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Jake Tapper's Biden Book is Hilarious and Insane Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's mass media apologia is leaps and bounds more demented than the book's subject, Joe Biden racket.news/p/jake-tappers…

NEW: It's not just Delta. All three of the nation's largest airlines are charging some solo passengers higher fares than groups of two or more - sometimes significantly higher.

tbh this is precisely why zoning as the unified theory of the housing crisis has never made sense to me

Polis just vetoed the first statewide ban on algorithmic rent fixing in the country. Denver is the second-most impacted city in the country by rent fixing algorithms, which reduce supply, increase evictions, and hike rents by hundreds per month. This is your Abundance Governor?

Private equity has rolled up many ambulance services around the country, but I’m sure that has nothing to do with it.

sociopaths alike. reminds me of this quote from a RealPage developer about how landlords have too much empathy for their tenants hence why they need to outsource their rent hikes to the algorithm

The final entry in our week of covering the Golden Age of Scams is a banger from moe tkacik on merchant cash advance: payday loans for small businesses, administered by a rogue's gallery of ex-cons, drug traffickers, boiler room hustlers, & hired muscle. (link below)

Scoop: Microsoft has reached a tentative agreement for its first-ever US union contract, covering 300 video game workers at ZeniMax, union says bloomberg.com/news/articles/… CWA

WTF

college debate club ass speech

Ok this is genuinely funny

Earned wage access is essentially your employer giving you a payday loan, administered by a third party. The third parties try to evade credit lending laws, or in the case of Maryland, get the law changed.

Seems bad

NEW: GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy has hired a DoorDash gov affairs staffer as his new labor advisor. As chair of the HELP committee, Cassidy's top labor priority is a "portable benefits" bill DoorDash is lobbying for to keep their gig workers classified as contractors not employees

Citing The Lever reporting, senators are now pressing RealPage for answers on how the GOP's proposed ban on AI limits could help the company fleece renters. The Lever's original report is here: levernews.com/republicans-ai… warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press…

NEW: Who's backing WelcomePAC, the centrist group hosting this week's Abundance-themed WelcomeFest? FEC records reveal big donations from tech baron Reid Hoffman, ultra-wealthy Walmart heirs, Michael Bloomberg, and Heather Manchin's advocacy group.

NEW: A Biden admin spokesperson who spent his time defending Israel against charges of genocide and crimes against humanity has landed a new job at a Democratic PR firm being paid by Israel to do media outreach. readsludge.com/2025/06/03/dem…