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They’re going to bring down prices by allowing big grocery stores to surreptitiously raise prices.

Got it.
New FTC Chair Fighting DEI, Cuts Off Public Comments on Surveillance Pricing
FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya offered a scathing dissenting opinion on the agency's new guidelines.
gizmodo.com
January 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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January 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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It’s ridiculous to suggest that a man who filled his website with Holocaust deniers, agreed with an antisemitic conspiracy theory, & helped elect another man who hosted a Holocaust denier for dinner & just pardoned a guy in a Camp Auschwitz T-shirt was doing a Nazi salute.
January 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has finalized a rule to remove medical debt from credit reports.

Millions of Americans' credit scores could improve as one of the biggest sources of debt is taken off reports.

abcnews.go.com/US/new-feder...
New federal rule will remove medical debt from credit reports
A new rule on medical debt could affect millions of Americans' credit scores.
abcnews.go.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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I used to think that when global warming truly began to bite, deniers would face reality & we could act. Now I think it's more likely it will lead to a kind of fascism that will respond to global warming by, like, executing everyone who says global warming is real.
January 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Los Angeles received just 0.16 inches of rain since May 2024, the second-driest period on record.

Wildfires are now engulfing the city in January.

But some politicians still claim the climate crisis is a "hoax" as they do the bidding of Big Oil.

What planet are they living on?
LA's wildfires sparked by rare collision of climate factors
Extremely dry conditions and an hurricane force winds are overlapping unusually late in the year.
www.axios.com
January 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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"It’s this kind of convergence of big-business desire and establishment acquiescence with Trumpian ascent that’s exactly the kind of dynamic that plunges democracies into fascism."
prospect.org/economy/2025...
Michael Barr Hands the Fed’s Financial Regulation Powers to Trump
The Fed’s vice chair of supervision is stepping down to avoid a fight with the incoming president.
prospect.org
January 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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It would be good if more people knew this fact
January 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Breaking: An Israeli drone strike in the village of Tamoun in the northern West Bank killed three people, including two children—8-year-old Reda Ali Basharat and 10-year-old Hamza Ammar Basharat—and young man Adam Khair al-Din Basharat.
January 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM