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Judd Legum
@juddlegum.bsky.social

1. Mitch McConnell suffered a fall on June 14 and has not been in the Senate for two months. But he's continued to get paid his salary of 174K/year. Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding medical leave — paid and unpaid — at least 23 times.

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Elizabeth Warren
@warren.senate.gov

Apple: ~$2.2 billion Nike: $986 million FedEx: ~$800 million Amazon: $640 million General Motors: $500 million Giant corporations are raking in millions in tariff refunds and getting even richer. But remember: corporations passed tariff costs on to you. Where's YOUR refund?

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

Social Security turns 91 today, but thanks to rising inequality it may not live to see many more birthdays. I used to be a Social Security trustee — here's how we can fix it without cutting benefits or raising the retirement age.

youtube.comHow the Super Rich Are Killing Social Security | Robert ReichSocial Security taxes are rigged for the rich — and the program is in danger because of it.A CEO earning $20M/yr pays So

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

Via @citizensforethics.org: All of the top 15 corporate contributors to Trump's pet projects have business before the government or want something from Trump. They're looking for more government contracts or deregulation at the expense of our health and safety. Everything is for sale.

citizensforethics.orgFifteen companies have contributed to at least three of Trump’s pet projects - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in WashingtonCorporations have indulged Trump in his fixation on his pet projects, spending millions of dollars funding them while seeking his favor.

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ProPublica
@propublica.org

Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.

propublica.orgICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...

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Erin Maye Quade
@erinmayequade.bsky.social

Because of course

ProPublica@propublica.org

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

propublica.orgKristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political DonationsA dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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The New Republic
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“They was bringing the kids down too, had them zip-tied to each other,” she said. “That’s all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where’s the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, ‘f*** them kids.’” trib.al/21cUTaa

trib.alICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment BuildingICE agents forced everyone out of a Chicago apartment building in the dead of night.