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<p>A DOGE Aide Involved in Dismantling Consumer Bureau Owns Stock in Companies That Could Benefit From the Cuts<br>—</p><p>Gavin Kliger helped oversee mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while holding stock in companies that experts say likely stand to benefit from dismantling that agency — a potential violation of federal ethics laws.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-gavin-kliger-stock?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/doge-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-gavin-kliger-stock?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/dog</span><span class="invisible">e-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-gavin-kliger-stock?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/cfpb/" rel="tag">#CFPB</a> <a href="/tags/consumer/" rel="tag">#Consumer</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/ethics/" rel="tag">#Ethics</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>

<p>Tribal Lenders Say They Can Charge Over 600% Interest. These States Stopped Them.<br>—</p><p>Online lenders tied to Native American tribes argue that they aren’t subject to state lending laws, but they backed away from operating in six states where attorneys have acted forcefully to protect consumers.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/states-tribal-lenders-high-interest-rates?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/states-tribal-lenders-high-interest-rates?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/sta</span><span class="invisible">tes-tribal-lenders-high-interest-rates?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/finance/" rel="tag">#Finance</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/regulation/" rel="tag">#Regulation</a> <a href="/tags/consumer/" rel="tag">#Consumer</a></p>

<p>Fend for Yourself: Under Trump, Consumer Protection Bureau’s Probes of Big Tech and Finance Firms Freeze Up<br>—</p><p>Companies may avoid consequences for alleged wrongdoing as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau drops lawsuits against Capital One and Rocket Homes and pauses investigations into Meta and others — including providers of medical credit cards.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-investigation-capital-one-rocket-meta-carvana-greenlight?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-investigation-capital-one-rocket-meta-carvana-greenlight?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-cfpb-investigation-capital-one-rocket-meta-carvana-greenlight?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/consumer/" rel="tag">#Consumer</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/meta/" rel="tag">#Meta</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a></p>

<p>An Indian Drugmaker, Investigated by ProPublica Last Year, Has Recalled Two Dozen Medications Sold to U.S. Patients<br>—</p><p>FDA inspectors found serious problems at a Glenmark factory in India that manufactured the recalled drugs. Another medication made there has been tied to deaths of U.S. patients.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/glenmark-recalls-two-dozen-drugs?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/glenmark-recalls-two-dozen-drugs?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/gle</span><span class="invisible">nmark-recalls-two-dozen-drugs?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/fda/" rel="tag">#FDA</a> <a href="/tags/pharma/" rel="tag">#Pharma</a> <a href="/tags/regulation/" rel="tag">#Regulation</a> <a href="/tags/recall/" rel="tag">#Recall</a> <a href="/tags/consumer/" rel="tag">#Consumer</a> <a href="/tags/safety/" rel="tag">#Safety</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a></p>

<p>The Glenmark drug recalls cover a wide range of commonly prescribed medicines — including ones that treat epilepsy, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, heart disease and high blood pressure.</p><p>Check the full list:<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/glenmark-recalls-two-dozen-drugs?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/glenmark-recalls-two-dozen-drugs?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/gle</span><span class="invisible">nmark-recalls-two-dozen-drugs?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/fda/" rel="tag">#FDA</a> <a href="/tags/pharma/" rel="tag">#Pharma</a> <a href="/tags/regulation/" rel="tag">#Regulation</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/consumer/" rel="tag">#Consumer</a> <a href="/tags/safety/" rel="tag">#Safety</a></p>

<p>Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards, loans and other products to the agency.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/cfpb-budget-cuts-gop-darrell-issa-john-cornyn?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/cfpb-budget-cuts-gop-darrell-issa-john-cornyn?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/cfp</span><span class="invisible">b-budget-cuts-gop-darrell-issa-john-cornyn?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/gop/" rel="tag">#GOP</a> <a href="/tags/consumer/" rel="tag">#Consumer</a> <a href="/tags/personalfinance/" rel="tag">#PersonalFinance</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a></p>

<p>The FDA Rarely Forces Manufacturers to Recall Dangerous Medical Devices, Watchdog Report Finds<br>---</p><p>Lawmakers requested the report after a 2023 ProPublica and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette investigation revealed that the FDA had received hundreds of complaints over many years about defective breathing machines and never ordered a recall.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-defective-device-recalls-gao-report?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/fda-defective-device-recalls-gao-report?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/fda</span><span class="invisible">-defective-device-recalls-gao-report?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/fda/" rel="tag">#FDA</a> <a href="/tags/consumer/" rel="tag">#Consumer</a> <a href="/tags/recall/" rel="tag">#Recall</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/report/" rel="tag">#Report</a></p>

<p>Trump Wants to Crack Down on “Debanking,” but He’s Dismantling a Regulator That Was Doing Just That<br>---</p><p>An executive order seeking to stop banks from discriminating against customers could be undermined by the administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which had been investigating the practice.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-debanking-executive-order-cfpb-discrimination-banking?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-debanking-executive-order-cfpb-discrimination-banking?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-debanking-executive-order-cfpb-discrimination-banking?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/banks/" rel="tag">#Banks</a> <a href="/tags/consumer/" rel="tag">#Consumer</a> <a href="/tags/regulation/" rel="tag">#Regulation</a></p>

<p>California residents now have a real tool against the data broker industry.</p><p>The state has launched DROP, a single portal to demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers in one request, for free.</p><p>To start: <a href="https://consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/ca/" rel="tag">#ca</a> <a href="/tags/drop/" rel="tag">#drop</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a> <a href="/tags/consumer/" rel="tag">#consumer</a><br>1/2</p>

<p>This video was released by <a href="/tags/forbrukerrådet/" rel="tag">#Forbrukerrådet</a>, the Norwegian <a href="/tags/consumer/" rel="tag">#Consumer</a> Council, a few days ago</p><p>It imagines the career trajectory of an &quot;enshittificator&quot;</p><p>It was hard for him to enshittify minor aspects of daily life in person, but became easy for him to do so at scale once he embraced the <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#Internet</a> and <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p><p>It&#x27;s genius <a href="/tags/satire/" rel="tag">#satire</a></p><p>credit:</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@Forbrukerr%C3%A5detNorge" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/@Forbrukerr%C3%A5detNorge"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/@Forbrukerr%C3</span><span class="invisible">%A5detNorge</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#Enshittification</a> <a href="/tags/norge/" rel="tag">#Norge</a> <a href="/tags/norway/" rel="tag">#Norway</a></p>