A Louisiana House committee just voted to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks.

They also cut unemployment benefits.

Cruelty is the point.

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An investigation from The Appeal reveals private industry is exploiting incarcerated people with shocking price gouging at prison commissaries.

Denture Cups: Marked up over 600%.
Reading Glasses: Marked up over 500%
Peanut Butter: Marked up over 70%.
theappeal.org/locked-in-pric…

This is such an important story. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 + Ethan Corey on the predatory, unregulated system--fueled by private equity--that forces incarcerated people to pay outrageous prices for everything from reading glasses to deodorant. Great data reporting:
theappeal.org/locked-in-pric…

You should get tax breaks for not driving, for not owning a car, for commuting by public transit. It's a total policy mindfuck that drivers get subsidies for new electric cars ostensibly for the environment but the minimal impact of non-drivers isn't recognized whatsoever.

Fascinating study: Even as Israel has killed more than 33,000 Palestinians, the NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post have used the word “brutal” to describe Palestinians 77% of the time that word has been used, compared to just 23% of the time for Israel.

Donald Trump is, without a doubt, the dumbest person to ever serve as president.

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The only sensible thing to do with Trump's 'Gettysburg, Wow' speech in Pennsylvania was to make a one-minute documentary film of it. These are all his real words. I added some 'bing bongs' at the start. 'Never fight uphill, me boys! Never fight uphill.' #FunWithPhotoshop

New reporting from Responsible Statecraft reveals the F-35 program will now cost more than $2 trillion.

These programs are nothing more than grifts.

See how defense contractors swindle U.S. taxpayers with programs like the F-35 👇

The F-35 program will now cost more than $2 trillion.

That eye-popping price tag has not fixed the maintenance issues plaguing the program, a government watchdog says.

My latest in Responsible Statecraft

responsiblestatecraft.org/f35-cost/

Major media outlets, especially Fox News, did non stop coverage of the rising murder rate in 2020-2021

Now that murder rates are dropping in historic fashion, Fox has moved onto fear mongering about the border.

Listen to Alec Karakatsanis break down how Los Angeles County sold out the county's jail closure plan to surveillance giant Accenture 🔥🔥🔥

Follow #ExposeAccenture to tap-in

Tweet at LACountyBOS LA County CEO LA County Justice, Care & Opportunities Department to demand answers

#ExposeAccenture

Kids are in 'lunch debt' at schools, nobody can afford a house, and homelessness reached a record high last year, but at least we got $2 trillion fighter jets.

The members who voted for this resolution take neither antisemitism nor the First Amendment seriously and should be condemned

The House has passed zero resolutions condemning the killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

77% of Americans want a 4-day workweek.

Even corporate CEOs agree: it's the future.

Workers are 400% more productive than we were in the 1940s. They are also stressed out, anxious, and exhausted.

It's time for a 32-hour workweek with no loss in pay.
cnn.com/2024/04/12/us/…

Check out this video from Brave New Films

Trump... From Those Who Know Him

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Check out this video from Brave New Films

Trump... From Those Who Know Him

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Check out this video from Brave New Films

Trump... From Those Who Know Him

twitter.com/i/status/17476…

Check out this video from Brave New Films

Trump... From Those Who Know Him

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1. Yesterday was the last day for Americans to file their 2023 taxes on time.

What is the biggest difference between Tax Day this year and Tax Day in 1980?

Millionaires pay A LOT LESS.

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