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Finally, evidence of waste emerges in connection with USAID. Oh, but it's waste CAUSED by President Trump and Elon Musk's assault on a humanitarian agency.
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“Several lawyers who have had business before the supreme court…paid money to a top aide to Justice Clarence Thomas, according to the aide’s Venmo transactions. The payments appear to have been made in connection to Thomas’s 2019 Christmas party.” theguardian.com/us-news/2023…
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This guy's worth about $40 million, and took over $300k in PPP loans from the government just a few years back.
He asked the government to waive his loans, and indeed, his future loan payments were canceled.
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The current economic system keeps the attention on what we can count (profits) rather than on what we most value (our children’s health and education, the quality of the air we
breathe, just compensation to the poorest, etc.). #ManifestoMonday #Mondaymotivation
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In a historic first, Black women swept the All-Around podium at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships. 🥇 Konnor McClain, 🥈Shilese Jones,🥉Jordan Chiles. THIS is the legacy of Gabby Douglas, Simone Biles, Dominique Dawes and so many other trailblazers who trained and stood alone.
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Bloomberg via a John Ellis News Item: "Big Oil is raking in historic amounts of cash, but the windfall isn’t invested in new production to help displace Russian oil and gas. Instead, execs are rewarding shareholders -- setting up an even tighter energy market in the yrs ahead."
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Hey Republicans, if you’re sick of people mouthing off about social justice, advocating for the poor and commanding us to welcome refugees and stuff, you’re really gonna hate this book called The New Testament. The lead character is super woke and just won’t shut up about it.
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Read this folks!
You agreed to what?
Launching a new kind of tech review @washingtonpost today: We read privacy policies so you don’t have to.
First up: Turbo Tax & H&R Block, which want to use your tax return for themselves.
You should definitely click no to this one: wapo.st/366PenP
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No one I interviewed was suggesting that companies not make a profit. Problem 1: profits as a % of all revenues have been rising for years as wages as a % have been falling. Problem 2: the profits are being used these days on stock buybacks, not investments to build the firm.
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True story:
Yesterday my phone rang and a woman asked me to donate to @UofPenn
I paused. I laughed. I said:
@MFierceton - period.
Do right by her & never call me again.
The woman paused. She said “I’m a student here. And I agree.”
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Sculptor Bruno Catalano
The sculpture is dedicated to #emigrants leaving their #homeland... with emptiness inside and going nowhere
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“The Academy does not condone violence in any form.”
“Lest we forget,” writes @phillipstribune, “the Academy has a pretty solid record of condoning violence in many forms.”
#Oscars #Oscars2022 #WillAndChris chicagotribune.com/entertain…
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🧵/Ford's $5.6B investment in west Tennessee has gotten pulled into a controversial move by the state's Comptroller to take financial control of a small, predominantly Black town, just miles from the future home of Blue Oval City.
detroitnews.com/story/busine… via @detroitnews
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Hertz Is Even Sending People To Jail That Never Rented Cars From Them - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/hertz-is…
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As you watch the Beijing Olympic opening ceremony, know it is little more than a grand illusion to try to distract us from China’s awful human rights abuses. We journalists should mention this issue every day. I’ll do my best to do that.
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Shame falls on a party that would censure persons of conscience, who seek truth in the face of vitriol. Honor attaches to Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for seeking truth even when doing so comes at great personal cost.
