@SpeakerPelosi San Diego county example:
Rent 2bd apt $1450
Gas & Electric $120
Car payment $300
Cell phone fam of 4 $150
Groceries fam of 4 for 1month $600
Student loan $600
Credit card Bill's 4 cards $200
While we are grateful, this is taxpayer money and a one time $1200 payment isn't enough
Macaulay Culkin, a close friend of Michael Jackson and the star of the Home Alone movies revealed in a recent interview how an undisclosed group of people allegedly connected to Sony Music approached him and his mother in 1993 and offered them a large sum of money to publicly claim that he had been s£xually abused by Michael Jackson, who was facing ch!ld mol£station allegations at the time.
“I vividly remember a night in 1993 when a group of people came to our home claiming they were connected to Sony Music. I don’t really want to mention names, but they said they were part of the company. They offered me and my mom a large amount of money around a million dollars or more to testify against Michael Jackson and claim that he had s£xually abused me during my time at the Neverland Ranch. They told me it was the right thing to do because they believed Michael Jackson was a dangerous person. I immediately told them no! because why would they want me to do something like that to a man who was my best friend at the time and had never harmed me? My mom actually told me to consider accepting the offer because she thought it could be beneficial for us, and she wondered if Michael might have done something without me knowing. But even though I was young at the time, I completely rejected the offer, and they eventually left.”
He also added that, looking back on the situation, he believes he understands why those allegations were being made against Michael Jackson. He claimed it was connected to a dispute involving Sony Music and Michael Jackson’s ownership stake, including his interest in the Beatles catalog. He alleged that the accusations were part of an effort to pressure Jackson into giving up his assets.
“The minute i started breaking the all time record in record sales. I broke Elvis records, i broke the Beatles records, the minute it became the best selling album, overnight they call me a freak. They called me a homosexual, they called me a child molester” ~Michael Jackson
This is an excerpt from a speech Michael Jackson gave at the National Action Network headquarters in Harlem in July 2002, where he publicly discussed racial injustice in the music industry.
BREAKING: @AOC just introduced the AI Data Center Moratorium Act in the House.
The bill would ban the construction of data centers until Congress addresses the economic, environmental, and safety impacts of AI.
A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income.
A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income.
Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.
Getty Images might be the biggest legal scam operating in plain sight and almost nobody talks about it.
Here is how it works. They take photos they do NOT own. Public domain images. Work that legally belongs to every single one of us. They slap their watermark on it, throw it in their catalog, and charge you hundreds of dollars to use a picture they had no right to sell in the first place.
It gets worse.
A photographer named Carol Highsmith spent years documenting America and then GAVE over 18,000 of her photos to the Library of Congress. For free. For everyone. No strings attached. Her gift to the public.
Getty took those free photos, watermarked them, and started selling licenses. Then they had the nerve to send Highsmith a bill for $120 for using HER OWN photograph on HER OWN website.
Read that again. They charged the artist for her own work that she gave away for free.
She sued them for $1 billion.
And here is the part that should make your blood boil. This is not a one time mistake. This is the business model. Take what is free, claim it as yours, intimidate people with legal threats, and cash the check. They are betting that you will be too scared or too confused to fight back.
How is this legal? How have we let a company get rich selling things that belong to all of us? How many small creators got threatening letters and just paid up because they did not know any better?
We put up with it because they count on us not paying attention.
Start paying attention.
Hey @Hertz,
What exactly is the point of a reservation if you have absolutely no car available when I show up?
Your employee couldn’t have cared less. No apology. No attempt to help. No solution. She literally shut off the lights and walked away while I was stranded trying to figure out how I was getting home.
You took my reservation, took my time, and then left me standing there like it was my problem.
This wasn’t bad customer service. It was complete indifference.
Absolutely unacceptable.
My mom just got a prescription for a new wheelchair.
AFTER insurance, she's being charged 600. Luckily she has a second insurance that is covering that portion.
Looked up the exact model number on Amazon, it's only 250 bucks there.
The US healthcare system in a nutshell.
After we organized goodbye events for #MichaelMovie across China over the last weekend, things have taken a new twist. Universal Pictures China just informed us that Chinese film authorities have approved a new extension of the movie's theatrical run for one more month. Now it will end its run in theaters on July 23....
dear lionsgate,
please give us an official in writing announcement that you’re going to do michael 2. pls let us know as soon as michael has hit $1 billion.
yours sincerely,
everyone x
I'LL SAY IT AGAIN:
IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL to charge a "convenience fee" for paying a bill online. The convenience is for the company. The fee is for you.