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nilay patel
reckless
Three years ago, Trump and the Wisconsin GOP signed a deal with Foxconn to build an LCD factory in Mount Pleasant. Today, @joshdzieza reveals that the "factory" is an empty
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Josh Dzieza
joshdzieza
Three years ago, Trump sent Foxconn to Wisconsin. It was supposed to build a world-class manufacturing hub employing 13,000 people. It’s been a disaster.https://www.theverge.com/21507966/foxconn-empty-factories-wisconsin-jobs-loophole-tru
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The Verge
verge
President Trump struck a deal with Foxconn that promised to turn Wisconsin into a tech manufacturing powerhouse in exchange for billions in tax subsidies. Three years later, the factory —
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Will Oremus
WillOremus
The scope of the Wisconsin Foxconn swindle is just astounding. Trump, Foxconn, & the Wisconsin GOP upended people's lives and pushed them out of their homes, not to mention spending
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David Frum
davidfrum
This is an important story. Trump & GOP are campaigning against "socialism." But Trump has been a consistent advocate of direct govt intervention in/control of economy - with all the
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
In 2017, Donald Trump declared victory. Working with the far-right Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, he had brokered a deal to bring high-tech manufacturing jobs back to America, with a new,
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Jake Hamby
jhamby
Bingo! Google managed to “cross the creepy line” by calling their HR department “PeopleOps”.https://twitter.com/lookoutitsbbear/status/1319315926685286402 I really like Foxconn’s evil managers’ analogy of tech workers to lazy do
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
No one epitomizes the hollowness of the pose of the "hard-nosed businessman" than @ScottWalker, the union-busting thug who, as governor of Wisconsin, signed up to give away $3b to the
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David Moore
ppolitics
Anyone who had paid attention to the disastrous governing record of @WISGOP in my home state over the past couple decades would know: Republicans run on voter suppression, overt gerrymandering,
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Gigi Sims
1GigiSims1
1/ Curiously & persistently absent from BLM & their Dem Party cohort’s mission stmt is their lacking acknowledgement of, concern for, or aversion to their many donors utilization of slave
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Akanksha Ojha
untamedrambling
Apple #iPhone, #Samsung phones to be made in India: Govt clears 16 manufacturing proposals entailing investment of $143 BILLION over next five years. The international mobile phone manufacturing companies that are
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Prasid Banerjee
undertecher
A quick word on the brouhaha around Apple making a “flagship” phone in India. A) The iPhone 11 was never the real falgship. B) More importantly, iPhone 12 is a
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Tim Maughan
timmaughan
OK some tiny slither of good news: @BBC_Future found the supply chains articles I wrote for them that had ironically been wiped from the internet #infinite detail style. A thread
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Lawrence Glickman
LarryGlickman
This piece is incredibly credulous about Trump's approach to the economy and in accepting the myth that, prior to Trump, the GOP embraced "sacred verities about government debt."https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/business/econ
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Adam Townsend
adamscrabble
Thread on Chinese Currency Manipulation. You're going to like this. I had a question for my analysts, what does it mean "China is manipulating its currency?" I've distilled their answer.
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).Inside: Laundering torturers' reputations with copyfraud; Foxconn's Wisconsin death-rattle; John Deere's dismal infosec; and more!Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/23/rep
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