Death by Ballot Prop: How California Outsourced Legislation to the MobJan 29
a brief history of organized shoplifting rings, housing deadlocks, and other fun consequences of the state's 'direct democracy' experiment
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Regulate Me, Daddy
tuesday report #17 // AI hearing, regulation season, elon hit from all sides, and the clowniest links from clown world hell in months.
Mike Solana
May 24, 2023
Welcome back to the Tuesday Report, the Pirate Wires weekly digest. Every week we deliver a brief lead story followed by a storm of fire links to catch you up on everything you need to know.
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Death by Ballot Prop: How California Outsourced Legislation to the Mob
The Secret NIMBY Millionaire Behind California's Asset SeizureJan 27
robert reich, 4'11" champion of california's 'wealth tax,' has built a lucrative career collecting taxpayer dollars to peddle anticapitalist rhetoric (he's also secretly a nimby)
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Dispatch from Davos: The SXSW for GlobalismJan 26
a recap of this year’s annual gathering of the world economic forum: highlights, trump v. the bugmen, and is ‘sparkle beach ken’ the best political insult of all time?
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