For several years we’ve noted how most of the calls to ban TikTok are bad faith bullshit made by a rotating crop of characters that not only couldn’t care less about consumer privacy, but are directly responsible for the privacy oversight vacuum TikTok (and everybody else) exploits.
Rubio’s Bill To Ban TikTok Is A Dumb Performance That Ignores The Real Problem
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In 1961, Dwight Eisenhower famously identified the military-industrial complex, warning that the growing fusion between corporations and the armed forces posed a threat to democracy. Judged 50 years later, Ike’s frightening prophecy actually understates the scope of our modern system—and the dangers of the perpetual march to war it has put us on.
The Tyranny of Defense Inc.
A showdown over a looming railroad strike heads to the Senate floor this week, after a group of progressive Democrats, led by Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., pushed to modify a tentative agreement to include seven days of sick leave. The expanded agreement passed the House 220-206 on Wednesday, and the fight now moves to the Senate, where it remains unclear if there is enough Republican support to overcome a filibuster and send the agreement to President Joe Biden’s desk.
Railroads Have Invested Heavily in Congress. They Need Their Payoff in the Senate.
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Why America’s Railroads Refuse to Give Their Workers Paid Leave
The answer, in short, is “P.S.R.” — or precision-scheduled railroading
President Biden published a statement Monday night calling on Congress to intervene to block a national rail strike and impose a contract which tens of thousands of railroad workers voted down. A few hours later, outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House of Representatives would take up such a bill this week and send it to the Senate with the “hope that this necessary, strike-averting legislation will earn a strongly bipartisan vote…”
Biden calls on Congress to impose rail contract in a major assault on workers’ democratic rights
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II has been available for less than three weeks, but it is already making waves. Breaking records, within ten days, the first-person military shooter video game earned more than $1 billion in revenue. Yet it has also been shrouded in controversy, not least because missions include assassinating an Iranian general clearly based on Qassem Soleimani, a statesman and military leader slain by the Trump administration in 2020, and a level where players must shoot “drug traffickers” attempting to cross the U.S./Mexico border.
Call of Duty is a Government Psyop: These Documents Prove It
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Spies Infiltrate a Fantasy Realm of Online Games (behind a paywall)
Just some notes, for myself:
Read More »The hashtag #RipTwitter was trending on the platform on November 17 after a new wave of employee departures.
Elon Musk Posts Photo of Twitter’s Funeral
I wasn’t online, today, so not quite sure all of what happened but the memes are quite funny!
Video via Democracy At Work
Maybe you are one of the 26 million people who have applied to have their student debt reduced or eliminated entirely. You probably breathed a sigh of relief when you hit “Submit,” knowing that, in the new year, you’ll have an easier time paying rent, buying food, or maybe saving to buy a home or for retirement.
Biden Can Still Counter the Bogus Right-Wing Student Loan Lawsuits
U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday called on oil and gas companies to use their record profits to lower costs for Americans and increase production, or pay a higher tax rate, as he battles high pump prices with elections coming in a week.
Biden calls on oil, gas companies to stop ‘war profiteering,’ threatens windfall tax
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