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🚨NEWS: The Lever is launching MASTER PLAN - our new audio series documenting the secret plot to legalize corruption in America. Subscribe: The series includes never-before-seen documents that'll blow your mind. Please watch & share the trailer👇
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Paid sick leave just passed with 74% of the vote in the GOP stronghold of Nebraska. Just before being put on the ticket, Tim Walz said Dems' top priority should be championing paid sick leave (see video below). The Dem ticket then didn't campaign on it.
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🚨NEW: After Democratic elites ostracized Bernie Sanders and spent years denigrating his movement as "Bernie Bros," new data show Democrats in 2024 wildly underperformed among the specific demographic groups that were the strongest Sanders supporters.
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🚨NEWS: @SouthwestAir execs paid themselves $112 MILLION while refusing to upgrade the computer system that fueled this week's travel nightmare. While stranding thousands of customers, Southwest is now paying a $400 million dividend to shareholders.
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We investigated the Norfolk Southern train derailment in Ohio. Here's what you need to know:
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Who's the definition of a 'stupid person's idea of a clever person'.
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🚨HAPPENING NOW: The Federal Reserve just issued a report destroying pundits who've insisted student debt relief is a giveaway to the rich:. "Borrowers who benefit most are younger, have lower credit scores, and live in lower-income neighborhoods.".
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: . 48 hours after @DailyPoster's story went viral, the Biden Administration has just issued a statement announcing it is withdrawing its attempt to block a major court ruling that could protect student debtors.
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🚨BREAKING: The Supreme Court just issued a ruling allowing donors to give cash to public officials in exchange for favors. The 6-3 ruling was engineered by the justices who've been accepting billionaire gifts. Here was our story on the Snyder case👇.
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EXPOSED: Months after @RahmEmanuel helped Joe Biden vilify Medicare for All, SEC documents show Rahm was given a board seat & 186,000 shares of stock by a health care corporation which warns investors that its profits would be reduced by Medicare for All.
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🚨BREAKING: . @SecretaryPete had been pretending he’s powerless — but after @LeverNews first reported that the Ohio train wasn’t classified as “high-hazard” and thus wasn’t subject to disclosure rules, the White House just announced his agency will be issuing new expanded rules.
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A gem from 2018 👇. Jimmy Carter denounces the kleptocratic takeover of American politics post-Citizens United — slamming the modern Supreme Court as “eager to make the rich more powerful.”
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BREAKING: Norfolk Southern helped convince government officials to repeal brake rules — and corporate lobbyists watered down hazmat safety regs. @davidsirota, @jul1arock, @RebeccaJBurns_ & @matthewccook5 have more here:.
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Democrats raised a BILLION dollars to elect Kamala Harris and subsequently doled out huge sums of cash to elite consultants and friendly strategists… who got rich off advising her campaign straight into the ground. We need to get money out of politics.
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🚨 So it begins:. The US Air Force is refusing an EPA order to clean up drinking water it polluted with forever chemicals, citing SCOTUS’ gutting of the Chevron doctrine.
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UnitedHealth recently helped kill single-payer health care legislation in California. Gov. Gavin Newsom backed off his previous support of the idea -- after he & Dems received huge money from UnitedHealth donors.
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NEW BLOCKBUSTER: Private jet travel. Superyacht Island-hopping. Stays at a private resort. For decades, Justice Clarence Thomas accepted luxury gifts from a billionaire. Appears he broke the law. @js_kaplan & @JustinElliott: .
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MUST WATCH: @GavinNewsom campaigned on a promise to lead the fight for single payer health care - then insurers funneled huge money to him & his party, and now California Dems just killed single-payer legislation in their Dem-controlled legislature. Retweet to spread the video.
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NEW: Norfolk Southern is asking the Supreme Court to kill a lawsuit by a sick rail worker — and help the firm block future lawsuits. The Biden administration is siding with the railroad.
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SCOOP: As they rake in corporate PAC cash, Sinema & Manchin will headline the upcoming conference of the anti-union corporate lobby group leading the fight against Dems' legislation to enact a $15 minimum wage & make it easier for workers to join unions.
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NEWS: Four days after Dems passed strike-breaking legislation helping railroad giants deny adequate sick days to workers, Norfolk Southern held an investor event bragging about how much it is enriching shareholders with dividends & stock buybacks. Slides from the presentation 👇
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So will you be sponsoring legislation to reinstate the brake rule that Trump repealed, and expanding the safety rules to cover trains that carry these chemicals?. Details:
East Palestine, Ohio is undergoing an ecological disaster bc authorities blew up the train derailment cars carrying hazardous chemicals and press are being arrested for trying to tell the story. Oh but UFO’s!. What is going on?.
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🚨BREAKING: The company responsible for the cargo ship that destroyed the Baltimore bridge has a history of suppressing employees who voice safety concerns. Regulators sanctioned the company last year for retaliating against whistleblowers.
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Tim Walz on why Democrats' obsession with means testing is counterproductive, often making basic programs more complex, cumbersome and difficult. He uses the example of a school lunch program to explain why universal benefits are better.
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NEW: Rail execs defend themselves by claiming their skyrocketing profits do not reflect "any contributions by labor". More from @matthewccook5:.
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Here are all the Republican and Democratic U.S. Senators who voted to deregulate Silicon Valley Bank 👇
Quick reminder:. 50 Republican senators and 17 Democratic senators voted to ignore warnings and weaken risk regulations for Silicon Valley Bank. Donald Trump signed the bill into law. And now the bank is the 2nd biggest bank collapse in American history.
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NEWS: Reporters and pundits portrayed Kamala Harris's embrace of fracking last night as a savvy move to court Pennsylvania voters. Somehow nobody mentioned all the polls showing Pennsylvania voters want fracking restricted or outright banned.
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JUST IN: As lawmakers say Medicare-for-All is too expensive, a new CBO report says America is on track to spend $600+ billion on nuclear weapons - and a separate report shows top defense industry execs were paid $1 billion in the last 4 years.
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you really love to see Sam Jackson going full Sam Jackson on the billionaires
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EXCLUSIVE: Charles Koch has bankrolled 3 legal groups leading the court battle to overturn eviction bans - as Koch Industries has suddenly made huge investments in real estate firms with a potential financial interest in eliminating eviction restrictions.
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NEWS: The NRA publicly celebrated its defeat of Boulder's assault weapons ban just days before today's mass shooting. The NRA victory was part of its national crusade to prevent cities from restricting assault weapons.
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“The economic-class war is the most important war going on in America. I think that, by and large, the culture war is a deliberate distraction from that.” . — @DavidSirota, editor-in-chief of The Lever. Retweet if you agree.
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🚨YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS UP: . @UnionPacific today announced a massive dividend enriching shareholders - eight days after Biden signed strike-breaking legislation empowering the company and other railroad giants to deny adequate sick days to rail workers.
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The Supreme Court’s ruling in West Virginia vs. EPA risks damaging our nation’s ability to keep our air clean and combat climate change. We cannot ignore the existential threat the climate crisis poses. Our fight against climate change must carry forward, and it will.
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This you?.
🧵 1. The Left is on a dangerous, relentless campaign to de-legitimize the Supreme Court.
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BREAKING: As Amazon execs were busting a union, the Biden administration quietly gave Amazon a $10 BILLION federal contract. The contract was ratified even as Biden is facing pressure to fulfill his explicit promise to halt such contracts to union busters
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Democratic strategists making six figures a year decided this was a winning strategy:
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Mississippi Republicans oversaw a welfare system that funneled $1 million to Brett Favre, and then they cut jobless aid to 100,000 people. Texas Republicans voted to extend a $10 billion corporate subsidy program & then cut jobless aid to 1 million people
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🚨 BREAKING: Documents filed in federal court allege that employees at Boeing subcontractor behind Alaska Airlines crisis warned corporate officials about safety problems and were told to falsify records.
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4 new studies:. - $380 billion of owed taxes go unpaid (CBO). - 70% of this tax gap is from the top 1% (Harvard). - Top 1% don’t report 21% of income to tax officials (Equitable Growth). - IRS audits poor EITC recipients more than corporations (Treasury) .
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🚨NEWS: Corporate documents show that after two fatal crashes, @NikkiHaley helped Boeing kill shareholders' lobbying transparency initiative, which would force executives to more fully disclose whether and how the company influenced safety regulators.
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Take a look inside Trump’s dark money campaign to buy Amy Coney Barrett a lifetime Supreme Court seat days before the election, using new tax returns obtained by @dailyposter
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NEWS: A fast-food giant is claiming credit for killing the $15 min wage & boasting about fighting new union legislation, according to corporate documents obtained by @DailyPoster. The company is owned by a Wall St firm named after an Ayn Rand character.
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The Trump administration helped Amazon block a worker safety initiative — then 20,000 Amazon employees were infected with COVID and Jeff Bezos increased his net worth by $90 billion.
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NEWS: Biden picks @NeeraTanden for White House budget director -- she publicly pushed for Social Security cuts, insisting that “we need to put both entitlements on the table as well as taxes.”
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NEW: Facing pressure to act, America’s chief rail regulator Pete Buttigieg now insists he is “constrained.” He’s not.
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The Biden administration has quietly reaffirmed its decision to enact the highest Medicare premium hikes in history right before this year’s midterm elections.
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🚨NEW: Pundits quietly paid by the defense industry are being given media platforms to demand a military escalation and a war — and corporate media isn’t disclosing their financial ties to the weapons contractors that would profit.
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These 8 Democrats just voted NO on a $15 minimum wage:.@Sen_JoeManchin.@SenatorSinema.@SenatorTester.@SenatorShaheen.@SenatorHassan.@SenatorCarper.@SenCoonsOffice.@SenAngusKing.
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NEWS: IRS audits of the rich dropped 72% and audits of corporations dropped 55%. A Treasury report finds “high-income taxpayers are generally not a collection priority, nor is there a strategy in place to address nonpayment by high-income taxpayers.”
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Sean McElwee, the founding executive director of the polling outfit Data for Progress, has reportedly advised FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried during his quest to go from complete unknown to political player.
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🚨 BREAKING: An oil mogul is bankrolling a super PAC launching last-minute ads to try to crush @NinaTurner as she campaigns for a Green New Deal — and as her opponent declines to sponsor House Democrats’ major climate legislation.
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Railroad baron Warren Buffett is lashing out at critics of stock buybacks — right after the East Palestine train derailment spotlighted the rail industry spending billions on buybacks while skimping on other priorities.
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JUST IN: The Congressional Budget Office's new report confirms that the debt deal's cuts to IRS funding would actually increase the debt because it "would result in fewer enforcement actions over the next decade & in a reduction in revenue collections.".
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🚨NEW: CEOs were caught on tape bragging that they were fueling inflation by raising prices to boost profits. Media blamed inflation on workers & spending & lawmakers then threw millions off the social safety. But it was a lie. Here’s the truth👇
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NEW: While refusing to disclose lavish gifts from a billionaire, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas pushed to invalidate all political spending disclosure laws in America.
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NEW: Pete Buttigieg’s DOT has no plans to revive an Obama-era safety rule that could help prevent future train accidents A former federal safety official warned Congress that without the better brakes, “there will be more derailments [and] more releases of
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People think Pete Buttigieg is responsible for the railroads because he's the Transportation Secretary, which is the job that's responsible for regulating the railroads.
If you think Pete Buttigieg “controls the railroads” because he’s the Transportation Secretary, then have you ever heard of capitalism????.
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Norfolk Southern is part of a lobby group that successfully pressed President Donald Trump to repeal a 2015 rule requiring newer, safer electronic braking systems in some trains transporting hazardous materials.
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BREAKING: The new stimulus bill pushed by Manchin, Warner & GOP senators provides a huge new bailout to politically connected defense contractors - while excluding the Sanders-Hawley proposal for direct payments to families struggling to survive
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NEWS: Joe Biden has refused to forcefully push $1,200 survival checks for America facing mass starvation - instead he is deploying a BlackRock executive to demand Congress preserve a program that is enriching BlackRock.
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Here is Jeff Bezos pretending to be against inflation and government stimulus — while Amazon lobbies for massive new tax breaks for itself, and Bezos additionally wants $10 billion of government spending on his space company. Receipts:
In fact, the administration tried hard to inject even more stimulus into an already over-heated, inflationary economy and only Manchin saved them from themselves. Inflation is a regressive tax that most hurts the least affluent. Misdirection doesn’t help the country.
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REVEALED: Documents show Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Walmart and BlueCross Blue Shield all funneled cash to the Republican Attorneys General Association right after the group backed a Supreme Court case to overturn the 2020 election.
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Let’s be clear: We will not stand by and allow our nation to go back to the days of back-alley abortions. We must codify Roe.
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Before @kyrstensinema threatened to blow up Dems' Medicare drug negotiation bill, she demanded that everyone have "access to the lowest-cost prescriptions." . Watch this ridiculous ad from Sinema's 2018 Democratic primary campaign.
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NEWS: The @DailyPoster is now contacting every Senate Democrat asking if they support House Dems’ call for @VP @KamalaHarris to rule that the $15 minimum wage can remain in Democrats’ COVID relief bill. We will be publishing our story soon. Please retweet.
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NEWS: An anonymous donor funneled $16 million thru a dark money group to install Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court. Now, the same group is spending big to boost Barrett. We still have no idea who is funding this group. It is 100% secret.
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NEW: Documents reviewed by @DailyPoster show the Biden administration just declared that scientific proof of catastrophic climate change “does not present sufficient evidence” to halt the government’s plan to vastly expand offshore drilling.
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NEWS: 9 conservative House Dems are threatening to kill their party's budget bill that would reduce Big Pharma & Big Oil profits. Those 9 Dems have raked in $3 MILLION of campaign cash from Big Pharma & Big Oil, according to data reviewed by @DailyPoster.
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.@SenSherrodBrown on revelations about events that preceded the Ohio disaster: . “Something is wrong with corporate America and something is wrong with Congress and administrations listening too much to corporate lobbyists — and that’s gotta change.” .
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The new addition of this term to the Urban Dictionary is a major concrete accomplishment for The @DailyPoster.
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Fun fact: @BernieSanders received more Democratic primary votes in West Virginia in 2016 than @JoeManchinWV received during his 2018 reelection campaign.
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"Where's Pete Buttigieg?". The people of East Palestine are demanding accountability after a Norfolk Southern train derailed in their town. Meanwhile, Buttigieg's DOT is pretending it's powerless to reduce derailment risks. Full story:
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WATCH: @DailyPoster's David Sirota was on CNN reviewing how corporate media often refuses to mention that Big Oil & Big Pharma bankroll Dems trying to kill drug price & climate bills. Subscribe to @DailyPoster to help us continue exposing this corruption:
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Obama was criticized for stocking his White House with elites who embraced - rather than challenged - right-wing economic ideology. Today, Obama's former economic aide @JasonFurman appeared at the far-right Cato Institute to slam anti-price gouging laws.
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During his campaign, Biden promised that "the first thing I would do as president" is push to create a public health insurance option. Transcripts show he literally hasn't mentioned the public option even ONCE during his entire presidency.
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The debt deal protects tax cuts for the rich, gives defense contractors more cash, expedites a fossil gas pipeline during the climate crisis - and makes it harder for starving people to get food stamps. And Biden is now celebrating it as a "big win."
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NEWS: Amid a major union drive, Amazon is now asking the Biden administration to help block an initiative that would let the public see if the company has adequately protected its workers from COVID.
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BREAKING: New emails obtained via FOIA reveal that the Washington Post's lead "Fact Checker" Glenn Kessler did not accurately recount public health officials' statement when he tried to discredit reporting about a 10-year-old rape victim last month:.
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"conspiracy theory"
Rising corporate profits were the largest contributor to Europe’s inflation over the past two years as companies increased prices by more than the spiking costs of imported energy.
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🚨NEWS: On LEVER TIME, @AOC says House Dems must file articles of impeachment against Clarence Thomas, and says she will draft them if others do not step up. Full episode comes out tomorrow. Subscribe at to add the show to your podcast app.
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NEW REPORT: Just before Trump reportedly selected her for the Supreme Court, Amy Barrett delivered a landmark ruling that could deny overtime pay to hundreds of thousands of workers. It was one of many actions she's taken to help corporations crush workers
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GOP operatives at The Lincoln Project have gone from incinerating $67 million that could have gone to help Dems win state legislatures, to now attacking @AOC -- as they reportedly try to build a conservative media outlet.
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As you see, GOP operatives at The Lincoln Project are very angry that The @DailyPoster busted open this story: Pitch in here to help us hire more journalists to do this kind accountability reporting:
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🚨BREAKING NEWS: . After @LeverNews reporting revealed the weakening of the "high-hazard flammable train" classification and the effort to kill brake safety rules, PA Gov. @JoshShapiroPA says he has requested @JoeBiden & @SecretaryPete "reexamine what
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Don't blame the oil companies for their high profits. It is not price gouging, just how markets work. But there is nothing wrong with taxing those exceptional profits.
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NEWS: 20 years after @BernieSanders began bus trips to Canadian pharmacies, Big Pharma may be on the verge of losing one of its biggest, most lucrative scams that has helped drug companies fleece Americans with the world’s highest prices for medicine.
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