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[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

It says fucking well regulated. What part of 45,000 gun deaths a year looks well regulated to you?

[NPR @NPR]

Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond says if the top 1% of Americans paid the taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion each year.

"That is just about enough to pull everyone out of poverty," the author says. https://t.co/YU9SfgcKdi

[Debora Robertson 🦀 @lickedspoon]

Agnès Lassalle was a teacher, fatally stabbed by a pupil in her school. She loved to dance. As her coffin left the church, the man dancing so beautifully on his own is her partner. Then, their friends join in. 💔🖤

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

I have never, ever seen a takedown like this. Stop what you’re doing and watch.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

A real “pro-life” movement would ban assault rifles while enacting Medicare for All, paid sick leave, universal childcare, and a living wage.

[Nathan Heller @nathanheller]

For a decade, humanities enrollment has plummeted. What’s going on? In this week’s @NewYorker, I report at two campuses—ASU and Harvard—and ask “what it might mean to graduate a college generation with less education in the human past” than any before. https://t.co/lLp4h07I5m

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I'm going to tell you something you won't hear about too much in the mainstream media. We have a corrupt political system in which billionaires through super PACs can buy elections in this country.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Why is it that nearly 1 out of every 4 Americans cannot afford their prescription medication?

How does it happen that nearly half of all new drugs in the United States cost more than $150,000 a year?

The answer can be summed up in just three words: Unacceptable corporate greed.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Marjorie Taylor Greene said that Sandy Hook and Parkland were staged and the parents are actors and the kids are really still alive.

Republicans just put her on the committee that oversees school safety.

But Ilhan Omar…

[Rep. Ro Khanna @RepRoKhanna]

The US is on track to spend a trillion dollars a year on defense.

We should be cutting wasteful spending at the Pentagon instead of Social Security and Medicare for working families.

[Adam Dalva @adalva]

I’m always thrilled to read a new @HeyLizzieHarris poem - this one hit hard https://t.co/DtmV36jOfm

[Katie Porter @katieporterca]

For every extra $1 you’re paying due to inflation, 54¢ is going right into the pockets of big corporations. Wall Street is price gouging families to earn sky-high profits, jeopardizing our entire economy in the process.

[NPR @NPR]

You probably think plastic you throw into recycling bins will be… recycled.

The reality, however, is the vast majority heads to the landfill — only around 5% of plastic is actually being repurposed, according to a Greenpeace report.

Here’s why🧵https://t.co/C7QsxonLJP

[NPR @NPR]

Every fall, Americans send about 8 million tons of bagged leaves to landfills.

But you don't have to. Keep leaf litter on the ground — it fertilizes the soil and gives shelter to small wildlife.
https://t.co/bkDfLCIxZD

[Eric ⓥ Lindstrom @TheSkepticalV]

They are why I’m #vegan.

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

Part of why I find myself so compelled by this is that it's the kind of thing I once imagined *could* happen to Trump from fellow Republicans, particularly after he effectively tried to get them killed, but never did and never will.

[Bill Bramhall @BillBramhall]

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[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Inside this week’s issue of The New Yorker: https://t.co/qLUnr8B8S6