#Billions

THREAD: As much as I love #gaming I have to call out the shameful and greedy practice that some publishers and developers have implemented in their games with the #lootbox.
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Police Militarization under Obama:- Military reutilization. (Billions in equipment such as tanks/M-16s given to DOMESTIC police) Obama Expanded.- Bryne Grants created multi-jurisdictional anti-drug/anti-gang task w/NO accountability. Obama
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The rich won't listen until THEY start to feel the same pain WE feel.If Congress can shut down while millions are about to be evicted, then why can't we? SHUT
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This year, the Texas electric grid is scheduled to add almost as much wind as it has in the past five years combined and almost triple its solar capacity. Yes,
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There are a lot of great 'nuggets' in this new @Reuters article about #digitalization and EU #utilities.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-utilities-tech-foc/coronavirus-accelerates-european-utilities-digital-driv
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1) David Gorski's nasty comment to me warrants an explanation. Some 3 decades ago I wrote an encyclopedic expose of quackery published by Prometheus Books & edited by pioneer quack
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Why should science have a (it's own) "moral compass"? And why should Richard Horton decide what is science's moral compass's true north?I think a lot of what Horton has produced
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As a former health insurance exec, I know how rich corporations rake in billions by blocking life-saving procedures, hiking premiums & now exploiting a public health emergency. I often get
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To cap a great week for @bureaulocal & @TBIJ our latest investigation into council investments makes the front of today’s @FT and the entirety of Page 3! Here’s a thread
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#BREAKINGU.S. President Donald Trump pardons former national security adviser Gen. Mike Flynnhttps://justthenews.com/government/white-house/trump-pardons-michael-flynn-his-former-national-security-adviserBack in the early days of the Trump
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1/ No one out here is talking about the tactical failures of cops. Like, some of this shit, is tactically stupid. Its not only that police are acting a soldiers,
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Although stealing a pen from an individual is an abomination, I do lift a pen from every place I stay. These tend to go into one of my implement boxes
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China's vow to end extreme poverty in 2020 involves stunning numbers: billions of $ spent, millions moved from rural homes. But don't miss what it really is: a political campaign
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There’s a lot of gloating today directed at Trump as a specifically infuriating individual. I think we should keep in mind that Trump is partly the American incarnation of the
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A gent sent me that this is the census of 2011 prepared by Manio Govt is accurate.Hindus - 79.8%Muslims - 14.3%Christians - 2.3%Sikhs - 1.7%Buddhists - 0.7%Jains - 0.3%So according
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I’m truly afraid if PA legalizes marijuana it could help fill a massive budget shortfall and very likely, many zero people will die from overdose. It would also trigger thousands
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