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Pluralistic: America's richest Medicare fraudsters are untouchable (13 Nov 2024)
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America's richest Medicare fraudsters are untouchable: When you're famous they let you do it.
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on November 13, 2024November 13, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags asbestos, Christi Grimm, Crispin Teufel, department of health and human services, DHHS, Greg McCarthy, health and human services, hhs, impunity, Jeff Barnhard, Jenna Pedersen, kickbacks, lincare, medicare, medicare fraud, monopoly, oxygen, propublica, selective enforcement, too big to fail, too big to jail5 Comments on Pluralistic: America's richest Medicare fraudsters are untouchable (13 Nov 2024)
Pluralistic: The one weird monopoly trick that gave us Walmart and Amazon and killed Main Street (14 Aug 2024)
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The one weird monopoly trick that gave us Walmart and Amazon and killed Main Street: The Robinson-Patman Act is how we make sure companies aren't too big to jail nor too big to care.
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on August 14, 2024August 15, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags a and p, alvaro bedoya, Bryce Tuttle, ftc, impunity, main street, Max M Miller, monopoly, monopsony, prices, regulatory capture, Robinson-Patman Act, the american prospect, too big to care, too big to jail, wright patman1 Comment on Pluralistic: The one weird monopoly trick that gave us Walmart and Amazon and killed Main Street (14 Aug 2024)
Pluralistic: Monopoly is capitalism's gerrymander (18 May 2024)
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Monopoly is capitalism's gerrymander: Handcuffs for the invisible hand.
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This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on May 18, 2024May 18, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags capitalism, feudalism, gerrymandering, graceful failure modes, impunity, market discipline, monopolies, regulatory capture, too big to care, trustbusting, unaccountability1 Comment on Pluralistic: Monopoly is capitalism's gerrymander (18 May 2024)
Pluralistic: How the NYPD defeated bodycams (14 Dec 2023)
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How the NYPD defeated bodycams: NYPD leadership were accountability's adversaries, not its partners.
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This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on December 14, 2023December 15, 2023Categories UncategorizedTags abolish the police, acab, body-worn cameras, bodycams, ccrb, corruption, impunity, nypd, police, propublica, propublicaimpunity1 Comment on Pluralistic: How the NYPD defeated bodycams (14 Dec 2023)
Pluralistic: One of America's most corporate-crime-friendly bankruptcy judges forced to recuse himself (16 Oct 2023)
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One of America's most corporate-crime-friendly bankruptcy judges forced to recuse himself: Judge David Jones rigged the 'Texas Two-Step' cases his secret girlfriend argued in his court.
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on October 16, 2023October 16, 2023Categories UncategorizedTags bankruptcy, bankruptcy shopping, corizon, corruption, elizabeth freeman, fifth circuit, houston, impunity, johnson and johnson, judge david jones, mess with texas, Michael Van Deelen, Office of the US Trustee, prison profiteers, prisons, private prisons, sacklers, southern district of texas, texas, texas two-step, yescare1 Comment on Pluralistic: One of America's most corporate-crime-friendly bankruptcy judges forced to recuse himself (16 Oct 2023)
Pluralistic: The internet is not a (link)dump truck (30 Sept 2023)
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The internet is not a (link)dump truck: It's a series of totally tubular links.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on September 30, 2023September 30, 2023Categories UncategorizedTags amazon, antitrust, books, cyberpunk, dark ages, dystopia watch, eleanor janega, enlightenment, history, holy roman empire, hypercard, impunity, jwz, linkdump, linkdumps, opacity, science fiction, the lost cause, vocational awe, voltaire1 Comment on Pluralistic: The internet is not a (link)dump truck (30 Sept 2023)
Pluralistic: Canada's privatised shadow civil service (31 Jan 2023)
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Canada's privatised shadow civil service: Tories claim governments are incompetent, Liberals prove it.
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on January 31, 2023February 1, 2023Categories UncategorizedTags canada, cdnpoli, consultancy, covid, hollow government, impunity, justin trudeau, liberal party, mckinsey, neoliberalism, opacity, profiteers, quebec3 Comments on Pluralistic: Canada's privatised shadow civil service (31 Jan 2023)
Pluralistic: 30 Jun 2022
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McKinsey, consiglieri of the opioid crisis: "Without admitting any wrongdoing."
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on June 30, 2022June 30, 2022Categories UncategorizedTags elite impunity, endo, impunity, Mallinckrodt, mckinsey, mckinsey and co, mckinsey-mafia, opana, opioid crisis, opioids, oxy, oxycontin, purdue pharma1 Comment on Pluralistic: 30 Jun 2022
Pluralistic: 06 Apr 2022
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How trade secrets swallowed your right to know: A corporate veto over your environment, health, and civic duty.
The Mormon Church owns the most valuable property portfolio in America: At least $15,700,000,000 in holdings.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 6, 2022April 17, 2022Categories UncategorizedTags competition, corruption, cover ups, impunity, ip, latter day saints, law, lds, mormons, osint, real estate, secrecy, trade secrecy1 Comment on Pluralistic: 06 Apr 2022
Pluralistic: 08 Dec 2021
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All the books I reviewed in 2021: Plus one I published!
Broken Promises: The Writers Guild of America West makes the case for media un-consolidation.
How elite hobbies let billionaires pay no tax: More from Propublica's IRS Leaks.
This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
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Continue reading "Pluralistic: 08 Dec 2021"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on December 8, 2021December 8, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags bibliographies, books, gift guide, hobbies, impunity, irs, irs leaks, media consolidation, monopoly, reading lists, reviews, tax avoidance, tax evasion, wga, wga west1 Comment on Pluralistic: 08 Dec 2021
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