The biggest pharmacy benefit managers are profiting by systematically underpaying independent drugstores, creating “pharmacy deserts” across the country. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/business/drugstores-closing-pbm-pharmacy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Ron DeSantis' administration is threatening criminal penalties, including jail time, against TV stations that air this 30-second spot in support of Amendment 4, the abortion rights initiative. Watch the ad that DeSantis is trying to ban: https://t.co/349mSAKpZ1
Peter Gleick“We have always built where we wanted to build, let people move where they want to move, and hoped we would find the resources to satisfy their demands,” Peter Gleick, co-founder and senior fellow at the Pacific Institute, a nonprofit research group in Oakland, said in an interview. “We’re now running up against a difficult reality: the realization there isn’t necessarily enough #water to meet whatever demands we might have in the future.”
Sean O’Brien Walked Right Into It
The Teamsters’ leader should never have lent his credibility to Trump’s project.
By Adam Serwer https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/teamster-union-trump/679513/
The Teamsters’ leader should never have lent his credibility to Trump’s project.
By Adam Serwer https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/teamster-union-trump/679513/
The Baltimore Sun Guild is demanding the newspaper stop publishing journalism they say does not meet Sun or industry standards, including wire copy from “questionable” services. https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/baltimore-sun-guild-david-smith-YWLM2SDKCRHHLOUSZMUGZIXHGE/
The Olympics needed a reset. Merci to Paris for providing it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2024/08/11/paris-olympics-reboot/
Farewell to The Crown, a sanctuary for Baltimore’s underground music scene https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/crown-sanctuary-artists-5PHAU4CX7VBXBFYCLKXPYHEZ3M/
The thousands of Israeli attacks since October have far outnumbered Hezbollah attacks into Israel, according to data collected by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, a nonprofit that studies world conflicts. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/08/world/middleeast/israel-lebanon-destruction.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
China has moved thousands of people to new settlements on its frontiers. It calls them “border guardians.” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/10/world/asia/china-border-villages.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
The GOP group behind Project 2025 floats conspiracy theory that Biden will use 'force' to keep power.
It instructs the public to “reflexively disbelieve and challenge the intelligence community’s allegations regarding Trump, foreign interference, and Republican efforts to legally win the White House.” https://apnews.com/article/3056df8a1ea882e23f8e2faf2eff7a3b
It instructs the public to “reflexively disbelieve and challenge the intelligence community’s allegations regarding Trump, foreign interference, and Republican efforts to legally win the White House.” https://apnews.com/article/3056df8a1ea882e23f8e2faf2eff7a3b
The GOP group behind Project 2025 floats conspiracy theory that Biden will use 'force' to keep power
A conservative think tank that is planning a complete overhaul of the federal government in the event of a Republican presidential win is suggesting that President Joe Biden might try to hold the White House “by force” if he loses the November election. The Heritage Foundation’s warning — which goes against Biden’s own public statements — appeared in a report released Thursday that the group said resulted from a role-playing exercise gaming out potential scenarios before and after the 2024 election. The Biden campaign denounced the report and said it was intended to undermine faith in the election.