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  • 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…

  • “…I love the Bangles!”

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    Michael Lewis writing about the national embarrassment’s transition to office: Before any of the calls could be made, however, the president of Egypt called in to the switchboard at Trump Tower and somehow got the operator to put him straight through to Trump. “Trump was like … I love the Bangles! You know that song…

  • Bethesda E3 2018 Showcase Press Event Notes

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    We’re onto our third event at E3 2018, Bethesda’s E3 Showcase. Here are my notes from their press event.

  • 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…

  • A Bitter Anniversary

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    Chuck Jones writing in the Washington Post: At the Carrier plant on the west side of Indianapolis, we’re coming up on a bitter anniversary. One year ago this week, President-elect Donald Trump stood before hundreds of cheering workers and declared that he had saved our jobs from moving to Mexico. It was a symbolic moment…