People in Austin are taking food from the dumpster of a grocery store during the power outage. This is Greg Abbott's Texas.
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I tried to cancel an LA fitness membership in 2020. I am still a member 3 years later because they took me through hoops to cancel. It's interesting how gyms and Pilate studios make it easy to sign up online or in an app but impossible to cancel. This should be illegal
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Striking French workers gave free energy to low-income households, cut power to a politician and plan to target the wealthy.
Here's how nationwide strikes with "Robin Hood" tactics are rocking the country and what's expected next.
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Socialism is a very vague term used for a lot of different groups. Do they realize that trade unions would never had existed without socialism? Any democrat voting for this should be ashamed.
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Most discussions of the ballot line take a bird’s eye view of the issue. But from our yrs of electoral organizing can speak to very real, specific problems candidates face. The 3 big problems are Bracketing, Down Ballot Coattails n the Off Brand Cereal Problem/🧵
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Socialism is a scare word they've hurled at every advance the people have made. Socialism is what they called public power, social security, deposit insurance, and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for anything that helps all people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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Despite public outcry, the Florida High School Athletics Association is standing by its decision that girls submit menstruation info to schools: including age of their first period, how many days are typically in between their periods, and the date of their most recent period.
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NJ voters deserve the basic right to choose their representation — and this right has long been denied to them. It’s past due that we do away with the inherently undemocratic system of insider games & party bosses picking election winners.
#AbolishTheLine #DefendDemocracy
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State Sen Shirley Turner just introduced a bill to end the party line. njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/20
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State Sen Shirley Turner just introduced a bill to end the party line. njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/20
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D.C. should be a state.
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This should be illegal
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Can’t last forever. Eventually people are going to demand Medicare for All
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Just saw the video of the lynching.
Those police beat Tyre Nichols to death. The change required to build an equitable system will require more than training and body cameras. They bludgeoned him to death while the cameras were on. He should be alive.
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It is really galling the pushback against helping residents pay utilities bill. This is a #WaterisaHumanRight fight. I'm grateful for Sen Cruz-Perez's work on this issue.
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For 7 months hasn't reimbursed routine therapy for my son who has special needs. For 7 months, they have stonewalled me about why, even though the therapy is clearly covered in my policy. For 7 months, I have sat on hold, shuttled from operator to operator. At my wit's end
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My baby's cancer may have returned and my insurance, , is refusing to help cover a PET scan so we can find out if it has, and if needed, continue our work to save his life. No qualms about putting my child's life on the line for their bottom line. He is not even 2 years old
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A state legislator once told me he paid $5,000 for the machine endorsement to get preferential treatment on the ballot. Maybe the lawsuit activists have filed will change that practice. northjersey.com/story/news/col via
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addressing nation, begins by denouncing "fascists," "vandals," "nazis, stalinists...no, not stalinists, fascists" and criticizing security shortcomings. Everyone involved, he says, will be tracked down and arrested.
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No.
But today, like all days only more so for some reason, seems like a great day to expand democracy.
Let’s bring same-day voter registration to NJ.
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"Research shows it costs taxpayers $31,065 a year to criminalize a single person experiencing homelessness while the yearly cost for providing supportive housing is $10,051."
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If we do not solve these problems, the opportunity for fascists to project such despair and inflate primitive attitudes towards race, gender, sexuality, and religion persists. Until we meet the most basic needs of the people, we are susceptible to another January 6.
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Today in America - the wealthiest country in history - we have hospitals suggesting garage sales for patients who can't afford treatment, minimum wage workers unable to afford rent in any state, millions unable to retire, and half of our schools are in need of immediate repair.
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This is what happened in Europe during the Great Depression. To prevent a similar uprising, America responded with bold economic policies like the New Deal, which offered solutions to real problems and invested in its people. We've since entered a new era of economic despair:
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Historically, fascism rose in times of economic despair. Governments which failed to rectify those crises perpetuated such a rise: "[Facism] spoke to the social...needs to be protected from the ravages of capitalism at a time when other [politicians offered] little help" Berman
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🧵January 6 can only be described as an attack on democracy. While the immediate blame belongs to Trump & those who violated the Capitol, any serious attempt to protect democracy requires us to be critical of the economic environment which allows authoritarianism to flourish.
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3 substations in Washington state were sabotaged on Christmas morning knocking out power to 14,000 customers.
The media is referring to this as vandalism.
Spray painting graffiti on a sidewalk is vandalism. Causing massive outages for thousands of people is domestic terrorism.
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Read this headline out loud to your family this holiday season 👀
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emory hospital sent me a $4,000 bill. for some reason they didn’t apply my insurance to it. i called them, they said they’d fix it.
received the same bill a month later, same problem. called them again, they said they’d fix it.
they sold the bill to debt collection instead
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We can't let “Medicare Advantage” continue to deceive seniors & rip off taxpayers.
Read my op-ed with & :
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"The housing in our neighborhoods should be homes for people, not profit centers for Wall Street."
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Kyrsten Sinema single-handedly stopped Democrats from ending a tax break for hedge-fund managers and private equity executives.
Meanwhile, she received ~$1 million in donations from Wall Street.
Don’t be fooled: Sinema isn't “independent.” She's beholden to her donors.
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The first Gen Z member of Congress was denied a D.C. apartment because of bad credit. Maxwell Frost, who was elected to the U.S. House in November, says Congress has a serious problem of accessibility for people who don't come from wealth.
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My credit score was perfect by conventional standards...until I paid off my credit cards and car. It's been declining monthly since.
The system encourages people to take on debt and to stay in debt.
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Been there. This is one of many ways Congress structures itself to exclude and push out the few working class people who *do* get elected.
These systems are built for people who can lean on wealth. It’s shocking how detached from reality a lot of the details are - but I got you! twitter.com/MaxwellFrostFL…
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Teachers, 20% of Millennials & Gen Z in NY believe Jews caused the Holocaust & nationwide 63% didn't know 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. Students need to know the Holocaust was caused by unfettered hate.
#ImAgainstAntisemitism
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If members don't have a deal soon, we’re asking readers to not engage in any platforms tomorrow and stand with us on the digital picket line! Read local news. Listen to public radio. Pull out a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak.
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This is my lived experience in New Jersey, working (pridefully) for RU-Camden. I’m a State Employee.
My property taxes have gone up 8%, & health insurance will go up 20%, all in 1 year without any raise in sight.
I’ve paid a ton of taxes, & basic things are costing more.
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