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Systems thinker, Map and snail mail geek, art lover, Proust fan. Senior Librarian Emeritus. Retired. Eclectic tastes.

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He is attempting to corrupt the election in every way possible.
Elon Musk promises to award $1m every day to voters as he steps up campaigning for Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/20/elon-musk-promises-to-award-1m-every-day-to-voters-as-he-steps-up-campaigning-for-trump
Musk pledges $1m each day in apparent bid to galvanize Republican voters

Tesla owner says his America Pac will give money to people who sign petition to support first and second amendments

The Guardian

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.

The billionaire Sackler Family and Purdue Pharma will pay $6B & serve 0 prison for knowingly selling horrendous amounts of OxyContin while claiming it was non-addictive—resulting in 564K+ American deaths by Opioid overdose.😓 And that doesn’t even begin to contemplate the global harm and deaths the Sackler family caused.

And for all that suffering and atrocity—not one person will go to prison. Not one.

“If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the poor.”

Domestic terrorist Daniel Perry shot a BLM protester four times in the chest. He wrote about wanting to kill BLM protesters beforehand. He later admitted to killing a homeless man

And now it’s discovered he was texting children for sex

This is the man Greg Abbott wants to pardon.

This is Texas.

https://www.texasobserver.org/daniel-perry-pardon-greg-abbott-garrett-foster/

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/14/us/daniel-perry-racist-comments-social-media/index.html

Abbott Aims to Pardon Racist Murderer Who Sent Explicit Texts to Apparent Minor

Greg Abbott didn't even wait a single day before calling for the potential pardon of racist murderer Daniel Perry.

The Texas Observer

Elon Musk lost $13 billion in 24 hours on Thursday, and he’s still the world’s second richest person

Don't tell me billionaires can't afford a wealth tax.

WaPo piece by Aaron Blake https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/17/fox-news-most-trusted-ad-poll/

On Fox "News" ad in the NYT.

"While 30 percent of Americans considered it at least “trustworthy,” more than 4 in 10 labeled it “untrustworthy.” Its negative-14 split on trustworthiness vs. untrustworthiness was worse than every other TV news outlet, and it was also worse than 20 of the other 21 media outlets tested. Fox nipped only the conservative news site Breitbart, which came in at negative-15."

Fox News claims to be the ‘most trusted.’ Is it?

Fox is the outlet the most people cite as their most trusted. But broadly speaking, among all Americans, it has ranked toward the bottom on trust.

The Washington Post
Fox News claims to be the ‘most trusted.’ Is it?

Fox is the outlet the most people cite as their most trusted. But broadly speaking, among all Americans, it has ranked toward the bottom on trust.

The Washington Post

Major new story today from @ProPublica: Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From GOP Donor

Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow

Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire

Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge.

ProPublica
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Brownstein: McGill's first Black dean wants 'to give out keys to once locked doors' https://flip.it/jQQLdn
Brownstein: McGill's first Black dean wants 'to give out keys to once locked doors'

Dr. Yolande E. Chan, dean of McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management, says her goal is "to have the person behind me do better than I’ve done."

Montreal Gazette