Mike Ramirez

Texan, Veteran and beer lover. Still with Bernie.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

Still thinking about this story I covered this week. A cancer drug created in 1973 is selling for $38,398 in the US. The same drug goes for $260 in the UK. Stuff like this should be a national scandal but it's not some sexy culture war bullshit so nobody talks about it

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

Also Hertz:
April 2020: laid off two-thirds of all workers (14,000 people)
May 2020: went bankrupt and gave execs $16.2 million in bonuses
Aug 2020: gave execs another $14.6 million (still bankrupt, workers not rehired)
Nov 2021: did $2 billion in stock buybacks

[Dmytro Kuleba @DmytroKuleba]

Kyiv, our splendid, peaceful city, survived another night under attacks by Russian ground forces, missiles. One of them has hit a residential apartment in Kyiv. I demand the world: fully isolate Russia, expel ambassadors, oil embargo, ruin its economy. Stop Russian war criminals!

[Anders Östlund @andersostlund]

This is war crime evidence so please share. The residential building that Russia attacked this morning is located on 'Lobanovskyi Avenue, 6А, Kyiv City, Ukraine' if you want to look it up. Try to find any military targets nearby if you can.

[Erin Douglas 📝🌎🕵🏻‍♀️ @erinmdouglas23]

oh wow. The EPA today sent a letter to the CEO of Union Pacific Railroad requesting info about its railyard site in Houston where a cancer cluster was identified among nearby residents.

EPA wants UP to provide detailed info on the site requested by Houston's mayor.

[Deacon Blues @lusstylucy]

Why is charging $50 for a $6 case of water during a hurricane considered price gouging, but charging $700 for a $5 vial of insulin is considered health care?

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

Phones of top officials were wiped in giant Flint water cover-up https://t.co/vZDc2rHcJ6 by @JordanChariton, @JennElizabethJ

[Jordan @JordanChariton]

#FlintWaterCrisis EXCLUSIVE: Top officials in Rick Snyder's admin had phones "wiped" or altered w/ no messages on them from 18-month period Flint used Flint River.

Snyder also refused to give key Flint documents to prosecutors. By me + @JennElizabethJ

https://t.co/wBrFEgLURs

[Jake Bleiberg @JZBleiberg]

New: @KenPaxtonTX wants the Texas bar association to drop its investigation into whether his failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election was professional misconduct.

He says the probe is an unconstitutional overreach. https://t.co/XV8yEbZ6FN

[Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell]

Overheard a farmer at the farmers market: “At the end of the day, the credit card fees add up to more than the entire wages of a person.”

Why do we let Visa & MC (and the handful of big banks they serve) impose these onerous taxes on farmers and small businesses?

[☭ @sleepisocialist]

NYC sending a text to residents to turn down the AC while leaving Times Square lit up is a great example of how the “individual responsibility to stop climate change” has been pushed to redirect our focus away from the corporations & failed government policy causing the most harm

[Wyatt Gordon @yitgordon]

“It would be better to let the country’s crumbling, outmoded, fossil fuel–heavy infrastructure continue to fall into disrepair than to take a deal that would extend the life and use of calamitous land and water use patterns further.“ 🛣🚰 @alex_sammon
https://t.co/KZoz0KSnfE

[Rose Adams @rose_n_adams]

Who did this hahahaha

[Majority Report @majorityfm]

ERCOT, Texas' energy grid operator, estimated that June could see record-breaking demand for power. This is a very similar situation to the disastrous, deadly outages in Texas this winter, when millions went without power during a brutal cold snap.#AMquickie

[Erin Douglas 📝🌎🕵🏻‍♀️ @erinmdouglas23]

Texans are asked to conserve electricity through Friday due to what ERCOT is calling an "unusual" amount of generation out for repair this early in the season combined with record demand for power. https://t.co/VmtCp0Nu5G

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said it all. "What we have in the United States Senate is total unity from Susan Collins to Ted Cruz in opposition to what the new Biden administration is trying to do to this country.” That is precisely why we must end the filibuster.

[The Valley Labor Report @LaborReporters]

A strike by 1000+ Alabama miners in its third month now with *several* documented cases of company violence!

How are more people not talking about this?

[Sasha Chavkin @sashachavkin]

On the same day the US declares fighting corruption to be a "core national security interest," it sentences to prison a woman who helped expose how the global banking system is permeated by dirty money
#FinCENFiles

[Scott Stedman @ScottMStedman]

For years, these companies have denied having anything to do with Russia. Now, we can reveal that Rayzone received materials from STT Group - a Russian intelligence and defense contractor authorized by the FSB to maintain state secrets. A wild story:

[Jane Mayer @JaneMayerNYer]

Leaked Video: Dark Money Group Brags About Writing GOP Voter Suppression Bills Across the Country – It’s run from DC but given a deceptively grassroots “vibe” https://t.co/TWGcip6jf0