The United States could have simply maintained its 2021 spending and had the largest military spending in the world BY A HUGE MARGIN
But it's never enough. More. More. More.
Yesterday, Congress refused to extend the child tax credit, even after its expiration forced millions of kids into poverty.
Today, the editors of The NY Times decided to platform this former GOP Hill staffer -- a self-described "director of poverty studies and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute," a corporate funded think tank -- to make this disgusting argument pretending that denying help to poor families is good.
Corporate media is a big part of the problem in this country.
BIG NEWS from the @[email protected]: Wells Fargo to pay $3.7 billion for widespread fraud on auto loans & mortgages.
As the agency noted, “Wells Fargo's rinse-repeat cycle of violating the law has harmed millions.”
Consumers deserve more accountability like this!
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Groundwork/status/1605212325090594817
While Starbucks drags its feet on negotiating a union contract, Intelligentsia Coffee reaches a contract for five coffee bars in Chicago
The contract calls for a 14% raise over 2 years, double pay on holidays & starting pay of nearly $18 an hour
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/2022/12/16/23513471/in-a-local-first-workers-at-intelligentsia-coffee-ratify-union-contract
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/greenhousenyt/status/1604853142688043015
#NewUsers now above 5000 per hour.
We are now higher than last week's rate. Mastodon is managing this surge so far. Some servers are lagging. Please be patient as systems administrators manage the situation. It may get worse given the Twitter news.
@mastodon.social, @mastodon.lol, @mastodon.online, @mstdn.social, and now @mas.to closed to new user registrations.
Quick Scan - Mastodon Larger Instances >>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hN-0bNfjaV7UTuLP6eudmXCNNPdeNQoFtbfcqxl4FFQ/edit#gid=0
Fediverse tracker >>> https://mastodon.online/@mastodonuserc[email protected]
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The surge continues.
Averaging 3000 to 4000 new users per hour. Mastodon continues to run pretty smoothly. Over 70,000 new users in the last 24 hours puts us on track for over 80,000 today.
Great appreciation for Mastodon instance operators! Most instances are funded entirely through donations, so if you can swing it, think about supporting your instance. Check out the /about page (eg https://[instance name]/about) for a donation link.
NYT has reported 6.6K U.S. COVID deaths so far this month.
For context, a bad flu season is about 52K deaths between October and May, or roughly 6.5K per month over that period.
Put simply, the COVID-19 pandemic is not over.
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