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No charges for Oklahoma sheriff who talked of killing journalists, prosecutor says

A sheriff in southeast Oklahoma who was among several county officials caught on tape discussing killing journalists and lynching Black people won’t face criminal charges or be removed from office, the state’s top prosecutor said Friday.

16 WNDU-TV South Bend

Not sure how many people can see this on Twitter anymore, but a reminder that you can help flip Virginia blue this November by donating to these candidates today:

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/vablue23

The old trickle down theory which is really piss on the little people.
GOP/LIBERTARIAN CEOs/mgt. GREED: Simple greed is driving the layoffs -with the TENS of BILLIONS’ worth of stock buybacks the tech cos. auth. last yr. Verge’s Lopatto spoke with IDU analysts: tech cos. are evaluating their bottom lines differently -concluded -doing layoffs mostly bc everyone else is -even though layoffs actually often cost a given co. $. All these layoffs: happening in such rapid succession gives the cos. some cover -making them seem elemental-inevitable-: https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-01-30/column-how-big-tech-is-using-mass-layoffs-to-bring-workers-to-heel
Merchant: Big Tech is using layoffs to crush worker power

Wildly profitable tech companies are citing an as-yet notional recession to make deep workforce cuts. They may have another agenda.

Los Angeles Times

"Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich fused authoritarian nationalism with a Christianity complicit in delusions of racial, moral and global superiority, [John Matthews of the International Bonhoeffer Society] said, warning the symbolism and rhetoric of that time echoes through modern-day Christian nationalism."

#WhiteChristianNationalism #Nazism #Bonhoeffer #Hitler

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🎁 Link -$5.4 billion in covid aid may have gone to firms using suspect Social Security numbers. Anyone surprised???

Think house Republicans on the committee set to have its first hearing on coronavirus related fraud this week will give this any attention?? 🧐
# politics

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/01/30/ppp-covid-fraud-social-security/

$5.4 billion in covid aid may have gone to firms using suspect Social Security numbers

The findings from the nation’s top pandemic watchdog come as House Republicans plan to hold their first hearing this week on covid fraud.

The Washington Post
You all didn't really think he was going to step down as CEO of the bird site, did ya?

In the midst of the climate crisis, the government of Germany wants to evict a small village to expand the dirtiest of all fossil fuels, coal.

Lützerath is the 1.5C limit. Thousands are planning to put their bodies in the way of its destruction. https://luetzerathlebt.info/en/
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RT @JoanieLemercier
If you feel helpless against the fossil fuel destruction, join us in Lützerath from January 12th.

Thousands of people are joining …
https://twitter.com/JoanieLemercier/status/1604853136295743488

Lützerath Lebt – Aktiv gegen Garzweiler

While advising then President Trump on judges, Kellyanne Conway reportedly sold her business to a firm with ties to a judicial activist. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/20/trump-conway-leonard-leo-00074690
While advising Trump on judges, Conway sold her business to a firm with ties to judicial activist Leonard Leo

The move adds to a growing picture of how groups associated with Leo helped advance the conservative legal agenda.

POLITICO
Hit the old proverbial nail on the head.