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After scrambling to pay his $50 million plus E. Jean Carroll judgement (so he can appeal) future prisoner Donald Trump will have to do the same but ten times that to keep the State of New York from towing away his buildings. #monopoly (I was listening...
by laloalcaraz
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 11:32 AM PDT
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Reposted from 3 Quarks Daily, 2/19/24 Biden matters because he is taking on the real problems that are wrecking America, the deep structural problems, created over decades, that benefit powerful people who will do anything to prevent change (the way...
by jccayford
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on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 06:32 AM PST
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Top tech executives appeared in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday as a part of a hearing titled “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis.” Senators asked questions of the CEOs of Meta (the parent company of...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 01:25 PM PST
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A Boeing 737-Max9 lost a side door during flight, and commentators in the industry point out the plane manufacturer used to be run by engineers, but now, at the insistence of Wall Street, is run by bean-counters looking out for profits. One of my kids...
by thomhartmann
210 comments
on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 08:45 AM PST
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A new report from progressive UK.-based think-tanks IPPR and Common Wealth says profiteering played a major role in jacking up prices far above the rise in costs, reinforcing a previous but narrower study showing such an impact. Among other things, the...
by Meteor Blades
241 comments
on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 08:07 AM PST
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Reposted from 3 Quarks Daily (Monday, 10/30/23). We think we live in a democracy, though an imperfect one. Every election, our frustrations bubble up in a list of proposed reforms to make our democracy a little more perfect. Usually, changing the...
by jccayford
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on Mon Nov 06, 2023 at 05:29 AM PST
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I live in the Great Northeast, as the local media sometimes calls it. That means in the winter I can expect snow, sometimes in large amounts. (I grew up in western NY and moved east, trading Lake Effect blizzards for Nor’Easters. What a deal!) Well, a...
by xaxnar
277 comments
on Fri Nov 03, 2023 at 05:54 AM PDT
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The FTC has sued Amazon for monopoly practices: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/26/technology/ftc-amazon.html The Google antitrust trial is already underway, and the FTC is suing Meta, too. That is a lot of progress, and to me this is looking like a...
by Mark Wallace
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on Tue Sep 26, 2023 at 10:28 PM PDT
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The Federal Communications Commission will soon announce their plans to reinstate the net neutrality rules that were wiped away by the Trump administration, according to a new report from Bloomberg .
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Sep 26, 2023 at 01:14 PM PDT
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Over the next few years, you’re going to hear a lot about Lina Khan, the Chair of our Federal Trade Commission. One of her jobs is to protect you against the software bullies who beat you up for change. Sometimes they do it so cleverly that you don’t...
by dratler
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on Thu Jun 22, 2023 at 07:25 PM PDT
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The next time you go shopping for food (and all the other things grocery stores in big chains carry) take a moment to think about what you are really paying for. There’s a must-read in The NY Times that explains why the food chain is being exploited by...
by xaxnar
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on Mon May 29, 2023 at 07:52 AM PDT
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On Tuesday, Democratic Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado signed SB23-183, a bill eliminating a 2005 law that had proven to be a telecom-driven obstacle to building municipal broadband. The bill does a couple of things but most importantly, it “enables...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed May 03, 2023 at 03:26 PM PDT
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A federal judge on Friday rejected a motion from Google to toss out the government's antirust case against it. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled the lawsuit alleging Google wields monopolistic power in the world of online advertising can...
by Associated Press
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on Fri Apr 28, 2023 at 10:02 AM PDT
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This is another example of an interesting convergence of history I found while researching for the novel in progress. History may not repeat, as a better writer than I said, but it does rhyme. Proto-industries were just that -- small industries usually...
by angryea
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on Thu Feb 02, 2023 at 09:35 AM PST
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Yesterday I heard a report on NPR on inflation which discussed why it doesn’t seem to be cooling down — and it mentioned what Biden had to say earlier this year.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: While ...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Sep 20, 2022 at 11:31 AM PDT
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Hi all, Wow. Breaking one of my longest diary silences for this (I’ve written ~300 in 15.5 years here). Main reason for the silence is it’s been quite the crazy few months for me. Will try to keep it (uncharacteristically, heh) short. For me personally...
by Assaf
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on Tue Apr 26, 2022 at 07:23 PM PDT
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by yellowdog101
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on Tue Apr 19, 2022 at 07:25 PM PDT
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There seems to be a “consensus” among the “very smart people” that inflation we are seeing is being caused by anything from supply chain bottlenecks to government giving people too much unearned money which is causing them to quit their service jobs...
by ScottNAtlanta
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on Sat Feb 19, 2022 at 08:58 AM PST
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“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not...
by thomhartmann
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on Fri Nov 05, 2021 at 10:03 AM PDT
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Yesterday I posted a diary about Solutionary Rail as a response to the IPCC report. America’s railroad infrastructure could get carbon out of transportation, connect the entire country to clean power, and revitalize the economy while also building for...
by xaxnar
87 comments
on Tue Aug 10, 2021 at 07:37 AM PDT
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