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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

The Guardian famously does not paywall content. They do ask for donations.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

In the US, unless the outcome is changed as a result of an appeal, yes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

It's not a direct impact; it's that the ad buys get the oil folks access in a way that you and I don't have. The journalists end up at things like conference panels with oil folks, and not so much with activists or scientists, and the editors choose who to put on a given story.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

The NYT takes huge ad payments from the oil industry. Industry reps get regular access to reporters in non-news contexts as a result, and this spills over into the background beliefs and attitudes a lot of them have

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Both personal appearances at rallies and paying for votes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I expect that a lot of their constituents do. And the Republcians will change their tune when they fear the public anger over their actions more than they fear the billionaires

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Gun owners mostly shoot:

  • themselves
  • their wife or girlfriend
  • their kids
[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They apparently know now — she was taken to an ICE facility in Loisiana in violation of a court order.

She was transferred to Louisiana despite a federal judge’s order Tuesday night telling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to remove Ozturk from Massachusetts without prior notice.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

The plan is explicity to force states to change their rules by illegally withholding money from them and their citizens until the states change their rules

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Not all of them were drunk. This most likely happened because they're routinely using Signal to avoid government record keeping laws, to avoid creating evidence of their more serious crimes.

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