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2016, 2020.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readNov 25, 2021

#5yrsago The only person to go to prison for a string of corporate pollution scandals was a crusading scientist who exposed them https://theintercept.com/2016/11/25/did-the-epa-prosecute-and-jail-a-mississippi-lab-owner-because-of-her-activism/

#5yrsago The neoliberal politicians who impeached Brazil’s president and took over are imploding in spectacular corruption scandals https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38108265

#5yrsago If blue-collar workers want better jobs, they need unions, not Trump https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/workers-dont-need-trump-to-give-them-a-voice-they-need-unions/

#5yrsago Giving companies more money (loans, tax-breaks) only increases investor payouts, not expansion https://thenewinquiry.com/disgorge-the-cash/

#5yrsago Wells Fargo says that its customers gave up right to sue by having their signatures forged https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wellsfargo-accounts-lawsuit-idUSKBN13J1WX

#1yrago Random Penguin to buy Simon & Schuster https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/25/the-peoples-amazon/#merger-to-monopoly

#1yrago Office 365 spies on employees for bosses https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/25/the-peoples-amazon/#clippys-revenge

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Cory Doctorow
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