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Natalie Holme Elsberg

@NatalieElsberg

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. - Nelson Mandela.

New York, USAJoined September 2015

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Every capitalist should try living under $7.25/hour minimum wage in the USA for 6 months.

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Every college socialist should be encouraged to live under a Marxist regime for 6 months Would love to see the Bernie bros try and survive in Venezuela without running water, food, shelter, or wifi Socialism sounds great till it kills you and your family

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Why does a local police department have outposts in 16 other cities that aren’t NYC? Every single one of these outposts/ stations/ whatever they are need to be gutted and shut down.

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In other news today I learned that Christopher Hitchens was so committed to his own position of torture apologism after 9/11 that he had himself voluntarily waterboarded to try and prove how not big a deal it was.

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Adam H. Johnson

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The money to cover the NYPD just randomly going $366 million over its allotted budget will not cause any public outrage or require us to “find the money elsewhere”. It will simply be paid.

thecolumn.substack.com

Despite “Costing Taxpayers” $366 Million, NYPD Overtime Overages Get Zero Critical Coverage in...

Both are costing the public hundreds of millions of dollars, but only one generates outrage and cries for crackdowns.

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Daniel Aldana Cohen

We got so sick of hearing about all the lithium we need to carpet the roads w electric cars. So we did the 1st study to quantify alternatives. Leading w mass transit, ebikes, and urban density cuts lithium demand by up to 90%, while slashing carbon & giving us mobility & freedom.

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“I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.” Today marks the death of Winston Churchill. Here’s a thread of things you won’t see in the glowing tributes to the ‘greatest Britton ever’. 🧵

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Happy to announce that LOAN WOLVES will air again on

on Sunday 1/15. Fire up that TiVo/DVR/VCR/Betamax! You can also stream on Peacock. Thank you to the over 1 million people who have tuned in so far. You are the best.

Watch Loan Wolves Streaming Online | Peacock

Blake Zeff travels the country to uncover the effects of student loan debt, the only debt in America that can never be forgiven or erased through bankruptcy.

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Excited to present our film LOAN WOLVES on

TONIGHT at 10pm et/7pt & streaming on

tomorrow! We reveal secrets about the student loan crisis & how DC & our democracy really work that’ll shock you. Plus I learn the difference between a whip & a flogger. #LoanWolves

MSNBC Films and 8 others

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Pretty incredible that Google is trying to get away with blaming macroeconomic conditions for their layoffs, when over the last year they’ve spend 57.36B on stock buybacks. That’s enough to support the 12,000 laid off engineers at their median engineer compensation for 23 years.

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Jessica Valenti

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So glad to see images of what early pregnancy/abortion look like in The New York Times. This is what Republicans want to have more rights than women

Opinion | Early Abortion Looks Nothing Like What You’ve Been Told

We are primary care physicians who perform abortions. This fall, we published images of early pregnancy tissue. People were shocked by what they saw.

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Daniel Boguslaw

Biden’s new COS defrauded the government for profit. His personal company is named in a DOJ suit…

The Corporate Past of Jeffrey Zients

The administration’s highest-ranking COVID official built his wealth through billing practices that have been alleged as fraud, triggering hundreds of millions in fines.

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More Perfect Union

A Kansas City Fed report released today finds that corporate price markups accounted for over half of 2021's inflation. Markups grew by 3.4%, amounting to 58% of total inflation. The same year, U.S. corporate profits surged to their highest level since 1950.

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21st Century City

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"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."

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Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN

Cops in Atlanta are currently arresting people for protesting the murder of a forest defender who they killed for trying to stop the construction of cop city. As always, violence from the state is deemed acceptable, but resisting that violence “the wrong way” is criminalized.

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I sent a letter to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz today in support of the brave workers fighting for better wages and working conditions. My request to him is simple: Obey the law. Stop firing organizing workers. Sit down with your workers and bargain a fair contract in good faith.

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If you think it's "pie in the sky" to increase Social Security benefits by $2,400 a year, extend the life of Social Security for over 75 years & not raise taxes on 93% of households making less than $250,000 a year, you'd be dead wrong. Here's the receipt: sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/upl

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At a time when half of older Americans have no retirement savings & 55% of seniors are trying to survive on less than $25,000 a year, our job is not to cut Social Security or raise taxes on workers. Our job is to expand it so all seniors can live with the dignity they deserve.

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I will be re-introducing my bill to extend Social Security's solvency for the next 75 years & expand benefits by $2,400 a year. How? By scrapping the cap. Today, a billionaire pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $160,000 a year. Let's end that absurdity.

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Then there’s the growing frustration with Luis Miranda (father of Lin-Manuel Miranda, subject of the 2020 HBO doc “Siempre, Luis”). The blowback against Hochul isn’t a clean progressives vs. establishment type deal. It’s Hochul & Old Albany v. everyone. thedailybeast.com/inside-new-yor

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Great to see Joe Manchin suddenly touting the Social Security proposal that congressional progressives have been championing since at least a decade ago👇

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Manchin on CNN says there should be no cuts to those now getting Social Security & Medicare, and rejects idea of raising the SS retirement age. He instead suggests raising the taxable wage cap for employees paying into the program.

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Moderna’s made over $19 billion in profits for a COVID-19 vaccine developed in partnership with National Institutes of Health scientists. Yet, the company now proposes to charge $130 for a dose that costs $2.85 to produce. That’s outrageous profiteering.

Big Pharma Greed’s Knows No Bounds

A proposal by Moderna to hike Covid vaccine costs to as much as $130 a dose is “what corporate greed looks like.”

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH

At the birth of the NHS, this is the leaflet that every household received; I have a copy of it on my office wall. It's one of the most profoundly beautiful social contracts in history. A contract now broken by the current British government.

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Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN

The fight to stop the construction of a mega cop training center and the destruction of a forest in Atlanta is a microcosm of our future. We can either halt ecological destruction, or the ruling class will invest in endless violence to stop rebellion as they burn the planet down.

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Ken Klippenstein

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The real Davos conspiracy is hiding in plain sight: it’s pretty much the kind of pro-business agenda you’d expect from a bunch of Fortune 500 CEOs, heads of state and central bankers meeting at a ski resort in the Swiss Alps. The 5 most ghoulish moments:

kenklippenstein.substack.com

The 5 Creepiest Moments at Davos

The real Davos conspiracy is hiding in plain sight

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I know having a fight with SCOTUS over the debt ceiling seems extreme but if they are willing to compel default, a year after striking down federal abortion rights and two years after January 6th, than at what line they cross would you be willing to rein in the court?

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It is the scientific consensus that hundreds of millions if not billions of people will be forced to migrate due to climate change within the next few decades. A lot of those people will end up dying. The geopolitics of a billion climate migrants. Let that fucking sink in.

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Rafael Shimunov

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Remember when NYC Mayor

@ericadamsfornyc

said he wasn't jailing people for being poor & unhoused? He's now ramping up jailing people for being poor & unhoused by giving $50-$250 fines they can't pay, resulting in bench warrants and jail for nonpayment.

NYPD mulls new tactic to curb rampant homelessness

More city homeless people would be threatened with costly summonses -- and even jail -- under a new NYPD proposal, The Post has learned.

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Daniel Altschuler

Boy, the facts just keep being quite inconvenient for Hochul's austerity budgeting... #InvestInOurNY

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The Hochul / LaSalle thing was so insane that I’m afraid people will lose sight of how funny it is that the new leader of the House Democrats parachuted in to try to save it and everybody just ignored him. Got ourselves a real heavyweight!

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underrated that Hakeem Jeffries is, instead of focusing on leading a minority that’s a minority because of Kathy Hochul and the New York Democratic machine, stumping for a garbage anti-worker nominee advanced by Kathy Hochul and the New York Democratic machine

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@curious_founder

For the last 9 months, The Guardian analyzed projects from the biggest carbon offset provider in the world. They found "94% of the credits had no benefit to the climate." Some of the biggest corporations in the world are using these offsets to claim they are "carbon neutral."

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This week in 1961, US, British and Belgian forces couped and assassinated Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the Republic of Congo, because he sought to restore national control over the country's mineral wealth. Remember Lumumba.

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WARNING! My daughter's self-driving @Tesla wanted to run this red light. A shout to her and a hard brake saved us. Airport Way & Logan Ave. Renton, Wa. The light is not set at right angle to traffic.

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wow: that 2016 tesla self-driving demo that essentially kicked off the entire industry-wide spending spree...it was fake

Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, engineer testifies

A 2016 video that Tesla used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping at a red light and accelerating at a green light that the system did not have,...

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Scott Hechinger

NEWS: My god. $820 million. NYC taxpayers will pay *$820 million* in just overtime for NYPD this year. Could instead house all 14,000 homeless families in NYC. Then years of rent for 7,000 families out of work & at risk of eviction. With millions left over.

NYPD’s Track Record on Overtime Spending Casts Doubt on Budget Claims

The police department was previously budgeted for $454 million in overtime pay for the current fiscal year — but is already on pace to spend over $820 million.

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Changes are emerging across the climate system. Everywhere we look, the climate is changing rapidly. Rate of recent changes is unprecedented in at least 2000 years for many climate metrics. These changes are not natural; they are primarily caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

Set of timeseries showing changes in many different climate metrics that are unprecedented in at least 2000 years.

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One of the things I wasn’t prepared for when I started learning about gender violence was how many women and girls predict their own murders and plea for help, only to be ignored or dismissed until it’s too late.

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah man who killed wife, 5 kids was accused of abuse by daughter who in 2020 told police she thought he would kill her.

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Adam H. Johnson

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NYPD is going $366M over its allotted OT budget this year––greater than the military budget of Albania. This has generated zero outrage in NY media which routinely gins up anger over "fare evasion" "costing taxpayers". so I wrote about the double standard

thecolumn.substack.com

Despite “Costing Taxpayers” $366 Million, NYPD Overtime Overages Get Zero Critical Coverage in...

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Republicans: “We are going to plunge the world economy into chaos unless you cut Social Security!” Democrats: “No.” Media: “high wire brinkmanship between the political parties!”

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