Shell game
you can learn more about what happened to Red Lobster from this excellent article by Gretchen Morgenson. {read comic here}
T-Mobile imposes $5 monthly price hike on customers using older plans
T-Mobile bought Sprint in 2020, reducing the number of major nationwide carriers from four to three. T-Mobile completed an acquisition of prepaid carrier Mint Mobile a few weeks ago and…
Former Treasury Secretary Mnuchin is putting together an investor group to buy TikTok
“I think the legislation should pass and I think it should be sold,” Mnuchin, who leads Liberty Strategic Capital, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Thursday. “It’s a great business and…
The Price of Paperless
Cold winds carry lead-filled dust from a nearby slagheap, a hundred million tonnes of toxic tailings, and scatter it on clothes hanging from laundry lines, on open buckets of drinking…
an old trick the billionaires play
"It's an old trick the billionaires play. Time and time again the wealthy divide the masses over single issues, and the rich walk away with all the loot." https://www.tiktok.com/@uawunion/video/7337373604100705579?_r=1&_t=8k55oFjKEhu
Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
Intricate, invisible webs, just like this one, link some of the world’s largest food companies and most popular brands to jobs performed by U.S. prisoners nationwide, according to a sweeping…
Hidden prison labor web linked to foods from Target, Walmart
In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found U.S. prison labor tied to hundreds of popular food brands. The goods end up on the shelves of most supermarkets and…