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Jeff Bezos Says Black Lives Matter, but Will He Make a Meaningful Stand for Black Amazon Employees?
If you look at allyship as some sort of contest, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been eager to put some points on the board. He’s done this mostly through highly publicized, “spicy” responses to racist customers, and by canceling his meetings on Juneteenth and encouraging other employees “to do the same if you can.” But…
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Trump Hires Donor With No Experience to Run the U.S. Postal Service. What Could Go Wrong?
Since taking office, Trump has declared war on two enemies: Obama and America. For years, the president has waged an all-out offensive attack on the former president, who doesn’t give a fuck about him. Obama is living proof that ignoring haters burns them way worse than engaging them. Obama has literally been living his best…
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Covington Catholic MAGA Hat Teen Who Helped Terrorize Native American Activist Is Suing the Washington Post
Nothing says white privilege like being a self-satisfied asshole wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat and impeding the path of a Native American activist; and then, when called out on said assholishness, suing the billionaire owner of the Washington Post (when every damn paper in America wrote about that story) for $250 million. But,…
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#FightFor15: Richest Man Alive Deigns to Pay His Amazon (and Whole Foods) Minions $15 an Hour
Although that headline is indeed snarky, at this point, we’ll take it how we can get it. Jeff Bezos, who is indeed, the richest person alive on earth, announced on Tuesday that Amazon is raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour for all US employees, including part-time and temporary workers, a boon for those…
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Amazon’s Face Recognition Disproportionately Matched Congressional Members of Color With Mugshots
Twenty-eight members of Congress, including six members of the Congressional Black Caucus, were falsely identified as suspects charged with a crime on Amazon’s facial recognition technology, according to a test conducted by the American Civil Liberties Union. The test results of Amazon Rekognition, released Thursday, revealed that most of the politicians misidentified by the technology…
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Trump’s Advisers Have Tried to Teach Him How the Post Office Works but He Won’t Believe It
If you’re reading this, you’re smarter than Donald Trump. Even if you have a friend who snorts condoms while eating Tide Pod soup, you don’t know anyone as dumb as our 45th president. Hidden in a Wall Street Journal article about Trump’s war with Amazon.com was a gem of a story illustrating the fact that…
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Here’s Why Trump Blasted Amazon on Twitter (Hint: It Has Nothing to Do With Amazon)
During the president’s Thursday-morning bathroom time, in which he forces all of his assistants to talk to him through the door, the president did his usual random morning toilet tweeting, this time railing against Amazon.com. So let’s examine this tweet fully. First off, there is no racist dog whistle in this tweet, since Donald Trump…
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Jeff Bezos Is Buying Whole Foods, Completing His Monopoly on Whiteness
Amazon.com, the other tab that is probably open on your browser right now, announced Friday that it has agreed to buy the high-end supermarket Whole Foods, the final step in owner Jeff Bezos’ lifelong mission of cornering the market on whiteness. If you want anything from mom jeans to farm-raised, vegetarian chicken wings or a…