Billionaire tRump donor shuts down local news sites after staff votes to unionize

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More than 100 journalists are out of a job after the tRump-allied owner suddenly pulled the plug.



In a blow to the labor movement and local news coverage across the country, two sites covering local news and politics in several major U.S. cities were shut down suddenly Thursday evening.

The sites, DNAinfo and Gothamist, were owned by billionaire TD Ameritrade founder, tRump donor, and Chicago Cubs owner Joe Ricketts. His decision leaves 115 journalists out of work in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.

Just last week, the staff in New York voted to unionize. Ricketts, who deleted negative coverage of himself when he acquired the Gothamist properties in March, has threatened to shut down the site in the past if the writers attempted to unionize.

On Thursday, he made good on the promise. - ThinkProgress

[BigmanPigman]

1. He is an ass and he knows it.

How in the hell do they sleep at night? Oh I forgot...duh. They are greedy sociopaths who have no empathy.

[MLAA]

3. May Karma pay him a visit soon.

[MLAA]

2. Asshole

[Bluepinky]

4. If his face is any indication, his soul is ravaged and empty.

After the words “Trump donor” nothing more needs to be said.

[Achilleaze]

5. Petey - his spawn - is governor of Nebraska

Pop & kid both did a major republican-style flip-flop, from being sworn enemies of Comrade Casino to submissive boot-lickers and propaganda pumps for the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief. Such foul, finky, flip-floppery in the service of tax cuts for the rich and fascism for the proles speaks volumes.

CAPTION: Petey Pie poses with the republican self-proclaimed russian expert and intellectual giant, The Pale One:

[Vinca]

6. It seems the vast majority of billionaires are assholes.

[oasis]

7. There is never enough money for these types.

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8. Nor their level of vindictiveness towards their fellow man.

Greed corrupts absolutely.

[mountain grammy]

9. Absolutely!