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President of @Public_Citizen. Public interest advocate working to loosen the chokehold corporations & the wealthy have over our democracy.

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@Rob_Weissman
Robert Weissman
3 years
Hi Twitter. I’m the president of @Public_Citizen. I’ve been fighting corporate power my entire career. Please follow me so my social media team doesn’t get mad at me.
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Robert Weissman
13 days
Trump suspension of tariff talks with Canada makes clear:. Trump is far more concerned with taking care of Big Tech's super profits than he is with taking care of workers or addressing trade imbalances.
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Robert Weissman
4 months
Remember when Trump was going to Make America Healthy Again and take on the toxics poisoning us?. Apparently Trump doesn’t.
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Robert Weissman
4 months
Trump & Musk are taking money from children and stuffing it in billionaires' pockets. That's what it means to slash the Dept of Ed while pushing for massive tax cuts for the super rich and corporations. "Shameful bullying" does not adequately describe the heinousness here.
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Robert Weissman
4 months
Trump has put chemical industry reps in charge of chemical regulation at the EPA. Not exactly the pathway to end chemical exposures for kids, or anyone else.
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Robert Weissman
4 months
These lies about Social Security are the prelude to vicious cuts.
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Robert Weissman
4 months
Wait, did Trump just utter the word “gender?”.
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Robert Weissman
4 months
The Trump cabinet is arguably the least meritorious ever.
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Robert Weissman
4 months
Trump is actually engaging in widespread censorship, stripping science information that contains words like “gender” and “diverse,” no matter the context.
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Robert Weissman
4 months
This is what authoritarianism looks like.
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Robert Weissman
4 months
Of all the cruel and cockamamie things Musk and Trump have said, this, from Musk, may be the most revealing:. "The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.". In fact, it is fair to say, empathy is the single bedrock feature of a decent society.
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Robert Weissman
4 months
For a guy who runs to court all the time, you sure have a poor understanding of the role of the judiciary.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
4 months
What is the point of having democratic elections if unelected activist “judges” can override the clear will of the people?. Well, that’s no democracy at all!.
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Robert Weissman
4 months
Shut down DOGE is the easy answer.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
4 months
This is a good question. What would you do?.
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Robert Weissman
4 months
Not under the impression that Jeff Bezos is an advocate for, or practitioner in, "free markets." . Monopoly = NOT free markets.
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Robert Weissman
4 months
Congressional budget resolution is literally a vote to take money from the poor and vulnerable and give it to the rich and corporations. With special favors for Big Oil and Pentagon contractors.
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Robert Weissman
4 months
Unless the courts, the Congress and above all the people bring you under control.
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Robert Weissman
4 months
Different perspective: if the unelected, unconfirmed, highly conflicted, richest person in the world can shut down govt agencies, invade privacy, thwart congressional will and ignore the constitutional separation of powers, then we do not have a democracy ….
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
4 months
If ANY judge ANYWHERE can block .EVERY Presidential order EVERYWHERE, .we do NOT have democracy,.we have TYRANNY of the JUDICIARY.
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Robert Weissman
5 months
What happens if they reply with misleading and untrue statements, like those DOGE has posted about its purported but grossly inflated “savings”?.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
5 months
Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.
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Robert Weissman
5 months
Oh yeah, one other thing: The courts are stopping you and Trump because your actions are illegal and unconstitutional. Most of these aren’t close calls. Example: you do not have constitutional authority to feed congressionally created agencies to the wood chipper.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
5 months
If ANY judge ANYWHERE can stop EVERY Presidential action EVERYWHERE, we do NOT live in a democracy.
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Robert Weissman
5 months
Also, by the way, I don’t recall you complaining about R states and corporations forum shopping to challenge Biden admin actions in courts they knew to be friendly.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
5 months
If ANY judge ANYWHERE can stop EVERY Presidential action EVERYWHERE, we do NOT live in a democracy.
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Robert Weissman
5 months
UNLESS, the courts, Congress and a mobilized public can stop him and prove that the institutions of democracy do in fact still function.
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