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Toyota

Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Nomi Prins | Survival of the Richest, All Are Equal, Except Those Who Aren't




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Nomi Prins | Survival of the Richest, All Are Equal, Except Those Who Aren't 
Ivanka Trump. (photo: AP)
Nomi Prins, TomDispatch
Prins writes: "Like a gilded coating that makes the dullest things glitter, today's thin veneer of political populism covers a grotesque underbelly of growing inequality that's hiding in plain sight. And this phenomenon of ever more concentrated wealth and power has both Newtonian and Darwinian components to it."
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Roger Stone and Robert Mueller. (photo: Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast)
Roger Stone and Robert Mueller. (photo: Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast)


The DOJ Will Have No Good Excuse to Keep Mueller's Findings Secret
Ryan Goodman and Andy Wright, Slate
Excerpt: "As the Watergate scandal deepened in November 1973, President Richard Nixon declared, 'People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Nixon was right."
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the New York City Women's March. (photo: John Lamparski 2018/Getty Images)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the New York City Women's March. (photo: John Lamparski 2018/Getty Images)

Ocasio-Cortez Wants Hearing on Banks Funding Immigrant Prisons
Max Abelson, Bloomberg
Abelson writes: "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she wants Wall Street to tell Congress why it's lending to private prisons that hold undocumented immigrants."
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White Nationalist demonstrators walk into the entrance of Lee Park surrounded by counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August of last year. (photo: Steve Helber/AP)
White Nationalist demonstrators walk into the entrance of Lee Park surrounded by counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August of last year. (photo: Steve Helber/AP)

Right-Wing Extremism Linked to Every 2018 Extremist Murder in the US, ADL Finds
ADL
Excerpt: "Right-wing extremists were linked to at least 50 extremist-related murders in the United States in 2018, making them responsible for more deaths than in any year since 1995, according to new data from the ADL."
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A federal judge said in a ruling that the government can no longer justify the male-only system's 'gender-based discrimination.' (photo: Hussein Malla/AP)
A federal judge said in a ruling that the government can no longer justify the male-only system's 'gender-based discrimination.' (photo: Hussein Malla/AP)

Trial Judge Declares Male-Only Selective Service System Unconstitutional
Sarah Grant, Lawfare
Grant writes: "On Feb. 22, a federal judge in the Southern District of Texas ruled that it is unconstitutional for the government to require only men to register for the draft."
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Samantha Carillo, executive director and president of Mujeres en Superación (OMES), a sex workers union based in Guatemala City. (photo: Katie Schlechter)
Samantha Carillo, executive director and president of Mujeres en Superación (OMES), a sex workers union based in Guatemala City. (photo: Katie Schlechter)

Sex Workers Unionize in Guatemala
Katie Schlechter, NACLA
Schlechter writes: "In an office full of women on a quiet street near the center of Guatemala City, Samantha Carrillo flips through a worn little booklet about the size of a passport."
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Coming down is the hardest thing. (photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images)
Coming down is the hardest thing. (photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images)

You Can't Save the Climate by Shrinking Your Carbon Footprint
Eric Levitz, New York Magazine
Levitz writes: "Last week, Mother Jones columnist Kevin Drum informed his readers that they do not really believe in climate change."
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