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The U.S. is mirroring a pattern that has happened in authoritarian regimes around the world. When a government erects barriers to reproductive care, it doesn’t just cause death and suffering for women and their families. Such policies are often a first step in the gradual decline of democracies.
Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.
Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
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Really looking forward to this:
Otherwise, it's a nice state you've got there, it would be a shame if companies decided to move away to other states that allow them to completely silence and subordinate shareholders.
#secreg #corpgov #racetothebottom #ESG
He suggested that the SEC will certify a question to the Delaware Supreme Court to confirm this if confronted with the issue (which it certainly will be), & hinted that the Delaware Supreme Court should (1) act swiftly to issue an opinion & (2) confirm the SEC's understanding of Delaware law.
Essentially, Chair Atkins revealed that the SEC now believes (after 80 years of holding a different view) that all 14a-8 Shareholder Proposals on "precatory" (non-binding) resolutions are excludable because Delaware corporate law does not give shareholders a right to present a non-binding proposal.
Rather extraordinary to be in the room when SEC Chair Atkins delivered these remarks to an audience of Delaware jurists & practitioners.
www.sec.gov/newsroom/spe...
Join Sen. Jon Tester on October 14 in conversation with Ben Olinsky for the national debut of a bold new approach that rewrites the rules of money in politics to make Citizens United irrelevant.
A panel discussion with Jeff Mangan, Sarah C. Haan, and Tom Moore will follow. https://ow.ly/FMqu50X75ae
The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it.
Contemptible & pathetic.
if the project of the roberts court is to create an imperial SCOTUS and an imperial presidency, it is worth noting that one of those institutions has access to actual force, and one of them doesn’t
I dunno, maybe the Supreme Court majority could have the decency to bestir themselves to write an actual, you know, opinion, with their names on it, explaining their endorsement of using race and ethnicity as part of a national policy of harassing and intimidating non-white Americans.
Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.”
My latest in @thenation
#NJ #women's #voting #history statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...
The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.
The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
This created winners--people who now want to remake our politics on the corporate model.
www.promarket.org/2025/03/03/d...
TLDL: In corporate governance, we've nurtured passive citizenship, delegated voting, & unequal voting rights; normalized autocratic leadership & incumbent control of elections; failed to create meaningful collective action for the "citizens" of enterprise; & killed investor self-government.
So great to sit down w/ the Bite-Sized Business Law Podcast, @csautter.bsky.social & Sergio Gramitto Ricci to talk about democracy & corporations.
You can't understand what's going on in U.S. politics w/out understanding what happened to "corporate democracy."
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
FYI If you haven't heard about Citizens United v. FEC, I talked about Citizens United on both episodes of my brand new podcast "Democracy & Destiny" which you can find here:
soundcloud.com/profciara #lawsky #electionlaw #constitutionallaw #corporatocracy
The most astonishing thing about the podcast is the interview with Patri Friedman, grandson of Milton Friedman, at about 9:00. Friedman is a backer of Prospera, a "startup city" in Honduras (a private political jurisdiction), who argues that "government should be run like a business."
Curious about efforts to introduce proxy voting to political elections? Listen to this podcast from @revealnews.org about the "pro-natalism" movement. Some pro-natalists argue that a "head of household" should get a proxy vote for each child.
revealnews.org/podcast/pron...
Now, political voices on the right are proposing stake-based/unequal voting and proxy voting for our political elections, in order to remake government on the business model.
Meanwhile, one-share-one-vote, which allocates votes according to "stake," and proxy voting, which allows one party to exercise many people's votes through delegation, became fundamental to corporate elections.
But legislators had miscalculated. It turned out that cumulative voting was easy to defeat by shrinking the board and classifying it. Also, states that did not mandate cumulative voting did better in the "race to the bottom" that ultimately made Delaware the leading jurisdiction for incorporations.
When cumulative voting swept corporate law in the last quarter of the 19th century, it smoothed the way for states to move to one-share-one-vote, which had not previously been the dominant rule.