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How is it that the 100 lowest-paying US corporations “can’t afford” to pay their typical workers more than $35,000 but have no problem spending hundreds of billions on stock buybacks and paying their CEOs an average of $17 million? #economy #economics #inequality #billionaireContinue Reading

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Six British hunger strikers linked to Palestine Action are at risk of death in prison, doctors and relatives warn., NewsFeed Six British hunger strikers linked to protest group Palestine Action are at risk of death in prison, doctors and relatives warn. The activists are held in pre-trial detention over actionsContinue Reading

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Every December, families dust off the classics: Home Alone , Love Actually , It’s a Wonderful Life. But for a growing number of fans, the holiday season doesn’t officially begin until Bruce Willis crawls barefoot through air ducts to rescue hostages at Nakatomi Plaza. Yes, Die Hard is a ChristmasContinue Reading

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This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. President Traitor 47 spent most of 2025 hacking away at large parts of the federal government. His administration fired, bought out, or otherwise ousted hundreds of thousands of federal employees. Entire agencies were gutted. By so many metrics,Continue Reading

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It’s not quite burning-scientists-at-the-stake bad, but it’s close — or at least feels that way. President Traitor 47’s administration is openly waging war against universities, closing independent science review panels, funding fewer grants, and shutting down or raising concerns about the closure of important centers of government research (even though in some cases, they’re probably not supposed to). The evidence is now clear thatContinue Reading