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2 months

Stopping Kroger and Albertsons from merging is necessary to avoid soaring food prices that would suffocate the working class.

philip lewis

@Phil_Lewis_

2 months

WASHINGTON (AP) — US sues to block $24.6 billion merger of US grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons, saying it will lead to higher prices.

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Public Citizen

@Public_Citizen

4 years

Oh my god, Katie Porter.

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For reference, there were 14,000+ arrests at the George Floyd protests.

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@Public_Citizen

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FYI: We’re blocked by Elon Musk. So much for being “committed” to free speech.

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@Public_Citizen

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BREAKING: Biden is ordering his Department of Justice to end private prison contracts. This is huge.

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School shootings from 2009 to 2018: 🇬🇧 0 🇦🇷 0 🇳🇱 0 🇯🇵 0 🇮🇹 0 🇨🇭 0 🇦🇺 0 🇪🇸 0 🇬🇷 1 🇨🇳 1 🇰🇪 1 🇦🇿 1 🇩🇪 1 🇷🇺 1 🇪🇪 1 🇹🇷 1 🇭🇺 1 🇫🇷 2 🇨🇦 2 🇧🇷 2 🇦🇫 3 🇵🇰 4 🇳🇬 4 🇮🇳 5 🇿🇦 6 🇲🇽 8 . . . 🇺🇸 288

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Public Citizen

@Public_Citizen

3 years

"Blue Lives Matter" only ever meant Black lives don't.

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Public Citizen

@Public_Citizen

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The NYPD’s budget is $6,000,000,000 That’s more than the city spends on health, homelessness, youth development and workforce development combined.

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Public Citizen

@Public_Citizen

3 years

You stormed out of an NFL game because players peacefully took a knee.

Mike Pence

@Mike_Pence

3 years

Today we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a giant of the Civil Rights Movement who called on our Nation to live up to the highest ideals of our founding. We pay tribute to the incredible life & accomplishments of Dr. King & his memory will inspire us for generations to come.

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Public Citizen

@Public_Citizen

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This country is so accustomed to its monstrous health care system that when a 2-year-old child with a genetic condition needs to rely on a high school robotics team to meet his basic health care needs the media thinks its a feel-good story, not a dystopian nightmare.

CBS News

@CBSNews

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This 2-year-old's family couldn't afford his $20,000 electric wheelchair, and their insurance didn't cover it. So, a high school robotics team built him one for free ❤️️

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Public Citizen

@Public_Citizen

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Weeks of paid maternity leave: 🇧🇬 59 🇬🇷 43 🇬🇧 39 🇭🇷 30 🇸🇰 34 🇨🇿 28 🇮🇪 26 🇭🇺24 🇮🇹 22 🇱🇺 20 🇵🇱 20 🇪🇪 20 🇦🇺 18 🇲🇹 18 🇷🇴 18 🇨🇱 18 🇱🇹 18 🇳🇿 18 🇩🇰 18 🇫🇮 18 🇫🇷 16 🇦🇹 16 🇨🇦 16 🇪🇸 16 🇱🇻 16 🇳🇱 16 🇹🇷 16 🇸🇮 15 🇧🇪 15 🇮🇱 15 🇩🇪 14 🇨🇭 14 🇯🇵 14 🇮🇸 13 🇳🇴 13 🇸🇪 13 🇰🇷 13 🇲🇽 12 🇵🇹 6 . . . 🇺🇸 0

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Public Citizen

@Public_Citizen

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Ted Cruz voted to pass a $740,000,000,000 military budget two weeks ago. That's $2 billion a day, every day.

Ted Cruz

@tedcruz

4 years

Why be so cheap? Give everyone $1 million a day, every day, forever. And three soy lattes a day. And a foot massage. We have a magic money tree — we should use it!

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Public Citizen

@Public_Citizen

4 years

please can we just have health care

Defense One

@DefenseOne

4 years

The Army Is Working on Augmented Reality Goggles for Military Dogs | @BrandiVincent_

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Public Citizen

@Public_Citizen

3 years

Are we doing this right?

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Public Citizen

@Public_Citizen

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Explain why cancelling $1,900,000,000,000 in student debt is a “handout”, but a $1,900,000,000,000 tax cut for rich people was a “stimulus”.

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Public Citizen

@Public_Citizen

3 years

Now seems like a good time to remind you that a measly 0.1% tax on Wall Street trades would raise $777,000,000,000 over a decade.

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@Public_Citizen

2 years

Today is the 144th day of 2022. The Uvalde shooting is the 212th mass shooting of 2022. Gun violence is a public health crisis.

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Public Citizen

@Public_Citizen

4 years

So defunding the police was just too radical, but defunding education is no problem?

New York Post

@nypost

4 years

NYC cancels $900M deferred payout to teachers, cites financial crisis

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@Public_Citizen

3 years

Imagine having this instead of a $740,000,000,000 military budget.

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@Public_Citizen

3 years

We cannot afford Medicare for All. ⓘ 𝗹𝗼𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 $𝟮 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘆

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Public Citizen

@Public_Citizen

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BREAKING: Steven Mnuchin is now flat-out REFUSING to disclose the businesses receiving $500,000,000,000 in bailout funds, claiming the info is "confidential" 4.5 MILLION businesses received government funds. Zero transparency. Unconscionable, jaw-dropping corruption.

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PragerU

@prageru

3 years

Why are so many young people depressed, unhappy, and angry?

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Public Citizen

@Public_Citizen

3 years

This month in “the war on drugs”

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Public Citizen

@Public_Citizen

3 years

BREAKING: New York just signed Automatic Voter Registration into law. This is huge.

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Public Citizen

@Public_Citizen

4 years

American companies denying workers paid sick leave: McDonald's - 517K workers Walmart - 347K workers Kroger - 189K workers Subway - 80K workers Burger King - 165K workers Pizza Hut: - 156K workers Target - 51K workers Marriott - 139K workers Wendy's - 133K workers

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Public Citizen

@Public_Citizen

3 years

. @AOC : Our country is going hungry and the week before Thanksgiving the Senate broke. I don’t care what party you are. It is an abandonment of responsibilities as elected officials who are charged with acting in the public trust.

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Public Citizen

@Public_Citizen

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WHY IS THE SENATE ON VACATION WHILE AMERICANS ARE DYING WITH NO RELIEF?

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@Public_Citizen

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Weeks of paid leave for mothers: 🇪🇪 166 🇸🇰 164 🇫🇮 161 🇭🇺 160 🇱🇻 94 🇳🇴 91 🇰🇷 65 🇨🇿 63 🇱🇹 62 🇦🇹 60 🇯🇵 58 🇩🇪 58 🇸🇪 56 🇸🇮 52 🇵🇱 52 🇨🇦 51 🇩🇰 50 🇮🇹 48 🇬🇷 43 🇫🇷 42 🇬🇧 39 🇱🇺 37 🇧🇪 32 🇵🇹 30 🇨🇱 30 🇮🇸 26 🇮🇪 26 🇳🇿 18 🇦🇺 18 🇳🇱 16 🇪🇸 16 🇹🇷 16 🇮🇱 15 🇨🇭 14 🇲🇽 12 . . . 🇺🇸 0

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Public Citizen

@Public_Citizen

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Here's how much of their wealth the 10 richest Americans gave to charity in 2018: Ellison: 0% Page: 0% Brin: 0% Bezos: 0.1% D. Koch: 0.1% C. Koch: 0.5% Zuckerberg: 0.7% Bloomberg: 1.5% Gates: 2.6% Buffet: 3.9% Billionaire philanthropy will not save us. Tax the rich.

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@Public_Citizen

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Protestors arrested: 4,400+ Not arrested: 3 of the 4 officers involved in George Floyd's death.

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@Public_Citizen

4 years

Trump’s golf trips have cost taxpayers $134 million. That’s equivalent to 334 years of the presidential salary.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

I promised YOU I would not take a dime of salary as your President. I donate the entire $400,000! It is my honor to give $100,000 to @NatlParkService to help repair and restore our GREAT National Monuments. So important to our American History! Thank You!!

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BREAKING: Virginia just abolished the death penalty. They are the first Southern state to do so.

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BREAKING: The Keystone XL oil pipeline has officially been abandoned by its developers. Organizing works.

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@Public_Citizen

4 years

please can we just have health care

Navy Times

@NavyTimes

4 years

The Pentagon is eyeing a 500-ship Navy, documents reveal

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@Public_Citizen

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oh the horror

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School shootings from 2009 to 2018: 🇬🇧 0 🇦🇷 0 🇳🇱 0 🇯🇵 0 🇮🇹 0 🇨🇭 0 🇦🇺 0 🇪🇸 0 🇬🇷 1 🇨🇳 1 🇰🇪 1 🇦🇿 1 🇩🇪 1 🇷🇺 1 🇪🇪 1 🇹🇷 1 🇭🇺 1 🇫🇷 2 🇨🇦 2 🇧🇷 2 🇦🇫 3 🇵🇰 4 🇳🇬 4 🇮🇳 5 🇿🇦 6 🇲🇽 8 . . . 🇺🇸 288 This. Is. Not. Normal.

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Public Citizen

@Public_Citizen

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McDonald’s lobbied against paid sick leave in the Coronavirus relief bill.

Ad Age

@adage

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McDonald's separates its golden arches in an act of coronavirus solidarity

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@Public_Citizen

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Reminder: The Green New Deal is cheaper than a climate apocalypse.

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@Public_Citizen

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you tried to overturn an election like 5 months ago

The Hill

@thehill

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Sen. @tedcruz on S1: "When Republicans had the White House and both houses of Congress we didn't try this. We didn’t try to rig the system so that our side could never lose an election."

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BREAKING: The House just passed a bill to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. A historic moment.

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Child poverty rate: 🇮🇸6% 🇸🇮7% 🇭🇺8% 🇳🇴8% 🇨🇿9% 🇸🇪9% 🇵🇱9% 🇨🇭10% 🇪🇪10% 🇮🇪10% 🇳🇱11% 🇫🇷12% 🇦🇹12% 🇨🇦12% 🇩🇪12% 🇧🇪12% 🇦🇺13% 🇬🇧13% 🇱🇺13% 🇱🇻13% 🇯🇵14% 🇸🇰14% 🇳🇿14% 🇰🇷15% 🇵🇹16% 🇮🇹17% 🇬🇷17% 🇱🇹18% 🇷🇺20% 🇲🇽20% 🇺🇸21% Good thing we recently passed *checks notes* tax breaks for billionaires.

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BREAKING: Biden is now reportedly considering extending the student loan payment pause. The pressure is working. Keep it up.

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If @AOC 's Green New Deal is "extreme," how would describe the blood-soaked skies of Oregon? Business as usual?

Christine Pitawanich

@CPitawanichKGW

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This is nuts. Downtown Stayton at 12:22pm. Be safe, everyone. #KGW #Oregon #Fire #Smoke #LionsheadFire @KGWNews

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|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ | | 90% of the | | plants that failed | | in Texas have | | been oil, gas, | | & coal plants | |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / 　づ

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. @AOC : If you're calling for an end to unrest, but not calling out police brutality, not calling for health care as a human right, not calling for an end to housing discrimination, all you're asking for is the continuation of quiet oppression.

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BREAKING: The US health care system

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BREAKING: Congress just reintroduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. This is huge.

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Imagine having this instead of a $700,000,000,000+ military budget.

StrictlyRockers 🇺🇦🌻

@christoq

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How come Japan gets cool shit like suspension monorail trains, and we don't? 😠😖

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Never forget that the inventors of insulin thought profiting off of it would be unethical and sold the patent for a single dollar.

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94% of public school teachers have to spend their own money on school supplies.

The Hill

@thehill

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JUST IN: Senate panel proposes $696 billion Pentagon spending bill

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@Public_Citizen

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Universal health care COULD NEVER WORK ...unless you live in: Australia Austria Belgium Canada Chile Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Israel Italy Japan Netherlands New Zealand Norway Poland Portugal S Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey UK

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Fun fact: If your company can afford a $5 million 30 second Super Bowl ad, they can afford to raise your wage.

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@Public_Citizen

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BREAKING: Gilead is charging $3,000+ for its COVID drug, remdesivir. Taxpayers spent $70,000,000 to develop this drug. It should be in the public domain. Instead, Big Pharma is robbing us blind. We must shame @GileadSciences into changing course. Please share this.

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@Public_Citizen

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wow you don’t say

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Federal minimum wage: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 Wealth of 400 richest Americans: 2009: $1,270,000,000,000 2020: $3,200,000,000,000

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. @AOC : Could I run ads on Facebook targeting Republicans in primaries saying that they voted for the Green New Deal? Mark Zuckerberg: I don’t know the answer to that off the top of my head. I think probably.

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This is why we can’t give corporations legal immunity.

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Impeachment does not "divide our country." Unpunished white power coup attempts divide our country.

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Weeks of paid maternity leave: 🇧🇬 59 🇬🇷 43 🇬🇧 39 🇭🇷 30 🇸🇰 34 🇨🇿 28 🇮🇪 26 🇭🇺24 🇮🇹 22 🇱🇺 20 🇵🇱 20 🇪🇪 20 🇦🇺 18 🇲🇹 18 🇷🇴 18 🇨🇱 18 🇱🇹 18 🇳🇿 18 🇩🇰 18 🇫🇮 18 🇫🇷 16 🇦🇹 16 🇨🇦 16 🇪🇸 16 🇱🇻 16 🇳🇱 16 🇹🇷 16 🇸🇮 15 🇧🇪 15 🇮🇱 15 🇩🇪 14 🇨🇭 14 🇯🇵 14 🇮🇸 13 🇳🇴 13 🇸🇪 13 🇰🇷 13 🇲🇽 12 🇵🇹 6 . . . 🇺🇸 0

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This is not a heartwarming story, it's a dystopian nightmare.

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Travyon Martin was an unarmed 17-year-old kid. He was killed carrying a bag of skittles. The right-wing called him a threat. Kyle Rittenhouse was 17 years old and armed. He shot and killed 2 people with an AR-15. The right-wing calls him a hero.

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The NYPD's $6,000,000,000 budget would make it the 33rd largest military spender on the planet.

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Explain why canceling student debt is a “handout” but forgiving $714 BILLION in PPP loans is a “stimulus”.

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Imagine thinking college football is a need but health care is a luxury.

Rep. Jim Jordan

@Jim_Jordan

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America needs college football.

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Days of guaranteed paid sick leave: 🇱🇺50 🇳🇴50 🇫🇮48 🇦🇹45 🇩🇪44 🇧🇪39 🇸🇪38 🇩🇰36 🇳🇱35 🇪🇸33 🇮🇹29 🇬🇷28 🇯🇵28 🇫🇷24 🇨🇦22 🇮🇸18 🇮🇪17 🇨🇭15 🇦🇹10 🇬🇧10 🇳🇿5 . . . 🇺🇸0 Having no paid sick leave isn't just immoral. With the coronavirus outbreak, it's also a massive public health risk.

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BREAKING: A bill has been introduced in the Senate that would make D.C. the 51st state.

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Are you kidding me?

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BREAKING: Florida just passed Amendment 4, restoring voting rights to 1.4 million people with a past felony conviction. Not only does this repeal one of the country’s worst Jim Crow laws, it’s also the largest expansion in voting rights since the Voting Rights Act.

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can we please just tax the rich already

Pop Base

@PopBase

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Kim Kardashian flexing all her office amenities in new TikTok. “I’m Kim Kardashian, of course I have…”

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. @AOC : If any member of Congress so much as stutters to say that the Confederacy were traitors to the United States, turn in your pin and get out.

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BREAKING: The New York Senate just passed a bill to restore the right to vote to people released from prisons. This is big!

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Is this your “free speech” king??

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So Elon Musk became $265,700,000,000 richer during the pandemic, but we’re being told inflation is skyrocketing because we got a $1,400 check last year? What a joke.

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are we doing this right

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. @AOC to military contractor exec: I could have covered the insulin costs of a community of 21,400 people for the cost of your price-gouging. I could have sent 21 kids to college. I could have sent 18 toddlers to free preschool for a year. Why should we give you another dime?

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Wild idea: Instead of tying health care to employment we should tie it to human beings.

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As America transforms into a killing field, here are the top recipients of campaign donations from the @NRA : Sen. Burr: $6.9M Sen. Blunt: $4.5M Sen. Tillis: $4.4M Sen. Gardner: $3.8M Sen. Rubio: $3.3M Sen. Ernst: $3.1M Sen. Portman: $3M Sen. Young: $2.8M Sen. Cassidy: $2.8M

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remember like two weeks ago when conservatives tried to convince us that infrastructure had nothing to do with the climate crisis

Sen. Mike Gianaris

@SenGianaris

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NEW YORK CITY: This is only going to get worse as Elsa passes through. Please be safe and don’t go out unless absolutely necessary.

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“Nobody wants to work anymore” The people’s minimum wage: 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 It’s not a labor shortage. It’s a living wage shortage.

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Percent of wages currently subsidized by governments due to COVID: Japan: 100% for small businesses; 80% for large firms Netherlands: Up to 90% Norway: Up to 90% Germany: Up to 87% France: Up to 84% Italy: 80% United Kingdom: Up to 80% Canada: Up to 75% United States: 0%

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Wealth of 400 richest Americans: 2009: $1.27T 10: $1.37T 11: $1.5T 12: $1.7T 13: $2T 14: $2.3T 15: $2.3T 16: $2.4T 17: $2.7T 18: $2.9T 19: $3T Federal Minimum Wage: 2009: $7.25 10: $7.25 11: $7.25 12: $7.25 13: $7.25 14: $7.25 15: $7.25 16: $7.25 17: $7.25 18: $7.25 19: $7.25

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Katie Porter is doing it again. Day 2.

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BREAKING: The Pentagon funneled nearly $1,000,000,000 of taxpayer money meant for masks and medical equipment to defense contractors building jet engines and body armor.

Pentagon used taxpayer money meant for masks and swabs to make jet engine parts and body armor

Shortly after Congress passed the Cares Act, the Pentagon began directing pandemic-related money to defense contractors.

www.washingtonpost.com

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how it started: how it’s going:

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. @AOC to Gilead CEO: The list price [for Truvada for PrEP] is almost $2,000 in the US. Why is it $8 in Australia?

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Jeff Bezos could give every single Amazon employee $105,000 and still be as rich as he was before the pandemic. Tax the rich.

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Police killed Tamir Rice for holding a toy gun.

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Contingent of heavily armed individuals in back of an old military vehicle just showed up. They said they’re all independent. No affiliation.

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This is what "stand back and stand by" meant.

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Stock market ≠ economy

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Monthly cost of: Lantus (Insulin) 🇺🇸 $373 🇨🇦 $67 🇬🇧 $64 🇩🇪 $61 🇦🇹 $54 🇫🇷 $47 🇳🇴 $42 Januvia (Diabetes) 🇺🇸 $331 🇨🇦 $68 🇬🇧$48 🇩🇪 $39 🇫🇷 $35 🇳🇴 $34 🇦🇹$34 Advair (Asthma) 🇺🇸 $310 🇨🇦 $74 🇬🇧 $47 🇩🇪 $38 🇫🇷 $35 🇦🇹$29 🇳🇴 $24 Is this what America first means?

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Imagine having this instead of a $768,000,000,000 defense budget.

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Qingdao, a busy railway. Passenger trains are high-speed trains, and freight trains are ordinary trains that run on different routes.

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How it started: How it’s going:

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“People’s lives are not commodities.” — @AOC

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Sen. Collins cut $870 million for pandemic prep out of the 2009 stimulus bill.

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“Is that what we’ve come to?” Sen. Susan Collins says, criticizing Democrats over coronavirus economic relief bill delay. “We don’t have another day. We don’t have another hour. We don’t have another minute to delay acting.”

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This is incredible. @RepKatiePorter held up Maine’s SNAP Benefits eligibility form and asked the conservative who ran the program to disclose the same intrusive and burdensome info required by the form. #ProtectKids

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Adam Toledo was a 13-year-old kid. Police killed him while he was unarmed with his hands up in the air. Kyle Rittenhouse was armed. He shot and killed 2 people with an AR-15. Police let him go home.

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The US military spends this amount every 11 days.

NBC News

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Preventing the next pandemic will cost $22,200,000,000 a year, scientists say.

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"How did Ted Cruz think he could get away with this?" you ask about a man who faced zero consequences for inciting a white nationalist insurrection against our government.

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