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Today’s Top Stories:
The NY Times’ star reporter publicly humiliates Trump over his “anonymous sources” anti-media Twitter rant
The president took to Twitter this morning in a rage — but his absurd attacks quickly blew up in his face
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A close friend of John McCain reveals his parting diss toward Sarah Palin
The late Republican Senator sent his former running mate a bold message before his passing.
People In All 50 States Are Defying Trump’s Efforts To Undo Obama’s Climate Saving Legacy With This Online Service
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Jeff Flake brutally taunts Trump over Tuesday’s Arizona Republican primary
Trump’s nemesis saw his shameless morning attack and fired back with an epic burn.
Trump announces White House lawyer McGahn is set to leave after cooperation with Mueller
Republicans are beginning to panic over the latest departure
Trump launches a vicious personal attack on Watergate legend Carl Bernstein
As Mueller closes in, the Republican president is in full meltdown mode.
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Mueller launches a new investigation into a suspicious payment from the Russian Embassy
The Trump-Russia investigator is following the money and it led him straight to the nation’s capital.
Even Fox News anchor rebukes Florida’s Republican gubernatorial nominee for racist comment about Black opponent (video)
The Trump acolyte started the campaign by showing his true shameful colors, and even
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Today’s Action: Tell the Federal Trade Commission to protect consumers TODAY
There’s a comment period on the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) debate about whether to hold businesses accountable when they steal or defraud consumers. Because right now…they aren’t.
That comment period ends TOMORROW, so time is of the essence.
A Texas company called Your Therapy Source has been caught by the FTC stealing from its workers through wage-fixing (conspiring across industry to set worker wages below standard). Wage-fixing is illegal. But the FTC’s response to this discovery was simply issuing a statement asking the company to stop stealing. No wage compensation, no fines, no jail time. No punishment for corporate law-breakers.
Now, a new member of the FTC, Rohit Chopra, is fighting back for the people. Chopra says the FTC must follow through on the law if we’re to have any chance battling corporate corruption. And the FTC is currently receiving public commentary on the Your Therapy Source case through Thursday, August 30.
And this isn’t the only case in which the FTC has brushed corporate crimes under the rug. In 2001, the FTC charged a company named Speedway with false advertisement of its product, and ordered them to refund $1 million to customers. 15 years later, Speedway still hadn’t completed the task…and the FTC decided to let Speedway pay the government the balance instead of its customers.
With massive pending issues like Facebook’s privacy violations which affect 87 million people worldwide, Chopra believes the FTC must finally begin standing firm if they are to have any success protecting American citizens from corporations run amok…and it begins right now with the Your Therapy Source wage-fixing.
The FTC takes public comments seriously (especially as they receive very few) — so this is a huge change to make a big influence on criminal corporate actions!
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