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The official Twitter page of consumer advocate, author and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader. (Tweets by Nader staff unless designated with -R)
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"The Rebellious CEO: 12 Leaders Who Did It Right" chronicles the fearless business leaders who stand out in corporate culture for their willingness to go against the grain and balance the pursuit of profit with morals and ethics.
Available 11/14 from
@melvillehouse
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Musk (
@elonmusk
) started Tesla with a huge U.S. government welfare grant. He has taken taxpayers to the cleaners for his factories and for Starlink. He is a gigantic corporate welfare king masquerading as a capitalist businessman. -R
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Hillary Clinton, the butcher of Libya and neighbors, backer of the criminal Iraq war-slaughter, and lucrative toady of Wall Street, now blasts Bernie Sanders, who opposed all the above, and campaigned for her in 2016, before she gave America Trump. Disgraceful! -R
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Stage 2 of Israel’s genocidal war is emerging. Mass graves are being discovered. Torture of abducted Palestinian hostages thrown in Israeli prisons and reports of selected human organ extractions from fresh Palestinian corpses in Gaza. Intelligent agencies report all this in…
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Hamas abducted 240 or so hostages on October 7th. Since then, Israel has kidnapped over 8000 Palestinians and sent them, without charges, to a concentration prison in the Negev desert. Even Israeli doctors are describing the horrors and the tortures in that remote place. Aren’t…
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Biden is the triple BBB candidate. The Big Business-War Machine Biden. He's carried water for big banks, credit card companies against student loans. He ran with corporate trade deals emptying out jobs in America's heartland. He covers for Delaware's notorious corporate havens -R
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It is not widely known that every morning, intelligence agencies brief Joe Biden with detailed satellite pictures of the Israeli destruction of Gaza, down to bodies of children in the streets. Day after day, Biden sees what few others see, yet still knuckles under to Netanyahu.…
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For what it's worth, the President does not seem to be wearing a seatbelt as his car pulls away from the White House
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The Pro-Israeli marchers in Washington demanded the release of 240 hostages. They forgot about 8000 hostages in Israeli prisons for years without charges. Many are youngsters and women, kidnapped to extort information from their extended families in the West Bank and Gaza. -R
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McDonalds is unpatriotic. In Denmark, they pay their unionized workers twice as much as U.S. workers with long paid vacations and benefits, because they have to. In our country they strip-mine their unorganized workers, because they can. In both countries, McD's makes profits.-R
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Israel has cut off food, water, medicine, fuel and electricity from all innocent Palestinian civilians, half of whom are children. Israel has struck 120 health facilities—victims cannot escape from Gaza’s open air prison. They can’t even surrender, they can only die. Genocide! -R
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Trump is speaking now before the media. NPR cut off him off for a fact check. Unacceptable decision. I then scrolled through all the many commercial radio stations. They were not carrying Trump's remarks. Misusing our public airwaves, free.
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Prediction:
@elonmusk
will withdraw his bid for Twitter within a week or so. Key reason: Tesla stock, used as collateral for his gigantic bank loans to take over Twitter, is collapsing by the day. He’s already lost about $80 billion in equity. Watch for the reason he gives. -R
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The focus on the 100+ Israeli hostages in Gaza is not matched by the focus on many thousands of Palestinian hostages abducted into Israeli jails without charges or trials. Many of them are children and women.
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Using terms like “extermination”, “annihilation” and “human animals”—and cutting off water, food, electricity and fuel—the Israeli government's genocidal bombing attack on Gaza’s defenseless civilian population is underway. Once again.
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The Executive Order providing $400 in unemployment insurance payments from monies not appropriated for that purpose usurped the congressional power of the purpose and constituted a criminal violation of the Anti-Deficiency Act.
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The Governor of NY is proposing spending 850 million taxpayer dollars to help build a $1.4 billion football stadium for the Buffalo Bills. The NFL is the richest sports franchise, full of billionaire capitalists demanding socialist handouts so they can make even more profits. -R
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Young Americans back Bernie Sanders in big numbers. But most have not voted in early primaries. They let Bernie down. Their voice, their jobs, student loans, health insurance and overall better future at stake. Wake up, turn out. This may be your last chance. -R
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Would be nice if Laura Bush and Michelle Obama had expressed similar heartfelt concern for the tens of thousands of children killed or seriously maimed by the wars of their husbands in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. -R
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The state and federal Democratic machines gang up on Bernie Sanders for Super Tuesday. Got Pete, Amy and others to endorse Big Business Biden and drop out suddenly. The Dems are immolating themselves with a bumbling, war-mongering Wall Street toady. -R
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I sent
@AOC
the following letter suggesting ways she can broaden her progressive impact and help many people now that she is in the media spotlight. She has not replied, despite repeated requests. Can anybody help us get AOC to respond? -R
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The enforcer president of Columbia University— Minouche Shafik—is one of the wealthiest people in America. As president, she makes over $2000 an hour every weekday. In three days, she makes more than many blue collar workers at Columbia make in a year. -R
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Trump is normalizing federal criminality by holding a campaign event on White House premises, another in his serial criminal violations of the Hatch Act. The White House has become a crime scene repugnant to the rule of law. -R and Bruce Fein, former DOJ Associate Dep. AG
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Where are the large federal government employee unions on the Trump Shutdown? Protesting statements are not enough. They and their families should be mass demonstrating and educating about the public harm in front of the White House. Or are they intimidated by the bully Trump? -R
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Attention: Sources tell us that the AFL-CIO is not supporting Bernie Sanders for Secretary of Labor. They have another candidate in mind. Bernie was on picket lines before many of these labor rights were born. Another cold shoulder to Bernie from establishment Democrats. -R
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Israeli state terror is widening the Palestinian holocaust. Half a million people are either dead or on the verge of starvation. A larger number sick and injured. Tell your Representatives in the House to stop the $14 billion genocide weapons bill to Israel. 202-224-3121. -R
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Why was the bloated, redundant military budget off limits in the debt limit negotiations between the militaristic GOP and Joe Biden? That’s over half the federal operating budget. Untouchable. Full of contractor rip offs and corruption.
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This is to
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@SenSchumer
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You are instrumental in unconditionally shipping weapons of mass destruction to the Israeli govt engaged in genocidal slaughter of defenseless Palestinian children, women and men—civilians who had nothing to do with Oct. 7th.
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After dropping over 50,000 bombs/missiles in crowded Gaza, the official huge undercount of fatalities reaches 30,000—mostly children and women. When will the realistic estimates come forward that it's closer to 100,000? And many more dying under the rubble every day after 4...
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To the Grandmaster of Tweetitis:
Credit to you for breaking the auto industry's technological stagnation with Tesla. But to deny that your companies do not receive continual federal and state subsidies – apart from overseas governmental largesse – is to deny reality.
@RalphNader
Ralph Nader, you are lying – shame on you! I personally provided almost all Tesla funding, based on my proceeds from PayPal, from Series A in 2004 until Series C in 2007.
In late 2008, I gave Tesla the last money I had. It was that or the company would have died. We closed that…
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Before the end of the month, after 60 days without water, food, fuel, electricity or medicine, it's likely that 100,000 Palestinians will have expired. Israelis have dropped over 15,000 deadly missiles on a crowded Gaza strip, striking babies, children, women, fathers, mothers...
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Hamas fighters hunkering down in tunnels have small arms with dwindling ammunition. Hamas has no air force, tanks, or armed drones. Why is Netanyahu exaggerating their power? Is it because he wants to expel from Gaza the Palestinian survivors of his deadly ongoing genocide? -R
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Bernie Sanders, Chairman of the powerful Senate Budget Committee, announces five major hearings. Not one includes single payer health insurance—his trademark presidential campaign demand. That means Sanders has given up on Democrats in the Senate and the House for this session.
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R's in Congress, with one exception, did not react to Trump's latest, baseless, depraved charge that cable host Joe Scarborough committed homicide. This is a vicious criminal libel and none of the GOP from McConnell to McCarthy uttered a word of disgust, dismay or reprimand -R
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It’s not.
Just won the lawsuit on leadership of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, CFPB. A big win for the Consumer!
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With Biden’s backing, the Israeli govt’s cut off of water, food, electricity and fuel to Gaza are classical conditions for genocidal violence under int'l law. You’ve disgraced what our country should stand for, Delaware Joe, and are fueling the dangerous expansion of this war. -R
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White supremacist-coddler
@RepStefanik
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Biden’s speech today focused entirely on the atrocities in Israel and ignored the far greater atrocities surging by the hour in Gaza. It is as if the endless slaughter of Palestinians under occupation over the years by U.S. made weaponry and political backing didn’t exist. -R
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Joe, at least demand that Israel allow U.S. reporters into Gaza and get those obstructed 500 humanitarian aid trucks daily into that tiny enclave containing 2.2 million besieged Palestinians. -R
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Why are Caroline Kennedy, former ambassador to Japan, and Nikki Haley, former ambassador to the UN, on Boeing's Board of Directors? They have neither knowledge nor experience in Boeing's military, space and civilian passenger business...
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The undercount in fatalities in Gaza is huge and getting bigger by the day. Many thousands of families missing, more thousands under the rubble. Hard to survive over 30 thousand bombs on the homeless civilian population—denied food, water, fuel, electricity and medical care...
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Big Capitalists begging to be saved by Big Socialism. They are all over D.C. Nothing new. Socialism always saves capitalism. Ordinary taxpayers rarely get any credit, do they? Even when they save the chaotic health care industry and fill the wide gaps of non-coverage. -R
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Elizabeth Warren is pouring out progressive policies on the domestic front. She's gaining in the polls. But where are her positions on military budgets, Empire and foreign policy? -R
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Biden’s forked tongue is not subtle. He says he's urging the Israeli govt to allow more humanitarian aid trucks carrying food, water, fuel and medicine to the injured, sick, dying Gazans. Yet he’s delivering massive weapons of destruction for the Israeli army’s ongoing genocide.
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Biden's touted $2.3 trillion infrastructure over 8 years is trivial. It comes down to less than $300 billion a year for a $21 trillion economy. He even refused to take the corporate tax rate back to 35% as under Obama. Just proposed 28%. Democrats going small again. -R
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The highly regarded
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With an exchange of 50 Hamas-seized hostages for 150 Israeli-seized youngsters and women, held for years without charges, their freedom is starkly different. The Israeli hostages will be sent to functioning hospitals via operating ambulances and helicopters...
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Antisemitism against dying Arabs in Palestine, mostly women and children, is spreading among U.S. companies and corporate law firms. They are throwing away job offers and resumes from young Americans who have spoken out against Israel’s genocidal war crimes and are supporting...
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In a
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Imagine hundreds of starving, unarmed Palestinians waiting together for scraps of food when, suddenly, Israeli soldiers open fire, killing well over a hundred of them and mutilating nearly a thousand more without any access to emergency healthcare.
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Another example of Secretary of State Antony Blinken's antisemitism against Arab-Palestinians. Earlier, he said "the targeting of heat, water and electricity was a 'brutalization of Ukraine’s people' and 'barbaric.'" He doesn’t use these words for the trapped and dying...
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The weapon of mass destruction known as Congress continues to use billions of taxpayer dollars to ship deadly weapons to Israel, even though 5 federal criminal statutes are being violated—laws passed years ago by Congress, as Congress unconditionally finances their violation. -R
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They call Bernie Sanders, Senator from conservative Vermont, a leftist. All his major proposals to improve our economy’s fairness and productivity have healthy majority support. Doesn’t that make him a centrist? -R
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The top corporate tax rate before Trump was 35%. He cut it to 21% with the effective rate being 11.5%. Biden proposed to take it only to 28%. Maybe that’s why he cut the infrastructure bill from the expected $3 trillion to $2 trillion. Democrats retreating again? -R
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There are no disputed facts. They are impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors subversive of constitutional government. President Trump should be impeached and removed from office immediately.
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For all of
@elonmusk
's boasting, potential buyers of Tesla cars should read the 2021 Vehicle Dependability Study by JD Power. Tesla comes in at 30 out of 33 on dependability. Maybe production lines are too much too fast. Caveat emptor. -R
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Israeli military is knowingly turning Gazan hospitals into morgues. Attacked by Israeli bombs, artillery, snipers—babies, patients, doctors, nurses and people seeking refuge are being slaughtered. Bodies piled up, rotting in the sun, being eaten by stray dogs. Biden supports. -R
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Trump must resign now. Attacking peaceful protestors with teargas and rubber bullets so he can use a bible as a prop in front of a historic church is a disgusting abuse of power. Trump is a habitual violator of 7 out of the Ten Commandments. He corrupts everyone he touches. -R
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Those who are urging peaceful protest instead of tumultuous protest should ask why the media never covered over a year of peaceful protest through city after city led by
@RevDrBarber
called the Poor People's Campaign.
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During Gov. Cuomo's daily news conferences, he points out huge budget deficits for NYS. What he's not mentioning are bills in the state Senate (S6203) and Assembly (A7791A) to stop giving back $13 billion a year the state collects from a tiny sales tax on Wall Street transactions
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Does anybody care that radio and television companies have confiscated our public airwaves and shut us out? We the People own the public airwaves. We are the landlords. The corporations are the freeloading tenants, but they control what and who gets on their stations 24/7 -R
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While Biden publicly urges Israel to avoid civilian casualties, he’s sending one hundred 2000 pound bunker busting bombs, among other deadly weaponry, for the genocidal destruction of the people of Gaza. Bomber Biden Rides Again. -R
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The U.S. conflicts in the Middle East keep escalating. What are our soldiers doing at a remote post in Jordan—with 35 more U.S. military installations in the backyards of these countries—that the American people are required to fund without their knowledge? This is Empire.
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Richest man in the world Jeff Bezos has 700 of his underpaid employees, just in Ohio, receiving food stamps. Bezos takes advantage of gigantic subsidies and tax escapes in states around the country. Small business doesn't get these freebies. -R
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House Speaker Pelosi discourages House Democrats from supporting
@RepJayapal
's HR 1384, the gold standard for single payer. So much for representing about 70% of the American people wanting such universal health insurance. -R
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The words "corporation," "company," and "political parties" do not appear anywhere in the U.S. Constitution. Why then, do they control us? It's only "We the People" who are described in the Constitution. I welcome your responses. -R
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Tomorrow, Biden signs the boondoggle corruption-potential $52 billion taxpayer giveaway to profitable chip companies. Bribing them to come back to the U.S. after they went to Asia for cheap labor. Few safeguards. Watch the corruption emerge. -R
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The large undercount of fatalities in tiny Gaza continues. After 100 days of dropping 33000 bombs and missiles on defenseless, unsheltered civilians, the official count of just over 23000 fatalities is grossly improbable. There has been relentless bombing which has destroyed...
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Violating clear international law, Israel is militarily controlling and colonizing what’s left of Palestine’s West Bank. Also illegal is Israel's embargo and siege of Gaza. Also illegal is seizure of Palestinian water and land by the Israeli govt. Biden/Pelosi think that’s OK. -R
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The House of Representatives just passed a federal spending bill that included an unconditional $3.8 billion to further weaponize the extreme Netanyahu regime's state terror producing the Palestinian holocaust.
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Hillary trumps Trump. She defames Dr. Jill Stein, and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, as "Russian assets," implying Stein cost her the election. Sources say Hillary, emerging from scandal-land, would consider running AGAIN for president if Joe Biden drops out. Aghast! -R
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The Executive Order deferring indefinitely a portion of payroll taxes funding Social Security and Medicare usurped the congressional taxing power. Both constitutional violations are indisputable.
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Ralph Nader, wary of Trump, offers to help Joe Biden win
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Demand explanations from NPR and commercial stations. Factual checks can come later. -R
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Other than Biden defeating Trump, the Dems had a bad election against the GOP. Lost 5 seats in the House, failed to take the Senate, and did not flip one state legislature. Against the most corrupt, bungling, incompetent, lying president, the well funded DP failed the country. -R
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Much attention deservedly given to the Israeli hostages seized on 10/7 by Hamas fighters, but very little attention given over the years for 100s of innocent Palestinians imprisoned by Israel without charges in order to control their extended families in the West Bank and Gaza.
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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky personally addressed the United Nations in New York City demanding that countries that unjustly invade other nations be suspended from their Security Council seats...
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The media’s complacent coverage of Trump’s executive orders today (which he mischaracterized as “bills” in a Freudian slip) suggesting their arguable legality fell far short of that First Amendment standard.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook (a philanthropic miser) got his Board of Directors to give him $50,000 per hour (or $99 million) for 2021. Apple store workers get as little as $17 per hour. Talk about exploitation/inequality. -R
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Here's how progressive lawmakers treat progressive citizen groups.
@AOC
won't return calls or meet,
@BernieSanders
hasn't fulfilled his promise to have a Zoom meeting with civic leaders,
@ewarren
won't go on our radio show about her new book. Can you help turn them around? -R
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George W. Bush’s book of portraits of immigrants is a bestseller. Yet he refused to let in Iraqi immigrants. Many of them were drivers and interpreters for the U.S. military. Defenseless, they were later slaughtered by militias. He’s shameless and remorseless. -R
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Why isn’t the press investigating UnitedHealthcare and Aetna’s increasing corporatization of Medicare itself? They are deceiving elderly into something I call “Medicare Disadvantage”.
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Once again, Netanyahu's govt is slaughtering Palestinian Arabs in Gaza for political reasons to avoid a 5th election, and to impede his pending prosecution. Once again, Biden/Pelosi show no compassion to the mounting Palestinian civilian fatalities, using U.S. weapons and aid.-R
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Genocide digs deeper in the darkness. Israeli govt continues to bar outside journalists from covering the slaughter in Gaza, including Israeli and U.S. reporters. Over 25 Palestinian reporters have been killed since 10/7. Internet/phone service is cut off. Biden remains silent.-R
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A sure way to reduce the spread of colds, the flu, and other respiratory ailments is to provide paid sick leave for restaurant and other food workers. Millions of these workers have to work to pay their bills and are contagious to other workers and customers.
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Trump has incited mayhem in the Congress. A dangerous sociopath is at large in the White House.
This is not Trump's last act. He should be impeached and convicted immediately. -R
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Trump has launched a frontal assault on the exclusive constitutional powers of Congress in the nature of a coup.
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Joe Biden brags that he is the candidate of "the working stiff." Really? Then why isn't he pushing for a stronger OSHA on workplace injuries/diseases or for the repeal of the anti-union Taft Hartley law of 1947 and other labor repressions? Too close to big business, Joe? -R
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The
@nytimes
sports page thinks its readers are more interested, by far, in Real Madrid than in the Real Yankees in New York City. Yankees and Mets baseball games are almost invisible. Not even the scores are printed in the Times suburban sports edition anymore. Go figure. -R
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Why are the Democrats and GOP in Congress passing a $52 billion corporate welfare bill for the super profitable and grossly undertaxed chip industry to get them to build plants in the USA to make more profit?
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While Biden the Bomber Pilot talks about asking Israel to allow more humanitarian aid trucks for the pummeled Gazans, he’s sending weapons to Israel to destroy the very civilian infrastructure that can receive and distribute this aid. Double Talk Delaware Joe. -R
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Trump brags about saving 1000 Carrier jobs in Indiana. He’s bribing Carrier on the taxpayers back. Crony capitalism is Trumpism. -R
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Imagine a blockaded Philadelphia, where a mighty military power drops 15,000 powerful bombs on its citizens, including markets, schools, homes, apartment buildings, hospitals, places of worship, ambulances, and crowded roadways.
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On Netanyahu’s demand, Weak Joe Biden cut off critical funding for
@UNRWA
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Over 100k from many backgrounds marched in D.C. on Saturday calling out Biden to ceasefire and "free Palestine." WaPo reported it on pg 3 of its Metro section; NYT reported it next to the obits on pg 28—on pg 1 was a headline about the appetites of NBA players! Ever wonder! -R
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Tonight Trump chooses a Supreme Court Justice. His final list of candidates have one thing in common--they side with corporations against the people. These are corporatist *not* conservative judges. Citizens and Senators beware. -R
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That also means he believes Biden would stick to his campaign pledge to veto any such bill. Majority polls are surging favoring single payer while Washington’s Democrats subsidize more big health insurers...
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There go the Democrats again. Embedded in HR1, the voter rights bill, are greater hurdles for 3rd parties to confront. The Democrats don’t want a competitive democracy. They want to work the duopoly without outside challenges about war and peace and Wall Street power. -R
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Biden is pushing for $14.3 billion from Congress to expand the Israeli government's slaughter of the children of Gaza instead of using those taxpayer dollars to save the endangered children of America. STOP THE GENOCIDE TAX! -R
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The Congressional Democrats dropped $15.6 billion for Covid needs from the budget and added $13.6 billion to aid Ukraine. Domestic immolation. Take it out of the $24 billion Congress just added to the vast Biden military budget that the Generals did not ask for. -R
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