One of Susquehanna’s richest bets was purchasing a 15 percent stake in TikTok’s parent company, #ByteDance, in 2012;
according to the Wall Street Journal, Yass’ personal stake in the company is about seven percent.
A historic wave of tenant organizing is on the verge of winning renter protections that would be attached to federal loans—affecting 1 in 4 apartments. But Greystar, Blackstone, and AvalonBay are spending millions to block it....
"The Christian nationalist movement has long used abortion as an issue to unify different strands of their movement. They know that if you can get people to vote on a single issue, you can control their vote. ...
If you dig deeper, it is really about the money and power, and not just sex."
~ Katherine Stewart, author of The Power Worshipers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
"The hostility to women's reproductive rights is also accompanied everywhere with an embrace of far-right economic theory and a rejection of rights and protections for the workforce.
So the attack on IVF is just one piece of the much larger pie of controlling people’s rights. It should obliterate any illusions that they will stop with abortion."
Also finally finished #AlanWake2 . Extraordinary game. Truly amazing. Not sure if I like it more than #Control, but Remedy keeps hitting them out of the park.
People who earn high salaries and are very educated can't help but think themselves as superior. Class is one of the primary elements of education, its not just a side effect. No one wakes up one day and treats someone as below them. The vast majority of people who ask me personal questions you should never ask someone you don't know in a professional context are white or wealthy/educated. In other words they have power and know it. #racism#classism#education#control#professional#power
"It’s not a coincidence that the authoritarian right is obsessed with both the border and women’s bodies; they’d like to increase the patrolling of both, and essentially shut them both down. It’s an obsession with purity and control to be achieved by punitive and sometimes homicidally violent means. And it’s a roadmap straight back to the terrible inequality women were already campaigning against in Anthony Comstock’s time."
The decision established that minors at open-air sites were in #legal custody of the DHS & thus must receive #safe#shelter, even if they had not yet been formally processed.
“The ability to exercise discretion over, & make decisions affecting, a child’s #health & #welfare is indicative of maintaining #legal custody of the child, regardless of whether that decision is to provide or withhold care,” the 12-pg order read. “Juveniles, unlike adults, are always in some form of #custody.”
[Analysis] National Rent Control? It’s Closer Than You Think. (www.youtube.com)
A historic wave of tenant organizing is on the verge of winning renter protections that would be attached to federal loans—affecting 1 in 4 apartments. But Greystar, Blackstone, and AvalonBay are spending millions to block it....