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The Postal Service has informed states that they’ll need to pay first-class 55-cent postage to mail ballots to voters, rather than the normal 20-cent bulk rate. That nearly triples the per-ballot cost.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's campaign has put together seminars on what to do if you’re being evicted or confronted by ICE agents and how to organize collective child care while schools are struggling to coordinate reopenings.
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An estimated 160 people died in Sheriff Arpaio's "concentration camps." Trump pardoned him on Friday.
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One of the measures being crammed into the omnibus is a proposal from Sen. Thom Tillis to turn unauthorized commercial streaming of copyrighted material like an album on YouTube, a video clip on Twitch, or a song in an Instagram post into a felony.
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Following a decade of devastating cuts, 60 percent of U.S. counties now have no daily newspaper. But
@AndrewYang
(
#YangGang
) is the only presidential candidate so far to have put forward a policy proposal to address the crisis.
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“Why aren’t we attacking corporate profits in any way? Because that’s been estimated to be 30, 40 percent of inflation,”
@jonstewart
said on
@TheProblem
@AppleTVPlus
. We agree. Our Great Inflation Myths series covers how corporate greed fuels inflation:
Danger! Workers are doing too well! Call the Fed to shut that down! A conversation with former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. Watch the full interview in our latest episode, now streaming on
@appletvplus
.
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"Studios burn people out, not because they need to, but because they can."
@athurlow
writes about Hollywood workers' fight to get some of the richest companies in the world like Amazon, Apple, Disney, and Netflix to treat workers fairly:
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According to Secret Service director, Trump's private force is currently operating in parallel to Secret Service:
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With his voter fraud conspiracies, Trump's telling one of the biggest lies a president ever told, says
@JasonKander
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Democratic senators are demanding answers on Carl Icahn's ethics conflicts and his role in policymaking
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Daughter of immigrants, Gwen Ifill represented the most American of success stories, writes her cousin
@Sifill_LDF
:
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In 2020, the Republican party showed us the depths of their moral depravity.
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New White House Chief of Staff Jeffrey Zients is a longtime health care profiteer who built his fortune off of Medicare and Medicaid fraud. Is this the direction the Biden administration wants to go in?
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For years, right-wing groups like PragerU strategized for the long game while the left focused on elections.
@GravelInstitute
wants to change that.
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Even if just half of the deaths the agency found were thanks to Tesla Full Self-Driving technology, that still would make those cars dramatically more deadly than human drivers.
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Republican disdain for the vast majority of American households has been laid bare:
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Thanks to young people, the argument that change is impossible is getting quieter and quieter:
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@ddayen
@rickperlstein
@franifio
@hasanthehun
@gurleygg
@ryanlcooper
@SamSeder
@EmmaVigeland
@moetkacik
@LeftAnchor
@MattBruenig
@GaneshSitaraman
@EllenJM
@jeffhauser
@revolvingdoorDC
The crossover you didn’t know you needed:
@hasanthehun
and
@ddayen
are LIVE. Watch now:
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An immigrant farmworker died on the job, and his colleagues have begun to strike—at risk of deportation
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The UAW's strategy of refusing voluntary overtime reveals what the Big Three don't want you to know: they don't have enough workers to build cars in the first place.
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While this year's survey from the Public Religion Research Institute revealed much of what we already know about Republicans' views on matters such as race, the numbers are still enough to make you sigh.
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Two Louis DeJoy allies on the Postal Service Board of Governors have terms set to end in December. Biden can fill those seats with DeJoy opponents, finally getting the majority needed to oust the controversial Trump holdover.
New from
@david_dayen
:
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Winning the public debate about voter suppression will be just as important as the legal fight:
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On Twitter and Reddit, dozens of students are saying that their teachers are assigning right-wing content from PragerU. In some cases, its students' first introduction to issues like tax policy, immigration reform, or healthcare. From
@ameliajpollard
:
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"He has no intention of leaving. It’s not hard to understand what Trump wants. He wants money, power, and immunity from prosecution."
@heffnera
speaks to
@sarahkendzior
about the rising threat of authoritarianism in the United States.
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ICYMI: Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Ayanna Pressley are trying to stop student loan servicer Navient from misleading borrowers into refinancing their loans, which would make them ineligible for debt cancellation.
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No democracy can function under a continuous bombardment of unmediated lies, writes
@RBReich
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Nearly half the states have made it harder for minorities & young people to vote.
http://t.co/fCYmamQ2M1
http://t.co/xl9zcgNcXX
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Many of the representatives that came out most forcefully against Ocasio-Cortez have close ties to oil and gas.
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Masrour Barzani, the prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan, is using Delaware’s corporate secrecy laws to hide assets in the United States. Without a whistleblower, It's impossible to know how many others are doing the same thing. Read
@ZackKopplin
's latest
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A two-tier system predicated on state liberalization and federal criminalization cannot stand. Biden shouldn't let it.
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Despite warnings, the Democratic party fails to recognize the warning signs of American fascism
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Ticketmaster's rise to power over the live music sector has been marked by decades of corruption, threats, and political maneuvering.
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From the moment Trump launched his campaign, journalist Sarah Kendzior feared for the state of democracy
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The story of chained CPI may be the most damning part of Biden’s record on Social Security.
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The Founders felt that violating the emoluments clause was an impeachable offense, and while Trump mocks it as "phony", its become the basis of impeachment.
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Faced with GOP-drawn electoral maps, Democrats are pouring millions into a campaign to fight back.
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When economic models are wrong, our public policy falters. From our April issue,
@SenWarren
makes the case for better modeling, better data, and policies that reflect American values.
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Congress’s new progressives, including
@AOC
and
@RepMaxineWaters
, are taking on the big banks.
@ddayen
reports, with artwork by Victor Juhasz:
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"Capitalism as we know it today is badly broken and—rightfully—under attack. The sooner we confront that, the sooner we can strip it to the studs and build something better," argues
@RepJoeKennedy
:
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Did the president oversee an operation where his campaign traded information with Putin?
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NEW: The Progressive Caucus is threatening to vote down a drug pricing bill important to Nancy Pelosi. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have backed them up.
@ddayen
&
@ryangrim
report: co-published with
@theintercept
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A second term for Donald Trump would be a catastrophe for American healthcare.
@ryanlcooper
reports:
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Senator Cory Booker has introduced federal legislation to make housing more affordable and less segregated.
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"The army of the decent are coming together in a grand coalition to hopefully oust Donald Trump and his enablers"
@heffnera
speaks with Lincoln Project founder John Weaver on why Biden will win come this November
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Trickle-down economics crashed and burned in Kansas. Will other Republicans learn the lesson?
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Big corporations are bragging about one-time bonuses to sway public opinion in favor of Republicans in 2018, so they can take a huge tax cut and run:
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Delegates being handed this list of quotes from and about Biden, with cameos from
@ryanlcooper
,
@zachdcarter
#CADEM19
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Steve Bannon called the Prospect's
@rkuttner
with some things to say about trade — and his enemies:
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Clarence Thomas secretly took luxury vacations with and accepted expensive gifts from conservative mega-donor Harlan Crow, directly violating government ethics. If Congress fails to impeach him, it will only affirm that those in power can do no wrong.
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NEW:
@ZackKopplin
and
@basmoose
identified nearly 300 properties, with a combined worth in the nine-figure range, connected to Iraqi Kurdistan’s Barzani family. It’s hard to imagine a licit reason for the layers of secrecy and smoke screens.
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Issues once considered fringe, carefully researched by Ramamurti and colleagues and put in play by Warren, are now considered mainstream.
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But let’s be real. Trump will not be removed by impeachment. No president has been. With a Republican Senate controlled by the most irresponsible political hack ever to be majority leader, the chances are nil.
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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has taken action to defend the “carried interest” tax loophole for private equity and real estate fund managers, who then donate to her campaign.
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An interview with
@IronStache
, who wants Paul Ryan to trade places and work the iron while he goes to Washington:
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"Nobody wants to work" didn't appear out of thin air.
It's a product of a concerted effort by conservatives to punish poor people, and a media apparatus that is practically copy and pasting stories that seldom actually talk to workers.
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Trump and the GOP are giving bountiful tax cuts to Wall Street while launching an aggressive attack on Dodd-Frank regulations:
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Last July,
@ryanlcooper
wrote about how judicial review, or the ability of the Supreme Court to strike down any law it chooses, has no basis in the Constitution.
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"Vote for segregation!" How racist housing policies made
#Ferguson
the city it is today.
http://t.co/S3KTYIHBWq
http://t.co/O2j4D3sJx3
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"The book argues that the Trump era has made it obvious that the Democratic Party has not learned the lessons of how a new “American fascism” could rise in the U.S."
@MikeElk
reviews
@NicholsUprising
's book.
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Workers must be given a stronger voice so that technological changes benefit everyone, not just managers and executives, says
@RBReich
.
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One of the biggest cons from the biggest conman to occupy the Oval Office is that he’s a dealmaker, writes
@RBReich
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We're having some server issues because of the increased traffic. In the meantime, here's a cache of the story:
Steve Bannon called
@rkuttner
to discuss a hard line against China — and his enemies in the administration
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“Pelosi put her weighty thumb on the scale for Cuellar, a reliable anti-labor, pro-gun, anti-choice voter, and a marked obstacle for the “Democratic agenda” in her own chamber.”
@alex_sammon
on
@JCisnerosTX
’s loss on Tuesday.
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The normalization of evil in American politics and the role mainstream media played
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Today Bernie Sanders and John Fetterman are calling on Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to levy fines on airlines cancelling flights they knowingly understaffed. Such a strategy was laid out by the Prospect's
@rkuttnerwrites
yesterday.
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Academic tenure is under siege in states governed by Republicans. Defenders of tenure would have more credibility if they expended as much effort challenging precarious labor conditions for young academics, like the proliferation of adjunct work.
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"Americans today fight each other over the scraps of our system, instead of uniting to fight a system that finds them worthy of only scraps to begin with." From
@RepJoeKennedy
:
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In 2018,
@AddieStan
warned that Trump's was a neo-fascist. But, "Unfetter him with a Court and an attorney general poised to do his bidding, and you can kick that 'neo' part to the curb."
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"One could write an entire doctoral dissertation on the multiple, overlapping failures that have characterized most of the mainstream media coverage of the collapse of the 20-year war in Afghanistan."
From
@Eric_Alterman
in
#Altercation
:
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Joe Manchin made sure the expanded Child Tax Credit didn't get extended.
Since the checks stopped coming in January, child poverty has spiked by two-fifths & polls show a 15-point swing to the Republican party among CTC recipients.
From
@ryanlcooper
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Largely lost so far in the coverage of Trump’s order reviving the global gag rule is its unprecedented sweep:
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.
@ddayen
has been unjustly detained in Twitter jail for 22 days and counting. Free our editor
@TwitterSupport
!
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.
@RBReich
on how the Republican tax plan has been used to redistribute wealth to the already wealthy:
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Senator Bernie Sanders is calling for a federal investigation into why the NIH licensed a very lucrative cancer drug to an obscure company linked to a former employee.
@ddayen
reports:
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Labor unions have long been the target of smear campaigns by corporations and their enablers. Prospect co-founder
@RBReich
unpacks common misconceptions about the state of unions today.
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It will take years for Kansas to recover from Brownback's devastating tax cuts
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New
@LeftAnchor
episode just dropped! This week, the hosts talked to
@RottenInDenmark
and Evan Urquhart of
@assignedmedia
about liberal media outlets' complicity in rising transphobic bigotry.
Listen here:
The Trans Panic
Why are elite liberal reporters feeding a reactionary frenzy of hatred?
prospect.org
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“The language of peace had been cut and pasted, then put through a grinder, delivering an act of aggression dripping with the coarse syntax of racism. A hate plan, not a peace plan.”—Daniel Levy
Me: Jared Kushner, for his Palestine plan, read "25 books? Yeah right? What kind of books? Colouring books? Comic books?"
Also me: "Anti-Palestinian racism is one of the last acceptable forms of racism in" Washington DC.
I was on
@MSNBC
w/
@alivelshi
on Sunday - do watch/share:
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Democrats on the commission have been warning for years that foreign interference poses a threat to U.S. elections:
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Registration is the "gateway" to voting. Republicans are bent on closing that gate
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"From environmental crisis to economic exclusion, climate change exemplifies the far-reaching failures of a government that has refused to marshal its resources toward the common good," observes
@RepJoeKennedy
.
#ClimateChange
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“There’s nothing subtle here, no elegant scheme,” writes
@addiestan
. “Just a naked grab for the goods, and the whole of the Republican coalition is in on the take.”
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ICYMI: Censuring Rep. Rashida Tlaib for advocating for Palestinian lives as the only Palestinian-American in Congress is both cowardly and anti-democratic.
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Los Angeles has the highest percentage of low-income riders in the country. But now, the city could become host to the largest free mass transit system in the world.
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First and foremost, impeachment isn’t merely a political consideration: As Greg Sargent notes, "it’s a matter of moral imperative regardless of the political consequences."
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David C. Williams, former vice chair of the USPS Board of Governors, testified before the Congressional Progressive Caucus today that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin played a direct and heavy-handed role in recent changes to postal policy.
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.
@RBReich
on Trump's cutting of regulations that protect us from being harmed, fleeced, injured, or sickened by corporate products and services.
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Earlier,
@rkuttnerwrites
figured who might be on deck if Neera Tanden's bid to lead the OMB fell short. One of the main contenders? Gene Sperling, who has advocated for some of the more imaginative elements of the Biden campaign.
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Our own
@addiestan
started the pressure on
#CoverGirl
to pull NFL support.
http://t.co/fSVnLXE3PY
http://t.co/zFrNuP0YYq
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"The filibuster is both the emblem and the instrument of minority rule, as well as the connection between slavery, Jim Crow, and today’s strategically racist Republican Party."
@rkuttnerwrites
reviews "Kill Switch" by
@AJentleson
for our May/June issue:
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