Today's time line cleanse - raas from the encampment. Dandiyas for solidarity!

After we reported that Texas AG Ken Paxton had not disclosed to the state that he purchased a luxury lodge in Oklahoma — and was renting it out — the listing was pulled down.

Looks like it's back on another site. brokenbowvacationcabins.com/vrp/unit/Coppe…

Story: kut.org/politics/2023-… #txlege

Boeing whistleblower Ed Pierson just told the Senate, “I’m not going to sugar coat this: This is a criminal cover up.”

He says Boeing illegally stopped conducting thousands of quality control inspections and hundreds of airplanes left Boeing factories without those inspections.

Reminder: Weeks before the 5-4 Citizens United ruling, Leonard Leo & Harlan Crow helped Clarence Thomas' wife launch an advocacy group. Crow donated $500K.

Then Thomas delivered the ruling they wanted, letting them spend millions in dark $ ever since. politico.com/news/2023/09/1…

The cost of corporate misconduct since 2000 has passed $1 trillion.

Massive corporations like Volkswagen, BP, and Wells Fargo pay out $50 billion per year, but there's been little change in behavior.

Instead they see fines as the cost of doing business.
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Last December, a jury unanimously found that Google is an illegal monopolist. Now what?

Could a federal judge break up Google and Android?

I wrote about that possibility and why structural relief is the surest way to put an end to Google's monopoly.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-rou…

Mark Sawchuk Aaron Peskin Black, Brown, Asian, Middle Eastern communities around the world would like a word with you. Razing Liberty Square

Emily Mills Garry Tan 💥♻️ e/acc Mark Farrell Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉 London Breed And here we are, stuck in the middle again.

But then there was this Garry Tan 💥♻️ e/acc fan…

Oh, wait not a fan!!! But who would be other than his sycophant army - who were too busy coding to show up.

Roughly 7000 apartments in Minneapolis sit empty because landlords refuse to lower their rents to prices our communities can afford.

Thank you FillEmptyHomesMN for hosting a vacancy tour! Landlords letting homes intentionally sit empty during a housing crisis is unacceptable.

“This Mirror World Mafia does not include any moderates, much less Democrats. It’s all just a well-funded effort to red-pill San Francisco.”
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🍾 I’ve got a new paper out, y’all! 🍾

For two years, Daniel Hanley and I have worked to interpret the antitrust law that restricts corporate mergers—the Anti-Merger Act of 1950—like a normal statute. Last month, we finally got the job done 🎊

A 🧵 about what we found👌🏽

New climate data just dropped❗Coastal lands are sinking, making major cities along the Pacific, Gulf, & Atlantic coasts more vulnerable to sea level rise. Flooding could affect one out of every 50 residents in 24 coastal cities across the U.S. by the 2050 insideclimatenews.org/news/27032024/…

Today, nearly 40 court briefs were filed on behalf of 1000 individuals and organizations telling SCOTUS that punishing homelessness with arrest and fines is cruel, harmful, and bad policy.

Here's an ongoing thread 🧵of some of our partners' powerful statements:

Can I just say, these fucking people. I’m horrified that the industry I decided to join twenty five years ago because it seemed so exciting and dynamic and empowering and creative is now represented by … these fucking people. parallelmirror.com/balaji-sriniva…

The Oaklandside is stepping away from Twitter/X, but we remain committed to providing independent nonprofit news to all of Oakland for free. Here’s where you can find our work.

I took the time to provide all the receipts for every fact I presented to Eric Adams that he tried to dismiss as misinformation in our interview.

Watch the full video here youtu.be/8vR9lLCYHtg?si…

Eric Adams’ uniquely perverse brand of misogyny and identity politics are incredibly transparent here as he attempts to cut Olayemi Olurin out of the convo and make it a boys club, then immediately dismisses two black people telling him cops don’t make them feel safe.

Breaking news: Crystal Mason, the Texas woman who was sentenced to five years in prison for trying to submit a provisional ballot in 2016 that was rejected, has been acquitted on appeal. Story TK. Background: theguardian.com/us-news/2022/m…

WHY I AM RESIGNING FROM THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT
By Annelle Sheline, PhD.

SINCE HAMAS’ ATTACK on October 7, Israel has used American bombs in its war in Gaza, which has killed more than 32,000 people — 13,000 of them children — with countless others buried under the rubble,