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Hoover was beholden to plutes, had a cabinet full of them, turned over the nation's treasury to a sociopathic monster called Andrew Mellon whose stated ambition was to own all the world's aluminum.
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Last July, the Epleys bought the house Warren rents from a Citibank exec called Brandt Portugal.
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Warren continued sending rent checks to the Epleys, but they claimed the certified letters never arrived - so they served him with eviction papers.
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On the one hand, this is a spicy story about small town politics, but on the other, it's a tale of how money becomes power becomes corruption.
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The Epleys are why Reagan and Bork were wrong: wealth concentration was never solely (or even primarily) an economic matter.
It's always been political.
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https://t.co/GbAqYGdMSZ
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Inside: Criti-Hype; Right to Repair is back for 2021; The free market and rent-seeking; and more!
Archived at: https://t.co/pXnzoWKJn2
#Pluralistic
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Criti-Hype: Tech bros will settle for "evil genius."
https://t.co/OyiM1vUS8Y
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There's a Yom Kippur joke I love: the rabbi and the richest man in town are praying, "Oh Lord, I am nothing, I am nothing!"
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) February 2, 2021
The synagogue's janitor sees them and joins in: "I am nothing!"
The richest man says to the rabbi: "Look who thinks he's nothing."
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Right to Repair is back for 2021: Will Apple sabotage this one too?
https://t.co/3gcyEZQWfk
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2018 was almost the year we won the #RightToRepair.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) February 2, 2021
Instead, 2018 turned out to be the year we lost #R2R: 20 bills defeated in 20 state houses, and it was mostly @apple's fault.
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The free market and rent-seeking: Unauthorized bread and poor doors.
https://t.co/7Ob6AdmkDz
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When you hear the phrase "free market," you probably think of "a market that is free from regulation" but that's the opposite of the phrase's original meaning!
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) February 2, 2021
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#10yrsago Diane Duane’s crowdfunded publishing experiment finally concludes https://t.co/qsRnZxiL8b
#10yrsago Inside Sukey, the anti-kettling mobile app https://t.co/puGNKw5XgF
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Inside: Mexican indigenous telco wins spectrum fight; How apps steal your location; Understanding /r/wallstreetbets; Knowledge is why you build your own apps; and more!
Archived at: https://t.co/6BOyhL3tEj
#Pluralistic
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Join me this afternoon for the launch of the print edition of my 2020 book HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM!
https://t.co/8Op6IEocPB
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Mexican indigenous telco wins spectrum fight: First Nations treaties do not sign away electromagnetic franchises.
https://t.co/BBsxXuGQe3
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In the early 2000s, dramatic shifts in radio spectrum allocation for mobile data applications, combined with advances in radio transmission and receiving prompted some networking engineers to propose a radical rethink of radio.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 27, 2021
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How apps steal your location: A deep dive into the murky depths of surveillance markets.
https://t.co/mV7u2FYylT
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A new research report from @seanodiggity and @expressvpn in honor #DataPrivacyDay reveals the incredible extent of commercial location tracking hidden in everyday apps.https://t.co/eKRquZjxP7
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 28, 2021
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Understanding /r/wallstreetbets: More than a bull run, a symbiosis of a market maker and market destroyers.
https://t.co/7zr1N4vkjV
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There is no shortage of takes about what's going on with Gamestop (and other surging stocks), Robinhood and Reddit's r/wallstreetbets, many of them contradictory - at least on the face of them. But I think it's possible for most of these takes to be right. Here's how.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 28, 2021
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We have watched and waited too long for the government to punish. It never happens and even in some cases it does it lakes too long,and many more crimes are done in the meantime. Quick justice like this is the best way out.
— Ratna murlidharan (@Ratnamurlidhar2) January 2, 2021
In other words, what do governments prefer - looking away the other side when law is broken with impunity in the fear that acting against the offender will lead to large scale rioting on the roads?
Or will the government gear up to uphold the sanctity of law and punish every single one trying to break it? There are many examples. Take the Tablighi Wuhan Wave. Or Bangalore Riots. Or the destruction of Temples in Andhra.
Now, if the perpetrators are punished, there is going to be large scale rioting. Pointing out Tablighi Wuhan Wave destroyed many a person in the Gulf when Pakistanis and their minions profiled every Indian and got them arrested for insulting Islam.
No one talks about the post to which the MLA's nephew responded to. Singhu Resort is another. What's stopping the government from clearing the protest site? Is it the same confusion between law and order?