Michael
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Subway is owned by a private equity firm that raised the prices on their $5 footlongs up to $14.

Now the price back down to $6.99.

It was never about “inflation.”
It was a private equity firm using inflation as an excuse to price gouge customers.

Always expose corporate greed.
August 23, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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I think they increasingly don't "know" things, they simply hear them and internalize them.

This below is certainly one of the "horrifying" things that leak from the teenage spaces into the public sphere.
January 13, 2024 at 3:38 AM
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"What do you want me to say about slavery?" should be the end of Nikki Haley's political career.
December 28, 2023 at 3:57 AM
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Can’t I just vote that all of the tech people will have a bad time
💥 THE BATTLE BEGINS! 💥

2023 is winding down, so it’s time to choose the WORST PERSON IN TECH!

🗳️ ROUND 1 VOTING OPEN NOW: forms.gle/xqcDPSXB98gA...
December 13, 2023 at 6:40 PM
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Have I mentioned yet this week that the GOP's obsession with banning TikTok is a xenophobic, Facebook-driven gambit designed to distract you from the party's feral refusal to pass even basic privacy laws or regulate data brokers?
Nikki Haley Reinvigorates The GOP’s Breathless TikTok Hysteria… For The Children
We’ve noted many times how the GOP’s obsession with TikTok is stupid, performative, and utterly hollow. For example, the party desperately wants to ban TikTok for “privacy reasons…
www.techdirt.com
November 22, 2023 at 7:38 PM
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Demanding "no monkey pushing" and no lessons about fossil fuels that might "cast the oil-and-gas industry in a bad light," Texas education commissars move to block science textbooks from eight publishers—🎁:
Texas Rejects Science Textbooks Over Climate Change, Evolution Lessons
Some publishers edited materials to win the Texas state education board’s approval
www.wsj.com
November 18, 2023 at 1:00 PM
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IBM said Thursday it will stop advertising on X, formerly Twitter, after a report from a media watchdog organization found that its ads had appeared on the Elon Musk-owned social media site alongside pro-Nazi tweets.
IBM pulls ads from X as Musk amplifies antisemitism
The billionaire’s latest controversial tweets come amid reports of major brands’ ads appearing next to pro-Nazi content.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2023 at 2:13 AM
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meanwhile, on twitter...
November 17, 2023 at 3:53 AM
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When Brad Briscoe found out his daughter was in a same-sex relationship, he forbid her from seeing her girlfriend.

Now conservative Christians in Kentucky want the girl's high school counselor punished for trying to help her.

www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-christia...
November 15, 2023 at 1:00 AM
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As many of you are aware West Virginia University is currently being dismantled. The company doing this is RPK Group, education consultancy Take a look and see if your school is on their list of clients.
Clients « rpk GROUP
rpkgroup.com
August 12, 2023 at 3:51 PM
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Sure: this is what the WVU is doing. RPK group is the company that prepared the “plan” to “rescue” the university.
WVU recommends cutting 169 faculty positions, 32 majors - WV MetroNews
Officials continuing process to reposition university.
wvmetronews.com
August 12, 2023 at 4:59 PM