Week 73: Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you,"

" There are 156 instances that  pass us by like these: # 1  Trump’s Department of Homeland Security will monitor 290,000 news sources around the world, and  compile a database of journalists, editors, foreign correspondents, and bloggers to identify top “media influencers;.”# 30  On Monday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said  Trump’s White House is considering using “rescission,” an obscure 1974 law that allows presidents to try to cancel spending approved by Congress, to slash from the budget bill approved last week. #32  NPR reported Kentucky lawmakers signed a measure preventing federally-certified radiologists from judging X-rays in state  black lung compensation claims, leaving it to physicians who typically work for the coal companies.