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Cory Doctorow / 5:50 pm Tue, Apr 2, 2019

Patagonia tells banks and oil companies that they can no longer buy co-branded vests

Patagonia's iconic "power vest" is a favorite for co-branded company swag, but the company has quietly enacted a new policy that shuts out h oil, drilling, dam construction, etc. companies" as well as some "financial institutions" on the grounds that they are "environmentally damaging." Read the rest

Cory Doctorow / 8:43 am Wed, Nov 15, 2017

Senate Democrat is about to take the brakes off predatory payday lenders

Back in July, Senator Mark Warner [D-VA, @MarkWarner, 202-224-2023] introduced S.1642 - The Protecting Consumers' Access to Credit Act of 2017, which bans states from capping the interest rates charged by payday lenders who serve poor and vulnerable people, so long as the payday lenders partner with a national bank. Read the rest