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Tuesday's Open Thread ~ Just Chillin

Submitted by Anja Geitz on Tue, 05/07/2019 - 4:50am

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Home is where the cookies are ~ Anonymous
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Good Morning Everyone,

Welcome to Tuesday's Open Thread. My apologies for cheating you out of the topic I had originally planned for today, but due to an inconveniently timed illness, I had to postpone that conversation for another time. In its place, I thought we'd talk about what we do when we're chillin at home, or what we do to comfort ourselves when we're sick, or feeling blue, or just want to escape from the insane world we live in.

an interview with WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Hrafnsson: Updated

Submitted by wendy davis on Mon, 05/06/2019 - 1:43pm

‘Everything Was Done To Make Julian Assange’s Life Miserable’; In his first interview since Julian Assange’s arrest, WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Kristinn Hrafnsson discusses the “disgraceful” detention of the platform’s founder, criticism of its links to Russia and what he describes as the “appalling” treatment of Chelsea Manning., spiegel.de, May 3, 2019

Do dividend payouts harm workers?

Submitted by edg on Sun, 05/05/2019 - 6:41pm

There's been much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the fact that corporations used part of the Trump tax cuts to pay out dividends to shareholders. This certainly sounds like a case of the rich getting richer at the expense of workers.

But is it true?

According to an article in the Washington Post by Christopher Ingraham,

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