October 22, 2023 by V Leigh

The UAW strike has put the GOP in a bind: keep pitching themselves as pro-worker or reveal their rhetoric as a masquerade. Yesterday, presidential candidate Tim Scott chose to say what Republicans actually think: “you strike, you’re fired.”

U.S. Fails to Meet International Human Right to Housing Standards https://t.co/0viCLxNZl5
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) October 8, 2023

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44 million Americans are back to making college loan payments this month because the Supreme Court sided with Republicans on a lawsuit to block President Biden’s student debt relief plan.

Imagine suing to keep Americans in debt!
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) October 3, 2023

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Every map of DC is the same – whether you’re talking about income inequality, food access, transportation access, traffic safety infrastructure, maternal mortality, heat islands, pollution and air quality, etc. This is the result of intentional policy choices and disinvestment. https://t.co/sEuaQ8laGJ
— Erin Palmer (@erinfordc) September 27, 2023

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“Trump did not go to Michigan to support striking workers at all. He did what cheap rich guys do every day: He told people who work for a living to be afraid of losing what little they have instead of trying to get what they deserve.”#StandUpUAW https://t.co/pBVQGcOUCg
— UAW (@UAW) October 1, 2023

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The UAW strike has put the GOP in a bind: keep pitching themselves as pro-worker or reveal their rhetoric as a masquerade. Yesterday, presidential candidate Tim Scott chose to say what Republicans actually think: “you strike, you’re fired.” https://t.co/TEIaJ3Y95q
— Jacobin (@jacobin) September 20, 2023

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September 21, 2023 by V Leigh

To find low-wage workers for their agricultural investments, billionaires like Bill Gates are using a visa program linked to labor abuses and human trafficking. The scam is a far cry from the program’s supposed aim: helping struggling family farmers.

To find low-wage workers for their agricultural investments, billionaires like Bill Gates are using a visa program linked to labor abuses and human trafficking. The scam is a far cry from the program’s supposed aim: helping struggling family farmers. https://t.co/m0NuZ2N8yU
— Jacobin (@jacobin) September 13, 2023

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There’s so much to unpack here. Does Gurner realize that in a consumer based economy a 50% in unemployment would mean fewer consumers to buy goods and services that help all those business that hire employees? This is basic economics. https://t.co/9xCMU5pHM0
— Decoding Fox News (@DecodingFoxNews) September 13, 2023

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Please watch this excellent short documentary on how Roblox is exploiting child labor, training AI on that labor, creating an unsafe place where children are preyed upon by adults, and how Roblox is training the next generation to accept abusive labor practices. https://t.co/gCK4X24za3
— Hannah Lavender ⚔️✨ (@Hannah_illo) September 7, 2023

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These are conservatives. https://t.co/899hZeboUw
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) September 18, 2023

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I don’t know that I’ve seen the utter disdain for workers put quite so explicitly. Thank you for the absolute clarity on capitalism. https://t.co/nHlDiNmpSJ
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) September 13, 2023

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August 12, 2023 by V Leigh

Having a job is often not enough in a system that requires homelessness and poverty to function.

Welcome to the USA where disabled patients are wheeled out to the street corner and discarded like trash. pic.twitter.com/ZXErfE5zvk
— 🥀_ Imposter 🥀 (@Imposter_Edits) August 5, 2023

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Having a job is often not enough in a system that requires homelessness and poverty to function. pic.twitter.com/QHh8ReW043
— Ahmed Ali (@DrAhmednurAli) July 25, 2023

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Houston Food Not Bombs (which has been around since 1994) has now been ticketed at least 30 times for sharing free food with unhoused neighbors.

Each ticket is $2000!

It specifically says “feed homeless” on the citation. pic.twitter.com/Ih46KEnb5h
— Claire Zagorski, MSc, LP (@clairezagorski) July 23, 2023

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Today marks an unfortunate anniversary. The last time the federal minimum wage was raised was July 24, 2009.

This is the longest time that the federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up in U.S. history.

At $7.25/hour, the federal rate is also the minimum wage in 20 states.
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) July 24, 2023

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actors are on strike, writers are on strike, teamsters are on strike, hotel employees are on strike, grad students are on strike, health care workers are on strike… can we realize there are deep systemic issues in this country yet
— wells santo (searching for alternatives) (@WellsLucasSanto) July 13, 2023

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Every time I see that minimum wage figure, I’m reminded of my first job. I made $7.25 in California … in 1999. I’m aware we made more than other states, but it isn’t lost on me that that figure is still around 20 years later. https://t.co/XkGiLjIRfe
— Jo Von M. McCalester, PhD (@DrMcCalester) July 11, 2023

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“While it will be up to members to decide on the contract, at least one lesson should be clear: Strikes, or the real threat of strikes, work.”https://t.co/aaQr40Zsn1
— UAW (@UAW) July 27, 2023

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Boomers are going to move into assisted living retirement communities owned by private equity, and all this wealth will be completely stripped out of the population. pic.twitter.com/NwcU1ACuvz
— My weight class is Karen (@InsightTweeting) July 13, 2023

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“Every time I walk through that door, I don’t know if I’m going to come out in a body bag.” – testimony from worker at Ultium Cells, one the many EV battery companies receiving billions of $$$ in taxpayer handouts while employing workers in dangerous conditions at poverty wages. https://t.co/sgoXfm2XhA
— Chris Brooks (@chactivist) July 31, 2023

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The average student debt payment is $400+ and you cannot file for bankruptcy if you default. https://t.co/2S5dV60diS
— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) July 30, 2023

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August 5, 2023 by V Leigh

#ReparationsNow This is how Check out ReadyForRevolution’s video! #TikTok

#ReparationsNow

This is how

Check out ReadyForRevolution’s video! #TikTok https://t.co/flgKTC7dFG
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) July 21, 2023

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June 24, 2023 by V Leigh

“The willingness to allow certain people to die while every effort is made to save others … it’s a really dark reflection on humanity.”

“The willingness to allow certain people to die while every effort is made to save others … it’s a really dark reflection on humanity.” https://t.co/k5yPzl6C1n
— Celeste Ng (@pronounced_ing) June 22, 2023

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Barack Obama called out the disparity in news coverage between the missing Titan submersible, which received nearly wall-to-wall coverage this week, and a capsized boat carrying 700 migrants in the Mediterranean, which received barely any attention comparatively pic.twitter.com/aL8zSDZWgu
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 23, 2023

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June 19, 2023 by V Leigh

Shutting down DEI offices on the eve of Juneteenth is nasty work.

“You can’t kill our loved ones, just because of the color of their skin, just because they were living while Black,” said @AttorneyCrump. “We cannot let them kill our loved ones for just knocking on a door, for loving their children, while Black.”https://t.co/jR6kUgPNSe
— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) June 14, 2023

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Judge calls white supremacy a “cancer” after sentencing Buffalo supermar… https://t.co/mNEIhcsnWp via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) June 11, 2023

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“As young as 4 to 6 years old, children of color begin to experience race-based traumatic stress,” finds Dr. Steven Kniffley, a licensed psychologist.

✍🏾 @anniema15 https://t.co/4YjHplLhcE
— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) June 1, 2023

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Gov. Greg Abbott signed a racist law that orders all state-funded colleges and universities in Texas to close their diversity, equity, and inclusion offices. Let’s put this action in perspective. A thread. 1/https://t.co/cusWVVbkEw
— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) June 16, 2023

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All state-funded colleges and universities in Texas will have to close their diversity, equity and inclusion offices under a measure signed into law by Gov. Abbott. https://t.co/FmGYO4EG5E
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 16, 2023

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Shutting down DEI offices on the eve of Juneteenth is nasty work. https://t.co/HxYIMN7olI
— Anna Gifty says buy The Black Agenda Book! (@itsafronomics) June 16, 2023

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Kind of crazy how to majority of people opposing critical race theory have today off. What do they tell their kids?
— Kalen Allen (@TheKalenAllen) June 19, 2023

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June 19, 2023 by V Leigh

Republicans in the Senate + Dem Senators Manchin, Sinema and Tester just voted to kill student debt relief and raise student debt balances by retroactively adding interest. Tester, Sinema and Manchin are all up for re-election in 2024 and will have to explain their votes.

Republicans in the Senate + Dem Senators Manchin, Sinema and Tester just voted to kill student debt relief and *raise* student debt balances by retroactively adding interest.

Tester, Sinema and Manchin are all up for re-election in 2024 and will have to explain their votes. pic.twitter.com/vfBZM0m4Is
— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) June 1, 2023

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BREAKING: Allies at @NAACP have sent a letter to @POTUS sharing frustration that the debt-ceiling agreement ends the student loan payment pause and urging him to use all legal pathways to achieve his #CancelStudentDebt plan. https://t.co/rcMt0KlOII
— Student Debt Crisis Center (SDCC) (@DebtCrisisOrg) June 14, 2023

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The NAACP sent a letter to @POTUS expressing “disappointment” in Biden permanently ending the pause on federal student loan payments—which will hurt Black folks the most.

I kid you not the White House response is “well Black unemployment is low”

Read: https://t.co/AE8GTB4Ys1 pic.twitter.com/kjIzvkMzLn
— Braxton 🟥 (@Braxtonbrew96) June 14, 2023

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Student loan payments have been on pause for the past three years, and thanks to the debt ceiling deal, Joe Biden must restart loan payments by the end of this summer. That’s a looming disaster for over 40 million Americans. https://t.co/a8twuJ9EXA
— Jacobin (@jacobin) June 6, 2023

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In 2019–only just before the pandemic—a student loan borrower defaulted on their debt every 26 seconds. Over 1 million people defaulted in a year. This is the “normal” Biden wants to resume.
— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) June 13, 2023

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May 31, 2023 by V Leigh

Since 2007, private health insurance companies spent $141 billion on stock buybacks. During that same time, the cost of the average family health insurance plan skyrocketed by 86% to $22,463 a year while average premiums soared by over $4,300. Yes. We need #MedicareForAll.

Since 2007, private health insurance companies spent $141 billion on stock buybacks. During that same time, the cost of the average family health insurance plan skyrocketed by 86% to $22,463 a year while average premiums soared by over $4,300. Yes. We need #MedicareForAll.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 12, 2023

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The idea that corporate profits contribute to inflation went from conspiracy theory to real and probably good pic.twitter.com/SAUwBTcFiY
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) May 26, 2023

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Today, two Democrats voted with Republicans to say that not only should student debt relief be repealed, not only should the pause on payments end, but that you should make *retroactive* payments from previous months.

Introducing Jared Golden and Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez: pic.twitter.com/5UMPMhLndY
— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) May 25, 2023

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It’s called union busting, @nytimes. https://t.co/wJ1QFF8W8a
— Dripped Out Trade Unionists (@UnionDrip) May 23, 2023

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May 11, 2023 by V Leigh

Your regular reminder that inflation is being driven by corporations jacking up prices.

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.

Break public ed, affordable housing, health care, food & water.

Invoice for charters, company towns, med loans, organic food & purified water
— Rafael Shimunov (@rafaelshimunov) April 20, 2023

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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?

They have kid-sized protective wear. https://t.co/egBz2mfRBt
— tall erin, Ph.D (@emfundertaker) May 8, 2023

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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.

But health insurers spent $141 billion on stock buybacks,… https://t.co/NR8KXVG9WX
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) May 9, 2023

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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.

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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— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) May 2, 2023

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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

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March 13, 2023 by V Leigh

Silicon Valley Bank last week became the largest bank to fail since the 2008 financial crisis, sending shock waves through the tech industry, Wall Street and Washington. Here’s what we know, and what brought the bank to its collapse.

Silicon Valley Bank last week became the largest bank to fail since the 2008 financial crisis, sending shock waves through the tech industry, Wall Street and Washington. Here’s what we know, and what brought the bank to its collapse. https://t.co/Jd9QlxWwSy
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 13, 2023

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The usual combination of corporate power and corruption in Washington, DC, weakened regulations for Silicon Valley Bank and set the foundation for its collapse. How much longer people will tolerate a system like this? https://t.co/b2JmFsJhyR
— Jacobin (@jacobin) March 13, 2023

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I can’t stop thinking about how we cut food stamps the same month we bailed out VC guys.

People going to bed with the ache and weakness of hunger, some working full time for some of the same guys that got bailed out.

While they build cop cities to prevent any pushback. pic.twitter.com/1dYew9l1ps
— Kate Willett (@katewillett) March 13, 2023

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Notice that literally no one stopped to ask how this would be paid for. They just did it. “How will we pay for it” only applies when it’s for the benefit of everyday people. The rich, the military and cops don’t get those kinds of questions. Only the public good is questionable. https://t.co/jgwBVdgfDN
— Plz Preorder Let This Radicalize You 🔥 (@MsKellyMHayes) March 13, 2023

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It took them less then 48 hours to make sure depositors at SBV were covered, yet student debt cancelation is means-tested and is being challenged by the court.

Just in case you forgot who exactly the system is designed to work for and against.
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) March 12, 2023

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My debut at @Slate: Venture capitalists are parasites who couldn’t be trusted with the financial institution that held up their industry, let alone the direction of our technological development. Euthanizing them is imperative if we want a better world.https://t.co/FyHocUXEX0
— Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) March 13, 2023

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Following the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, Pres. Biden made clear Monday that ‘no losses will be borne by the taxpayers,’ while detailing the measures taken by his administration pic.twitter.com/whFUNzFoAI
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 13, 2023

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Cool cool cool

So those junk fees that bank charge poor people whose account is so far below $250k it’s sometimes below $0 are what is going to fund the bailout of Silicon Valley VCs https://t.co/TuTI021esJ
— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) March 13, 2023

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Long before Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, its CEO helped kill tougher oversight of banks like his https://t.co/PD5p764WuF
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) March 13, 2023

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The UAW strike has put the GOP in a bind: keep pitching themselves as pro-worker or reveal their rhetoric as a masquerade. Yesterday, presidential candidate Tim Scott chose to say what Republicans actually think: “you strike, you’re fired.”

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Since 2007, private health insurance companies spent $141 billion on stock buybacks. During that same time, the cost of the average family health insurance plan skyrocketed by 86% to $22,463 a year while average premiums soared by over $4,300. Yes. We need #MedicareForAll.

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