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☆ Democrats criticize Elon Musk for suspending journalists covering Twitter
  + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Amanda Terkel | Amanda Is Senior Politics Editor For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +5 min
WASHINGTON — Democratic members of Congress had harsh words for Elon Musk on Thursday night after Twitter suddenly suspended a number of high-profile journalists who have been covering the company and Musk, its billionaire CEO. In November, shortly after he took over Twitter, Musk tweeted that he would not ban the account. Musk tweeted Thursday night. "Ro Khanna is great," Musk tweeted in response to one of some of the Twitter files. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., tweeted: "Twitter can suspend whoever it wants.
☆ Elon Musk’s Twitter blocked links to rival Mastodon. That could raise alarms among regulators
  + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +8 min
Soon, however, Twitter began throwing up roadblocks — marking links to Mastodon as “unsafe” and potentially malicious, blocking tweets containing those links and preventing users from adding Mastodon links to their profiles. Now, legal experts are pondering whether there may be anticompetitive or other regulatory implications arising from Twitter’s blocking of Mastodon links. Eugen Rochko, the founder and CEO of Mastodon, has not publicly addressed Twitter’s link blocking, but has amplified a public report about it. Baer added that Twitter’s link blocking doesn’t just raise potential competition concerns. And prior to Thursday, there did not appear to be grounds for Twitter to claim that Mastodon links were unsafe.
☆ Giving babies a government trust fund at birth could help get rid of student debt and build wealth, report says
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Democrats released a report highlighting the benefits of "Baby Bonds," which are trust funds given to kids at birth. The report said that the funds would help Americans build wealth over a lifetime. It could help reduce the need for students to take on excessive debt to go to college. On Wednesday, the Joint Economic Committee — led by Democratic Rep. Don Beyer — released a report on the benefits of "Baby Bonds." Baby Bonds could be a part of that.
☆ Biden says Republicans want to risk economic chaos by using the debt ceiling to force Medicare and Social Security cuts
  + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
President Joe Biden said that the GOP wants to hold the economy hostage over Social Security and Medicare. If they retake the House, the GOP wants to use debt ceiling negotiations to enact spending cuts. But Biden has ruled out repealing the debt ceiling, despite Democratic pushes. Biden has said that he opposes repealing the debt ceiling outright, despite calls to do so from some Democrats: "That would be irresponsible." "In order to cut Social Security and Medicare, they're threatening to default on the federal debt," Biden said of the GOP.
☆ Nancy Pelosi's husband just invested millions in 2 tech companies with lots at stake on Capitol Hill
  + stars: | 2021-07-12 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
The House speaker's husband, Paul Pelosi, made two million-dollar stock trades. Pelosi's husband buys up more stocksHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi, bought stocks in Google's parent company, Alphabet, and in Nvidia Corporation, which designs graphics-processing units for the gaming market. Drew Hammill, the speaker's spokesman, said she did not own any stock and complied with all disclosures, which require members of Congress to post stock trades for spouses and dependent children. Rep. Pat Fallon, a Republican from Texas, in a group photo with freshman members of the House Republican Conference on the House steps of the US Capitol on January 4. By federal law, members of Congress have 30 days from when they become aware of a stock trade to formally disclose it.
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