Your regular reminder that inflation is being driven by corporations jacking up prices. pic.twitter.com/RZP0fyWLMz
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) April 25, 2023
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how many people did they layoff again? https://t.co/nDkMQBnFJp
— Wagatwe Wanjuki 🇰🇪 🇧🇸 (@wagatwe) April 25, 2023
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Musk beautifully showing us that billionaires become billionaires by breaking things that work so they can force shittier paid versions.
— Rafael Shimunov (@rafaelshimunov) April 20, 2023
Break public ed, affordable housing, health care, food & water.
Invoice for charters, company towns, med loans, organic food & purified water
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The federal minimum wage is still $7.25. pic.twitter.com/OxfbRTqPIT
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) April 22, 2023
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Reminder: SpaceX received $3,000,000,000 in taxpayer dollars. https://t.co/a6tN0ZGoMU
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) April 20, 2023
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I don’t care if you’re a Democrat, Republican, Independent, or none of the above—we should all be able to agree that water is a human right, not an investment opportunity. pic.twitter.com/MLbnASBV20
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) March 27, 2023
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the NYPD is on pace to blow past its allotted overtime budget for FY2023 by ~$366 million which is 16X what it would cost to keep public libraries open on the weekends. Keep in mind, $366 million isn’t their OT budget, it’s what the NYPD went OVER their allotted OT budget ($374M) https://t.co/K9VsQEY3OO
— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonCHI) April 25, 2023
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A judge says San Francisco’s Marriott Hotel illegally kept about $9 million in more than five years of banquet “service charges” that its customers reasonably understood to be tips for food servers.https://t.co/wixcaBvOuS
— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) May 1, 2023
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Know how this isn’t an accident?
— tall erin, Ph.D (@emfundertaker) May 8, 2023
They have kid-sized protective wear. https://t.co/egBz2mfRBt
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One in four Americans live with medical debt. 18 million Americans cannot afford to fulfill prescriptions given them by their doctors. 68,000 people a year die of lack of healthcare. 500,000 medical bankruptcies a year.
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) May 9, 2023
But health insurers spent $141 billion on stock buybacks,… https://t.co/NR8KXVG9WX
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Someone on Reddit asked, “if you’re injured as a result of a mass shooting, are you responsible for that medical bill?” And I find that a uniquely American question.
— Kimberly Nguyen (@knguyenpoetry) May 8, 2023
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BREAKING: Hollywood writers are striking.
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) May 2, 2023
They’re fighting for their livelihoods against billion-dollar studios and streaming companies who have been squeezing writers to eke out more profits.
Writers didn’t shut down Hollywood — the studios did.
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also a reminder that because of the inexorable march of time the youngest millennial is now almost 24, and the oldest ones are in their early 40s https://t.co/GOcPOjNlUc
— yves adele fartlow (@vogon) April 28, 2023