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Founders Paul Judge and Ryan Glover knew little about banking, but 700,000 believers joined their exclusive waitlist. So can their fintech company actually repair centuries of racist banking?
Liberals are wont to mock conservatives for their blind faith in obviously dishonest "news" media like Fox and right-wing nut jobs like Glenn Beck. But, as I frequently note, people who live in glasshouses shouldn't throw stones.
Apparently, we on the left find a myriad of "journalistic" outlets (read for-profit infotainment peddlers) truthful including: "PBS, the BBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, the Associated Press, TIME Magazine and MSNBC."
How absurd. These corporate shills have been promoting wars for profit and oil for 20 years, largely ignored the climate catastrophe, knee-capped Medicare for All, used all their power to destroy Bernie Sanders and promote neolibs like Obama, Hillary, and Biden. Yet we still trust them and demonize righty for credulousness.
Can we please put our own house in order first!
Jobs, jobs, jobs! For anyone that wants one! (Oh and what time period was the 'MAGA' slogan referring to? circa 1968, maybe?)
By Spencer S. Hsu and Clarence Williams @ WashingtonPost.com, Updated yesterday at 9:29 p.m. EDT
The FBI on Wednesday arrested two men charged with impersonating federal law enforcement in an investigation that has placed four U.S. Secret Service members on leave.
Federal authorities accused Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 36, of obtaining handguns, rifles and other material to pose as Department of Homeland Security employees. They said the men used the guise to get closer to members of federal law enforcement and the defense community — including a U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to the first lady’s protective detail.
Taherzadeh provided members of the Secret Service and an employee of DHS with items such as “rent-free apartments (with a total yearly rent of over $40,000 per apartment), iPhones, surveillance systems, a drone, a flat screen television, a case for storing an assault rifle, a generator, and law enforcement paraphernalia,” according to an FBI affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in D.C. [....]
The complaint said that four members of the Secret Service were placed on administrative leave as of April 4. The Secret Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday night.
Both men are scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court on Thursday and are currently detained, prosecutors said
Investigators said the pair posed as DHS officers or employees beginning in February 2020.
The charges against Ali and Taherzadeh were made public as FBI personnel were seen in the Navy Yard area Wednesday night and were photographed on social media going into an apartment building [....]
[....] Biden, ticking through the reforms included in the bipartisan bill, noted that it sets the Postal Service on a more “sustainable and stable financial footing.” [....]
Previous news about the Sacramento mass shooting a few days ago starts here on the last Crime News thread, including that 6 were killed and 15 wounded and horrifying video of people trying to run while 76 shot were being fired in 54 seconds
The other Arizona Democrat has started drawing ire from progressives as he distances himself from his own party on border and economic policies
By Burgess Everett @ Politico.com, April 5
He helped sink one of Joe Biden’s labor nominees, pushed the president to open new drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and hammered the administration over lifting pandemic-era restrictions on the southern border.
No, it’s not a Republican. It’s Mark Kelly [....]
Note that Gaetz wants to promote the story, so confident that it's beneficial to him that he tweeted CNN's report, not say, Fox:
@ SkyNews, 29 March 2022 21:43, UK
It is Israel's third deadly attack in the past week and appeared to be the latest in a string of attacks by Arab assailants ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
I was on the SSRI kick for a while. Well, there might be another component worth considering!
Better still, with the evils of testosterone firmly established, the world may learn to appreciate older men. Around the age of 30, no longer “young, dumb and full of cum”, we typically find our testosterone levels declining, so that with every day that passes we become less aggressive, more rational and generally nicer. Your average 54-year-old – to pick an age entirely at random – can now boast that as well as decades of experience, he can draw on ever-larger reserves of self-control. Whether we’re trying to land a beautiful lover or a well-paid job, that should make us quite a catch.
In an impassioned speech in Warsaw, President Biden insisted that the Russian people are not the enemy, but described Vladimir V. Putin as a tyrant.
@ NYTimes.com/Ukraine War live updates, March 26
WARSAW — President Biden delivered a forceful denunciation of Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on Saturday as he wrapped up a three-day trip to Europe intended to bolster unity among U.S. allies against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” Mr. Biden said of Mr. Putin as he concluded a fiery address in Poland that drew a stark line between liberty and oppression in the world.
Mr. Biden called the military clash in the heart of Europe the “test of all time” in a decades-long battle against the forces designed to crush democratic uprisings.
His speech at the Royal Castle in Warsaw came amid reports that the Ukrainian city of Lviv just across the Polish border was hit by at least two missiles. The missiles hit targets in the eastern part of the Lviv, at or near what is believed to be an oil storage facility, and thick black smoke billowed over the city [....]