The hidden power keeping wages low For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it's everywhere, and a new book argues it's key to un...

#Monopsony #HowWorkingClassGetsRippedLegally #CorporateGreedMiddleClassNeed

I think y'all should read it.

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Palantir posted a manifesto that reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain Palantir shared 22 points excerpted from CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska's 2025 book, The Technological Republic, and they're troubling.

#AI #AIerspons #PalantirManifesto
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AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you As people increasingly turn to artificial intelligence for advice, some U.S. lawyers are telling their clients not to treat AI chatbots like trusted confidants when their freedom or legal liability is...

#FileUnderDUUUUHHH #AI #ChatsNotShielded #It'sNotYourLawyer
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Who’s Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter? A mysterious impostor who claimed to be ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi reached out to a Canadian official and a Latvian businessman working with Ukraine. So, the real Robert did some reporting o...

#JournalistImpersonator #FakeNewsForReal #ThisIsFuckingImportant

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Meta Is Pulling Down Ads That Seek to Recruit Clients for Social Media Addiction Litigation Two landmark social media addiction trials opened the floodgates and Meta is officially afraid.

#Meta #WhyAreYouStillThere? #FuckZuck
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Most immigrants no longer qualify for CalFresh. Agencies ‘scrounging’ for food Starting April 1, the majority of legal immigrants no longer qualify for CalFresh. East County agencies are scrounging for food.

#SanDiego #LegalImmigrantsNoLongerEligibleForCalFresh #FoodBanksScrambling #BigHideousBillFalloutIn2026 #FuckAnyoneWhoSupportsThis
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‘It started with a tipoff’: how a Guardian investigation exposed child sex trafficking on Facebook and Instagram Meta has just lost a multimillion-dollar legal battle over its failure to prevent children being sold on its platforms. Here’s how we uncovered evidence that became part of the case against it

#DoYouStillHaveFacebook #IfSoWhyyyyyy #MetaCorrupt
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The billionaire prophet who says the Antichrist is among us and plotting to destroy the world Peter Thiel made his fortune betting big on the way the world was headed. As the co-founder of PayPal, he saw that the internet had created a gap for a new kind of payment system. In 2003, in the wake...

#PeterThiel #AntichristBabble #He'sPushingForTheEndTimes
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The Supreme Court will weigh Trump's birthright citizenship order this week. Here's what to know about the case. The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday over the legality of President Trump's executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship.

#SCOTUSisMAGA How do *you* think they'll rule? I'm betting 6-3, or *possibly* 5-4 if Roberts suddenly remembers he's actually qualified.
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A war zone, minus the war: One year later, has the military really secured the U.S.-Mexico border? The U.S.-Mexico border has in many ways become a forgotten emergency, a military buildup that persists long after public attention has turned elsewhere.

#YouForgotAboutTheUS-MexicanBorder! #IranIsn'tTheOnlyPlaceWithArmedMilitary #Don'tForgetSanDiego!
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It can get tough to keep fighting when one knows #SCOTUSisMAGA and there are some younger members. The older ones will be replaced by DJT, so I think we're stuck with a MAGA Supreme Court and a bunch of spineless Congress-critters. 👊

Barrio Logan sounds alarm over threat to landmark murals, gentrification Displacement of long-time residents of working-class neighborhoods — many of them communities of color — is a hot-button issue across the U.S.

#FuckYourGentrification #GetOutOfMyNeighborhood
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Senator, county officials blast ICE for barring them from detention facility A confrontation between immigration authorities and San Diego County supervisors sets up a potential court challenge testing one of California's many efforts to rein in the Trump administration's aggr...

#MoreICEbullshit #OtayMesa #LocalRepsDeniedEntry #AlexPadilla #TerraLawsom-Remer
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Trump donor who criticized offshoring to close Ohio plant and move work to China Workers decried John Paulson’s plan after billionaire painted himself as advocate for domestic manufacturing

#OutsourcingToChina #BenefitFromHousingCrashIOWCausingHousingCrash
#UltimateHypocrisyWhatElseIsNew #AmericaFirstButFireYourInconvenientEmployees
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Photos: The flying doctors of Lesotho won't let their wings be clipped This band of airborne health workers bring essential medical care to isolated communities in the southern African nation. In addition to turbulence, they face a new obstacle: budget cuts.

#LesothoFlyingDoctors #USAIDcutsWon'tStopThem
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At San Diego border, Kristi Noem blasts funding shutdown, claims drug-smuggling wins In addition to drug seizures, Noem highlighted DHS’s roles like the TSA, Coast Guard and Secret Service, making a case for the utility of the department beyond the roving patrols of immigration agents...

#ICEBarbie in #OtayMesa speaking *not* about immigration, but fentanyl and other blather.
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If you're a person who finds #ICEsTactics err, questionable at best, then I think you should #BoycottTheSuperBowl, no matter how big a football fan you are. Because, you know, #ICE will be there, and if you're not of Swedish descent, you're rather likely to get the "Show us your papers!" tx.

Immigration arrests quietly increase by 1500% in San Diego The arrests occurred in San Diego and Imperial counties, a region the federal government refers to as its San Diego area of responsibility.

#SanDiegoICE #Increase1500% #QuietSurge #GoAwayICE

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4 tech moguls who attended or donated to Trump's inauguration got $288 billion richer, cumulatively, in his first year back Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jensen Huang attended or donated to President DonaldTrump's inauguration. All of them got richer last year.

And if you still have a #Facebook account, may I ask why?
#TechBrosProfit #TrumpLovesSuckups #DropYourFacebook #FuckBezos #FuckZuck #FuckElon

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‘Definitely an angel’ – Diner owner who fed ill San Diegans for decades dies at 81 The longtime owner of the The Huddle, known for her trailblazing work feeding dying AIDS patients, died at 81 on Dec. 31.

We lost one of the good ones today. #RestInPower #FeedingAIDSPatientsInThe80s# #TheyStillNeedVolunteers

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Trump Pardons Convicted Fraudster After Earlier Clemency Grant The pardon involves Adriana Camberos, 55, convicted by jurors in 2024 of making tens of millions of dollars by selling wholesale groceries after lying to manufacturers about where the products would b...

#There'sAWhiteHousePARDONCZAR?!?
I should change my political affiliation and start committing financial crimes right now!
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#GoFundHim

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Ex-Congressman Pardoned By Trump Seeks Pardon For Son Of Watergate Figure For Child Porn Conviction: Report Duncan Hunter is lobbying President Donald Trump to pardon Raymond Liddy​, the son of infamous Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy.

#PardonMe #PresidentialPardons #ChildPornographyAin'tThatBad #BasketOfDeplorables
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He spent 7 weeks in ICE detention. Why his case shows new legal obstacles for immigrants A Department of Homeland Security budget document from 2024 says it costs on average $217 per day for ICE to detain someone in San Diego.

#SanDiego #WeWillDetainYou
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Flashback: Jan. 8, 1912 — San Diego’s 'Free Speech Fight' begins On Jan. 8, 1912, San Diego took center stage in one of the city’s earliest battles over public expression when the Common Council passed Ordinance No. 4623.

#TheMoreThingsChange
Interesting.

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San Diegans march downtown to protest ICE fatal shooting in Midwest In San Diego Wednesday evening, protestors responded to ICE's fatal shooting of a Minnesota woman by marching through Little Italy.

#WeLikeToMarch too bad we don't #LikeToVoteLikeWeMarch!
I'm getting so sick of San Diego County's little island of deep red in the blue So-Cal sea status.
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Inside the courthouse where activists are tracking immigration enforcement in real time Activists at the downtown courthouse are now keeping rigorous records of immigrants summoned to hearings, in case they don't come back out.

#SanDiegoImmigrationCourt #ICE #WatchTheWatchers
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Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.

#WhereWasMyGenericManufactured?
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Democrats give Adam Schiff a financial boost in his defense against Trump Sen. Adam Schiff’s colleagues in Congress are helping out his legal defense against a Trump administration investigation in a big way.

I gave him five bucks. Wish it could've been more, but I'm a disabled senior woman on Social Security, and that made-up term #affordability is much on my mind now. If you can help, please do!
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The Year of (Fresh) Hell And so the horror laugh track of 2025 is drawing to a close, climaxing with the Brown University shooting, the Bondi Beach massacre of 15 Jews, and the grotesque slaughter of beloved Hollywood icon Ro...

It's not often that I agree with every word in an article, specially an opinion piece. D'acc with *everything* written here, both sides, all angles.
The Year of (Fresh) Hell
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