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Jan 12 2025
08:28 am
By: bizgrrl
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg is celebrating “masculine energy” in corporate culture amid news that his company is making several policy and program changes, including trashing multiple initiatives around diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI.
Also, abandoning its fact-checking program, as fact-checkers were “too politically biased.”
Hah. The truth is biased?
Like everyone else in his party, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) voted against the Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022.
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In a Nov. 15, 2024, letter, Johnson privately urged the Environmental Protection Agency to award an environmental justice grant to a city in his district ― a grant funded by the IRA,
Well, isn't he special?
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