The US draft system hasn't had college deferments since the latter part of the Vietnam war.
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Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived.
(www.nytimes.com)
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Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate
(talkingpointsmemo.com)
When new car prices go up, used car prices should rise too
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During Trump's first term there were still Republicans who cared about things like:
- Constitution
- Law
- Good Governance
They've all been purged now.
That's hard. Changing your bank means changing a whole string of direct deposits and automatic payments. Having done it, the process takes about a month, where you move payments and deposits, then monitor the account for a while to see if you missed anything.
This makes banking relationships quite sticky.
The Guardian famously does not paywall content. They do ask for donations.
In the US, unless the outcome is changed as a result of an appeal, yes.
It's not a direct impact; it's that the ad buys get the oil folks access in a way that you and I don't have. The journalists end up at things like conference panels with oil folks, and not so much with activists or scientists, and the editors choose who to put on a given story.
The NYT takes huge ad payments from the oil industry. Industry reps get regular access to reporters in non-news contexts as a result, and this spills over into the background beliefs and attitudes a lot of them have
Both personal appearances at rallies and paying for votes
I expect that a lot of their constituents do. And the Republcians will change their tune when they fear the public anger over their actions more than they fear the billionaires
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