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The Republican Epstein Strategy Is Failing

We’re now on the third attempt to deflect from releasing the files. This one doesn’t appear to be working either. The Epstein case is an actual policy issue; it’s about how the richest and most powerful people in the country can get away with anything.  

Half a Win for Uber and Lyft Drivers

California and the SEIU reached an agreement with Uber and Lyft allowing drivers to collectively bargain. However, the drivers are still classified as independent contractors and don’t have an explicit right to strike. It’s not a deal made in heaven, but a deal nonetheless.

Embarrassing Ruling Allows Google to Maintain Its Search Monopoly

Last year, Judge Amit Mehta found Google guilty of illegally monopolizing search markets through special pay-for-placement deals to make it the default search on devices and browsers. As a punishment, Mehta said that Google could … keep making those deals.

Sugar Daddies

MAHA was ecstatic about Coca-Cola’s move to offer cane-sugar Coke. Ironically, the move may have been pushed by a foreign-national sugar baron who RFK Jr. has a 28-year running feud with. Meet the MAGA billionaire Fanjul family, the biggest welfare barons of all time.

Trump Deal Lets Intel Move Factories Overseas, Sen. Warren Explains

In a letter to the Commerce Department, Sen. Elizabeth Warren blasted the deal between the Trump administration and Intel, even as she supported the concept of equity stakes. The reason is that Trump’s equity stake substitutes all the conditions of the CHIPS and Science Act grant, including the condition to prevent offshoring.

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