The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Corporate State
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Populism of the 1%: Why The Same Billionaires are Behind Trump and Brexit
Those who have profited hand over fist from decades of neoliberalism are now the ones sponsoring the populist, anti-immigration and climate denial regimes on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Trump's E.P.A. Greenlights a Nasty Chemical. A Month Later, It Poisons a Bunch of Farmworkers.
In March, the EPA abruptly changed its stance on the poisonous chemical chlorpyrifos, greenlighting it instead of banning it. Not surprising: the company that makes it has cultivated a cozy relationship with the Trump administration.
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Trump Picks Al Capone of Vote Rigging To investigate Federal Voter Fraud
Kris Kobach was spooning down vanilla ice cream when I showed him the thick pages of evidence documenting his detailed plan to rig the presidential election of 2016.
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Donald Trump Tries to Explain Economics to The Economist. Hilarity Ensues.
Trump says he invented the phrase "priming the pump."
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Wisconsin ID Law Kept 200,000 Voters From Polls — and Trump Won by Just 22,748 Votes
Wisconsin's voter ID law may have suppressed a stunning 200,000 votes in the 2016 presidential election, keeping disproportionately Democratic and African-American voters from the polls – where President Trump won by a mere 22,748 votes.
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Louisiana, Seeking Criminal Justice Reform, Moves Toward Reducing its Prison Population
Many conservatives are getting on board with the changes.
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On Navient Misconduct, Student Debt Activists Stay Silent—For Now
The nation’s largest student loan company, Navient, handles over $300 billion in federal and private loans – though recent details emerged showing the company misled student borrowers while approving subprime loans that defaulted at rates up to 92%.
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Dirty Tory Money Compounds British Government Fraud Crisis
Leaks suggest that Britain’s biggest bank, HSBC, awarded dubious loans to leading British Conservative Party donor and former treasurer Michael Spencer. The timing of the allegation could have explosive impact on the June election.
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Climate Deniers in Congress Received over $80 Million in Dirty Money
Talk about a Climate Denier Caucus: 142 representatives and 38 senators have received a total of $82,882,725 from the coal, oil and gas industries.
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Reign of Idiots
The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanov, Wilhelmine, Pahlavi and Soviet dynasties crumbled because the whims and obsessions of ruling idiots were law. Donald Trump is the face of our collective idiocy.
