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Why is Texas’s attorney general working for Elon Musk but not for Uvalde?

Posted on June 15, 2022 by Naomi

It’s Texas. It’s always Texas. From Harper’s Weekly Review: The Texas Department of Safety asked the state’s Office of the Attorney General, which is currently investigating whether bot accounts have artificially inflated the value of Twitter*, to block the release … Continue reading →

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He was the capitalist archetype. He was a monster

Posted on May 23, 2022 by Naomi

Jack Welch was the longtime CEO of General Electric which became, under his tsardom, the most “valuable company in the world.” In yesterday’s Times, David Gelles, the journalist who wrote the Corner Office column for the business section, yanked Welch’s … Continue reading →

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How did the Russians hack our government? Guess who was guarding us

Posted on January 2, 2021 by Naomi

Two items today — one factual article in the New York Times and the other, an opinion in the Daily News’ Voice of the People (letters to the editor) section — must kill Reaganism dead. Dead dead dead. What’s it … Continue reading →

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