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It's a double-whammy that defines 21st century US life: a company is caught doing something exploitative or even murderous and a government agency steps in - but there's nothing it can do, because Reagan/Trump/Clinton/Bush I/II stripped the agency of enforcement powers.

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Man, that feels *awful*. The idea that extremists gutted our democratically accountable institutions so that there's *nothing* they can do, no matter how egregious a corporation's conduct is so demoralizing. Makes me feel like giving up.

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In the #enshittification cycle, a #platform lures users with a good deal at first, then it lures business customers (advertisers, sellers, creators) by handing them the #surplus; finally, it takes all the surplus for itself, creating a pile of shit:

pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/pot… 1/ A scary abandoned room. The back wall is stained with the Sp
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When a company is neither disciplined by #competition nor by #regulation, enshittification inevitably ensues. 3/
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The catastrophic failure of @SouthwestAir over Christmas 2022 was the worst single-airline aviation failure in American history, stranding over 1,000,000 passengers. 1/ The La Brea tar-pits. A Southwest jet is nose-down in the ta
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But while it was exceptional, it was also foreseeable: 2022 saw Southwest and the other carriers rack up record numbers of cancellations, leaving crews and fliers stranded.

It's not like the carriers can't afford to improve things. 3/
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Christmas's apocalyptic airline meltdown stranded thousands, ruining vacations and costing fliers a fortune. It wasn't just #SouthwestAirlines' meltdown - as stranded fliers sought alternatives, airlines like #AA raised the price of some domestic coach tickets over $10K. 1/ A vector drawing of a man slumped at a desk with his face on
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This didn't come out of nowhere. Southwest's growth strategy has seen the airlines add more planes and routes without a comparable investment in back-end systems, including crew scheduling systems. 3/
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Voter suppression and election mismanagement are alive and well in #Alabama. Check out our new report released today detailing how Alabama laws and policies create and perpetuate obstacles to the ballot box.

#AlabamaVotes #VotingRights #All67

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Despite #Alabama being at the epicenter of the #VotingRights movement of the 1960s, the state remains one of the most difficult places in our nation for an eligible voter to register and successfully cast a ballot. #AlabamaVotes splcenter.org/20200203/alive…
Since #SCOTUS gutted #Section5 of the #VotingRightsAct, #Alabama and localities have made it harder to vote by requiring photo ID to vote, closing polling places in predominantly Black counties and purging hundreds of thousands of people from voter rolls. splcenter.org/20200203/alive…
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