Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long US push to prosecute the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing a trove of American classified documents.

      • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Or getting mandatory the overtime pay cutoff more than doubled, OTC birth control, investment in renewables and infrastructure, new anti-redlining regulations, fighting junk fees in finance, advising the DEA to reschedule MJ, domestic semiconductor investment, getting more pro-union leadership back at the NLRB, better consumer protections for flight delays an cancelations, healthcare for veteran burn pit victims…

        I wish the guy was further left but there’s plenty of stuff he’s gotten done that under four more years of the orange menace would have never happened.

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        I’m genuinely curious, is that how it works? If you refinance, the new loan loses the “student loan” earmark and you’re no longer eligible? Or did you consolidate two/multiple loans and the student loan was one of them?

        It sounds a bit unfair in the former case because in my mind it’s still the student loan debt, just with (hopefully) better conditions.

        But I agree, it’s good that at least some headway has been made. I miss the “investment into the future” perspective we had from before the news became so gloomy :)

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          It was the former. The wounded pride of having to actually pay for my unused degree* is somewhat lessened by having the interest paid to a credit union rather than a national telecom/finance conglomerate.

          *Still would, being educated is hella good.