It’s always, always, always projection with these people.
— Read on abovethelaw.com/2022/05/pretty-weird-how-republican-megadonors-keep-getting-popped-for-being-unregistered-chinese-agents-huh/
Category Archives: Toxic C word
Senate Republicans Want Your Cleaning Lady to Pay Income Tax, But Not FedEx
Dwindling revenues from corporate taxes are beggaring the Treasury, and the GOP doesn’t care.
— Read on newrepublic.com/article/166537/senate-republicans-corporate-taxes-dwindling
Meat industry hyped ‘baseless’ shortage to keep plants open amid covid
A House panel alleges that industry players heavily prepared a draft that became the basis for an executive order the Trump White House issued in April 2020.
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/05/12/meatpackers-covid-deaths-trump-industry/
Katie Porter goes after Trump, uncovering potential bribery scheme
For the first time in history, the House Natural Resources Committee made a criminal referral with the Justice Department. That’s after a three-year investigation by Democrats revealing evidence of possible donations to the Trump campaign in exchange for federal government approval of Arizona real estate deals. Calling this “egregious,” Rep. Katie Porter tells MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, this shows the importance of Congress “reestablishing the rule of law and the expectation that administration officials are going to follow it.”
— Read on www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/katie-porter-goes-after-trump-uncovering-potential-bribery-scheme-139831365638
‘Forever chemicals’ may have polluted 20m acres of US cropland, study says
PFAS-tainted sewage sludge is used as fertilizer in fields and report finds that about 20m acres of cropland could be contaminated
— Read on www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/08/us-cropland-may-be-contaminated-forever-chemicals-study
A handful of men in adtech are planning to get rich off selling the data of any woman attempting to secure an abortion directly to law enforcement.
A handful of men in adtech are planning to get rich off selling the data of any woman attempting to secure an abortion directly to law enforcement.
— Read on threadreaderapp.com/thread/1521581893438754817.html
He Is So Thirsty — Elon Musk Tells AOC ‘Stop Hitting on Me’ After She Derides Billionaires
Earlier in the week, billionaire Elon Musk began his Twitter antics and has since gained over 2.5 million followers after a string of joke tweets.
— Read on www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-tells-aoc-stop-hitting-me-after-she-derides-billionaires-1702386
Rating agency warns Disney debt conflict could ‘weaken’ other Florida government bonds
Fitch Ratings said it expects the state and Disney to work out the problems with dissolving Reedy Creek Improvement District but warns what failure to do so could mean.
— Read on www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article260873762.html
Look at All These Companies Bankrolling Republican Jan. 6 Apologists
Exclusive: A slew of Fortune 500 companies have donated millions to Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 election results.
— Read on www.vice.com/en/article/5dgvaz/corporations-jan-6-gop-donations
Deutsche Bank whistleblower found dead in LA’s Lincoln Park
A self-described “comically terrible spy” who is believed to have worked with federal authorities investigating the activities of Deutsche Bank and its ties with former President Donald Trump was found […]
— Read on www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/deutsche-bank-whistleblower-found-dead-in-la-s-lincoln-park/ar-AAWClBe
“Time for Big Oil to stop lying”: Oil execs got huge pay days while hiking gas prices on consumers
Bonuses alone for executives at 28 of the top oil and gas companies combined topped $31 million combined
— Read on www.salon.com/2022/04/27/time-for-big-oil-to-stop-lying-oil-execs-got-huge-pay-days-while-hiking-gas-prices-on-consumers_partner/
Facebook Still Allowing Baseless Mayim Bialik ‘Allegations’ Ads, Despite Reassurances from Meta
Despite previous reassurances from Meta, Facebook users are continuing to report seeing scammy ads with pictures of the “Jeopardy” co-host that lead users to CBD gummies scams.
— Read on www.snopes.com/news/2022/04/25/facebook-bialik-allegations/
‘Bossware is coming for almost every worker’: the software you might not realize is watching you
Computer monitoring software is helping companies spy on their employees to measure their productivity – often without their consent
— Read on www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/27/remote-work-software-home-surveillance-computer-monitoring-pandemic
EXCLUSIVE: The *Real* Reason Jared Kushner was Given $2 Billion to Invest by MBS
On Monday, I wrote about the staggering sum of $2 billion entrusted by the Saudi investment fund PIF to Jared Kushner’s new fund, Affinity Partners—reportedly at the behest of Saudi Crown Prince MBS over objections by a panel of financial advisers who highlighted Kushner’s lack of track record. I reported that the money was possibly both an IOU for sympathetic foreign policy led by Kushner during the Trump years and also a bet by MBS on a return to the White House by Kushner’s father-in-law, Donald Trump.
— Read on vickyward.substack.com/p/exclusive-the-real-reason-jared-kushner
Amid hopes and fears, a plastics boom in Appalachia is on hold
The Ohio River Valley is wrestling with whether to tie its fortunes to another toxic, boom-and-bust industry.
— Read on grist.org/climate/amid-hopes-and-fears-a-plastics-boom-in-appalachia-is-on-hold/
Reminder, Thanks To The GOP, Corps Are Humans Too — Florida’s Disney district crackdown may violate First Amendment, legal experts say
One law professor said if the bill was a direct result of Disney’s political speech, it’s ‘highly likely to be unconstitutional.’
— Read on www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2022/04/23/floridas-disney-district-crackdown-may-violate-first-amendment-legal-experts-say/
New York Attorney General Letitia James says contempt order needed because of “Trump’s intransigence”
Trump failed to meet a court-ordered March 31 deadline to turn over subpoenaed material.
— Read on www.cbsnews.com/news/letitia-james-new-york-attorney-general-donald-trump-subpoena-contempt-order/
Opinion | Billionaires Do Not Give Anything to Society—They Take From It | Jorge Majfud
The rich do not compete; they destroy the competition. The rich do not create wealth; they accumulate it. The rich do not create knowledge; they kidnap it. The rich do not create ideas; they demonize them.
— Read on www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/22/billionaires-do-not-give-anything-society-they-take-it
Toxic Big Brother — Anomaly Six Demo’d Surveillance Powers by Spying on CIA
Anomaly Six, a secretive government contractor, claims to monitor the movements of billions of phones around the world and unmask spies with the press of a button.
— Read on theintercept.com/2022/04/22/anomaly-six-phone-tracking-zignal-surveillance-cia-nsa/
How Florida’s Disney-Loving Corporate Welfare Helps Crush Real Market Freedom
How Florida’s Disney-Loving Corporate Welfare Helps Crush Real Market Freedom – OpEd – Eurasia Review
— Read on www.eurasiareview.com/22042022-how-floridas-disney-loving-corporate-welfare-helps-crush-real-market-freedom-oped/