Hawaii just passed the first state law in the country banning corporations from making political donations in state elections.
Now a Koch-backed legal group is suing to overturn it.
Big Money won't get out of our politics without a fight — one that we the people must win.
(via @levernews.com)
No no no. How many times do we have to tell you? The joke is ‘My dog’s got no nose.’
Such is the weakness of almost all government ministers that the only thing that they can do of wider import is to resign.
Immigrants are taking our jobs! And if you kick them out of the country they take their labour and initiative with them, leaving unfilled vacancies and skill and enterprise shortages. So unfair of them!
Interview at EQUATOR on the Pope's superb and much-needed intervention in the AI debates: www.equator.org/articles/to-...
It’s not just outrageous that some people have too much money; it’s downright dangerous when tens of millions are so personally inconsequential and so unguarded that they end up in the pocket of a prolific sex offender.
The war in Ukraine — which has reached 1,569 days, or more than four years and three months — has now outlasted World War I. With peace talks stalled, it shows no sign of ending soon. trib.al/W8jGKp3
Robert Reich
The ruling comes in the final days of the primary campaign between the former city comptroller and Rep. Dan Goldman.
L’organe gouvernemental de veille sur la désinformation est revenu jeudi sur l’opération d’ingérence ayant visé La France insoumise, révélée en mars par « Le Monde ». Pour le premier ministre, Sébastien Lecornu, elle préfigure « des menaces lourdes sur l’élection présidentielle ».
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The defence of the United Kingdom continues to collapse under the rhetorical and political corners we paint ourselves into. Our demand to be recognised as some form of ‘great power’ is not matched by our willingness to pay for it or make hard decisions.
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