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🎙️ON AIR:

We're talking to two former Federal Trade Commission officials about how loyalty programs exploit consumers, how California is fighting back and how we can stay alert to the pitfalls.

❓What loyalty programs do you use, and have you ever felt used by them?

📻 Listen:
How Loyalty Programs Manipulate Consumers and Steal Personal Data | KQED
We talk about how loyalty programs exploit consumers, how California is fighting back and how we can stay alert to the pitfalls.
www.kqed.org
December 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Today’s @kqedforum.bsky.social particularly good. AI in mental health, loyalty programs. Seems timely with general distrust of both- particularly AI. With phone listening, McDonald’s just pushed a discount on me.
December 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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EXCLUSIVE: Fired DOJ prosecutor Maurene Comey sends message to former colleagues, warning that ‘Fear is the tool of the tyrant.’
Maurene Comey warns her former colleagues: ‘Fear is the tool of the tyrant’
“If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain. Do not let that happen,” she wrote.
www.politico.com
July 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I think Marco Rubio probably needs to be sent back to school.. When you arbitrarily rip up trade agreements, threaten a country, and say you’re going to break it, that’s an act of war. And Canadians have responded in kind.
March 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM