Lance A. Wilbur
@LanceWilbur
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Dust w/ a Family 🖤🤍 Social Enterpriser & Consultant 🤔🌍⏱✊🏾
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Joined July 2020
I've been working for months on this piece about how some huge companies like XVideos—now the most visited porn site in the world—with help from Google and Paypal, profit from rape videos and illegal child sexual abuse material. They devastate kids' lives
nytimes.com
With help from Google, XVideos lets people leer at the worst moment in a child’s life.
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As stocks plummeted 37% in March 2020, 70% of small business aid went to large, publicly traded corporations. By June, a stock-market rebound made seven of the world's richest people even richer. https://t.co/X4NCIAeFP9
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The rich keep getting richer: Billionaires made enough to pay for everyone’s vaccine during the pandemic, while workers lost $3.7 trillion. How did we get here? 🧵
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It's hard to find market manipulation more flagrant than this, but since it's being done to protect the wealthiest and most powerful -- Wall St oligarchs who own and control the establishment wings of both parties -- it's very hard to imagine the government treating it as such:
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1. Racism 2. Economic exploitation of poverty 3. Militarism These evils are bipartisan. If not mitigated, all is for naught. Let's make sure the "restructuring" is on target. If not, the burning house analogy stands. #MLKDay
#MLKDay: "These young people are saying that there must be a revolution of values in our country. As Jimmy Baldwin said on one occasion, 'What advantage is there in being integrated into a burning house?'" https://t.co/ycN2ykMPqh
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On September 14, 2001 -- three days after the 9/11 attack, while bodies still lay underneath the simmering rubble in lower Manhattan -- @RepBarbaraLee delivered one of the wisest and bravest speeches in the history of the House, explaining her lone vote against the AUMF. Listen:
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Facebook officially silences the President of the United States. For better or worse, this will be remembered as a turning point in the battle for control over digital speech.
BREAKING: Facebook blocks Trump from accessing his accounts indefinitely, per Zuckerberg. "We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great." https://t.co/8iXbkgDV9O
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RIP #MFDOOM
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A gut microbiota-modulated neural pathway linking the lower intestines to the liver & pancreas autonomously regulates blood glucose, researchers reported earlier this year in Science, which could have implications for some metabolic disorder treatments ($)
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Omni Hotels & Resorts, the international luxury hotel chain owned by billionaire Robert B. Rowling, is accused of misusing millions of dollars in PPP funds meant to keep workers on the payroll. https://t.co/VsZESmtQ7i
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Introducing The Barstool Fund If you are a small business that needs help staying in business because of covid email us your story to barstoolfund@barstoolsports.com. We will try to help as many people as we can.
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Israel has universal health care while Americans - transferring yet more of your money to that foreign country - do not: (they also have an excellent Lobby that wields more power than you do in the halls of Congress): https://t.co/R4Sm68VRX5
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Israel’s health system constitutes the most extensive and successful implementation of regulated (or as it known in the United States, “managed”) competition in the world. One-hundred percent of the...
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1. A small business began selling camera tripods on Amazon 2. It reached $3.5 million in sales, 0.001% of Amazon's revenue 3. Amazon copied the tripods exactly and sold them as AmazonBasics tripods 4. Amazon banned the tripod company from Amazon https://t.co/f930Dvjpdp
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CEO Jeff Bezos still runs the e-commerce giant with the drive of a startup trying to survive. That strand of its corporate DNA is becoming a liability, as its tactics to dominate nearly every...
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$600?!?! As in, the stimulus these idiot politicians finally agreed to give middle class Americans while continuing to pump billions into the markets via the Fed and Treasury. News flash: I DON’T NEED THE HELP! Our politicians are all so old, out of touch and stupid.
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