Megacorporations AT&T, Walmart, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Coca-Cola, and Aetna funded the campaigns of state legislators that recently voted to ban abortion.

The Council of Europe rebuked Orbán's repressive regime for violating human rights.

Orbán makes elections just unfair enough that there is no practical possibility of removing him from power — much like US Republicans.

The European Union is quite capable of trampling freedom for the sake of rich companies but is almost powerless against member country governments that disrespect human rights or democracy.

Thousands of people are fascinated by fictitious characters that exist specifically to manipulate them to buy particular products.

The fictitious characters in movies are also used to manipulate audiences to buy particular products. Companies pay for their products to be shown in the movies — this is called "product placement".

At least movies are not made solely to show products. They typically try to present something else of interest. Perhaps the fictitious "influencers" represent an evolution in the direction of pure and simple manipulation — in how to lead people to crave the anxiety of being commercially manipulated.

US citizens: call on Congress to end separation of immigrant families.

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US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Ban Conflicted Trading Act, to limit corruption opportunities for Congresscritters.

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