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This advantages insiders over investors quite significantly.

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Ruling on a lawsuit brought by several prominent medical organizations, a district court said the federal government did not base its decisions on science in limiting Covid shots and changing the childhood immunization schedule.

I propose a new rule, if you cannot explain in a brief 1000 word essay why actually naming a defense company after a Lord Of The Rings reference is not really in good taste, especially when you are a bunch of evil motherfuckers who don't understand the basic lessons being expressed in the plot of Lord Of The Rings... than you should not be able to acquire US government defense contracts.

If I need to write essays to get the chance to get a damn job, these people can sure as heck write us some essays for the $20 billion dollar check can't they?

Consider what survivors are facing at this very moment. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed in late 2025, led to the release of more than 3m pages of documents. The stated goal was transparency and accountability, which survivors deserve. But the justice department’s botched redactions have exposed victim after victim, leaving their names, their stories and the worst moments of their lives searchable on a government website. Attorneys representing more than 200 survivors called it “the single most egregious violation of victim privacy in one day in United States history”.

These women now face a digital reality in which their exploitation may define them for the rest of their lives. Every job application, every new relationship, every Google search of their name carries the possibility of exposure. Erasing digital traces is technically complex and financially prohibitive for most people.

People like Bill Gates have the resources to help.

Gates has $100bn and one of the most sophisticated technology networks on Earth. He could fund digital privacy restoration for survivors whose identities were exposed. He could help pay for the specialized legal work required to scrub records from the internet.

He could do all of this tomorrow.

And it shouldn’t be Gates alone. Every person of means who spent time in Epstein’s world has a moral debt. Not a legal one, but a human one. The kind that an apology doesn’t discharge.

”It’s difficult, if not impossible, to put food on the table, put gas in the car and pay rent when you are not getting paid,” the letter said.

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The Energy and Policy Institute — a utility watchdog group — found that energy companies are earning steadily increasing profits even as their customers’ power bills surge.

The report analyzed financial documents from 110 investor-owned utilities, the for-profit companies that serve most Americans. That includes all of Xcel Energy’s operations in eight states, including Colorado.

https://energyandpolicy.org/utility-profit-report/

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This is going to keep the war from ending any time soon, even if we get $10/gallon gas.

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Some subscribers recently received a heads-up that they're on the hook for a new rate "set by an algorithm using your personal data." We asked a UVA expert what that might mean.

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