David Fike

David Fike

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The Trump administration has signed an oil deal with a Venezuelan energy baron who has faced money-laundering investigations in three countries. ProPublica reviewed a copy of the 18-page agreement.

propublica.orgThe Secret Terms of Trump’s Venezuelan Oil DealThe Trump administration committed the U.S. to taking a large stake in a Venezuelan company, some of whose owners and investors are shielded from public view. The exact details of the agreement over o...

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When a worker wears an Amazon vest, drives an Amazon van and delivers on an Amazon-controlled route, but Amazon denies they work for the company — that's exploitation.

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

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Top health care companies in the Fortune 500: United Health: #3 CVS Health: #6 Cigna: #14 One way they did it? By buying up every part of the health care system—and squeezing you dry. You shouldn't have to worry about going broke when you get sick. Let's break up Big Medicine.

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New SEC filings show that Mark Zuckerberg is preparing to pay California’s billionaire tax without losing control of Meta. So billionaires can afford to pay the tax? And they won't lose control of their companies or flee the state? Don’t fall for billionaires’ propaganda. Vote YES on Prop 40.

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On Monday, Putin murdered a mother and her baby on a playground in Ukraine. On Wednesday, Witkoff called the deranged Russian dictator a humanitarian. Sometimes, I wonder if a society that produces men like Steve Witkoff is worth saving. God help us all.

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California voters: Don’t fall for billionaires’ tricks. Vote YES on Prop 40. Vote NO on Props 41 and 42. Let me explain.

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I don’t understand why farmers need an endless series of welfare payments from the rest of us since Trump took office. Aren’t his policies working for you? You need us to pay you so you will keep voting for the guy who is failing you? Don’t you believe in free market capitalism?

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You can tell Russia is stoking the unrest in France because Donald Trump repeats the clips it creates and it feeds the Far Right in Europe. When social media was created Putin saw it for the weapon it truly was first, so did Kusher & Co. that is why POTUS is a Kremlin asset.

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Replying to @propublica.org

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propublica.orgHave a 401(k)? Help ProPublica Investigate What’s Really Happening to Your Money.Some retirement plans are stuck in investments with bloated fees and costly add-ons. Share your standard plan documents with us to help reveal which financial products companies are pushing, and what…

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It is a mystery to me why some people dubbed Marco Rubio as the one sane, thoughtful and reasonable person in the Trump admin despite not a shred of demonstrable objective evidence to support that position since the day he has been in office.

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Russia is now exempt from the Lindsey O. Graham Russia Sanctions Act. The US government is clearly allied with Putin against Ukraine. Vote Republican enablers out.

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The United States is actively helping Putin murder civilians in Ukraine. Trump is doing everything he can to force Ukraine to surrender to his friend and ally Putin so they can be subjugated by the Russians again.

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Discovery+, one of the streamers now owned by David Ellison’s media monopoly Skydance, hiked its prices exactly one week after the merger officially closed. Employees have already been told to expect layoffs — while top executives received pay bumps. Monopolies are only good for the monopolists.

variety.comDiscovery+, Now Owned by Skydance, Hikes Prices Effective ImmediatelyDiscovery+ is raising prices for U.S. customers, coming one week after Paramount closed its megamerger with Warner Bros.

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Kroger just announced the largest layoffs in its history, with plans to cut 3,000 employees as it ramps up use of AI. Reminder that Kroger has spent $12.3B on stock buybacks since 2019 and paid its CEO $14M last year — 417x its median worker's pay. AI is turbo-charging corporate greed.

newsweek.comKroger plans largest layoffs in its nearly 150-year historyThe company's CEO said it was committed to "simplifying" operations and "deploying more resources where they matter most

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It doesn’t have to be this way, y’all. We can start electing people who are exactly like US to represent US. School bus drivers. Teachers. Fast food workers. Right now, the ultra-wealthy are the ones in charge, so they’re handing themselves massive tax breaks. #AngieForFlorida

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Officials in Kent County, Mich., promised they'd stop handing over immigrants in jail to ICE w/o judicial warrant. That didn't happen. Many of those arrested weren't charged w/ a crime - including women who say they're the victims of domestic violence. Our story: www.propublica.org/article/dome...

propublica.orgThese Women Were Trying to Escape Domestic Abuse. ICE Detained Them Instead.It’s especially intimidating for immigrants suffering abuse to call 911. With this in mind, Congress has long treated people who need help as victims, not targets for deportation. Under the Trump admi...

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Anyone else think we’re headed for a massive data center bubble? We’re going to end up with a bunch of empty, useless data centers. 🇺🇸 US: 5,427 data centers 🇨🇳 China: 449 data centers The U.S. already has 46% of the world’s data centers. This is insanity.

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If you are shocked this am that Trump’s government executed a search warrant against a Democratic Member of Congress and ignored a judge’s order then you haven’t been paying attention. Stop saying this isn’t how it works in the US. It is exactly how it works under Trump.

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