Pluralistic: Google skates (05 Sep 2026)

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Google skates: Another federal judge loses a game of peek-a-boo.
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America's richest Medicare fraudsters are untouchable: When you're famous they let you do it.
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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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How the NYPD defeated bodycams: NYPD leadership were accountability's adversaries, not its partners.
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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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The internet is not a (link)dump truck: It's a series of totally tubular links.
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Canada's privatised shadow civil service: Tories claim governments are incompetent, Liberals prove it.
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McKinsey, consiglieri of the opioid crisis: "Without admitting any wrongdoing."
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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.
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