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Welcome to Overnight News Digest- Saturday Science. Since 2007 the OND has been a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of science stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with ...
by Rise above the swamp
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 08:59 PM PDT
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A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison. Unmarked trucks ...
by Associated Press
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on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 09:59 AM PST
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by Craig Silverman and Peter Elkind
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by ProPublica
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on Sat Jan 20, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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She had a legal right according to Florida law, was to stand her ground but why was this abuser not arrested? My daughter’s boyfriend;s mother was a victim of road rage in a Walmart parking lot. This is one of the most outrageous things I have heard....
by Vetwife
203 comments
on Sun Dec 17, 2023 at 03:27 AM PST
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MyPillow CEO and quasi-cognizant pornstache mannequin Mike Lindell is still trying to prove the Chinese Communist Party infiltrated our nation’s electronic voting machines to rig the 2020 election for Joe Biden. So far all he’s really proven is that...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Tue Jul 11, 2023 at 11:05 AM 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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by Mark Fiore
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on Fri Apr 14, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
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�Well,�sometimes when you run out of something or must have something NOW, the only winning option is a trek down to the ubiquitous local Wal Mart Wally World.� I think it was picture frames for the ...
by pholkiephred
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on Wed Feb 01, 2023 at 11:26 AM PST
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Christmas stuff at Walmart is now 75% off. A lot of other stuff is now marked down too. What does that tell you about their ‘low’ prices, and the crap wages they pay because they ‘have to’ keep them down to give Americans ‘cheap’ stuff? What does it...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Jan 03, 2023 at 11:02 AM PST
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Because dirt just isn’t that smart but will be on the next Congress’s House Oversight committee. Selling sex toys openly where children are exposed to them is wrong, inappropriate, immoral, indecent, perverted, shameful, and incredibly harmful to...
by annieli
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on Sat Dec 17, 2022 at 01:52 PM PST
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A new congressional report was released analyzing the structural inequalities present during the COVID-19 pandemic. More specifically, the report shows that racism is alive and well in the workplace and in who is afforded economic grace at times of...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Nov 21, 2022 at 03:03 PM PST
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Rick Wartzman examines how improvements in pay by the retail giant fall far short of what society owes workers.
By� Peter Hong , for Capital and Main
In 2003, Rick Wartzman was ...
by Capital and Main
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on Sat Nov 26, 2022 at 08:20 AM PST
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Oh, Walmart. Perpetually evil. Even after seven years, a 2015 story in Salon titled “10 reasons Wal-Mart is the worst company in America” remains an evergreen explainer worth sending to anyone wondering why so many people refuse to shop at the gigantic...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Mon Nov 07, 2022 at 03:02 PM PST
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The election makes it unlikely this diary will be seen by many, but I still wish to relate this experience as I believe we all have a responsibility to stand up to racism when we see it. The best way to tell this tale is through the review I left on...
by CinDan
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on Sun Nov 06, 2022 at 03:26 PM PST
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According to the 1935 New Deal National Labor Relations Act, employers are prohibited from interfering with the right of workers to organize labor unions. Unfair labor practices include firing pro-union employees or threatening to close a workplace if...
by Alan Singer
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on Sun Aug 21, 2022 at 04:22 PM PDT
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I don’t know about you, but I’ll take comedy anyplace I can find it. Lauren Boebert won her primary and so did a number of other MAGAs. The backstory is that Mike Lindell caught one of Ursula’s pieces about him back in Spring of 2021. He went bonkers...
by dsnottselliott
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on Wed Jun 29, 2022 at 10:52 AM PDT
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Sweet Schadenfreude! Irate Mike Lindell on Walmart dropping MyPillow: "Shame on you, Walmart! You're disgusting!" By CARLA SINCLAIR It looks like Mike Lindell's pillow empire as finally lost all its stuffing, as the MyPillow peddler announced last...
by Lefty Coaster
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on Thu Jun 16, 2022 at 02:50 PM PDT
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Walmart found itself in hot water after an attempt to co-opt the Juneteenth holiday—a move designed to sell red-velvet-and-cheesecake ice cream. After outrage erupted on social media when a photo of the ice cream went viral, the company has been forced...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Tue May 24, 2022 at 12:48 PM PDT
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At the always-valuable Popular Information, Judd Legum and Rebecca Crosby present a list of just 13 companies that have forked over $15 million to Republican committees during and after the Trump era, thus becoming prime funders of the party's...
by Hunter
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on Wed May 04, 2022 at 11:32 AM PDT
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Walmart, the original big-box vendor based in Bentonville, Arkansas, has always looked for ways to promote its wholesome family image. Sure, there are plenty of stories about Walmart killing communities and small businesses. Boy, though, one thing they...
by Christopher Reeves
85 comments
on Wed Apr 27, 2022 at 09:44 AM PDT
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