Elizabeth Warren and other U.S. senators sent letters grilling the nation’s major credit bureaus after a ProPublica investigation revealed two of the companies were fixing fewer consumers’ credit reports under the Trump administration.

https://www.propublica.org/article/credit-report-mistakes-lawmakers-letter?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Credit #Finance #PersonalFinance #Consumer #Trump #Government

BREAKING: In a rare win, SCOTUS grants a stay of the 5th Circuit ruling which banned mailing Mifepristone. Therefore, mail delivery can restart (for now).

Here's an idea—healthcare decisions should be left to medical experts, not to unelected bureaucrats. It would be medical malpractice for me, a lawyer, to prescribe or restrict medication. Why is it okay for a judge to prescribe or restrict medication that a physician deems is necessary? Just absurd.

A binman in Turkey’s capital found a bag of thrown-away books on his rounds and couldn’t bring himself to take it to the dump. He kept it. Other workers started doing the same. The pile has now grown into a public library of over 9,000 books, run by sanitation workers, in an old brick factory 📚

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/15/europe/garbage-collectors-open-library-with-abandoned-books

#Books #Library

It's time to make war profiteers pay, and fund the switch to #renewables

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/call-for-new-taxes-on-fossil-fuel-profits/

The Art of Gerrymandering - visualized

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