Republicans at the federal & state level, are destroying democracy & Americans' future finances & well-being:
"Two Trump judges & a Bush judge in the 5th Circuit just ruled that private equity gets to steal your pension, lying about private equity returns in the process."
M Stoller
A fed appeals court struck down the US SEC’s rules requiring hedge funds & private equity firms to detail quarterly fees & expenses to investors.
#Senate#Democrats opened an investigation on Thurs into #Trump’s meeting w/ #oil & #gas execs last month to determine whether Trump offered a “policies-for-money transaction” [#bribe ] when he asked for $1B for his 2024 campaign so he could retake the White House & delete #POTUS#Biden’s #climate#regulations.
The investigation is the 2nd congressional inquiry into the April 11 fund-raising dinner…. Trump told ~20 oil & gas execs that they would save far more than $1B in avoided #taxes & #legal fees after he repealed #environmental regulations….
#Republicans appear committed to politically dying on a number of hills that time has passed by. Their commitment to gutting voting rolls and restricting #votingRights, their obsession with women’s reproductive abilities, and their hatred of #regulations and #democracy in the workplace are increasingly seen by average American voters as out-of-touch and out-of-date.
One company in particular, #GeneralMills, maker of CocoaPuffs & LuckyCharms cereals, has launched a multi-pronged campaign that capitalizes on the teachings of the #AntiDiet movement…. General Mills has toured the country touting anti-diet research it claims proves the harms of “food shaming” [it does harm, but doesn’t necessitate unhealthy food habits].
…Online dietitians—many of them backed by food makers—also are building lucrative followings by co-opting #AntiDiet msgs. Anti-diet hashtags…have proliferated on #SocialMedia.
A ‘zero-deforestation’ approach overseas
while logging continues in NSW
"The Committee had recommended the Government prevent UK businesses from trading in commodities linked to UN-defined deforestation in all cases, regardless of whether the deforestation was illegal or permitted by local laws. This ‘zero-deforestation’ approach would encourage consistency in trading such commodities across UK and European markets, increasing protections for areas at risk of deforestation."
"But in its response to the Committee’s report, The UK’s contribution to tackling global deforestation, the Government said it believed “the only way to achieve zero global deforestation in supply chains is to work in partnership with producer countries – and that working in partnership requires us to uphold and respect national laws.”
@johnelalamo@ProPublica “Utah’s Republican-dominated Legislature adjourned this month after passing a record 591 bills during its session. Lawmakers earmarked nearly $2 billion in tax subsidies to build an MLB stadium and an NHL arena. They doubled funding for the state’s school voucher program. And they cut the income tax rate.
But they made no direct financial investment in child care…”
Musk endangers his workers while he spends his days railing against USG regs. & taxes. Many business owners, who vote Republican, aren't concerned about their employees, until they get caught, pay fines, forced to...
Musk’s Vegas Tunnel Project Has Been Racking Up Safety Violations. The Boring Co’s tiny Las Vegas Loop is all that’s come of his promises to build superfast mass-transit “hyperloops.” Workers say its tunnels are packed with chem. sludge.
For an article I'm writing that involves penalties detailed in this section of federal regulations, should I quote directly or just paraphrase? #regulations