We've secured a $400 million multistate settlement with generic drug manufacturer Sandoz Inc. for artificially inflating and manipulating prices, reducing competition, and restraining trade. When companies illegally manipulate the market to keep prices high, consumers pay the price.

Attorney General Bonta Announces $400 Million Settlement in Principle with Sandoz, a Generic Drug Manufacturer, over Conspiracy to Inflate Prices and Limit Competition

Settlement will result in total payments of approximately $469 million to state enforcers by Sandoz OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined a coalition of 43 states and territorie...

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The Trump Admin is continuing to weaponize the personal data of Californians—this time, through the IRS sharing data with ICE. Alongside 17 AGs, we’re supporting a challenge to the IRS’ unlawful data sharing. CA will continue to stand up for our residents’ privacy rights.

Attorney General Bonta Supports Lawsuit Challenging IRS Sharing of Taxpayer Data with ICE

OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta, as part of a multistate coalition, filed an amicus brief yesterday opposing the sharing of personal sensitive taxpayer information by the Internal Reve...

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Today’s palate cleanser… also the current state of affairs. :)

China’s trade promotion agency (CCPIT) says Chinese business delegation visited Salt Lake City, Chicago & DC from July 27–31, meeting with >120 US companies. The visit “promoted upcoming China International Supply Chain Expo, expanded trade, investment, and supply chain cooperation”.

EU will release €1.4B generated from profits on frozen Russian sovereign assets following Russia’s attacks on Kyiv. ~95% of the funds will be used to repay G7 and EU loans already provided to Ukraine, while €70M will go directly toward military assistance through the European Peace Facility 🧵

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Appalachia's #blacklung rates highest in nearly 50 years as miners' protections stall. #NIOSH researchers found that working underground coal miners in #Appalachia are suffering from the incurable and fatal disease at the highest rates in 50 years.

The Trump admin has weakened the fed system for detecting & countering foreign election threats, leaving states largely on their own for the first time since 2016. Now Patel is cozying up to countries that def don’t share American interests, months before the 2026 midterms. That’s not a coincidence.

They knew The fossil fuel industry knew Politicians have known Only a few GAF then & now & nothing meaningful's being done Devastated by what we are doing to this planet & the rest of the beings who had no say or choice & are suffering because of human hubris, greed, selfishness, & sadism

Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 20h ago

The Arctic is cooking and we are in serious trouble In what should be one of the coldest places on Earth Its 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 degrees Celsius), as hot as Orlando Florida Without Arctic natural air conditioning systems we are toast www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...

The SCREEN Act is the biggest threat to your right to free, anonymous speech, ever. That this bill is very likely to be signed into law should send a chill down everyone's spines. Within the next month (or sooner), it will be the single most talked about topic in America - and rightfully so.

In Texas, Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare cleared the meeting room, silencing public opposition to the GOP plan to eliminate half of the battleground county’s Election Day voting locations before the midterms.

Remember: "Trump administration disbanded the DOJ office in charge of food safety enforcement"

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 22h ago

Chipotle has removed jalapeños from restaurants as officials investigate 110 cases of salmonella potentially tied to the restaurant. This comes after the Trump administration disbanded the DOJ office in charge of food safety enforcement.

The actual quote is 10 times more psychotic than Ben is describing here

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 22h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

A federal appeals court has ruled the EPA “likely acted unlawfully” in canceling billions of dollars in Biden-era climate grants. The funding remains temporarily frozen while the Trump administration decides whether to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Morocco has awarded a $1.5B project to build a waste-to-energy plant in Casablanca. Expected to begin construction by end of 2026 and enter full operation by 2030, facility will process about 1.5M metric tons of waste annually and generate enough electricity to power nearly 1 million people.

CNN: The US military has exhausted nearly 80% of its interceptors for a key missile defense system as senior US military commanders are warning that the Pentagon’s munitions stockpile is 'dangerously low,' according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

Sounds pretty fashy, right?

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · yesterday

Ice is spending millions on outside agencies to sweep up Americans who criticize it on social media in a far-reaching dragnet that infringes free speech. “As far as I can tell, all of this is about people saying naughty things about ICE and immigration enforcement." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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The tariff refunds you paid for went out in June. What did you get besides higher prices? Not a damn thing. finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli...

“If we reduce the complaints, we reduce the discrimination”

Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterday

Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2

apnews.com/article/epa-... Divided federal appeals court said the Trump administration improperly terminated billions of dollars in funds to boost clean energy projects.

Divided federal appeals court says Trump administration was wrong to terminate climate funds

A federal appeals court has ruled that the Trump administration improperly ended a multi-billion-dollar program for clean energy projects.

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They will absolutely find a way to rule that states cannot protect themselves. We're going to have to all move to clean energy ourselves and make the oil companies obsolete, because this court will gladly let them destroy our health and our planet for corporate profits. That's why they're there.

Jordan Fischer@jordanonrecord.bsky.social · 23h ago

The Supreme Court will start off its October sitting with Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, a major climate case that tests what authority cities & states have to sue oil companies over climate change. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline

Since President Trump returned to office, California has been under attack. We’ve led the way in fighting back—filing 82 lawsuits, protecting more than $207 billion in funding for the Golden State, and defending constitutional rights. I’m incredibly proud of my team. California isn't backing down.

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The Chilling Trump Order Threatening All Americans

Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.

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The need to rebuild gasoline inventories means that even if the Strait of Hormuz were soon reopened (which is a big if), oil prices would take a while to fall back to where they were before the war began.

Get Used to High Gas Prices

Even if the Iran war ends tomorrow, don’t expect relief at the pump any time soon.

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Biden was replenishing our stockpiles with US manufacturers using US union steel. Trump has sent tens of thousands of those jobs overseas and has crippled our supply chain with tariffs and none of our allies want to help us. Maybe we can buy our arms back from Saudi Arabia.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · yesterday

In case you’re wondering who’s really “begging for a deal”

The awesome predictive power of the arson-for-profit industry

Jacob Gellman@jacobgellman.com · yesterday

There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...

Everyone knows that consumers piling up debt for their purchases is the sign of a healthy, unstoppable economy. Look at this graph from the Roaring 20s!

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday

WELLS CEO Charlie Scharf, on CNBC, responds: ".. The data that we see totally supports what he says. Totally supports what he says. Our credit card spend is up 10% .. not just the affluent customers. .. Everyone is spending more." @cnbc.com

This one man—backed by sycophantic greed-lusty Neanderthals—is destroying everything it took civil society millennia to create. “Knowledge is power, power provides information; information leads to education, education breeds wisdom; wisdom is liberation.” –Francis Bacon #NoFascistUSA #ImpeachTrump

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v