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Trump’s FTC may impose merger condition that forbids advertising boycotts Report: Proposed condition on ad merger would ban boycotts based on politics.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

16.06.2025 12:24 — 👍 10    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1
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Trump-GOP Tax Law Encourages Companies to Move Jobs Offshore–and New Tax Cuts Won’t Change That New tax cuts to incentivize bringing jobs back to the United States will fail. No new tax provisions can be more generous than the zero percent rate the 2017 law provides for many offshore profits or ...

itep.org/trump-gop-ta...

23.03.2025 12:16 — 👍 17    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0
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From Barry Ritholtz blog:

23.03.2025 11:48 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
Battle without Bullets: The Christian Right and Fourth Generation Warfare What might have seemed to most to be normal, if unusually acrimonious, political aggression was in fact a classic example of a right-wing strategy developed in the late 1980s: Fourth Generation Warfar...

Reference from Barry Ritholtz blog:
politicalresearch.org/2017/08/16/b...

23.03.2025 11:45 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…

Barry Ritholtz reminded me of this Techdirt article. Truth spoken here.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

23.03.2025 11:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Pluralistic: It’s not a crime if we do it with an app (25 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net/2025/01/25/p...

26.01.2025 18:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Threatens Tariffs If EU Doesn’t Buy More US Oil and Gas (Bloomberg) -- Most Read from BloombergNew York City’s Historic Preservation Movement Is Having a Midlife CrisisNYPD Car Chases Are Becoming More Frequent — and More DangerousDakar’s Air Quality Plumm...

It appears the "drill baby drill" move isn't for domestic consumption or lowering gas prices.

21.12.2024 14:02 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Found on Reddit

14.12.2024 01:00 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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Data brokers may be banned from selling your social security number They’d also have to ask for consent before selling your info.

www.theverge.com/2024/12/3/24...

07.12.2024 13:10 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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