Categories Government
Treasury sanctions key actors in Iran\u2019s steel sector https://t.co/NxjgtQr6h2
— Treasury Department (@USTreasury) January 5, 2021
Inside: My Fellow Americans; Digital manorialism vs neofeudalism; SC GOP moots modest improvements to "magistrate judges"; Pavilions replacing union workers with "gig workers"; and more!
Archived at: https://t.co/X4sEk5g09z
#Pluralistic
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My Fellow Americans: Audio, text and commentary for every president's inaugural address.
https://t.co/LR7wvnV8i0
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My Fellow Americans is Yuvraj Sing's open licensed (CC0) /name your price book tracing the histories of US presidential inaugural addresses; it reproduces each address along with a scholarly essay exploring its context.https://t.co/xbfkZNleKS
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 4, 2021
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Digital manorialism vs neofeudalism: Tech companies as warlords with walled gardens.
https://t.co/uQ9rDCA8i3
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These warlords - Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft - all have the best cybermercenaries money can buy stationed at their gates and on their parapets, and they will defend you against anyone the warlord declares to be your enemy.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 4, 2021
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South Carolina GOP moots modest improvements to "magistrate judges": Lewis Carroll was an optimist.
https://t.co/1AQpZYwhOj
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In 2019, @propublica and @postandcourier ran blockbuster investigations into SC's magistrate judges: inexperienced political appointees with no training who held South Carolinians' lives in their hands - and who use the bench to extract bribes, deal in overt racism and worse.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 5, 2021
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Pavilions replacing union workers with "gig workers": Prop 22's other shoe drops.
https://t.co/hlX0A0S96c
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#Prop22 was the most expensive ballot initiative in history: "gig economy" companies firehosed $200m over voters, outspending 48/50 state legislative races on a single question.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 5, 2021
That question: can employers misclassify workers as contractors and escape legal obligations?
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Good God, how frustrating.
Call me with questions, Chris. Happy to fill you in on a decade or so of work on the matter.
The reason I keep thinking about the gallows erected outside the Capitol is that it appeared to be *an actual gallows*, with a noose and a platform. And I truly wonder if this was intended for something more than just...symbolism. pic.twitter.com/QIAHvO69Ou
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 9, 2021
“Zip-ties: what are they for?”
Layoff the cops, you guys - they really want to get to the bottom of this for us pic.twitter.com/IyQ5rnyJiM
— Provost of Antifa / \u0633\u064a\u062f\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0641\u062a\u0646\u0629 (@MsEntropy) January 10, 2021
Twitter is infested with some of the absolute dumbest takes I have ever seen on the issue of white supremacy, insurgency, and political violence.
Please vet your sources.
People are falling for so much utterly ridiculous shit, my God.
Here's the official notification.
Update: Multiple buildings on Capitol Hill reportedly ordered evacuated.
Outside:
Capitol Police are now firing tear gas into the crowd. pic.twitter.com/T0ToS93oyn
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) January 6, 2021
More video:
BREAKING: Trump supporters have breached the Capitol building, tearing down 4 layers of security fencing and are attempting to occupy the building \u2014 fighting federal police who are overrun
— ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ElijahSchaffer) January 6, 2021
This is the craziest thing I\u2019ve ever seen in my life. Thousands, police can\u2019t stop them pic.twitter.com/VVdTUwV5YN
So, if the government has accepted that the bills had these flaws where do those people stand who were defending them as perfect?
— smg (@sialmirzagoraya) December 9, 2020
The eyewash that the proposal is aimed to put better clauses in place. A very nice example is contract farming column itself. GOI proposal suggests that ‘PAN card registration will continue but state govt can register the trader if it WANTS to- literally shifting onus to state.
Another example is that onus is shifted on farmer himself to go to the higher court with his expenses. The trader can choose to go to SDM at primary level. Both the options are kept open. This amendment proposal is literally a joke.
Regarding the MSP, govt proposal nowhere cites that it will be assured at C2+50 formula. It is indicated that a written assurance will be given. This is very ambiguous for govt with legal battery of dozens. And disappointing too.
There are concerns on payment systems that haven’t been addressed in the proposal and have been kept as ‘as per understanding between trader and farmer’. This is ambiguous again. Why isn’t DBT assured at govt agency procurement?