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@#37 ... In other words, they all screw employees the same way. ...

yup.

That seems to be how it works.

Similar to ... ?

Company That Makes Rent-Setting Software for Apartments Accused of Collusion, Lawsuit Says
www.propublica.org

... Texas-based RealPage worked with some of the nation's largest landlords to create a cartel to raise rents, says a lawsuit filed just days after ProPublica published its investigation into the company. ...


And some wonder why interest in unions seems to be increasing?


Record-High 47% Want Unions to Have More Influence
news.gallup.com


@#6 ... To promote the hatred, stir up the public, and help him to stay out of prison. He and his wife are under indictment. ...

I cannot disagree.

Elections for PM in Israel are coming up soon ...

Netanyahu Faces Israel Election Defeat Amid Claims He Ignored Oct. 7 Warning
www.newsweek.com

... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected claims he ignored warnings that could have prevented the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, as polls and prediction markets forecast he faces a bruising election next month. ...

@#9 ... Were there empty seats? ...

Were Seats Empty at RNC Midterm Convention? What Photos, Videos Show
www.newsweek.com

... The Republican National Committee's first-ever midterm convention in Dallas was intended to energize GOP voters ahead of the November elections and showcase President Donald Trump's political agenda.

But images and videos from inside the American Airlines Center showed empty seats before Trump's first speech at the two-day event. ...


... and for background ...

Kirk and Uhura's kiss
en.wikipedia.org

... In the episode of Star Trek: The Original Series titled "Plato's Stepchildren", season 3 episode 10, first broadcast November 22, 1968, Uhura (played by Black American actress Nichelle Nichols) and Captain Kirk (played by white actor William Shatner) kiss.

The episode is often cited"incorrectly"as the first interracial kiss on television.[1][2] It was, however, the first instance in which a kiss between a black person and a white person on a regular U.S. television show was scripted, as an earlier kiss on Movin' with Nancy was unscripted.[3]

The episode aired one year after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down nationwide laws prohibiting interracial marriage.[4] ...

[emphasis mine]

Fact check: There's no evidence Donald Trump helped with 9/11 response (September 2020)
www.usatoday.com

... President Donald Trump has made many public comments about his memories of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Some of his claims have become popular memes among his supporters.

"Two days after the 9/11 attack Trump was at Ground Zero with hundreds of workers that he paid of his own pocket to help find and identify victims. He's been a patriot to the country he loves forever," a viral meme spread widely across Facebook reads.

Trump made a somewhat similar claim himself on Sept. 11, 2019, claiming that after seeing the attacks, he joined support efforts at Ground Zero alongside his employees.

"Soon after, I went down to Ground Zero with men who worked for me to try to help in any little way that we could," the president said during remarks at the Pentagon. "We were not alone. So many others were scattered around trying to do the same. They were all trying to help."

There is no evidence that Trump helped with efforts at Ground Zero. Emergency responders who coordinated response efforts have cast doubt on the president's claims.

The image often used in viral memes is also not at Ground Zero. ...

Trump also erroneously claimed that a building he owned, 40 Wall St., was now the tallest skyscraper in New York City. The building was slightly shorter than 70 Pine St., another building near 40 Wall St. in Lower Manhattan.

In the days following the attacks, emergency workers at Ground Zero sifted through rubble and debris, attempting to find the fallen.

"I was there for several months -- I have no knowledge of his being down there," Richard Alles, a New York Fire Department battalion chief during 9/11, told PolitiFact.

"There would be a record of it," Alles continued. "Everybody worked under direct supervision of the police and fire department and the joint commander for emergency services.

"Is there a chance he was ever down there by himself and I didn't know it? It's possible, but I know of no one who ever witnessed him there."

There are no reports from the time that show that a large contingent of workers hired by or working alongside Trump were helping with the cleanup. ...



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