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1. @kroger CEO Rodney McMullen is paid $12 million per year

Sales at his stores are booming

Multiple Kroger workers have died of COVID-19

But, as the pandemic rages, McMullen plans to rescind its $2/hour "hero bonus" for hourly employees in six days

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@kroger 2. @Kroger hasn't released details of McMullen's 2020 compensation, but it's tied to metrics

Previously, one of McMullen's key metrics was "Reduction in Operating Cost as a % of Sales"

So by ending "hero pay" McMullen may be increasing his salary

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3. @Kroger confirmed to me that McMullen and other executives continue to WORK FROM HOME

So the company understands things have not returned to normal

"We have found that they can effectively serve and support our store teams while working remotely"

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4. Kroger has $2.3 BILLION in cash reserves & has spend $733 MILLION since November

They can easily afford the $2 hero bonus

But they are betting that most people won't pay attention

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5. As @Kroger plans to cut pay for hourly workers, it continues to spending hundred of thousands of dollars on a national TV ad "thanking" its workers

"In a time when daily live feels a bit uncertain, your hard work is keeping America fed. "

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In the NYT, @benyt talks about journalists like me "monetizing individuality" through paid newsletters on @SubstackInc and elsewhere

I think of it a little differently

I think of it as taking ownership over your own value

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@benyt @SubstackInc When you work for a publication, you turn over your work to the publication, which tries to monetize it.

If the company is profitable, they are able to turn your work into more dollars than they are paying you

You are earning less than you are worth
Now some may believe that they would be unable to produce the same quality work without support of the organization. (Editing, legal review, etc.)

For those folks, working at a publication may be a good deal.

But not everyone feels that way.
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1. "A study of 96,000 hospitalized coronavirus patients on six continents found that those who received an antimalarial drug promoted by President Trump as a 'game changer' in the fight against the virus had a significantly higher risk of death compared with those who did not."
2. "People treated with hydroxychloroquine, or the closely related drug chloroquine, were also more likely to develop a type of irregular heart rhythm, or arrhythmia, that can lead to sudden cardiac death, it concluded."
3. “It’s one thing not to have benefit, but this shows distinct harm,” said Eric Topol, a cardiologist and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute. “If there was ever was hope for this drug, this is the death of it.”
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1. Twitter says it prohibits "misleading claims about voting procedures or techniques which could dissuade voters from participating"

When Trump did that yesterday, Twitter refused to enforce its policy

So when is this policy enforced?

An example...

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2. Twitter says these two tweets violate its "rules against posting misleading information about voting"

But they don't seem to have anything at all to do with voting

The enforcement of this policy is a cluster

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3. An account with a few thousand followers gets shut down because he said something vaguely mean about Biden but the President of the United States actually violates the policy in a way that is genuinely harmful and nothing happens

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