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Funny how much support these companies need: waivers for environmental and zoning issues, noise and use variances, incentives and tax breaks, special protections, benefits, or exceptions their lobbiests arranged, artificially low minimum wages, artificially high prices, bailouts, special bankruptcy protections, tax laws written just for them, tariffs on international competition, etc etc etc etc etc.

On top of which, various forms of wage theft cost more than all robberies, burglaries and motor vehicle thefts combined, and it's almost never prosecuted (or only in a superficial fines-only way, with no admission of guilt and no jail time). And the exact same thing happens with undocumented labor.

And on top of that is the rollback of hard-won worker protections: states rolling back child labor laws, states saying kids don't need meal breaks, states saying people working outdoors in extreme heat don't need water breaks, etc etc etc etc.

Of course, if you ask the owner, or the CEO, or other people who are benefiting from this system, they'll tell you all about how "they built it with their own hands, from the ground up, with no help from anyone else" ....

“The fair and impartial jury cannot be selected in New York county as evidenced by the extreme difficulty in procuring a venire resulting from the significant bias against President Trump that permeates the jury pool,” they wrote.

Pro tip: if you don't want to be tried by a New York jury, don't commit crimes in New York.

Rich people's yacht money says what?

Maybe I've just been conditioned to suspect Trump grift everywhere, but I suspect Odyssey has some kickback going to Trump.

Good on this man. Also

Police are now investigating how and why Cauchi, who is from the state of Queensland, committed such violence.

Gee, five of the six people he killed were women, and his father said, "He wanted a girlfriend and he has no social skills and he was frustrated out of his brain," but it's such a mystery, I guess we'll never know. ¯(ツ)/¯

Is anyone at all surprised?

Hamas leaders say they waged their Oct. 7 attack on Israel because they believed the Palestinian cause was slipping away, and that only violence could revive it. article

Fuck those genocidal terrorists.

There was a guy on some British panel show (maybe WILTY?) who can rip an apple in half. I keep meaning to try that but I keep forgetting.

investigators have yet to release details about a possible a motive.

I'm pretty sure we can all guess what it is ....

So you have Baraka saying it’s rejected and another un-named official implying talks are still ongoing.

You can reject a specific proposal and still keep talking.

See, if you blow up the entire family, then you don't have to worry about the kids growing up to seek revenge - taps temple. /S

We gave the Republicans a version with everyone they asked for, and they still voted against it.

More crossings are needed, because the infrastructure has been bombed to hell and can't handle anywhere near the traffic if used to.

Fucker DeJoy.

The blue Fugates or Paul Karason?

Republican Rep. Jon Stone’s New Hampshire law enforcement career ended when he threatened to kill fellow police officers in a shooting spree, and murder his chief after raping the chief’s wife and children, all while he was already under scrutiny for his inappropriate relationship with a teen girl, according to the internal investigation reports finally released this week.

“We do everything we can not to harm innocent civilians,”

Press [X] to doubt.

Why do you think the Republicans have been so focused on turning Florida and Texas into such distasteful MAGAt breeding grounds? They know if they lose either one, they're done for.

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