M Donoian
@michaeldonoian.bsky.social
I'm here for the articles. I've taught Econ in colleges, finance, insurance sales, bartender, server,..lots of st**
In the 1950s we had 700 different chemicals in our food Today we have over 10,000 in our food In Europe, they only have 700 still today. Kelloggs makes the safer Canadian version and the American version. Two different options, same manufacturer. Americans have been sold out sadly.
Did you see how Apple, Amazon Walmart and other big companies are refunding the billions of dollars they got back from the federal tariff settlement to their customers, who ultimately bore the cost of higher prices? Yea, me neither.
More than 500 activists set out from Bosnia and Herzegovina, aboard 17 buses and dozens of vehicles on a humanitarian convoy to the border of Palestine. The convoy is calling for international attention to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank. The convoy has now reached Turkey.
oh hi im one of those affected! note well that a week or two after MSFT/Xbox laid off thousands of us, they made a $60 million donation to the President's AI initiative .....
ICE will pay CoreCivic more than half a billion dollars over five years to reopen a defunct 1,600-bed prison in rural western Minnesota as an immigrant detention center.
ICE, CoreCivic to open Appleton immigrant detention center this year • Minnesota Reformer
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will pay private prison company CoreCivic more than half a billion dollars to reopen a defunct 1,600-bed prison in rural western Minnesota as an immigrant detention...
minnesotareformer.com
"Critics tend to think that socialism can only ever mean one thing—a command economy with an authoritarian state—while granting that liberalism and capitalism can assume many diverse forms… For critics and even some extremely online tankies, socialism only ever was and will be the Soviet Union."
Democratic Socialism Gets Serious
"The Blueprint" demonstrates how the new generation of democratic socialists are providing real, practical proposals for economic transformation.
liberalcurrents.com
The State of Mississippi is denying 170 Mississippi foster students full-ride scholarships to colleges across the state, with many would-be freshmen finding out only weeks before their move-in date. Nick Judin reports:
‘Soul-Crushing’: 170 Foster Students Denied Scholarships at Last Minute Across Mississippi
The State of Mississippi is denying 170 Mississippi foster students full-ride scholarships weeks before classes begin due to lack of funding.
mississippifreepress.org
🚨 NEW: $36 million payment from ICE to GEO Group, for-profit prison company, on July 24 for detention services at Mesa Verde and Golden State ICE detention facility in California. ICE is a for-profit scheme paid for by taxpayers, using immigrants as commodities. www.quiverquant.com/news/Governm...
Government Contract Update: $36M payment to THE GEO GROUP, INC | GEO Stock News
We just received data on a $36M payment to THE GEO GROUP, INC. from the Department of Homeland Secur
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🧊 Monday ICECAST – 3 Aug 26 ✈️ 9am — San Diego/Miramar 🇲🇽, Victorville CA, Salt Lake City 10am – Tallahassee 11am – Tampa, Jacksonville 🇲🇽, Boston/Hanscom, Richmond 12pm – Buffalo, Fort Benning GA 2pm — Memphis, Bakersfield CA 3pm — Indianapolis (all times local) Outbound: 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇭🇳🇩🇴🇪🇨🇵🇪
Americans bury 50,000 discarded mattresses every day, and over 80 percent of what is inside each one is steel, foam and wood that a recycling plant can sell straight back to industry share.google/grdmYutLYVsK...
Americans bury 50,000 discarded mattresses every day, and over 80 percent of what is inside each one is steel, foam and wood that a recycling plant can sell straight back to industry
Americans discard nearly 20 million mattresses a year, and the flame retardants and chemicals sealed inside each one spend decades leaching into soil, gro
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How the hell are we allowing Felons to be President ?? finance.yahoo.com/news/capital...
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe
By Kenrick Cai SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Capital One Financial hit back on Friday against a lawsuit over its decision to close the Trump Organization's bank accounts years ago, stating that it
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"Jessica" has worked harvesting and packing table grapes in the Delano, Arvin and Richgrove CA area for 20+ years. "We just earn CA minimum wage. This is hard work especially now in this current heat wave when I need to work 8 hrs a day in temps that reach 105°." #WeFeedYou
18-year-old found dead in home owned by congresswoman’s husband had been shot, cops say
Teen found dead in house owned by congresswoman’s husband was shot, copy say
Police have made no arrests in the shooting of 18-year-old Yoseliani Ann Marte Ocasio, whose death has been officially ruled a homicide stemming from domestic violence
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Examining how networks formed through college athletics influence the early-career trajectories of Ivy League graduates, from Paul Gompers, George Hu, Will Levinson, and Sachin Srivastava www.nber.org/papers/w35527
Whole lot of new info in here, including comment from Brazilian family members of people trapped on a failed deportation flight, another possible third-country removal to Central African Republic, and a ubiquitous appearance from @jjindc.bsky.social. gillianbrockell.com/frenzy-of-cr...
Frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights shows Trump’s ethnic cleansing campaign is escalating – again
Seven apparent ICE removal flights in the last few days – including third-country removals, prolonged shackling, and failed deportations – reveal an agency ratcheting up.
gillianbrockell.com
Chicago teen shares his experience in ICE detention centers: I am 18 years old and I just graduated from high school in Chicago. I was in ICE detention for 2 months and 10 days. They kept me in solitary for 2 days for no reason, alone in a room with just a toilet. They never let us go outside.
Three likely ICE removal flights on private jets have taken off within 25 minutes of another. Hard to know yet where they are headed, but these jets have all recently done third-country removals to Eswatini, Ghana, Poland, etc etc
As of March 2026, it’s no longer considered safe for children or pregnant people to eat wild-caught walleye larger than 18 inches from the state of Minnesota. We spoke to WaterLegacy to learn more about the mercury contamination that led to this advisory. #GreatLakes #Minnesota #Fish buff.ly/GB4TT7H
Mercury Contamination Makes Eating Many Wild-Caught Fish Unsafe in Minnesota — Healthy Lakes
Elevated levels of mercury in Minnesota’s fish populations have led to fish consumption advisories. The contamination comes as a result of the environmental mismanagement of local mining operations,…
healthylakes.org
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
propublica.org
🧊✈️ GUATEMALA⛓️🌎 😲 A GlobalX jet (tail: N316NV) departs Louisiana, trafficking chained humans to Guatemala City 🇬🇹
Y’all talking about the 50k now vs a 50% chance at one million need to do some reading on this experiment. Children from deprived backgrounds will choose immediate gratification over the promise of larger future rewards because we have learned that future promises are unreliable.
Stanford marshmallow experiment - Wikipedia
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The US federal government launches it’s first public medical care program in 1799, only a decade after the rise of the new republic. It remained in place until the 1980s when Reagan axed it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Administering Entitlement: Governance, Public Health Care, and the Early American State | Law & Social Inquiry | Cambridge Core
Administering Entitlement: Governance, Public Health Care, and the Early American State - Volume 37 Issue 3
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The reality is that prisons are cruel places, and working there sucks. Facilities across the U.S. have tried increasing wages, offering employee benefits, and lowering work requirements. Still, people don't want to work there, and COs quit in droves.
Why jails and prisons can’t recruit their way out of the understaffing crisis
Jails and prisons across the country have record-high vacancies, creating bad working conditions for corrections staff and nightmarish living conditions for incarcerated people. Why haven’t ...
prisonpolicy.org
Major meatpackers have taken in more than half a billion in tax subsidies since 2006 Minnesota Reformer Most of America’s beginning farmers don’t farm full time. AG Daily #InvestigateMidwest #IntheNews
Community Health System #Fresno is replacing 120 hospitalists with Sound Physicians, a #PrivateEquity backed staffing company, bringing pay cuts, restrictive contracts, staffing changes & possible #corporate practice of medicine violations under #California law. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbsB...
Another Awful Private Equity Takeover: Sound Physicians
YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken
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