Fucking euphemisms for 'corporate greed'.

“who put Marjorie Taylor Greene in charge?”

You guys did, your entire right-wing mediasphere and political manipulation machine. Funny try to get out of it, you conceived and birthed that baby, you're stuck with her now.

All that said: I wonder how much misogyny is a factor here. It seems like they're getting rid of their firebrand women a helluva lot faster than they're getting rid of their firebrand men.

Edit: additional thought: they're turning against her (and calling her Moscow Marge) for her position on Ukraine aid. But they've been anti-Ukraine-aid for a while, following orders from Moscow. Is this just a ploy to make Republicans less distasteful in the fall elections, or is there some geopolitical calculus the Kochs and their ilk are seeing?

That’s something the social platform was worried would happen, noting in its prospectus that retail traders in its subreddits (and particularly on r/WallStreetBets) could cause “extreme volatility” in Reddit’s share price.

I love how they're blaming redditors instead of spez and his COO selling over a million shares ...

In other news, spez's compensation from reddit last year was $193 million, and it's COO got a cool $93 million.

C'mon, spez, tell us again how horrible it's been that reddit's never made a profit.

Sandy Hook families holding about $1.5 billion in defamation judgments [...] a competing plan submitted by Jones that would allow him to reorganize by preserving parts of his media empire and paying the group at least $5.5 million a year over 10 years

Literally pennies on the dollar.

His house in Austin, that he bought for a couple million dollars, he sold to his wife in 2022 for the grand total of ten dollars. They're going to claw that back from him for trying to hide it. And then they're going to force him to sell it because Texas bankruptcy law only keeps your house in a city or town safe from bankruptcy seizure if it's one acre or less. And the lot his house is on is 1.089 acres - such a shame!

For people who hate being told what to do, they sure love telling people what to do.

Media bias / fact check for Voice of Europe;

Bias: Extreme Right

Credibility: Low

.Notes: Extreme Right, Propaganda, Conspiracy, Anti-Islam. Voice of Europe also has a poor track record with fact checkers.

Overall, this site is Questionable due to extreme right wing bias, promotion of propaganda, conspiracy theories and poor sourcing. A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no sourcing to credible information, a complete lack of transparency and/or is fake news. Fake News is the deliberate attempt to publish hoaxes and/or disinformation for the purpose of profit or influence.

Sure sounds like a source I want to line the litterbox with.

The woman, 75, [...] had grown weary of having to maintain her sons, 40 and 42, and on several occasions tried to convince them to find a more autonomous living arrangement, especially as each had a job. [...] The mother was also annoyed that her sons did not contribute to the household expenses or chores

Yeah, I'd be really pissed as well.

The pandemic made it clear to us that our literal lives don't matter. Record profits have pretty much never made their way into worker's pockets. Wages have been stagnant against forty years of inflation and record housing costs, while shareholders and C-suites struggle to decide between a private jet or a second yacht. And climate change is coming for all of us. Given all that, why the fuck should we care about some job that has literally never cared about us? Why wouldn't we get to pursue some work-life balance, and spend what little time and money that are being left to us on something that makes us happy?

Nov 18, 2022

Some reich-winger's tweet quoted in the article:

There has been no claim that this individual fired on FBI agents, or even that he was armed at the time of the fatal altercation today. Apparently a giant squad of militarized personnel was incapable of apprehending a 75 year old man without gunning him down on his doorstep.

In Buffalo, a 75 year old man who was trying to turn in lost property during a protest; the police shoved him to the ground so hard that he was bleeding from his head, but they just stepped over his body. Breonna Taylor was sleeping when cops raided the wrong apartment. Charles Kinsey was shot lying facedown in the street with his hands in the air while trying to protect his autistic patient.

They're fine with all the other "poor outcome" police shootings in this country, they only get upset and fearful when one of "their own" is shot.

In July 2020 [during the pandemic], the Treasury Department announced it was giving a $700 million loan to the trucking company, helping it to stay afloat. But the loan immediately raised questions, in part because the firm was struggling financially and was being sued by the Justice Department over claims that it had defrauded the federal government for a seven-year period.

Seems like defrauding the government should make one ineligible for government money.

As of the end of March, Yellow’s outstanding debt was $1.5 billion, including about $730 million that is owed to the federal government. Yellow has paid approximately $66 million in interest on the loan, but it has repaid just $230 of the principal owed on the loan, which comes due next year.

Must be nice, can I get that on my student loans?

“We recommend that all Yellow employees who have personal belongings and tools at the terminals should take them home today,” wrote John A. Murphy, a co-chair of the Teamsters freight industry negotiating committee.

Yeah, that seems like a good idea.