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Facebook reports earnings. Loses 9 billions+. Stock implodes.

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https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/META/ Zuckerberg doesn’t have any good ideas to steal and is cancelling himself. – Meta reported a second straight quarterly revenue decline and is forecasting another drop in the fourth quarter. – The company’s Reality Labs division, which houses its VR headsets, lost over $9 billion in the first three quarters. – The stock plunged in extended … Read more

The bottom 80% have the vast majority of debt

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The share of #income owned by the bottom 80% continues to decline as current policies extract #wealth and shift it to the top 5% of income earners. The bottom 80% have the vast majority of #debt. pic.twitter.com/aJjq3zu2of — Lance Roberts (@LanceRoberts) October 26, 2022

NEW anti-cheating hats in the Philippines during exam

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Students were filmed wearing ‘anti-cheating’ hats to prevent them from looking at their classmates’ papers while taking their midterms exams in the Philippines. The engineering pupils wore hats made from recycled household materials obscuring their peripheral vision at Bicol University in Legazpi City, Albay province on October 17. h/t Backwash

Renters filed a lawsuit this week alleging that a company that makes price-setting software for apartments and nine of the nation’s biggest property managers formed a cartel to artificially inflate rents in violation of federal law

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Landlords from many major real estate rental companies are coordinating through Realpage to inflate rents. The algorithm makes use of private information on how much each landlord in an area charges and lets them coordinate to raise prices through the algorithm to raise all their prices at the same time without ever traceably agreeing with … Read more

Potential cancer breakthrough as scientists develop a drug that can block a gene that causes tumors to grow

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An experimental drug has for the first time been shown to block a gene central to the growth of many cancers — in what could be a breakthrough. The treatment — known as OMO-103 — works by suppressing MYC, which orchestrates messages telling a cell to divide. In a study of a dozen patients with various … Read more

Hillary is Crying Fraud Already!

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My message for @indivisibleteam, and everyone else: We can't save our democracy with action only on the big-time, big-name races. We have to save democracy at the state level, too. Join us. https://t.co/3ohzw7jrRKpic.twitter.com/JJOmVAg2V7 — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 25, 2022 h/t Jwnlwplus4

Schiff, Durbin ‘Demand’ That Google and YouTube Censor ‘Dangerous’ Incel Content

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The Democrat politicians cited a report from the far-left “Center for Countering Digital Hate” in their censorship demand. The CCDH report makes clear that misogynist communities have created male-supremacist online spaces to promote their hateful and violent ideology, blaming women and minority groups for their problems. While incels have been described as loners or socially … Read more

Jimmy Dore Show: Canada Admits Trucker Convoy Was Peaceful

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During the Canadian trucker protests last winter, the protesters were routinely smeared as violent white supremacists, not only in the press and online, but even by the Canadian government. Now that same government has been forced to admit that the truckers’ violent reputation was wildly overblown, and the smears were little more than officially sanctioned … Read more

Leftists Claim Pennsylvania Oz Versus Fetterman Debate Was a Disgusting Display of Abuse of the Disabled

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https://twitter.com/feministabulous/status/1585076267602579456 .@feministabulous: Oz bullies Fetterman for missing debates due to stroke https://t.co/xom5N2w3oi — MS NOW (@MSNOWNews) October 26, 2022 He’s running for the US SENATE, Liz. — Dean Cain (@RealDeanCain) October 26, 2022 https://twitter.com/QTRResearch/status/1585067309642944512   h/t dr0id