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Dan Antonowicz

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Professor of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford, CANADA.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/06/2025
In 2022, inspectors described a “cascade of failure” at one foreign factory. The FDA barred it from shipping drugs to the U.S. — then excused more than 20 drugs from the ban, despite risks to consumers.
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Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs
A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.
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Keldon Bester @keldonb.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Canada's Competition Bureau recognizes that our airline market is not delivering for Canadians. CAMP was glad to see our recommendations echoed by the Bureau, but know that there is more work to be done to fix flying in Canada. antimonopoly.ca/statement-ca...
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Statement | Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project welcomes final report of Competition Bureau airline market study - Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project
In the final report of its market study, Canada's Competition Bureau recognizes that the airline market is not delivering for Canadians.
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Dan Antonowicz @dantonowicz75.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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Come Fly With Me: American Delta United Southwest Control 80 Percent of the Market - Corporate Crime Reporter
American, Delta, United and Southwest control 80 percent of the domestic passenger airline market. And one of the least told aviation stories of the 21st century is that somewhere in the early 2000s, ...
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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Mariah Blake on Life and Death In the Age of Forever Chemicals. “We are in the midst of the gravest contamination crisis in human history” www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/mar...
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Mariah Blake on Life and Death In the Age of Forever Chemicals - Corporate Crime Reporter
Mariah Blake’s new book – They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals (Crown, 2025) – is the result of a ten year investigation of the chemical industry’s campaign to hide ...
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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Diquat herbicide poisons the gut, may severely damage other organs, research shows Via @pamelawrites.bsky.social @usrighttoknow.bsky.social usrtk.org/healthwire/d...
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Diquat herbicide poisons the gut, may severely damage other organs, research shows
Diquat, an herbicide banned in Europe but still widely used in the U.S., damages the intestines and the liver, kidney, and lungs, according to a new review of more than 100 studies.
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Keldon Bester @keldonb.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Recently learned that there was a chocolate price fixing case in Canada in the 2000s. Involved major chocolate producers but afaik only Hershey pled guilty. competition-bureau.canada.ca/en/how-we-fo...
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Price-fixing charges stayed in chocolate case
September 10, 2015 — OTTAWA, ON — The Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) entered a stay of proceedings on September 8, 2015 against ITWAL Ltd., Mars Canada Inc., Sandra Martinez and David Gle...
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Tom Goldsmith @tomgoldsmith.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I had a great time chatting to @laurentdcar.bsky.social about his new book "At the Trough: The Rise and Rise of Canada's Corporate Welfare Bums" for the Deep Dives newsletter. We covered a lot of interesting ground. Do check it out! open.substack.com/pub/orbitpol...
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"At the Trough": Laurent Carbonneau on Fixing Canada's Flawed Economic Policy
An interview on why our public services are deteriorating while businesses thrive and how we get better outcomes for Canada.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Hidden fees in live-event ticketing and hotels are now illegal under a Biden-era FTC rule that just took effect. Kudos to former FTC Chair Lina Khan, whose leadership could finally make junk fees a thing of the past.
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Sorry Ticketmaster and Airbnb — America's era of hidden fees is over
Ticketmaster and Airbnb now have to list prices up front, instead of tacking on hidden fees at the end. This new "all-in
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 24/05/2025
In 2020, we launched The Lever from scratch. This week, The Lever won the National Press Club Award & our reporting dominated Capitol Hill in two high profile events. It's been an amazing 5 years. Thanks to our subscribers who make our work possible. We're just getting started.
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American Economic Liberties Project @econliberties.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
"Dozens of mergers in recent years have left us with an oligopoly that makes flying more expensive and treats customer service as an afterthought." @wjm-air.bsky.social in @msnbc.com breaks down how air traffic control failures at EWR are part of a larger issue in American air travel.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
New data finds Americans are more likely to support labor unions over Big Business than at any time in the past 60 years. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power.  If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 23/05/2025
The Lever's audio series MASTER PLAN has just won the 2025 National Press Club Award. The series exposes the secret plot to legalize corruption: MasterPlanPodcast.com This is a huge honor for our newsroom & for independent accountability journalism.
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The Lever Wins The 2025 National Press Club Award
This award is a major milestone not just for The Lever’s newsroom, but for all independent news outlets competing with the world’s biggest media conglomerates.
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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Proximity to Golf Courses and Risk of Parkinson Disease. "These findings suggest that pesticides applied to golf courses may play a role in the incidence PD [Parkinson disease] for nearby residents." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Proximity to Golf Courses and Risk of Parkinson Disease
This case-control of older US adults examines risk of Parkinson Disease by proximity of residence to a golf course.
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NPR @npr.org · 19/05/2025
The children's series has found a new streaming home — Netflix, PBS stations and PBS KIDS will air new episodes on the same day. And Netflix will also run 90 hours from the Sesame Street library.
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How to get to Sesame Street? Kids can now head to Netflix as well as PBS
The children's series has found a new streaming home — Netflix, PBS stations and PBS KIDS will air new episodes on the same day. And Netflix will also run 90 hours from the Sesame Street library.
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 05/05/2025
They say they’re “bringing back jobs,” but what they really want is a desperate, powerless workforce with no healthcare, no unions, and no future — just the way Wall Street likes it… hartmannreport.com/p/the-great-...
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The Great MAGA Job Scam: How Trump is Plotting the New American Sweatshops
They say they’re “bringing back jobs,” but what they really want is a desperate, powerless workforce with no healthcare, no unions, and no future — just the way Wall Street likes it…
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NPR @npr.org · 05/05/2025
The prison on a forbidding island off San Francisco was operated at a prohibitive cost. Now, President Trump says it's time to substantially enlarge and rebuild Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary.
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Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz for the 'most ruthless and violent' prisoners
The prison on a forbidding island off San Francisco was operated at a prohibitive cost. Now, President Trump says it's time to substantially enlarge and rebuild Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 05/05/2025
This is absolutely true. The Lever’s work is pilfered without credit so often I no longer bother to say anything about it. Same goes for so much of the work of so many other independent outlets.
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Plagiarizing Independent Journalists Is Part of Mainstream Media's Business
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
It isn't that America lacks courage. It's that we’ve become so cut off from one another that many of us feel alone, which makes us feel afraid. But when we are surrounded by courageous people, all of us become more courageous.  Courage is contagious.
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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
A good step forward for public health: HHS Secretary RFK Jr. "will direct food manufacturers to phase out eight petroleum-based food dyes that are found in hundreds of thousands of grocery-store staples..." Via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/d...
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RFK Jr. Plans to Phase Out 8 Commonly Used Food Dyes
The petroleum-based dyes are used in hundreds of thousands of items including cereals and sports drinks. The health secretary is expected to release more details on Tuesday.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I’ve been around politics for nearly 50 years, trying my best to stand up for the little guy. But my generation of Baby Boomers failed to stop the bullies. In my new memoir, Coming Up Short, I examine what went wrong — and what our children can do to build a better America.
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Announcing my book
Friends,
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 09/04/2025
I’d like to thank the Denver Nuggets & the Kroenkes for creating drama momentarily distracting many of us from the erasure of everyone’s life savings, the cratering of the economy, the death of the ecosystem & the collapse of civilization. Thank you for your service to Nuggets Nation.
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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Sharing this new article coauthored with @keldonb.bsky.social from the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project on the corporate concentration problem in Canada's food system and the kinds of policies we need to tackle it. With the trade war raging, it's urgent! perspectivesjournal.ca/canada-food-...
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The Monopoly Problem at the Heart of Canada's Food System | Perspectives Journal
While the ongoing cost-of-living crisis facing Canadians has been provoked by recent global events, the consolidation of the Canadian food system has been a long-running and strenuous process.
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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 08/04/2025
More info: www.sevenstories.com/books/4505-c...
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Civic Self-Respect
A inspiring exploration of democracy that separates the concept of a citizen into various roles, providing a clarifying mission to all who read this call to action and civic participation. In this ...
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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 08/04/2025
Civic Self-Respect is out today from @sevenstories.bsky.social. Tune into this week's Ralph Nader Radio Hour where we will be discussing the book and much more.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 26/03/2025
INVESTIGATION: If a company poisons you and thousands of people & covers it up, the company may now be able to create a spinoff that declares bankruptcy & denies victims remuneration - while its billionaire owners keep making money. An insane story.
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The Cover Up Coverup
Warren Buffett’s conglomerate owns a company that profited off a cancer-linked makeup ingredient. Now the firm aims to create a legal precedent — and deny victims remuneration.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
On this day in 1911,146 workers died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. The bosses responsible were never held accountable for the awful working conditions that sparked the blaze. Remember this today as politicians and their corporate backers attack workplace safety.
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NPR @npr.org · 22/03/2025
The heavyweight who lost the "Rumble in the Jungle" to Muhammad Ali before authoring an inspiring second act as a 45-year-old champion and a successful businessman was 76.
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George Foreman, the fearsome heavyweight who became a beloved champion, dies at 76
The heavyweight who lost the "Rumble in the Jungle" to Muhammad Ali before authoring an inspiring second act as a 45-year-old champion and a successful businessman was 76.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 20/03/2025
🚨MUST READ: Warren Buffett’s firm owns a company that profited off a cancer-linked makeup ingredient. Now the company aims to create a legal precedent denying victims remuneration by claiming bankruptcy, despite being owned by Buffett's profitable firm.
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The Cover Up Coverup
Warren Buffett’s conglomerate owns a company that profited off a cancer-linked makeup ingredient. Now the firm aims to create a legal precedent — and deny victims remuneration.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 20/03/2025
So many people worked so hard on this series over almost two years of reporting. What a great honor. If you’re reading this tweet, please spread the word about the series and go listen to it.
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Dan Antonowicz @dantonowicz75.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Warren Buffett’s conglomerate profited off a makeup ingredient linked to cancer. Now its subsidiary is trying to create a legal precedent — and deny victims remuneration. www.levernews.com/the-cover-up...
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The Cover Up Coverup
Warren Buffett’s conglomerate profited off a makeup ingredient linked to cancer. Now its subsidiary is trying to create a legal precedent — and deny victims remuneration.
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 16/03/2025
Per @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social:
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This is how our government has been corrupted:  1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.  2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.  3) Donors make a huge profit.  4) Repeat. For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
addressing Agent Orange is more akin to restitution than charity because the U.S. brought the deadly substance there in the first place www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.
Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic pa...
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 15/03/2025
The Lever celebrates its 5-year anniversary soon. Our outlet was started from scratch. 5 years later, it's a newsroom that routinely breaks open huge stories. Thanks to our paying subscribers who make it possible. I've probably aged 25 years, but it's worth it. Onward.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 16/03/2025
Saturday night at my happy place
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William J. McGee @wjm-air.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Many thx to my colleague & friend @celestepewter.bsky.social for lots of new followers! I have other lives as a novelist, journalist, & teacher. But this page is mostly about fixing airline passenger rights, safety, & competition. I'm the guy outnumbered 5-1 by airline execs at hearings in Congress.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The economy is showing severe warning signs after Trump's first month in office. This shouldn't be surprising. He doesn't understand the economy and tanked pretty much every business he ever touched. youtu.be/zbh9SW5Cgqg?...
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How Trump Killed Every Business He Touched | Robert Reich
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 10/03/2025
"It's really important we get it right for Elon Musk." - a direct quote from Delaware Democratic Gov. Matt Meyer about legislation to shield CEOs from accountability for corporate wrongdoing. You cannot make this up 👇
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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 27/02/2025
Jesse Paris Smith: Happy Birthday to Ralph Nader <3 jesseparissmith.substack.com/p/happy-birt...
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Happy Birthday to Ralph Nader <3
One of our greatest and most brilliant figures, timeless and timely always
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NPR @npr.org · 19/02/2025
Bobby Hull, an electric left-winger known as the 'Golden Jet', marveled hockey fans for his will to win. Named one of the NHL's greatest players, Hull was found to have had CTE after his death.
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Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Hull died with CTE, researchers say
Bobby Hull, an electric left-winger known as the 'Golden Jet', marveled hockey fans for his will to win. Named one of the NHL's greatest players, Hull was found to have had CTE after his death.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 18/02/2025
🚨SCOOP: Trump just took the first step to roll back the landmark 55-year-old law that allows local communities to fight back against polluters. The regulatory filing about the National Environmental Policy Act was quietly posted over the weekend.
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Trump Moves To Kill The Environmental Magna Carta
Administration officials just filed a rule to defang the 1970 National Environmental Policy Act — the statute that lets communities protect themselves from polluters.
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NPR @npr.org · 18/02/2025
Authorities said that there were no fatalities, but at least 18 people sustained injuries when the regional jet overturned while landing at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on Monday.
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A Delta Air Lines jet flips upside down on a Toronto runway and all 80 aboard survive
Authorities said that there were no fatalities, but at least 18 people sustained injuries when the regional jet overturned while landing at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on Monday.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Trump and the GOP are trying to repeal a Biden admin rule that requires lead water pipes to be replaced. Tens of millions of people, including children, would continue to have contaminated drinking water if the rules are revoked. So the GOP is the party of lead poisoning now?
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Republicans move to repeal lead limits imposed by Biden-era rules
US government would be prohibited from ever mandating lead pipe replacement or lowering lead limits in water
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hclark @hclark.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A drum worth banging every election. Whoever you support -- don't forget to vote! ottawacitizen.com/news/ontario... #OntarioElection #onpoli
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Ontario voter turnout hit a record low in 2022. Will this election be any different?
The last time Ontarians went to the polls, the province recorded the lowest voter turnout in its election history.
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NPR @npr.org · 04/02/2025
A man who was arrested with over 100 dogs and equipment at his Georgia home got the maximum sentence last week. Prosecutors hope it sheds light on the prevalence of dogfighting, a felony in the U.S.
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A man was sentenced to 475 years for dogfighting. The sport is surprisingly prevalent
A man who was arrested with over 100 dogs and equipment at his Georgia home got the maximum sentence last week. Prosecutors hope it sheds light on the prevalence of dogfighting, a felony in the U.S.
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NPR @npr.org · 04/02/2025
Big insurance companies have pulled back from California, forcing thousands to turn to insurers of last resort. Fire victims say the limited policies will make recovery and rebuilding more difficult.
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Before they lost their homes in the LA fires, many lost their insurance
Big insurance companies have pulled back from California, forcing thousands to turn to insurers of last resort. Fire victims say the limited policies will make recovery and rebuilding more difficult.
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Denise Hearn @denisehearn.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
A lot to say about yesterday, but today I'm frustrated that over the last 4 years, many liberals, & those in the sustainability movement, refused to support the administration's efforts to rein in concentrated corporate power which, fused with political power, fundamentally threatened democracy.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
While we're talking national defense, reminder that the US military budget is larger than the military spending of the next nine largest countries combined. Over half goes to private defense contractors. This is the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned of — on steroids
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 08/01/2025
On the rare occasions that I visit the Colorado legislature, I come as a proud member of Nuggets Nation.
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Brandon L Garrett @brandonlgarrett.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Due process in the news : "We are dismayed by President Biden’s decision to block Nippon Steel’s acquisition of U. S. Steel, which reflects a clear violation of due process..." Corporate persons have long had due process rights - including fair opportunities to be heard in gov. proceedings.
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Nippon Steel Corporation and U. S. Steel Condemn U.S. Government’s Unlawful Decision to Block Proposed Acquisition of U. S. Steel
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