direct (broad questions like "meaning of life" and such), so for further questions I would encourage more specific questions. I'll continue asking him things as we're able - there are a lot to go through, but I and we appreciate the interest so much - every time I update him about the number of upvotes, his face lights up :)

Some people have been requesting pictures, so here they are: https://imgur.com/a/0yz41Nq

While we're here and this has so much visibility (wow), I've gotta put this out there, cause I'

Whoops wrong sub

A federal judge on Monday rejected a bold argument from President Trump that sitting presidents are immune from criminal investigations, allowing the Manhattan district attorney’s office to subpoena eight years of the president’s personal and corporate tax returns.

Lawyers for Mr. Trump were expected to appeal the ruling from Judge Victor Marrero of Manhattan federal court. The president’s could not immediately be reached for comment.

In a 75-page ruling, Judge Marrero said called president’s argument "repugnant to the nation’s governmental structure and constitutional values." Presidents, their families and businesses are not above the law, the judge ruled.

In response, the President's lawyers filed an emergency notice of appeal to the 2nd circuit.

UPDATE:

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has granted Donald Trump a temporary administrative stay pending expedited review by a panel of the Court.

Source

##Submissions that may interest you

[Trump loses New York court fight to keep tax returns hidden](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-loses-new-york-court-fight-keep-tax-retur

Roger Stone, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, was indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller and arrested Friday on charges of obstruction, giving false statements and witness tampering.

##Submissions that may interest you

[Roger Stone arrested after

Greetings from Earthjustice, reddit! You might remember my colleagues Greg, Marjorie, and Tim from previous AMAs on protecting bees and wolves. Earthjustice is a public interest law firm that uses the power of the courts to safeguard Americans’ air, water, health, wild places, and wild species.

We’re very busy. Donald Trump has tried to do more harm to the environment in his first 100 days than any other president in history. The New York Times recently published a list of 23 environmental rules the Trump administration has attempted to roll back, including limits on greenhouse gas emissions, new standards for energy efficiency, and even a regulation that stopped coal companies from dumping untreated waste into mountain streams.

Earthjustice has filed a steady stream of lawsuits against Trump. So far, we’ve filed or are preparing litigation to stop the administration from, among other things:

• gutting protections for 27 national monuments
• re-opening the Arctic and Atlantic oceans to oil drilling
• fast-tracking the Dakota Access pipeline
• resuming coal mining on public land
• allowing use of the dangerous pesticide chlorpyrifos on food crops
• letting coal companies pollute [drinking water sources](http://earthjustice.org/news/press/201

TAKE ACTION HERE: https://www.aclu.org/net-neutralityAMA

Today a diverse coalition of interested parties including the ACLU, Amazon, Etsy, Mozilla, Kickstarter, and many others came together to sound the alarm about the Federal Communications Commission’s attack on net neutrality. A free and open internet is vital for our democracy and for our daily lives. But the FCC is considering a proposal that threatens net neutrality — and therefore the internet as we know it.

“Network neutrality” is based on a simple premise: that the company that provides your Internet connection can't interfere with how you communicate over that connection. An Internet carrier’s job is to deliver data from its origin to its destination — not to block, slow down, or de-prioritize information because they don't like its content.

Today you’ll chat with:

• u/JayACLU - Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst with the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project
• u/LeeRowlandACLU – Lee Rowland, senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project
• u/dkg0 - Daniel Kahn Gillmor, senior staff technologist for ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project
• u/rln2 – Ronald Newman, director of strategic initiatives for the ACLU’s National Political Advocacy Department

Proof:

• [ACLU] (https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/884804249632337923) -[Ronald Newman] (https://twitter.com/ronaldlnewman/status/884795953487765505)
• Jay Stanley -[Lee Rowland and Daniel Kahn Gillmor] (https://twitter.com/berkitron/status/884805008813953024)

7/13/17: Thanks for all your great questions! Make sure to submit your comments to the FCC at https://www.aclu.org/net-neutralityAMA

Hello Reddit, I'm Tracey McManus. For the last four years, I've reported on the Church of Scientology for the Tampa Bay Times.

For the last six months, I've been investigating a spate of real estate purchases in downtown Clearwater, Fla. The Church of Scientology and companies run by its members have spent $103 million since 2017 buying about 100 properties. They now own most commercial property on every block within walking distance of the waterfront. We built a graphic demonstrating just how little is left.

Downtown Clearwater is next to a beautiful waterfront just over the bridge from Clearwater Beach, a national tourist destination. Yet downtown is dotted with empty storefronts. The purchases took off as the city was developing a $64 million plan to turn the area around. We don’t know whether these purchases will help the city’s goal.

The church's tumultuous history in the city starts in 1975, when Scientology bought a downtown hotel with a straw corporation, secretly moved in and wrote plans to take control. I recap the whole history here.

In April 2017, the city snubbed Scientology Leader David Miscavige. Miscavige cut off all communication. Then LLCs controlled by church parishioners began buying up property at an unprecedented rate. In just three years, the downtown footprint of property tied to the church doubled.

The church has declined to speak with me and criticized my newspaper for portraying its members as “mindless robots.” But defectors from the church and city leaders believe there is little chance parishioners are making all these deals without the church’s involvement.

For more, read the investigation here. We also published a story on what city council members think.

Times data reporter and graphics wiz u/elimurray is also around to answer questions about how he made the graphics (check out another amazing project here. You may remember him from his popular AMA on [Zombi

I’ve been involved in nuclear energy since 1947. In that year, I started working on nuclear energy at Argonne National Laboratories on safe and effective handling of spent nuclear fuel. In 2018 I retired from government work at the age of 92 but I continue to be involved in learning and educating about safe nuclear power.

After my time at Argonne, I obtained a doctorate in Chemical Engineering from MIT and was an assistant professor there for 4 years, worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for 18 years where I served as the Deputy Director of Chemical Technology Division, then for the Atomic Energy Commission starting in 1972, where I served as the Director of General Energy Development. In 1984 I was working for the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, trying to develop a long-term program for nuclear waste repositories, which was going well but was ultimately canceled due to political opposition.

Since that time I’ve been working primarily in the US Department of Energy on nuclear waste management broadly — recovery of unused energy, safe disposal, and trying as much as possible to be in touch with similar programs in other parts of the world (Russia, Canada, Japan, France, Finland, etc.) I try to visit and talk with people involved with those programs to learn and help steer the US’s efforts in the right direction.

My daughter and son-in-law will be helping me manage this AMA, reading questions to me and inputing my answers on my behalf. (EDIT: This is also being posted from my son-in-law's account, as I do not have a Reddit account of my own.) Ask me anything.

Proof: https://i.imgur.com/fG1d9NV.jpg

EDIT 1: After about 3 hours we are now wrapping up.  This was fun. I've enjoyed it thoroughly!  It's nice to be asked the questions and I hope I can provide useful information to people. I love to just share what I know and help the field if I can do it.

EDIT 2: Son-in-law and AMA assistant here! I notice many questions about nuclear waste disposal. I will highlight this answer that includes thoughts on the topic.

EDIT 3: Answered one more batch of questions today (Monday afternoon). Thank you all for your questions!

Special Counsel Robert Mueller says a grand jury has returned an indictment against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for interfering in U.S. elections.

The indictment can be read in full here (PDF warning)

##Submissions that may interest you

[Special counsel indicts 13 Russian nationals in Russia investigation](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/special-counsel-indicts-13-russian-nationals-russia-investigation/story?id=

Steve Bannon, a longtime ally to former President Donald Trump, was indicted Friday on two counts of contempt of Congress after he defied a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The Justice Department said Bannon, 67, was indicted on one count for refusing to appear for a deposition and the other for refusing to provide documents in response to the committee’s subpoena. It wasn’t immediately clear when he would be due in court. Each count carries a minimum of 30 days of jail and a sentence of up to a year behind bars.

##Submissions that may interest you

[Trump ally Steve

A couple of weeks ago, I showed my son National Treasure, and the whole time I kept thinking “damn, I really miss Nic Cage”. I knew that he was pretty much in the DTV world for the past 10 years, but I didn’t realize to what level. Turns out that Nicolas Cage made 29 direct-to-video movies in the 2010’s, and almost immediately, I was determined to watch every one of them. So I did. In no particular order:

The Trust. 7/10.
A not half-bad way to start things off. It's a little under-cooked at a brisk 90 minutes, but him and Elijah Wood play well of each other. Cage gives his character some quirky traits in the first half coming across as a likeable guy trying to do something he shouldn't, but quickly turns to full-on bad guy in the second half. There's a good story here but it's never fully realized. We are treated to a Cage Out though in the third act, which is always welcome. 1 down, 28 to go.

Kill Chain. 8/10.
This one was really enjoyable! It's sort-of 3 different stories or vignettes that all come together in the second half, which is where Cage enters the picture. He never Cage's Out, playing pretty restrained the whole time (though there is one moment where he comes close). The writing's a bit ham-fisted, and the characters are pure stereotype, but it's well crafted and a very entertaining 90 minutes. So far so good. With 27 to go, things are looking up!

The Runner. 5/10.
Unfocused and uneventful. It’s well cast and there’s a feeling of “this is a real movie” but it wants to be too many things. There’s a decent movie buried in here, but at a brisk 82 minutes, it’s hard to find. There’s no Cage Rage on display here, instead playing it very understated. It’s quality acting though. Three films into this little odyssey, and so far these are more than just paychecks for him, doing the best he can with what he’s given.

Rage. 6/10.
It’s OK, but it’s sloppy. The whole time I’m wondering why nothing seems to piece together, and it’s ultimately all in service of a shock ending that undermines everything that came before. Once again, Cage is solid in this. He keeps things entertaining where others may have had me checking out. One intense Cage Out, but I expected more based on the title and premise. Nevertheless, we journey forward. 4 down, 25 to go.

Between Worlds. 10/10.
I’m going to be fast and loose with the spoilers on this one. Joe is a down-on-his-luck truck driver who lost his wife and kid to a house

Update: reddit hug of death, try the Android or iOS apps if website fails <3 . We're also hiring, particularly engineers to make Skiplagged better. Email apply@skiplagged.com if you're interested.

This is a followup to the AMA I did last year, just after the federal lawsuit was filed.

Hey guys, I founded Skiplagged. Skiplagged is like a regular airfare search engine except it also shows you fares other websites don't. Among those is something very controversial known as hidden-city.

Basically, hidden-city is where your destination is a stopover; you'd simply leave the airport when you arrive at your destination. It turns out booking this way can save you hundreds of dollars on over 25% of common routes, especially in the USA. New York to San Francisco example. There are a few caveats, of course: (1) you'd have to book a round-trip as two one-ways (which Skiplagged handles automatically), (2) you can only have carry-ons, and (3) you may be breaking an agreement with the airlines known as contract of carriage, where it might say you can't miss flights on purpose.

While Skiplagged is aimed at being a traveller's best friend and does more than inform about hidden-city opportunities, hidden-city is what it became known for. In fact, many people even refer to missing flights on purpose as "skiplagging". United Airlines didn't like any of this.

Around September of last year, United reached out trying to get me to stop. I refused to comply because of their sheer arrogance and deceitfulness. For example, United tried to use the contract of carriage. They insisted Skiplagged, a site that provides information, was violating the contract. Contract of carriage is an agreement between passengers and airlines...Skiplagged is neither. This was basically the case of a big corporation trying to get what they want, irrelevant of the laws.

Fast-forward two months to Nov 2014, United teamed up with another big corporation and filed a federal lawsuit. I actually found out I was being sued from a Bloomberg reporter, who reached out asking for my thoughts. As a 22 year old being told there's a federal lawsuit against me by multi-billion dollar corporations, my heart immediately sank

I'm getting really sick of all the NSFW jokes that have been hitting the front page lately. I know I'm not the only one who feels this either. IF YOU CAN'T TELL THE JOKE TO YOUR KID, IT'S NOT A DAD JOKE. dad jokes are clean, thats why they're dad jokes. If you have an NSFW joke, please refer to r/unclejokes. I'm sorry if I sound whiney, but dad jokes are dad jokes and uncle jokes are uncle jokes.

>Michael Flynn, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, cooperated substantially with prosecutors and should not be required to serve time in prison, U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office said in a court filing on Tuesday.

Reuters

This is a developing story. Please note that off topic or low effort comments may be automatically removed in this thread.

##Submissions that may interest you

[Special counsel Robert Mueller files sentencing memo for former T

President Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. is placing a hold on funding to the World Health Organization over its handing of the coronavirus pandemic, pending a review.

Trump accused the WHO of "severely mismanaging and covering up" the coronavirus crisis, adding that the U.S. "has a duty to insist on full accountability."

##Submissions that may interest you

[Trump announces WHO funding is suspended](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/ameri

It's a girl and weighs 7lbs 12 oz.

With the unfortunate news of Robin Williams passing away today, this has sent a surge through reddit's community, and people want to talk about it in one big space.

What would you like to say about Robin Williams? Use this post share your thoughts.

We also suggest you go back and see his AMA he did 10 months ago, check it out here. Note that comments are closed as it's an archived thread, but it's still a great read, and should give you some good laughs.

As his death is an apparent suicide, we also wanted share some suicide prevention resources:

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)

/r/SWResources

The Alliance of Hope for Suicide Survivors

Suicide Hotline phone numbers

More Countries: /u/bootyduty's list

ABC News

> Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former longtime personal attorney, has tentatively reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, ABC News has learned.

Washington Post

> The plea discussions follow a months-long grand jury investigation into Cohen’s business dealings, including his taxi business, as well as a hush-money payment that Cohen arranged to an adult-film actress who claimed to have had a tryst with Trump years ago.

Please keep discussion on topic and free of noise. Off topic or low effort comments may be automatically removed in this thread.

##Submissions that may interest you

[Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen strikes plea deal with federal prosecutors](https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/21/trumps-ex-lawyer-mic

I'm that guy who knocked out that tatted up jerk and made it to the front page of Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/2y00i3/douchebag_acting_tough_and_then/

I've been a big time lurker here for 5+ years and now recently started posting. I am a professional MMA fighter, computer geek, and avid motorcycle rider. You could say I like doing what I like to do. My nationality is Vietnamese American from SOUTH DAKOTA and I am now chasing the dream Down Under! AMA!

Proof: https://twitter.com/Ben10MMA/status/573499258193604610

EDIT: Holy crap, did not expect this to blow up and make it to the front page again. I need to buy a lotto ticket NOW! EDIT #2: Needed to add South Dakota to my bio. The state doesn't receive enough love.

EDIT #3: I love and have kittens named Tofu and Yuki! Don't break Reddit!: http://imgur.com/Vne0eZi

EDIT #4: For the people asking what his response was after the fight, he said "I know he has skills but it was nothing but F***ing luck" http://themmacorner.com/2014/07/22/julian-julz-the-jackal-rabaud-a-tale-of-pain-and-glory/

EDIT #5: Doing an AMA might have been a bad thing to start at 2AM in the morning. Need to catch some z's Reddit! I'll be back on in a few hours to answer some more questions. G'night or should I say G'Day!

EDIT # 6: Ok, Lad Bible fine, BJPenn.com alright, but front page on Reddit for the past 4 hours?? GTFO! Am I dreaming??

EDIT #7: Just wanted to take the time to thank everyone on the interwebz for making this possible. Never in a million years would I thought I'd be doing my OWN AMA. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

EDIT #8: Still overwhelmed by the amount of support I've received and I am so thankful for it. It's been an exciting 12 hours answering everyone's questions. Thank you EVERYONE!

EDIT #9: I woke up today thinking this whole thing would be blown over by now. I couldn't have been any more wrong! The video itself has over 50 million combined views, I've gained about 2k more followers on my social media, and UNILAD even mentions this AMA!: http://www.unilad.co.uk/articles/guy-that-kod-cocky-mma-fighter-in-20-seconds-speaks-out/

I'm so grateful to be part of the Reddit community and be the hero or the internet for the past 24 hours! Mind=blown

My name is Tyler Black, and I am a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia. I have been the Medical Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergency Department for 9 years, working approximately 400 admitted youth and families and over 1,000 emergency department patients per year.

My primary research interest is suicidology. I have published articles on the utilization of emergency departments for psychiatric services, the use of psychotropic medications, and authored and edited textbooks on Emergency Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology.

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day – where a (hopefully appropriate) spotlight on suicide prevention raises awareness to the tremendous amount of resources and support that exist out there in the world for people who are struggling with suicidal thinking.

So please, Ask Me Anything about the science of suicide, suicide prevention, suicide prevention training, the media’s reporting of suicide, risk documentation, or other topics you can think of!

WARNING: Suicidal thinking can be increased by reading about, or discussing, topics relating to suicide. Please be aware that the topics inside this AMA could be triggering or overwhelming for some. If you find yourself needing to reach out, please be aware of local and national crisis lines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines has a helpful list), find someone to talk to, or seek help at your local emergency health facility. Help is available and people with suicidal thinking receiving help experience significant relief and positive outcomes!

Proof: https://imgur.com/a/7GZEZGg

Today is a work day for me so I will be responding throughout the day starting at 8amPST/11am EST. I will be replying through the day.

Edit 1230EST I am slowly pecking away at responses throughout the day, between patients and work. Please be patient! I'll focus on the most upvoted for now but I will look for unique questions as well!

Edit 1400EST 838 new messages in my inbox - it's unrealistic at my pace I'll respond to everything but I'm doing my best.

edit 1530EST - I'm replying and now it's at 1125 new messages. Thank you all for your contributions and I am continuing to work at my plodding pace. I couldn't dedicate today to replies like I have done previously, so it's nowhere near fast enough to reply.

edit 1800EST I have to formally say here, and sorry that those who don't get a reply,

Back in November I made a Reddit port to r/nostupidquestions regarding vaccines. That blew up and now months later, I’ve been on NBC, CNN, FOX News, and so many more.

The article written on my family was the top story on the Washington post this past weekend, and I’ve had numerous news sites sharing this story. I was just on GMA as well, but I haven’t watched it yet

You guys seem to have some questions and I’d love to answer them here! I’m still in the middle of this social media fire storm and I have interviews for today lined up, but I’ll make sure to respond to as many comments as I can! So let’s talk Reddit! HERES a picture of me as well

Edit: gonna take a break and let you guys upvote some questions you want me to answer. See you in a few hours!

Edit 2: Wow! this has reached the front page and you guys have some awesome questions! please make sure not to ask a question that has been answered already, and I'll try to answer a few more within the next hour or so before I go to bed.

Edit 3 Thanks for your questions! I'm going to bed and have a busy day tomorrow, so I most likely won't be answering anymore questions. Also if mods want proof of anything, some people are claiming this is a hoax, and that's dumb. I also am in no way trying to capitalize on this story in anyway, so any comments saying otherwise are entirely inaccurate. Lastly, I've answered the most questions I can and I'm seeing a lot of the same questions or "How's the autism?".

We developed OccupyTheBookstore.com, a Chrome Plugin which overlays competitive market prices for textbooks directly on the college bookstore website. This allows students to easily compare prices from services like Amazon and Chegg instead of being forced into the inflated bookstore markup. Though students are increasingly aware of third-party options, many are still dependent on the campus bookstore because they control the information for which textbooks are required by course.

Here's a GIF of it in action.

We've been asked to remove the extension by Follett, a $2.7 billion company that services over 1700+ college bookstores. Instead of complying, we rebuilt the extension from the ground up and re-branded it as #OccupyTheBookstore, as the user is literally occupying their website to find cheaper deals.

Ask us anything about the textbook industry, the lack of legal basis for Follett's threats, etc., and if you're a college student, be sure to try out the extension for yourself!

Proof: http://OccupyTheBookstore.com/reddit.html

EDIT:

Wow, lots of great interest and questions. Two quick hits:

1. This is a Texts.com side project that makes use of our core API. If you are a college student and would like to build something yourself, hit up our lead dev at Ben@Texts.com, or PM /u/bhalp1 or tweet to him @BHalp1

2. If you'd like some free #OccupyTheBookstore stickers, click this form.

EDIT2:

Wow, this is really an overwhelming and awesome amount of support and interest.

We've gotten some great media attention, and also received an e-mail from someone at the EFF! Words cannot express how pumped we are.

If you think that this is cool, please create a Texts.com account and/or follow us on FB or Twitter.

If you need to get in touch with me for any reason, just PM me or shoot an email to Peter@Texts.com.

EDIT3:

Wow, this is absolutely insane. The WSJ just posted an article: www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-39652

There hasn’t been any posts all year.

The AHCA, which would repeal and replace parts of the ACA (Obamacare), has been withdrawn. A vote was originally scheduled for 3:30-4:00PM EST.

Update: Speaker Ryan is speaking live at a press conference (via C-Span).

##Submissions that may interest you

[Republicans Just Gave Up On Their Health Care

House Democrats released on Tuesday text of the resolution that will detail their procedures as they move forward with the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.

The full House is expected to vote Thursday on the resolution after the House Rules Committee debates and marks it up on Wednesday.

##Submissions that may interest you

[READ: House Democrats Release Draft Resolution On Impeachment Inqui

We are Stephanie McCrummen, Beth Reinhard and Alice Crites of The Washington Post, and we broke the story of sexual misconduct allegations against Roy Moore, who ran and lost a bid for the U.S. Senate seat for Alabama.

Stephanie and Beth both star in the first in our video series “How to be a journalist,” where they talk about how they broke the story that multiple women accused Roy Moore of pursuing, dating or sexually assaulting them when they were teenagers.

Stephanie is a national enterprise reporter for The Washington Post. Before that she was our East Africa bureau chief, and counts Egypt, Iraq and Mexico as just some of the places she’s reported from. She hails from Birmingham, Alabama.

Beth Reinhard is a reporter on our investigative team. She’s previously worked at The Wall Street Journal, National Journal, The Miami Herald and The Palm Beach Post.

Alice Crites is our research editor for our national/politics team and has been with us since 1990. She previously worked at the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress.

Proof:

• https://twitter.com/mccrummenWaPo/status/941693235549917188
• https://twitter.com/GenePark/status/941693827810816001

EDIT: And we're done! Thanks to the mods for this great opportunity, and to you all for the great, substantive questions, and for reading our work. This was fun!

EDIT 2: Gene, the u/washingtonpost user here. We're seeing a lot of repeated questions that we already answered, so for your convenience we'll surface several of them up here:

Q: If a person has been sexually assaulted by a public figure, what is the best way to approach the media? What kind of information should they bring forward?

>Email us, call us. Meet with us in person. Tell us what happened, show us any evidence, and point us to other people who can corroborate the accounts.

Q: When was the first allegation brought to your attention?

>[October.](h

Voting is embedded in the Reddit experience. Yet offline, 1 in 4 eligible US voters isn’t registered. Even the most civically-conscious among us can unexpectedly find our registration lapsed, especially due to the wide variation in voter registration laws across the US. For example, did you know that you have to update your voter registration if you move, even if it’s just across town? Or that you also need to update it if you’ve changed your name (say, due to a change in marital status)? Depending on your state, you may even need to re-register if you simply haven’t voted in a while, even if you’ve stayed at the same address.

Taken together, these and other factors add up to tens of millions of Americans every election cycle who need to update their registration and might not know it. This is why we are again teaming up with Nonprofit VOTE to celebrate National Voter Registration Day and help spread the word before the midterms this November.

You’ll notice a lot of activity around the site today in honor of the holiday, including amongst various communities that have decided to participate. If you see a particularly cool community effort, let us know in the comments.

We’d also love to hear your personal stories about voting. Why is it important to you? What was your experience like the first time you voted? Are you registering to vote for the first time for this election? Join the conversation in the comments.

Also check out the AMAs we have planned for today as well, including:

• A bipartisan tag-team AMA with the Secretaries of State of Washington and Minnesota in r/politics from 10am-12pm ET
• An AMA about the weird quirks and history of American voting laws with DoSomething.org’s Head of Campaigns in r/IAmA at 11am ET.
• You can also see the AMA that National Voter Registration Day’s Executive Director did yesterday.

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"...40 second birthday". I was so proud.

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a last-ditch attempt by former President Donald J. Trump to shield his financial records, issuing a brief, unsigned order requiring Mr. Trump’s accountants to turn over his tax and other records to prosecutors in New York.

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[Supreme Court again rejects Trump’s bid to shield tax returns, other financial records from Manhattan prosecutor](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-trump-tax-returns/2021/02/22/05053b14-751c-11eb-8115-9ad5e9c0

Today, the Supreme Court issued decisions for two highly anticipated cases involving subpoenas seeking President Trump's tax returns.

The Chief Justice wrote for the Court in Trump v Vance, affirming the Second Circuit and rejecting the Government's position that, under Article II and the Supremacy Clause, the President was entitled to absolute immunity and a heightened standard for the issuance of a state criminal subpoenas. The case now goes back to the district court, where the Second Circuit permitted the Government to make alternative arguments. The vote was 5 in the majority (Roberts, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan), 2 in concurrence with the decision (Gorsuch, Kavanaugh) and 2 in dissent (Thomas, Alito).

The Chief Justice also wrote for the Court in Trump vs Mazars, vacating the lower court ruling affirming the Congressional subpoena and implementing a balancing test for the district court to consider in deciding whether to grant a Congressional subpoena, including:

(1) whether the asserted legislative purpose warrants subpoenaing the President and his papers (ie. whether there are other sources that Congress could obtain this information from);

(2) whether the scope of the subpoena is sufficiently narrow so that it is no broader than necessary to support Congress' legislative objective;

(3) what the nature is of evidence Congress is offered to establish that a subpoena is necessary to advance a valid legislative agenda; and

(4) what burden is imposed on the President, particularly since the subpoena originates from a rival branch of government that could use such subpoenas for institutional advantage.

The vote was 7 in the majority (Roberts, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh) and 2 in dissent (Thomas, Alito).

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[Supreme Court ruling allow

Paul Manafort and his former business associate Rick Gates were told to surrender to federal authorities Monday morning, the first charges in a special counsel investigation, according to a person involved in the case.

The charges against Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, and Mr. Gates, a business associate of Mr. Manafort, include conspiracy against the U.S., multiple counts of money laundering, failure to report financial information, and providing false or misleading statements to financial bookkeepers. These indictments represent a significant escalation in a special counsel investigation that has cast a shadow over the president’s first year in office.

Update 1

Manafort Surrenders to Authorities - CNN

Charges being brought

Manafort indicted by a federal grand jury on 12 counts including conspiracy against the United States - Reuters

Paul Manafort, Who Once Ran Trump Campaign, Indicted on Money Laundering and Tax Charges - NY Times

The Latest: Manafort faces charges of conspiracy against US - AP News

Trump’s Ex-Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort Indicted on 12 Counts - Bloomberg

Full Text: Paul Manafort indictment - Politico

Additional Coverage

How the Russia Investigation Entangled a Manafort Protégé - NY Times

Paul Manafort indicted: Trump’s former campaign chair facing charges in Mueller investigation - Vox

Trump’s Former Campaign Chairman, Paul Manafort, to Be Indicted In Mueller Probe - The Daily Beast

[Tucker: Source Says Podesta Brothers & Manafort, Not Trump, 'Central Figures' in Russi

This afternoon, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly impanelled a grand jury. This presumably relates to Mr. Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

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[Report: Mueller convenes grand jury in Russia investigation](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-robert-muel

Congratulations to the Nationals on their first World Series championship in franchise history! This is the first World Series championship for Washington D.C. since the 1924 Senators.

>Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, was subpoenaed last week by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, to testify before a grand jury as part of the investigation into possible links between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russia, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

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[Stephen Bannon subpoenaed by special counsel Robert Mue

“You know, one would have been enough.”