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Tag: propublica

  • Getting Away With Murder

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    (content warning: the death penalty) ProPublica’s Isaac Arnsdorf on how the murder factory at the combination White House/Justice Department that Trump and Barr are operating is hurrying through as many murders as it can before Biden takes over the murder factory and moves operations more exclusively overseas: The Justice Department has killed 10 people since…

  • The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Now Protects Predatory Lenders

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    One of the few possibly good things to come out of the financial crisis in 2007 and 2008 was a government entity that existed solely to protect people from predatory businesses. It’s the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and it’s new Trump-appointed leader, Mick Mulvaney is unsurprisingly, a real piece of shit. ProPublica’s Paul Kiel: Last…