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Major Spanish Winemaker Pledges No Animal Tests, Earning PETA Praise
LA RIJOA, Spain, Nov. 20 -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2025:
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Major Spanish Winemaker Pledges No Animal Tests, Earning PETA Praise
Compania Vinicola del Norte de Espana (CVNE)--a leading Spanish winery and maker of the acclaimed Imperial wines--receives kudos from PETA today for signing on to a groundbreaking new Eat Without Experiments program that helps shoppers identify food and beverage companies that don't test on animals.
The Eat Without Experiments website features a database of food and beverage companies categorized
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LA RIJOA, Spain, Nov. 20 -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2025:
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Major Spanish Winemaker Pledges No Animal Tests, Earning PETA Praise
Compania Vinicola del Norte de Espana (CVNE)--a leading Spanish winery and maker of the acclaimed Imperial wines--receives kudos from PETA today for signing on to a groundbreaking new Eat Without Experiments program that helps shoppers identify food and beverage companies that don't test on animals.
The Eat Without Experiments website features a database of food and beverage companies categorizedby their policies on animal experimentation--from those that test on animals to those, like CVNE, that have signed PETA's pledge for no animal testing.
"CVNE's statement of assurance will give it a leg up with caring consumers who want to support transparent, eco-and-animal-friendly businesses," says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. "PETA now calls on Oreo-maker Mondelez International to take inspiration from this conscientious company and end cruel and deadly tests on animals."
Customers spend money according to what a company represents. According to global market research, companies that don't align with customer beliefs pay the price, because 42 percent of consumers walk away, and one in five never return. A survey of 30,000 consumers found that 74 percent crave greater transparency regarding companies' stances on important issues such as animal testing. Companies signing PETA's pro-animal pledge forward their brands in the minds of a new wave of ethics-conscious consumers.
Visitors to the Eat Without Experiments website can take action urging Oreo-maker Mondelez International--which also owns Cadbury, Honey Maid, and several other well-known brands--to stop tormenting and killing animals in tests that do not apply to human health. Mondelez misleads consumers by claiming it doesn't test its products on animals, but neglects to say that it funds basic and deadly "nutritional science" experiments on animals, which aren't required by any regulatory agencies.
CVNE is one of many companies--including Ferrero International, Bacardi Limited, Amy's Kitchen, Heineken, and Unilever--that have already signed PETA's Eat Without Experiments pledge.
PETA--whose motto reads, in part, that "animals are not ours to experiment on"--points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.
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Original text here: https://www.peta.org/media/news-releases/major-spanish-winemaker-pledges-no-animal-tests-earning-peta-praise/
[Category: Animals]
FFRF Action Fund Joins National Women's Law Center's Opposition to HHS Nominee
MADISON, Wisconsin, Nov. 20 -- FFRF Action Fund, an organization that says it develops and advocates for legislation, regulations and government programs to preserve the constitutional principle of separation between state and church, posted the following news:
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FFRF Action Fund joins National Women's Law Center's opposition to HHS nominee
The FFRF Action Fund has signed on to a letter sent by the National Women's Law Center to oppose the confirmation of Trump nominee T. March Bell to the position of inspector general in the Department of Health and Human Services.
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MADISON, Wisconsin, Nov. 20 -- FFRF Action Fund, an organization that says it develops and advocates for legislation, regulations and government programs to preserve the constitutional principle of separation between state and church, posted the following news:
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FFRF Action Fund joins National Women's Law Center's opposition to HHS nominee
The FFRF Action Fund has signed on to a letter sent by the National Women's Law Center to oppose the confirmation of Trump nominee T. March Bell to the position of inspector general in the Department of Health and Human Services.
During the first Trumpadministration, Bell helped create the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division within HHS. This division created an avenue for health care providers to invoke their personal religious beliefs to deny others health care.
Bell is a staunch anti-abortion advocate, too. In 2015, he was chief counsel for a $1.6 million investigation into Planned Parenthood to determine whether the organization was profiting off donated fetal tissues. The investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing. He also has ties to a number of anti-abortion extremists.
Bell's record presents serious ethical concerns for a nominee to a position focused on preventing fraud within HHS. In 1997, he resigned from a job at a Virginia state agency after a legislative audit uncovered an $8,000 payment to a former employee that Bell couldn't justify.
Bell, if confirmed, would hold "a critical responsibility in protecting the integrity of HHS programs as well as the health and welfare of the people HHS serves," the letter states. "It is difficult to believe that Mr. Bell has developed the unbiased, moral, and ethical character necessary for the role of inspector general."
FFRF Action Fund President Annie Laurie Gaylor notes her group's concerns about Bell's willingness to uphold the First Amendment's separation between state and church. "The nomination of a clear partisan candidate to a position with a critical role in stopping waste, fraud and abuse continues an alarming trend from the Trump administration," she says.
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FFRF Action Fund is a 501(c)(4) organization that develops and advocates for legislation, regulations and government programs to preserve the constitutional principle of separation between state and church. It also advocates for the rights and views of nonbelievers, endorses candidates for political office, and publicizes the views of elected officials concerning religious liberty issues.
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November 19, 2025
Dear Senators,
We, the undersigned 60 organizations, write to express our opposition to President Donald Trump's nominee for the Inspector General (IG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Thomas March Bell.
The HHS IG holds a critical responsibility in protecting the integrity of HHS programs as well as the health and welfare of the people HHS serves. This role is essential for safeguarding taxpayer dollars and ensuring that HHS initiatives operate both effectively and ethically. It requires a person who demonstrates impartiality, independence, and the utmost ethical standards.
Mr. Bell has proven that he has none of these essential qualities. He has a long and troubling history of unethical conduct, extreme partisanship, and abuse of power that has harmed taxpayers, spread misinformation, and put reproductive health care providers at risk. In 1997, Bell was asked to resign as deputy director of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality after a legislative audit uncovered his misappropriation of $8,000 in taxpayer funds.1 In 2015, Bell led a highly partisan House investigation of reproductive health care providers based on widely discredited and debunked accusations by antiabortion groups.2 During the first Trump Administration, Bell helped create HHS's "Division for Conscience and Religious Freedom," which was used to embolden health care providers to deny access to critical and even life-saving reproductive health care.3Additionally, during Bell's tenure as Chief of Staff for the HHS Office for Civil Rights, the administration targeted states that refused to fund anti-abortion centers, which misled and endangered pregnant individuals.4 In this role, he also contributed to efforts to limit federal protections for gender identity under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, weakening protections for transgender people who experience discrimination.5 IGs are historically nonpartisan watchdogs, and HHS's IG should be dedicated to transparency and impartiality. Given this history, it is difficult to believe that Mr. Bell has developed the unbiased, moral, and ethical character necessary for the role of Inspector General. For these reasons, we, the undersigned organizations, urge the Senate to reject the nomination of Thomas March Bell for HHS Inspector General.
Signed,
Abortion Forward
Advocates for Youth
AIDS Foundation Chicago
All* in Action Fund
American Atheists
American Humanist Association
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Arkansas Black Gay Men's Forum
Center for Reproductive Rights
CHN Action
Clearinghouse on Women's Issues
Council for Global Equality
Court Accountability
Defend Public Health
Disability Victory
Doctors for America
Equality California
Feminist Majority
FFRF Action Fund
Guttmacher Institute
Indivisible
In Our Own Voice: National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda
Lawyers for Good Government
Legal Momentum, the Women's Legal Defense & Education Fund
Los Angeles LGBT Center
MomsRising
NAACP
National Abortion Federation
National Action Network
National Council of Jewish Women
National Health Law Program
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice
National Network of Abortion Funds
National Organization for Women
National Partnership for Women & Families
National PLACE
National Women's Law Center Action Fund
National Women's Political Caucus
NBJC
Nurses for America
People Power United
PFLAG National
Physicians for Reproductive Health
Planned Parenthood Action Fund
Population Connection Action Fund
Positive Women's Network-USA
Power to Decide
Public Citizen
Religious Community for Reproductive Choice
Reproductive Freedom for All
Sexual Violence Prevention Association (SVPA)
SisterReach Illinois
SisterReach, Inc.
SiX Action
Spokane Indivisible
The Cancer Network
The TransLatin@ Coalition
UltraViolet Action
URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity
Women Lawyers On Guard Action Network
1 Spencer Hsu, Environmental Official Ousted from VA. Post, WAPO (June 17, 1997), https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1997/06/18/environmental-official-ousted-from-va-post/b501f00b-3a3a-439e-8e5d-5ef70169b4f2/.
2 Meryl Kornfield & Lisa Rein, Trump oversight picks include scandal-hit ex-lawmaker, antiabortion lawyer, WAPO (May 29, 2025), https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/28/trump-inspectors-general-scandal-partisan/.
3 Noah Tong, Trump nominates Planned Parenthood opponent to replace fired HHS OIG chief, FIERCE HEALTHCARE (May 27, 2025), https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/trump-nominates-planned-parenthood-opponent-replace-fired-hhs-oig-chief.
4 Alison Kodjak, Civil Rights Chief At HHS Defends The Right To Refuse Care On Religious Grounds, NPR (March 20, 2018), https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/03/20/591833000/civil-rights-chief-at-hhs-defends-the-right-to-refuse-care-on-religious-grounds.
5 Ben Paviour, T. March Bell, a Youngkin hire, previously accused of mishandling state funds at DEQ, NPR (Aug. 24, 2022), https://www.vpm.org/news/2022-08-24/t-march-bell-a-youngkin-hire-previously-accused-of-mishandling-state-funds-at.
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Original text here: https://ffrfaction.org/ffrf-action-fund-joins-national-womens-law-centers-opposition-to-hhs-nominee/
[Category: Sociological]
DFI Report Shows Despite Cratering Public Support, Teacher Unions Fight to Keep DEI and Gender Ideology Alive
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (TNSrpt) -- The Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2025:
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New DFI Report Shows Despite Cratering Public Support, Teacher Unions Fight to Keep DEI and Gender Ideology Alive
The Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies (DFI) today released The Fall of Woke?, a comprehensive report examining how the nation's largest teacher unions, despite overwhelming public backlash, continue to serve as a safe harbor for an ideology rapidly losing favor with the American public.
The new report is the latest in DFI's ongoing
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (TNSrpt) -- The Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2025:
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New DFI Report Shows Despite Cratering Public Support, Teacher Unions Fight to Keep DEI and Gender Ideology Alive
The Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies (DFI) today released The Fall of Woke?, a comprehensive report examining how the nation's largest teacher unions, despite overwhelming public backlash, continue to serve as a safe harbor for an ideology rapidly losing favor with the American public.
The new report is the latest in DFI's ongoingseries that began with its widely cited Summer of Woke trilogy, which exposed the National Education Association (NEA) and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) for promoting radical education policies at their annual meetings while ignoring plummeting student achievement and chronic absenteeism. The Fall of Woke? expands on this work, illustrating how these unions remain determined to push discriminatory DEI bureaucracies and concepts, gender ideology, and fringe political activism in schools and workplaces even as public opinion and federal enforcement turn decisively against them.
The report details sweeping actions taken by the Trump administration to enforce anti-discrimination laws that have halted unlawful DEI programs and gender ideology mandates in school districts, colleges, and universities across the country.
As the report notes, "Surveys show that the administration enjoys increasing support from the public," with young Americans in particular turning away from progressive orthodoxies. From declining rates of transgender identification to increased religious engagement, Americans are signaling a decisive shift.
But while public skepticism about "woke" in education continues to rise in light of federal enforcement efforts, the NEA and AFT still "remain enclaves of radical progressivism."
The Fall of Woke? documents multiple areas where the NEA and the AFT have served as sanctuaries for "woke" causes:
* Attacking the administration's enforcement of civil rights and immigration laws.
* Tolerating anti-Semitism in education, including promoting resources that erase Israel from maps and replace it with "Palestine" and removing Jews as the primary victims of the Holocaust in union-sponsored materials.
* Advancing gender ideology by supporting policies that violate Title IX, encourage sex-rejecting interventions for minors, and provide cover for educators to hide gender transitions from parents.
* Opposing education freedom, including spreading misinformation about the recently enacted Federal Scholarship Tax Credit.
As the report explains, union leaders have "made the cynical calculation that they can afford to disregard the views of their rank-and-file members," leaning instead into the priorities of the "Mamdani wing of the Left" while ordinary teachers and parents suffer the consequences.
"Parents, students, and many teachers have moved on from the failed experiments of DEI and gender ideology--but the unions refuse to let go," said Angela Morabito, co-author of the report and DFI spokesperson. "They are clinging to an agenda the public has rejected because their leadership is driven by politics and power, not by what's best for children and parents."
Paul Zimmerman, DFI Senior Counsel and report co-author, added, "This report shows that no matter how unpopular 'woke' ideology becomes, the NEA and AFT remain committed to preserving it--often to the detriment of their own members and at the expense of students' civil rights. The unions have the money and the machinery to keep pushing these ideas, but they cannot withstand sustained pressure from teachers who refuse to subsidize union extremism and leave their ranks."
The report notes that teachers "should take a simple but highly impactful step: resign their union memberships, take their dues with them, and starve the union radicals of their money, members, and organizational support."
"As more teachers realize that their dues are going to fund the pet projects of union leadership--DEI, gender ideology, anti-Israel propaganda, open borders--while ignoring the academic needs of students," the report states, meaningful reform can take hold.
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REPORT: https://dfipolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/The_Fall_of_Woke___Morabito_Zimmerman_November2025.pdf
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Original text here: https://dfipolicy.org/press-release-new-dfi-report-shows-despite-cratering-public-support-teacher-unions-fight-to-keep-dei-and-gender-ideology-alive/
[Category: Sociological]
Consumer Reports Testifies Before New York State Legislature, Urges Stronger Protections for Homeowners as Insurance Costs Soar
YONKERS, New York, Nov. 20 -- Consumer Reports posted the following news release on Nov. 19, 2025:
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Consumer Reports Testifies Before New York State Legislature, Urges Stronger Protections for Homeowners as Insurance Costs Soar
CR calls for adoption of a "Homeowners Insurance Bill of Rights" to bring transparency, fairness, and stability to the marketplace
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Consumer Reports (CR) testified yesterday before a joint public hearing of three New York State Senate Committees examining the rising cost and shrinking availability of homeowners insurance across the state.
Sara Enright, CR's
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YONKERS, New York, Nov. 20 -- Consumer Reports posted the following news release on Nov. 19, 2025:
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Consumer Reports Testifies Before New York State Legislature, Urges Stronger Protections for Homeowners as Insurance Costs Soar
CR calls for adoption of a "Homeowners Insurance Bill of Rights" to bring transparency, fairness, and stability to the marketplace
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Consumer Reports (CR) testified yesterday before a joint public hearing of three New York State Senate Committees examining the rising cost and shrinking availability of homeowners insurance across the state.
Sara Enright, CR'sSenior Director of Safety and Sustainability, delivered testimony on behalf of the independent, nonprofit consumer organization--headquartered in Yonkers, New York--urging lawmakers to strengthen oversight of the residential insurance market and adopt policies that guarantee greater transparency, fairness, and stability for all New Yorkers.
"Homeowners across New York are facing skyrocketing premiums, shrinking coverage, and cancellations with little or no warning," Enright said. "We commend this legislature's joint investigation into the residential insurance market and urge you to pursue reforms that not only safeguard affordability but also advance transparency and fairness for all policyholders."
On average, New York homeowners have faced premium increases of more than $1,000 since 2020--much higher than the national average--and nearly 500,000 households are now completely uninsured. CR heard from hundreds of New Yorkers confronting the insurance crisis, many describing steep, unexplained rate increases despite no claims, shrinking coverage, canceled policies with little or no notice, and barriers that make it nearly impossible to shop for better coverage.
The impacts also reach beyond homeowners to the broader housing market. Renters are seeing rising housing costs as property owners pass along higher insurance premiums, while aspiring homeowners are increasingly unable to secure mortgages as insurers retreat from areas labeled "too risky" because of flooding, wildfires, and other extreme weather hazards.
"These stories CR has heard reflect a pattern seen across New York and nationwide: steep, unexplained rate increases; opaque underwriting decisions; inadequate notice; and fear of losing affordable coverage even among responsible homeowners." Enright said.
CR Introduces a Homeowners Insurance Bill of Rights
To address these systemic issues, CR urged lawmakers to advance the core principles of its Homeowners Insurance Bill of Rights, released last month and developed with input from insurance experts, academics, and homeowners across the country. More than 43,000 consumers have already signed CR's petition urging major insurers to adopt these protections.
The Bill of Rights outlines nine fundamental consumer protections, including the rights to:
* A clear, plain-language explanation of what is and isn't covered--before purchase or renewal.
* Know which risk factors are used to determine eligibility and set rates.
* Fair access to coverage based on property risk, not your finances.
* Adequate notice before cancellations, nonrenewals, or steep premium hikes.
* Meaningful incentives for homeowners who take steps to harden their homes.
* Protections against cancellations or non-renewals in the aftermath of declared States of Emergency.
* Freedom from penalties for inquiries or claims that result in no payout.
* Prompt, full, and fair claim payments, with accountability for delays.
* Immediate financial assistance for emergency housing and essential needs after a disaster, with limited paperwork.
"With greater transparency and accountability from the home insurance market, residents will be able to make more informed decisions about where they live, understand how best to protect their most valuable assets, and hold insurance companies accountable to their promises," said Enright. "We are eager to work with this legislature and other stakeholders to translate CR's Home Insurance Bill of Rights into enforceable law, positioning New York as a model of resilience and equity in a climate-stressed, inflationary market."
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Original text here: https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/press_release/consumer-reports-testifies-before-new-york-state-legislature-urges-stronger-protections-for-homeowners-as-insurance-costs-soar/
[Category: Business]
CIS, CyberAcuView New Tool Bridges Cybersecurity and Insurance for SMBs
EAST GREENBUSH, New York, Nov. 20 -- The Center for Internet Security issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2025:
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CIS, CyberAcuView New Tool Bridges Cybersecurity and Insurance for SMBs
Control Assist(TM) connects CIS Critical Security Controls to insurance underwriting, helping small businesses strengthen security and simplify coverage
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The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS(R)) and CyberAcuView today announced the launch of Control Assist(TM), a new tool designed to bridge the gap between cybersecurity and cyber insurance for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
This
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EAST GREENBUSH, New York, Nov. 20 -- The Center for Internet Security issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2025:
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CIS, CyberAcuView New Tool Bridges Cybersecurity and Insurance for SMBs
Control Assist(TM) connects CIS Critical Security Controls to insurance underwriting, helping small businesses strengthen security and simplify coverage
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The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS(R)) and CyberAcuView today announced the launch of Control Assist(TM), a new tool designed to bridge the gap between cybersecurity and cyber insurance for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
Thiscollaborative initiative simplifies the insurance application process while guiding SMBs toward stronger, more effective cyber defenses.
Control Assist aligns the CIS Critical Security Controls(R) (CIS Controls(R)) Implementation Group 1 (IG1), a globally recognized framework for essential cyber hygiene, with common cyber insurance underwriting questions. This shared structure helps SMBs demonstrate their cybersecurity readiness in clear, standardized terms, reducing confusion, accelerating coverage decisions, and encouraging high-impact security practices.
As part of the initiative, the Control Assist question set was shared with eight cybersecurity and technology companies (Amazon Web Services (AWS), CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, FirstWatch Technologies, Safe Security, Spektrum Labs, Palo Alto Networks, and one other industry partner) to map the control questions to their products. This mapping identifies which questions can be automatically validated based on the technology in use, helping SMBs streamline their insurance applications.
"Control Assist is a practical solution to a persistent challenge," said Phyllis Lee, Vice President of Controls Content Development at CIS. "SMBs often struggle to translate their security efforts into language insurers understand. By connecting the CIS Controls to underwriting questions, we're giving them a roadmap that's both actionable and credible, helping them become more secure and more insurable at the same time."
How Control Assist Helps:
* Simplifies the cyber insurance application process by mapping technical security controls to familiar insurance questions.
* Reduces risk of misinterpretation or missing information that can lead to delayed or denied claims.
* Guides SMBs toward the most critical investments for defending against common cyber attacks.
* Gives insurers standardized, verifiable evidence of an organization's cybersecurity maturity.
* Enables security vendors to demonstrate how their products support insurance readiness.
Control Assist also fosters greater trust, transparency, and resilience across the cyber insurance ecosystem by enabling insurers, vendors, and SMBs to work from a common language. As cyber threats continue to rise, SMBs remain disproportionately targeted and underinsured. This initiative offers a clear, actionable path to improving cyber maturity and securing coverage.
"Our mission at CyberAcuView is to strengthen trust and efficiency across the cyber insurance ecosystem," said Mark Camillo, Chief Executive Officer of CyberAcuView. "Control Assist bridges a critical gap between insurers and insureds by translating essential cybersecurity controls into the language of underwriting. For SMBs, this means less confusion and faster access to coverage. For insurers, it means more confidence in the risk data they rely on."
CyberAcuView is supported by leading cyber insurance underwriters including AIG, AXIS, Beazley, Chubb, The Hartford, Liberty Mutual Insurance, and Travelers. All CyberAcuView activities are conducted under strict antitrust review and guidance.
To arrange an interview with CIS or CyberAcuView on Control Assist, contact media@cisecurity.org.
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About CIS:
The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS(R)) makes the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments through our core competencies of collaboration and innovation. We are a community-driven nonprofit, responsible for the CIS Critical Security Controls(R) and CIS Benchmarks(TM), globally recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data. We lead a global community of IT professionals to continuously evolve these standards and provide products and services to proactively safeguard against emerging threats. Our CIS Hardened Images(R) provide secure, on-demand, scalable computing environments in the cloud. CIS is home to the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center(R) (MS-ISAC(R)), the trusted resource for cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial government entities, and the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center(R) (EI-ISAC(R)), which supports the rapidly changing cybersecurity needs of U.S. election offices. To learn more, visit cisecurity.org or follow us on X: @CISecurity.
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Original text here: https://www.cisecurity.org/about-us/media/press-release/cis-cyberacuview-new-tool-bridges-cybersecurity-and-insurance-for-smbs
[Category: Computer Technology]
CFG ACTION AD: Aftyn Behn Backs Rioters, Harasses Law Enforcement
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Club for Growth Action, an arm of the Club for Growth, issued the following news release:
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NEW CFG ACTION AD: Aftyn Behn Backs Rioters, Harasses Law Enforcement
Club for Growth Action released a new ad in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District, hitting self-described radical Aftyn Behn over comments supporting rioters and a recent self-recorded video of Behn harassing ICE Officers and Tennessee State Troopers. The ad is part of a $300,000 investment from Club for Growth Action into the race, and will air during live sports games, streaming platforms, and on addressable
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Club for Growth Action, an arm of the Club for Growth, issued the following news release:
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NEW CFG ACTION AD: Aftyn Behn Backs Rioters, Harasses Law Enforcement
Club for Growth Action released a new ad in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District, hitting self-described radical Aftyn Behn over comments supporting rioters and a recent self-recorded video of Behn harassing ICE Officers and Tennessee State Troopers. The ad is part of a $300,000 investment from Club for Growth Action into the race, and will air during live sports games, streaming platforms, and on addressablesatellite across the district. Club for Growth PAC's affiliated School Freedom Fund invested nearly $1 million ahead of the October 7th special primary election, securing Matt Van Epps' nomination. Club for Growth PAC and President Donald J. Trump have both endorsed Van Epps in the race.
Click here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAHGz9IXChA) to watch the full ad, Joyride, from Club for Growth Action.
TRANSCRIPT:
NARRATOR: Aftyn Behn says:
BEHN: I'm a very radical person.
NARRATOR: So radical, Behn thinks:
BEHN: Rioting is a way for people to express themselves.
NARRATOR: Worse, Behn went on a midnight joyride, harassing ICE Officers and State Troopers.
BEHN: This is great! We've got our girl squad, and we're bullying the ICE vehicles and State Troopers.
NARRATOR: Unhinged.
BEHN: And it's really f*cking scary.
NARRATOR: Stop Aftyn Behn. So radical, it's scary.
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Original text here: https://www.clubforgrowth.org/new-cfg-action-ad-aftyn-behn-backs-rioters-harasses-law-enforcement/
[Category: Political]
$2,000 Checks Could Be Inflationary Just Like The 2020 And 2021 Covid Checks Were
FAIRFAX, Virginia, Nov. 20 -- Americans for Limited Government issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2025:
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$2,000 Checks Could Be Inflationary Just Like The 2020 And 2021 Covid Checks Were
Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump's proposal for $2,000 checks for low and middle income households using tariff revenue:
"The $412.9 billion of checks that were sent out in 2020 on a bipartisan basis during Covid were designed to be inflationary, because they were occurring at a thankfully
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FAIRFAX, Virginia, Nov. 20 -- Americans for Limited Government issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2025:
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$2,000 Checks Could Be Inflationary Just Like The 2020 And 2021 Covid Checks Were
Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump's proposal for $2,000 checks for low and middle income households using tariff revenue:
"The $412.9 billion of checks that were sent out in 2020 on a bipartisan basis during Covid were designed to be inflationary, because they were occurring at a thankfullyin hindsight brief moment of deflation. Oil had dropped to below-zero dollars per barrel as demand collapsed, global production was on its back amid the economic lockdowns and in the U.S., 25 million Americans temporarily lost their jobs in the blink of an eye. But for that bipartisan intervention by Congress and President Trump, including the relief sent to small businesses, and it is entirely possible the U.S. would have found itself in a depression that lasted much longer. Instead, it was a very steep but short-lived recession.
"That said, if the $412.9 billion of checks to households on a bipartisan basis in 2020 were questionable, then the $401.5 billion by then-President Biden and the Democratic Congress on a singularly partisan basis in 2021 was inexcusable, throwing fuel on the fire at a time when the economy was already fully recovering. A part of Biden's American Rescue Plan, Democrats in Congress thought deflation was still a threat, and so those checks too were designed to be inflationary, and boy were they as demand came back rapidly while global supplies were still on their pandemic footing. By June 2021, inflation was up to 5.4 percent. By December 2021, inflation was up to 7 percent before peaking at 9.1 percent in June 2022. The checks and all of the other interventions over those two years played a substantial role in increasing the money supply by $6.3 trillion from February 2020 to March 2022, most of which occurred by January 2021.
"We'll never know the counterfactual of what might have happened had there been no more checks in 2021. What's important is the checks were sent out, and four years later, the American people are still paying for them.
"Today, there is no deflationary threat, although we might be in a prolonged slowdown with unemployment up 1.6 million since Jan. 2023. This is certainly not the economic emergency seen in 2020, and if anything, we are still experiencing the disinflation from the last spending and borrowing binge. As it is, with the deficit clocking in at $1.77 trillion in 2025 and inflation still cooling, we need another round of $2,000 checks like we need a hole in the head. They might not be intended to be inflationary but that wouldn't change the likelihood that they will be inflationary. We might be better off burning $1 trillion or so in a bonfire to reduce the money supply but my second choice is try to balance the budget, boost production to increase supplies and cut prices, and to boost wages."
For media availability contact Americans for Limited Government at media@limitgov.org.
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Original text here: https://getliberty.org/2025/11/2000-checks-could-be-inflationary-just-like-the-2020-and-2021-covid-checks-were/
[Category: Government/Public Administration]
