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It looks like she Stole $6 Million. He Grew Up Homeless. He's Winning.

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  SHARED TO INFORM!  Forwarded this email?  Subscribe here  for more It looks like she Stole $6 Million. He Grew Up Homeless. He's Winning. BREAKING: The House Ethics Committee just found Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick guilty on more than two dozen violations. Expulsion is on the table. And the 26-year-old teacher is beating her. Blue On the Ballot Mar 28   Here’s what just happened. A special panel of the House Ethics Committee found Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick guilty on more than two dozen ethics violations. The full committee will decide sanctions after the recess. Expulsion is a real possibility. This comes on top of her federal indictment for misappropriating millions in healthcare funds to bankroll her 2022 congressional campaign. The state of Florida accidentally overpaid her company, Trinity Health Care Services, nearly $6 million during COVID. She took that money and used it to buy a seat in Congress. 70% of voters in her own district sa...

The same pro-Israel MAGA billionaires who wrecked CBS News are buying CNN

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SHARED TO INFORM AND EDUCATE ABOUT THE THREATS POSED BY MEDIA  CONSOLIDATION!   Last year, CBS was taken over by pro-Trump billionaires Larry and David Ellison, and they immediately installed a MAGA-friendly editor-in-chief to turn CBS News into another Fox News . Now, they’re on the verge of taking over the entire Warner Bros. Discovery media empire, including CNN, HBO Max, nearly two dozen other cable TV channels, and more. Let’s not mince words. What we’re witnessing is the complete collapse of anything remotely resembling a free press in America, with Trump and his billionaire friends one by one seizing control of the media platforms that determine what Americans see and read every day. Musk bought Twitter. Bezos, the Washington Post. Zuckerberg has Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Now the Ellisons have Paramount and are about to get Warner Bros., not to mention a key stake in TikTok. That’s why it’s so critical at this moment that you support the nonprofit independ...

Mass. bottle return rates go down the drain, and four more stories

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  ADVERTISEMENT The Saturday Send Welcome back to the Saturday Send, a weekly digest of stories from  CommonWealth Beacon  that you may have missed. This week, reporter Jordan Wolman investigates the  cratering return rates  of recyclable bottles and cans across the Commonwealth. While customers have indicated that five cents per return isn't enough to incentivize keeping track of empty beer bottles and soda cans, the legislature has been slow to act. Also, the MBTA grapples with its bold  electrification goals  for buses, state  insurance commissioner  Michael Caljouw sits down with  CommonWealth Beacon  to discuss seismic changes affecting the industry, state House Minority Leader  Brad Jones  announces his retirement after three decades in office, and  coastal communities  prone to flooding grapple with an existential question: when is it time to leave? Check out those stories below, and, as always, thanks for...