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If your job requires a college degree, you should be able to write-off your student loan payments as a business expense the way CEOs write off their private jets and yachts for their jobs which require neither.

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Every Republican voted against raising the minimum wage.

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62 percent of Americans report living paycheck to paycheck.

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Teachers can only deduct up to $250 for school supplies on their taxes, but billionaires can write off the entire cost of a private jet. This is what it looks like when laws are written by millionaires, funded by billionaires. Unrig the system. Elect a working class Congress.

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Republicans will quote Dr. Martin Luther King Jr while trying to pass laws preventing children from learning why.

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McDonalds’ CEO is paid $8,543.27 an hour. Burger King’s CEO is paid $56,250 an hour. Domino’s CEO is paid $4,875 an hour. Throwing that out there before anyone starts complaining that $20 an hour is too high.

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Starting Monday, most California fast-food workers will earn at least $20 an hour — the highest minimum wage across the U.S. restaurant industry.

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7 months

Mike Pence should be forced to carry his Presidential campaign to term.

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Billionaires can write-off private jets on their taxes, but teachers can only write-off up to $250 for school supplies on theirs. This is what happens when we allow billionaires to buy our politicians. Get dark and corporate money out of politics and elect an unbought Congress.

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I'm old enough to remember when cheating on your pregnant wife with a porn star that reminds you of your daughter would hurt you with the evangelical vote in a Presidential campaign.

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@HuffPost

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Trump told her that she reminded him of his daughter, who was also “blonde” and “smart,” Daniels testified.

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The powerful men in Jeffrey Epstein’s circle who raped little girls still walk free, while rape victims like those little girls can be sent to prison for having an abortion. And men wonder why women are so determined to dismantle the patriarchy.

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The Have-Nots vs the Have-Yachts. Teachers can write off only $300 of school supplies for their classrooms on their taxes. CEOs can write off the full cost of their yachts. This is what it looks like when billionaires pay millionaires to write laws to benefit billionaires.

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If taxpayers are going to pay to build a stadium, then the taxpayers should own the stadium. You can’t socialize the cost, then privatize the profits.

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1 year

Don’t overthink Sen. Kyrsten Sinema switching from Democrat to Independent. She’s not driven by ideology. She’s driven by which corporations and lobbyists are giving her the most money — which makes her an elected mercenary, not an elected representative of the people.

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4 months

Remember when Jeffrey Epstein associate, and Donald Trump lawyer, Alan Dershowitz wrote an op-ed trying to justify having sex with kids? Seems relevant now.

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2 years

Gas is up to $6 per gallon in some areas. Oil industry profits are up 300% since this time last year, with the top 5 companies reporting $35 Billion in Q1 profits this year. This isn’t inflation. This is price gouging. Pass the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax.

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Never forget how we got here: In 2018, the Association of American Railroads spent $4,737,989, and Norfolk Southern spent $1,025,330, lobbying to reverse the Obama-era ECP brake safety rule that was designed to prevent disasters like this. The Trump administration reversed it.

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Let me save you the trouble. They’re all Red states. 1. Oklahoma 2. Louisiana 3. Mississippi 4. Alabama 5. Texas 6. Arkansas 7. West Virginia 8. Wyoming 9. Georgia 10. Missouri You get what you vote for.

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2 years

Average teacher salary in the U.S.: $63,645 Average living wage in the U.S.: $68,808 Pay teachers more. This isn’t complicated.

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Walmart reported $453 million in profits last quarter. They’ve spent $1.3 billion on stock buybacks this year. Their CEO received $24.1 million in compensation last year. More than half of Walmart’s employees still earn less than a living wage.

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Do you know what the 22 countries ranked ahead of the U.S. in happiness all have in common? Universal healthcare. Turns out people are happier when they don’t have to choose between food and seeing a doctor.

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Anti-drag laws have been introduced in AZ, AR, FL, ID, KS, KY, MO, MT, NE, OK, SC, TX, and WV to “protect kids.” Child marriage is legal in 12 of these 13 states. Republicans are dressing up and pretending to be good people who care about our kids while protecting child rape.

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The Have Nots vs The Have Yachts: Your reminder that teachers can only deduct up to $300 worth of teaching supplies on their taxes, which are necessary to do their jobs, while CEOs can write off their private jets and yachts, which are not necessary to do theirs.

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Wisconsin has a gun death rate of 13.5 New York has a gun death rate of 5.4

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Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany: "I hear from people regularly out here in Wisconsin, they're like, I don't know if I want to go to New York City right now because it's not safe."

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Republicans want to start a civil war over an immigration issue Donald Trump told them not to fix, so he can win an election and escape prosecution for his crimes. Republicans and MAGA sold out our country to protect a con man. They aren’t patriots. They’re traitors.

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States where child beauty pageants are most popular: TX, FL, GA, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV, KY All allow minors to get married. All proposed anti-drag show laws. How does child sexualization, exploitation and rape not harm a child, but drag queens reading books to them does?

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Up until the very end, Joe Lieberman enjoyed the high quality, government-financed healthcare that he worked diligently to deny the rest of us. That’s his legacy.

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On the bright side for Donald Trump, it looks like he won’t be impacted by President Biden’s proposed billionaires tax.

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$650 MILLION SPENT ON VANITY SUPER BOWL COMMERCIALS THIS YEAR BY LOTS OF COMPANIES WHO SAY THEY DON’T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY THEIR WORKERS A LIVING WAGE.

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13,716 dead this year from gun violence. 0 dead from drag shows. 0 dead from reading banned books. 0 dead from someone else getting gender affirming care. 0 dead from Pride flags. It's. The. Fucking. Guns. Republicans are saying it's not because they're fucking lying.

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Stop asking why Republicans won’t pass laws to end gun violence and start asking why we allow the NRA to bribe Republicans to not pass laws to end gun violence.

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Voters did decide. Trump didn't like what they decided, so he tried to overthrow the government. The Constitution says that when you do that, you can't run for President again. Try to keep up Rick, this isn't complicated or partisan.

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Democrats are trying to turn our country into a communist dictatorship. Voters should decide who our next president is. Not partisan Democrat officials.

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4 months

Donald Trump’s 307 golf trips as President cost taxpayers $151.5 million.

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3 months

Why stop at giving frozen eggs full rights as a person? Why not go even further and give the women those eggs came from full rights as a person? Extreme, I know.

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Children killed this year by Drag Queen Story Hour: 0 Children killed this year by guns: 1,508 Just in case you were worried about the people reading the books instead of the people carrying the guns.

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2 years

Reminder: If you pay for cable, you’re likely paying $2 a month for Fox News whether you watch it or not. In fact, Fox News makes roughly $1.8 billion per year from subscriber fees from people that never even tune in. We shouldn’t be forced by cable companies to subsidize Fox.

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Chevron reported $21.37B in profit last year, and received $2.3B in subsidies. Taxpayers gave them $2.3B in profit. We could provide free lunch to every student in the US for what we give away as subsidies to Big Oil each year. So who’s the “welfare queen” scamming the system?

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When a customer steals from Dollar General, they could get time in prison. When Dollar General steals up to $100 million from customers and millions in wages from employees, their CEO gets a $10 million bonus. This is the spike in crime they don’t talk enough about.

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2 years

Just spoke to a Dem who has had trouble voting for Dems lately. She considers herself an R-leaning I. After discussing healthcare, public safety & corruption, she was horrified to learn she was actually a very left-leaning Dem. Progressive policies are common sense policies. 👍🏻

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People seem to be confused. When workers are paid less than a living wage, they’re forced to rely on taxpayer funded social safety nets to survive. That’s not a taxpayer “handout” to workers. That’s a taxpayer handout to corporations.

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McDonald’s reported $1.93 billion in profits for Q1. The average McDonald’s worker is paid less than a living wage, and is forced to rely on government assistance. Their profits are our tax dollars subsidizing their poverty wages.

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito overturned Roe, then traveled to Rome on the plaintiff's dime. None of our rights are safe as long as the Supreme Court can be legally bought. #ExpandTheCourt and impose a mandatory code of ethics.

Sam Alito's trip to Rome funded by group that has filed briefs before SCOTUS: CNN

A new report from CNN reveals that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's trip to Rome last year was funded by a religious group that has filed briefs before the court in recent years.According to CNN,...

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Is this you?

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Pitiful. Dems are no longer hiding their virulent hatred of Israel. This is not your father’s Democratic Party.

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If you taped $100 bills together end to end, you could circle the earth almost 30 times with the money Elon Musk has. It’s time billionaires paid their fair share in taxes.

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Donald Trump wants states to track your menstrual cycle, and Republicans think that ISN’T a violation of your rights. They don’t want states to track your gun purchases, because they think that IS a violation of your rights. Guns have more of a right to privacy than women.

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Two of my kids had active-shooter lockdown drills today. One was stuck outside and the other had to stuff themselves in a cubby. Fuck you Republicans.

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Two Boeing whistleblowers have died in the last 2 months and I feel like that’s not getting the attention and scrutiny it deserves.

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Meet Rep. Mike Johnson. He says: 🚩 women have abortions after a baby is born 🚩 Trump won the 2020 election 🚩 Jan. 6th was a "legitimate protest" 🚩 Covid was a hoax and vaccines are dangerous 🚩 Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme" 🚩 cut Medicare 🚩 climate change is a hoax

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Viagra is gender affirming care. Hair transplants are gender affirming care. Breast implants are gender affirming care. Treating low testosterone in straight men is gender affirming care. Republicans are trying to erase the trans community, not ban gender affirming care.

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As expected, Republicans are moving to try to ban gender-affirming care for adults. The right to health care for ALL is once again being debated in this country. 😟

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In 2021, the top 5 health insurance companies spent $28M in lobbying, received $35B back from the U.S. government and reported $39.6B in profit. We should be funding healthcare, not health insurance company profits. The corruption is killing us. Pass #MedicareForAll

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Millions of dollars spent on Jesus Super Bowl commercials instead of feeding and housing the poor like Jesus would have done.

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Florida hosts over 1,000 child beauty pageants each year that sexualize and exploit children as young as 4 years old. Ron DeSantis isn’t banning books to “protect kids.” He’s delegitimizing public education to push for-profit charter schools.

REVEALED: These ten books are considered pornography in Ron DeSantis' Florida

On March 8, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) conducted a press conference in which he purported to debunk the "book ban hoax." During the event, DeSantis claimed that Florida schools, under his...

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States where Republicans imposed total abortion bans: AL, AR, ID, IN, KY, LA, MS, MO, ND, OK, SD, TN, TX, WV In every one of these states, adults can legally marry minors. Leaving statutory rape legal, while outlawing a young girl's right to bodily autonomy was a choice.

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School meal debt is $262 million a year. The U.S. gives the oil industry $20 billion a year in tax subsidies which goes directly to their profits. We should be ensuring every child has food, not increasing the wealth of the billionaires destroying the planet.

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SCOTUS will decide if Trump can still run for President despite inciting a violent insurrection. Ginni Thomas was part of that insurrection. Her husband, Clarence Thomas, should not be allowed to rule on this case. This isn’t complicated.

6 key questions in Supreme Court fight over Trump’s ballot eligibility

The justices will confront a hornet's nest of legal issues as they hear arguments in the historic case.

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C U Next Tuesday.

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New Pepsi Challenge: Don't donate to anti-choice politicians pushing for draconian abortion bans. #BoycottPepsi

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Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee are protecting Harlan Crow from turning over financial records about the money and gifts he's given to Clarence Thomas. Harlan Crow is a donor to 10 of the 13 Republicans on that committee. That's corruption.

Senate tax chief says billionaire Crow 'stonewalling' over perks for Clarence Thomas

Wyden has previously said he would “explore using other tools at the committee’s disposal” should Crow not cooperate with the request.

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Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders banning the term “Latinx” must be a huge relief for the people of Arkansas, whose state ranks 49th in healthcare, 43rd in infrastructure and 41st in education.

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These people have no soul.

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Tesla, SpaceX and SolarCity received at least $4.9 Billion in government subsidies, and more in tax breaks. By comparison, NPR has received $1.5 Million in government funding since 2013. NPR gets the "government funded" label but Elon Musk is the one who's "government funded."

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NEW: Label on NPR’s main account changed to “government funded,” and Elon tells me Twitter is “applying it to a larger number of institutions.”

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If you have to sue to be exempt from a hate speech law, you’re telling on yourself.

Christian and conservative broadcasters sue to be exempt from hate speech law

A group representing religious and conservative broadcasters has joined a lawsuit seeking to block a California law that requires social media companies to publish their policies on removing hate...

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14,500 people killed by guns in 126 days. 200 mass shootings in 126 days. 614 kids killed by guns in 126 days. 0 Republicans willing to do a fucking thing to end gun violence. It's. The. Fucking. Guns. Republicans are saying it's not because they're fucking lying.

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Republicans in Congress pushed to ban TikTok and force a sale. Now, wealthy, politically-connected Republicans want to buy TikTok. This isn't about safety, it's about forcibly controlling the content 170 million Americans consume.

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What’s harder to believe? That universal healthcare is so radical and complicated that we’re the only country in the world without it. Or… The millions of dollars in insurance and pharma campaign donations each year to members of Congress are actually just bribes to block it.

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States that banned "CRT" to "protect kids": AR, AZ, FL, GA, ID, IN, IA, KY, MS, NH, ND, OK, SC, TN, TX, UT All of these states host child beauty pageants, sexually exploiting kids as young as 2. Theses states aren't protecting kids — they're protecting bigots and predators.

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For just 6% of our military budget, we could end homelessness and hunger in the United States. Budgets are declarations of our values, and we must choose to value helping those Americans who need help over war.

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This is what $110.6 million buys — that’s how much the oil & gas industry spent on lobbying, buying our elected officials, ~just in~ 2020.

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The Gulf of Mexico is literally on fire because a pipeline ruptured

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One failed attempt at a shoe bomb and we all take our shoes off at the airport. One failed attempt at overthrowing our government and we still allow seditionists to be re-elected and sworn back into Congress.

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And 65,856 Americans died from gun violence. Let him take the credit.

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Trump: During my four years, I did nothing on guns

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87% of Americans support preventing people with mental illness from purchasing guns 84%, including gun owners, support universal background checks 77% support family-initiated red flag laws 63% support an assault weapons ban 👉🏻Pass federal common-sense gun safety laws — now.

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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but removing someone from a ballot, in accordance with the U.S. Constitution, because they tried to violently overthrow our government is not a partisan attack.

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it took less than 36 hours to get here

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Republicans want billionaires to have free private planes, and hungry kids to be denied food. They don’t give a shit about anyone other than the donors cutting them checks.

Republicans Declare Banning Universal Free School Meals a 2024 Priority

As states across the country move to make sure students are well fed, Republicans have announced their intention to fight back.

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In Florida this year, 32 kids have been killed and 65 injured from gun violence. But, Florida is investigating a teacher for showing a Disney movie with a gay character because their agenda is to erase the LGBTQ+ community — not "protect kids."

Florida teacher under state investigation for showing 5th graders a Disney movie

After a long day of standardized testing, Florida fifth-grade teacher Jenna Barbee decided the students needed a break. She had the students watch a Disney movie, Strange World. Now, Barbee, a...

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The 3 Kentucky franchises using child labor gave $1 million to Republicans and spent another $1.5 million lobbying to weaken labor laws in Kentucky, Maryland, Indiana & Ohio since 2010. Republicans are currently attacking child labor laws in those states.

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This week, a federal investigation found that three Kentucky-based McDonald’s franchises illegally employed at least 305 children, including some as young as 10 years old. The three franchises —...

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Between 2018 and 2022, Tesla paid $0 in taxes despite reporting $4.4 billion in profit, and gave Elon $2.28 billion in just 2018 alone. When corporations and billionaires don’t pay their fair share, the financial burden falls on the rest of us to pay what they owe.

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Harlan Crow gave $14.7M to 140 current members of Congress over the last 10 years, in addition to the millions he's spent rigging SCOTUS and bribing Clarence Thomas. Harlan Crow is an oligarch, and he won't be held accountable by the people he's paid.

'Time to Subpoena Clarence Thomas and Harlan Crow,' Says Watchdog | Common Dreams

"Our system of checks and balances demands that the Senate hold the Supreme Court accountable by compelling Thomas to testify publicly," said Stand Up America's Brett Edkins.

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92% of Dollar General’s employees earn less than a living wage. They reported $3.3 billion in profit last year. They could double every employee’s salary, except for the CEO who made $16.5 million, and still have half of a billion in profit. It’s the corporate greed.

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Today would be a great day for Clarence Thomas to resign or Congress to begin impeachment.

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In Missouri, women can’t get abortions or a divorce if they’re pregnant, while men convicted of domestic abuse can own guns. That combination will get women killed. It is not safe to be a woman in a Red state.

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A single parent with 2 kids earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 /hr must work 138 hours per week to afford basic necessities. Here’s your reminder that the federal minimum wage is a poverty wage— and $15 is no longer enough. Pass a true living wage indexed to inflation.

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The US doesn't have universal healthcare. Not because it's "radical" — we're the only country without it. Or because it's too costly — it would save $650B /year. It's because lobbyists spent $8,799,121,768 since the ACA was passed to make sure we don't.

Obamacare Created Big Medicine

There’s a basic conflict of interest at the heart of American health care. We need to break up the industry to fix it.

www.levernews.com

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397 kids have been killed by gun violence in 86 days this year. Tennessee has some of the weakest gun laws in the country. It’s the fucking guns. It’s also the fucking Republicans that won’t do anything about it.

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If you poison someone, it's a felony and you get prison. When corporations poison millions, it's "business" and they get tax breaks, because they spend millions donating to politicians. If corporations were really people, more CEOs would be in prison.

Producers of "forever chemicals" knew they were toxic, say UN experts

“DuPont and Chemours appear to have impermissibly captured" the EPA.

www.motherjones.com

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The DeVos, Koch, Adelson, Walton & Mercer families are spending millions astroturfing the effort to ban books, attack teachers and delegitimize public schools in order to promote charter schools. Book bans are about protecting their wealth, not our kids.

UPDATE: New federal lawsuit says Florida book bans are unconstitutional

Since December, Popular Information has detailed the extraordinary number of book bans being pursued in Escambia County, Florida. Much of this activity is being driven by one woman, high school...

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I’d rather drag queens read books to my kids, than Republicans inspect their genitals before playing sports.

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When a few hundred U.S. billionaires can increase their wealth by $2.1 trillion during a pandemic at the same time as over 37 million Americans live in poverty, it's time for a wealth tax. Billionaires and corporations need to pay their fair share.

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Mitch McConnell is in the hospital. He won't have to worry about medical bills or skipping necessary treatments because he has government-funded healthcare. The rest of us deserve the peace of mind and financial security that Mitch McConnell has. We deserve #MedicareForAll

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It’s the 15th day of the year and 1,699 people have already died from gun violence, including 77 children. But all Republicans want to talk about are gas stoves and the gender of M&Ms.

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Ron DeSantis should be forced to carry his Presidential campaign to term.

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We could end homelessness in the U.S. for the cost of 60 F-22 fighter jets. It’s not that we can’t help the 554k unhoused, it’s that Congress chooses not to. We can help everyone at the expense of no one— it’s a matter of electing a Congress with moral, unbought priorities.

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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but giving teachers guns instead of making sure violent, dangerous people can’t get them is idiotic.

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In the long run, Elon's greatest contribution to society will be disproving the myth that billionaires are smarter and harder working than the rest of us.

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Today, Kevin McCarthy's first scheduled vote is to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics just in case you were wondering how much shady shit Republicans are attempting to get away with over the next two years.

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565 mass shootings in 298 days this year. $1,069,295 donated by the gun industry to Republicans in Congress this year. Republicans are paid to ensure our gun violence crisis never ends.

At least 16 people dead and search for gunman is underway after shootings in area of Lewiston,...

Authorities in Maine are investigating two active shooter events and a suspect remains at large, the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office said

www.cnn.com

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Since Roe fell, these companies donated to elect state-level Republicans pushing abortion bans: Wells Fargo $6.3M Verizon $5.8M Cigna $5.6M AT&T $5.4M Walmart $5.3M Pfizer $4.8M UnitedHealth $4.7M Get the GOP out of our medical decisions, and corporations out of our elections.

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The proposed military budget is $753 billion. The proposed education budget is $102 billion. See the problem?

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383 children have been killed by guns this year. 0 have been killed by drag queens, the word woke, or the knowledge their friend has two moms. Stop pretending Republicans want to protect our kids when they're actively making it easier for them to be killed.

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Just a friendly reminder that billionaires align with authoritarians because capitalism is strengthened by fascism.

Musk bows to Turkey's autocratic government, censors Twitter before critical election

Elon Musk, a self-described "free speech absolutist," agreed to censor Twitter in Turkey on Saturday, the day before a critical election, at the request of the nation's autocratic government. The...

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History text books that remove actual U.S. history because it upsets white supremacists are no longer history text books — they’re white supremacy fan fiction. Meet the new author: Conspiracy theorist and founder of a hate group grift.

Tennessee Speaker appoints conspiracy theorist to develop state social studies standards

Last week, Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) announced that he had appointed Laurie Cardoza-Moore to serve on the Tennessee Standards Recommendation Committee to oversee “Social Studies...

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2009: Wealthiest American - $40B Average income - $54,283 Minimum Wage - $7.25 2022: Wealthiest American - $265B Average income - $53,490 Minimum Wage - $7.25 When laws are written by millionaires funded by billionaires, they benefit, we don’t. Elect a working-class Congress.

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Sen Manchin is the natural result of a system where the legality of members of Congress accepting bribes from corporations is determined by the same members of Congress accepting bribes from corporations. Stop electing lobbyist-funded politicians and expecting different results.

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George Santos’ donors didn’t exist, but the money does and it came from somewhere. Who owns the bank accounts the donations came from? How were they made in someone else’s name? Why don’t the vendors he paid exist either? Welcome to the GOP laundromat.

We tried to call the top donors to George Santos' 2020 campaign. Many don’t seem to exist.

The list of matters to investigate keeps growing.

www.motherjones.com

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Republicans will quote Dr. Martin Luther King Jr while trying to pass laws preventing kids in school from learning why.

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