#Monopolies

Huston 🅼

hustonmalande

You've probably seen the expat founders poster making the rounds recently. You may also have heard about the recently gazetted 30% Kenyan ownership requirement for ICT service providers. Well—guess what?—those

Thom Hartmann

Thom_Hartmann

1/ The GOP is no longer a legitimate political party: it’s a cult. It’s becoming increasingly clear to Americans that the Republican Party only stands for one thing: the privilege

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

Twitter permanently suspends Donald Trump account. I understood why they resisted until now, despite his prior violations, given the fact that he was president, but consistency is so important to

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faeriehwa

if bighit were buying out small groups who they thought had potential it would be fine, but they’re buying out artists who’ve already established themselves independently, and will be directly

Kaitlyn

wildkait

Do you hate your Cable internet (broadband) provider? Wonder why it’s legal for them to have local/regional monopolies? Wonder Why Companies like @charterspectrum and @xfinity (comcast) the only reasonable option

Pascale Hunt

pascacelina

The government’s agricultural reforms threaten food and water security as well as deepening economic inequality in India. 1/15 In her 2007 book “The Shock Doctrine,” @NaomiAKlein Klein proposed the concept

Confirmation bias

NathanDallon

COMMUNITY BANKS!!!! A short thread. "A community bank is a depository institution that is typically locally owned and operated"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_bank1/14 I am paraphrasing the great @ProfessorWerner here, but

Keegs 🏳️‍🌈

LittleKeegs0

Might as well respond to this article that's been going around:https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/01/the-only-thing-worse-than-a-nimby-is-a-yimby Hey, I'm right here!Anyways, I've seen this confusion around many things. A simpl

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

http://Libro.fm is an amazing alternative to Amazon's Audible: an independent audiobook platform that sells books from every major publisher at the same price as Audible - but without DRM, and

planefag

planefag

Awful lot of bullshit flying around the internet about how Texas's power system works. It's definitely unique in America.Texas runs its own grid, so it's the only state in the

Cody Atkinson

CodyAlanAtk

I'm not going to post the link to the op-ed, but strap in, because I am about to rip it apart. As these attacks go, they usually start with a

Alec Stapp

AlecStapp

Big week for tech platforms & free speech!- Twitter & FB banned Trump- Apple & Google banned Parler- Amazon kicked Parler off AWS- Stripe stopped handling payments for Trump campaignI

American Solidarity Party

AmSolidarity

A lot of discussion about the GOP as a working-class party of the future today. We will say this: it would be good for the country if this were actually

Manish Malhotra

malhotramanish1

#FarmBills2020 Lot of Confusion on New Farm Laws .Let me explain the APMC Mandi System and then what has Changed under new Farm Laws.1. Under APMC Mandis there are two

Brian Merchant

bcmerchant

SOME THOUGHTS on the passage of Prop 22. It's a horrible loss for workers both now and in the long run, and a dangerous precedent that Uber and Lyft will

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

Back in April, Xi Jinping gave a (just released) speech about his "dual circulation" plan for China's economy:* stimulating consumer spending and reducing China's dependence on trade, and * increasing

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