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can someone explain to me how and why a bookstore owns the james bond franchise?

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$823 million for CFPB that keeps companies obeying the law and that's returned $20 billion back to cheated consumers? nah. $175 billion for border agents and $150 billion in new military spending? brilliant! let's do it. www.npr.org/2025/02/12/n... #cfpb

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theory-induced blindness: Once you have accepted a theory and used it as a tool in your thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult to notice its flaws www.npr.org/2025/02/11/g... @npr.org #freetrade

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Competition and openness, not centralization, drive innovation www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...

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new post for the Decentralized Economy newsletter is out newsletter.employbl.com/p/key-accomp...

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On his orders, his henchmen murdered my former colleague and chopped up his body with a bone saw.

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straight analysis of what's going on with tiktok usa www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...

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another banger by @matthewstoller.bsky.social www.thebignewsletter.com/p/antitrust-...

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The future of AI is whatever makes them the most money.

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where does the new york times even find these people

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We have to tolerate everyone having guns because it’s essential to have the right to resist a tyrannical government but also if you hold one of those guns when the government breaks into your house in the middle of the night they can shoot you.

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I support this. Who wouldn’t?

submitted 54 days ago • 1205 comments

i think this is pretty much right. not a shock that the political economy of apartheid south africa produced a bunch of reactionaries who hope to replicate that political economy for the 21st century www.ft.com/content/cfbf...

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It appears Musk came to US on a student visa, did not attend school and worked illegally here. If he lied in his subsequent immigration applications he committed a felony level crime and could be stripped of his citizenship and security clearances. Musk's brother: "We were illegal immigrants."

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Judge blocks a $8.5 billion dollar fashion merger that would have made Coach, Kate Spade, and Stuart Weitzman, Michael Kors, Jimmy Choo, and Versace part of the same company open.substack.com/pub/mattstol... via @matthewstoller.bsky.social

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FTC's click to cancel rule makes it so companies have to make it as easy to cancel as it is to sign up it took 5 and a half years to become law but now it's in effect www.npr.org/2024/10/16/n... via @npr.org

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outline for next issue of the Decentralized Economy newsletter

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BIG WIN: If you or a loved one have asthma, you may see the price of your inhaler go down. I’ve sounded the alarm about companies like Teva rigging the patent system to keep the price of inhalers high. The FTC is fighting to bring your health care costs down, and winning.

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Between Bethlehem and Nazareth, there are 5 “hard military check points”. If Jesus was born on this day, in Bethlehem, he would be a Palestinian with citizenship to no nation, living under Israeli Military Occupation, and would not be allowed to travel through the West Bank to Nazareth.

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My November 2024 report for sendbroadcast.net 💰 Made 3 sales (prev month 12) 💻 96 commits to project (prev month 506) 🌟 Domain rating +11 📖 Major documentation update 🚀 Added 4 major features • autoresponder • DB backup • email open/click tracking • 1-click installation to VPS

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key part dropped from the spending bill was regulation of U.S. investments in China delauro.house.gov/media-center... #tesla #musk #china @rep-rosa-delauro.bsky.social

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dems: It might not be the message, it might be the policy www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

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Big car companies are making it harder for people to get their car fixed at a local, independent shop – a tactic that lets them jack up the repair price and sell your data for an extra buck. We’re pushing these automakers to stop ripping Americans off. www.theverge.com/2024/12/20/2...

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Amazon and Private Equity for the 1-2 punch www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/de...

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someone has been dropping super old school technical books at the free library on my streetcorner. copyright 1980 and 1989

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how do people build newsletters and email flows into their Laravel apps? #email #laravel

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The White House says RealPage's rental price fixing scheme cost tenants $3.8 billion in 2023. That is a lot of money. www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...

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i've been thinking nonstop recently of this pic i took in Melbourne, Australia 13 years ago Terrorists often wear Suits

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