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Public Citizen has been standing up to corporate power and holding government accountable for 49 years. We're people-powered and accept no corporate money.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Nov 22

    WHY IS THE SENATE ON VACATION WHILE AMERICANS ARE DYING WITH NO RELIEF?

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    Amazon halted hazard pay for its workers in June. It made $6,300,000,000 in profits in the following 3 months.

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    Stock market ≠ economy

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    14 hours ago

    Comcast got nearly a billion in tax subsidies in 2018. Then they made $12.7 billion on the Trump tax law. Now, during the pandemic they are going to try to charge you extra for watching too much Break. Them. Up.

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  5. Quick, somebody tell these people about the stock market!

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  7. The wealthiest 1% own 50% of all stocks held by American households.

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  8. Stock market ≠ economy

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  9. Mitch McConnell wants to exempt businesses from liability for *all COVID-related lawsuits* His proposal would wipe out claims of workers and consumers against businesses for harms related to the coronavirus FROM 2020 TO 2025. FIVE FULL YEARS without accountability.

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  10. Taxpayers are funding COVID vaccine research on a massive scale. We cannot allow Big Pharma to put profits over public health. The COVID vaccine must be made a global public good. This is the . Not Big Pharma's.

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  11. We're joining 100 leaders+ in calling on President-elect Biden to make the upcoming COVID-19 vaccine a global public good. The alternative is global vaccine apartheid, where billions of people in developing countries wait *years* for vaccine access.

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  13. Society cannot function because your dad botched the pandemic response. This is like bragging about using less gas because you totaled the car.

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  14. This is why monopolies are bad. Comcast can arbitrarily exploit us for profit during a pandemic just because it feels like it. Meanwhile, Comcast collects tons of tax breaks and government subsidies. Comcast should be broken up.

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    Never forget that while Americans were watching their loved ones get sick and die, Trump was fighting to roll back rules on showerheads because of a personal pet peeve.

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    15 hours ago

    A reminder that Mitch McConnell is *still* holding up coronavirus stimulus because he wants companies like Publix to be immune from COVID-related lawsuits.

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  18. Amazon halted hazard pay for its workers in June. It made $6,300,000,000 in profits in the following 3 months.

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  19. Ever notice how the billionaire COVID skeptics happen to rely heavily on dangerous, in-person labor?

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  20. A story in 4 parts.

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    Nov 23

    Imagine having this instead of a $740,000,000,000 military budget.

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