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Husband, father; author (of books on FDR, Obama and Carter); MSNBC analyst; documentary filmmaker; columnist; SiriusXm co-host; founder, oldgoats.substack.com
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Average list price for a unit of insulin: Australia: $6.94 UK: $7.52 France: $9.08 Germany: $11 Canada: $12 Japan: $14.40 US: $98.70 Yesterday, a majority of Senate Republicans voted against a cap on insulin prices for millions of Americans. Remember this in November.
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Average list price for a unit of insulin: Australia: $6.94 UK: $7.52 France: $9.08 Germany: $11 Canada: $12 Japan: $14.40 US: $98.70 Yesterday, a majority of Senate Republicans voted against a cap on insulin prices for millions of Americans. Remember this in November.
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Just a reminder that pro Trump hacks spent 2 years casting doubts on Jeff’s reporting of Trump’s contempt for America’s war wounded and war dead. Now the sources are named and public. It was all true, every comma. The pro Trump hacks? All false. Again. As always
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Donald Trump, in a White House meeting, asked that a military parade exclude wounded veterans, because "nobody wants to see" amputees. My story here: theatlantic.com/politics/archi
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Is the cover seat worse than the crime?
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NEW IN AXIOS: Trump denied flushing documents as president, as I learned during reporting last year for CONFIDENCE MAN. A Trump White House source recently provided PHOTOS of paper with Trump’s handwriting in two different toilets via @mikeallen axios.com/2022/08/08/tru
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The Biden Summer.
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Past 10 days: ✅ Senate 👌 Inflation Reduction Act ✅ Congress passes CHIPS Plus ✅ Zawahiri mission ✅ Burn Pits (PACT Act) passes ✅ Record job creation / 50-year low unem rate ✅ Gas prices below $3.99 at most ⛽️ ✅ NATO expansion: 🇫🇮 and 🇸🇪 ✅ Exec Action on Repro Rights
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For decades, the gun lobby and the oil companies and the drug industry controlled Washington. And ordinary people suffered. Ans then, in one summer, all that changed. The first gun safety bill in 30 years. Historic climate change legislation. Caps on drug costs. Just wow.
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This bill is far less than many Dems wanted & more recently far more than almost any could have imagined. But while it's all important, the climate component is the sine qua non thing. It's the one thing that had to happen now not later & makes all the work & anguish worthwhile.
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NEW: The Senate passes the Inflation Reduction Act 51-50. This bill is the biggest climate investment in US history, allows the gov't to negotiate lower drug prices, imposes a 15% minimum corp tax and beefs up IRS enforcement for tax cheats. Not a single Republican voted for it.
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Give props to He kept at it even after BBB collapsed. He kept his negotiations w Joe Manchin completely secret until the CHIP bill passed, brilliantly outmaneuvering McConnell. He threaded the needle on climate to get Manchin, on taxes to get Sinema. Well done, Chuck!
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Beyond the cruelty of this to millions of diabetic voters, the advantage of the issue politically is that it puts Republicans on the defensive on inflation by highlighting that they support companies taking advantage of inflation by price gouging.
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Put this in every ad twitter.com/CourierNewsroo…
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Yep. Very hard to tamp down inflation now.
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Sadly despite commitments from the Saudis to significantly ramp up production at this week's Opec plus meeting, MBS stiffed the President.I'm thinking courtesy of Mr.Kushner and others, he's looking past this President to 2024 and the return of Trump or an avatar.
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GOOD NEWS FOR A CHANGE: “The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 may be the single most important piece of climate legislation in American history. It represents our best chance to build an energy future that is cleaner, cheaper and more secure.” —Bill Gates
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. is very smart and his message is very important. Maybe I missed it, but where is the announcement from and the DNC of an ambitious strategy to take back state legislatures?
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For new followers interested in my “two battles” model at the end of the @newyorker article, I lay it out here in more detail. NOTHING matters more right now than everyone who cares about democracy understanding this, and responding accordingly. Please watch and RT: twitter.com/davidpepper/st…
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The difference from today is that they didn’t have former President Charles Lindbergh as keynoter.
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In February 1939, 22,000 people in Madison Square Garden saluted German-American Bund leader and Nazi agent Fritz Kuhn as he demanded a “white, Gentile-ruled United States.”
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If you add the CHIPS bill, the veterans bill, the gun safety bill and the infrastructure bill, the whole thing adds up to an impressive 2022 so far.
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This week @POTUS struck a serious deal to cut drug prices for people on Medicare and fight climate change, received a stellar July jobs report, shrank the unemployment rate to 3.5%, eliminated bin-Laden’s successor, & gas prices fell to a 50+ day low. Great week, Mr. President!
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