US restaurant chains see profits collapse as Israel boycott bites
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NOV 1, 2024
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Reasons to boycott:
Supporting genocide in Gaza;
Supporting starvation wages;
Slave labor in supply chains;
Animal cruelty;
Decimation of local businesses;
Unhealthy processed food;
And so on ...
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Canada's Getting High-Speed Rail, But...
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“Yo-ho, row-ho with Mario & Luigi.”
The Nintendo Switch is going out with a bang.
I’d say some bangers, too, after hearing the catchy sea shanty from this new trailer for Mario & Luigi: Brothership, which will add to the Switch’s pleasingly robust Mario RPG catalog.
When I took office, we faced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Today, we have the greatest economy in the world.
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Dear Canada, US, and Mexico: Did you harvest and preserve enough daylight? The season ends tomorrow. ⏰
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The Unique Danger of a Trumpist Oligarchy
A corrupt cabal of billionaires would entangle themselves with the Trump administration and form a double-barreled threat to the American system
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Arab and Muslim Americans make final push for Harris
Haitham Wahab, a resident of Dearborn, Michigan, and a Lebanese American who has been canvassing for the Harris-Walz campaign, said one of the best ways to effect change is “from the inside, through coalition-building”.
“As an Arab American, you should definitely vote,” Wahab said.
“Voting for Harris is the best possible choice to preserve the maximum political power of the Arab American voter.”
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The Unique Danger of a Trumpist Oligarchy (Franklin Foer/The Atlantic)
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Le #jazz, c’est 95 % d’hommes qui se cooptent entre eux, dans une non-mixité choisie de fait. Je souhaite à cette jeune femme de mettre un sacré coup de pied dans la fourmilière !
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The great German industrialists of the 1930s found Adolf Hitler crude. But they disliked democracy and taxes and regulation far more.
Weekend reading:
The combination of a deep-seated mythology of American exceptionalism, progress gospel, (willful) historical ignorance, and a lack of political imagination has created a situation in which a lot of people simply refuse to take the Trumpist threat seriously.
This week’s piece:
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