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from collections import Counter
import random
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from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip, concatenate, vfx
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mm = int …David Dayden writes in the New Republic:
» Read morePrivate equity firms borrow massively to buy companies, and use corporate cash reserves to pay themselves back. Workers who supply the value to the business see nothing; in fact, to service the debt, companies usually cut staff. When the retailer collapses under the …
The Boomers in one video.
Bryce Covert writes in the New York Times:
» Read moreBecause of lax security at Equifax, one of the three major credit reporting companies, the private financial and personal details of as many as 143 million Americans have been exposed to hackers. We still don’t know what the full ramifications will …
The American Moderate, like the American Conservative, has always been a tolerant and forgiving fellow when it comes to violence. He'll forgive the Indian killer and the slaver, the murdering cop and the armed invader, the groper and feeler-up, the thieving capitalists' bought lawmen and their night-time raids, the soul-stealing …
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“The Last Strike” http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lbc2ic/x-sclp1336/sclp_1336. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed: August 24, 2017.
» Read moreMost likely, sometime early next year, the Supreme Court will issue a 5-4 decision holding that agreements where workers waive the right to engage in collective legal action are enforceable. Fox News will probably give the decision little or no coverage, and most of the working-class citizens who voted for …
A hungry ghost always wants the next thing, not the last thing. Rebecca Solnit, “The Loneliness of Donald Trump‟
Graydon Hicks, Superintendent of Schools in Fort Davis, a small and remote town in Jeff Davis County in the Big Bend of west Texas, has written a powerful open letter to derelict state leaders (Republicans all), who have for a generation now been working very hard to hobble schools and …
» Read more» Read moreOne of the most highly correlated factors with Trump support, on a county-by-county basis, is the level of opiate addiction.
In a sense, Trump is the perfect candidate. Here is a guy who comes along and essentially is a walking, talking opioid. He’s somebody who comes along and says …
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