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Berkeley prof, former Sec. of Labor. Co-Founder . Movies "Saving Capitalism" and "Inequality for All.” Latest Book: "The Common Good"

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    16 Dec 2018

    Let me get this straight: Sears has $25 million laying around to pay out executives who ran the company into the ground, but doesn't have any money to give the thousands of workers they laid off severance pay?

    Sears bankruptcy court OKs $25 million in bonuses for top execs
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  2. Mar 8

    This is absolutely disgusting.

    Trump admin to divert hundreds of millions in funds used for HIV and cancer prevention to shelter migrant children
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  3. Retweeted
    Mar 8

    Facebook, Amazon, and Google have vast power over our economy and democracy. They’ve bulldozed competition and tilted the playing field in their favor. Time to break up these companies so they don’t have so much power over everyone else.

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  4. Retweeted
    Mar 8

    BREAKING: The House just passed HR1, which includes: -Automatic voter registration -Public financing of elections -An end to gerrymandering -Election Day as a federal holiday -Support for overturning Citizens United This is the greatest victory for democracy in generations.

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  5. Retweeted
    Mar 7

    A shorter sentence than black woman in Texas who got 5 years for voting while on supervised release

    BREAKING / NBC News: Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been sentenced to 47 months in a federal prison for his Virginia case.
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  6. Mar 7

    Making America Worse -- North Korea rebuilding rocket-launching sites. -- Unauthorized border crossings at highest pace in 12 years. -- Trade deficit at record high. -- Budget deficit balloons, due to corporate tax cut. -- Tariff war with China harms US farmers.

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  7. Mar 7

    The real “power grab” isn’t . It’s McConnell and his enablers blocking a bill that would make it easier for millions of Americans to vote.

    McConnell on why Senate won’t vote on election reform bill: "Because I get to decide"
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  8. Retweeted
    Mar 6

    New analysis shows how state and local taxes redistribute income from the poor to the rich

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  9. Mar 6

    Under Trump, GM has received more than $600m in federal contracts, plus $500m in tax breaks. Chairman and CEO Mary Barra raked in almost $22m in total compensation in 2017 alone. Once again, it's socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for American workers.

    A sprawling General Motors assembly plant will be idled on Wednesday after more than 50 years producing cars and other vehicles, a move that will eliminate nearly 1,700 hourly positions by month's end.
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  10. Mar 6

    So let me get this straight: The Trump administration can't keep track of the children they've separated from their parents at the border, but are tracking journalists who report on the border?

    The U.S. government is secretly tracking American journalists and has placed alerts on some of their passports, barring them from crossing the border to do their jobs
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  11. Retweeted
    Mar 6

    Breaking: The Trump administration is creating a database and tracking journalists and immigration advocates covering the border.

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  12. Mar 6

    On one side: Lobbyists lobbying to protect lobbyists. On the other side: The American people demanding a say in our democracy. This is the clearest example in years of the battle between the people and the powerful.

    300 business groups began a coordinated attack against HR 1, joining one of the bill's chief foes, Mitch McConnell, in opposition
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  13. Mar 6

    The results of Trumponomics: --The largest trade deficit in history. --A growing federal deficit and debt. --Stagnant wages, adjusted for inflation. --Corporations pouring billions into buybacks. --Middle-class families lost billions in refunds. --Huge executive bonuses.

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  14. Mar 6

    The Commerce Department reports today that the United States posted a $891.2 billion merchandise trade deficit for 2018, the largest in the nation’s 243-year history. So much for "America First."

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  15. Mar 6

    In early 2017 US intelligence found that Putin had interfered in US election, and warned of continued interference. Yet US still has no policy to counter Putin. Now, incredibly, Trump is gutting the task forces established to come up with such a policy.

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  16. Mar 6

    “The Dems are trying to win an election in 2020 that they know they cannot legitimately win!" Trump tweeted yesterday. Be warned, friends. He’s laying the groundwork: If he loses, the election can’t be legitimate.

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    Mar 6

    The President of the United States still owns and profits from a luxury resort in Florida where paying customers can give him notes, scrawled on resort stationary, that he personally forwards to cabinet secretaries

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  18. Mar 6

    We must protect the free exchange of ideas and information online from falling under the control of a handful of powerful corporations.

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    Mar 6

    Republicans getting rid of the estate tax would undermine democracy and continue to kill the idea of the American dream, according to

    Robert Reich on the Estate Tax
    Republicans getting rid of the estate tax would undermine democracy and continue to kill the idea of the American dream, according to @RBReich
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  20. Retweeted
    Mar 6

    A week ago, I stated that there was no nepotism exception to the requirement that you pass a background check to have access to classified information. I stand corrected. Nepotism is apparently the rule in the Trump Administration, not the exception.

    First Jared, now Ivanka. President Trump pressured John Kelly and Don McGahn to grant his daughter and senior adviser Ivanka Trump a security clearance against their recommendations, per ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩
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  21. Mar 5

    Where did Trump's tax cuts go? Last year, corporations spent more money on buybacks than they did on new investments in their business, according to a new report by Citigroup. So much supply-side nonsense about unleashing the "job creators."

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