@tea_party_james@TheAlbion7@marwilliamson OVERWORKED & UNDERSERVED
Despite working on average 25% more hours than Europeans
Americans struggle to provide what most in Europe can take for granted
👉Universal Healthcare
👉Tuition Free Higher Education
👉Paid Maternity Leave
👉Child DayCare
Americans can only dream
Today's my last day @cl_tampabay, so here's the deepest story I've done for this paper. It's about @CityNPR troubled police dept and code enforcement merging into one entity that targets unwanted residents for profit—while using unqualified code officers
https://t.co/dWVdtjNDa0
Egg prices are up 60%. That’s absurd. People are paying up upwards of $6 and $7 for a dozen eggs.
Why? Corporate greed.
Cal-Maine, the largest egg producer in the US, is raking record profits — $198 million in its latest quarter.
That’s a 65% increase from a year ago.
NPR is immersing more and more into an entertainment medium. Another 50th anniversary, this time, of the first Atari video game. They ignore 50th of major environmental and consumer protection laws. Same for birthdays and memorials. Priorities are stars and celebrities. -R
Democracy — of the people, by the people, and for the people — is so fragile that you can vote it out of existence.
Just select candidates who will only accept the election results if they win.
More peaceful protestors and journalists have been jailed in the past week than all the bankers who were jailed for fraud during the financial collapse.
So apparently, if you live in a red state and you might want to find out how many people have died of COVID19 by tracking pneumonia deaths and looking at this month's death rate compared to same month last year.
National count has to be running 10-20K low.
Maddow: If Trump is going to keep lying like he has been every day on stuff this important, we should, all of us, stop broadcasting it. Honestly, it's going to cost lives.
$34,927.43.
That is the medical bill an uninsured patient got for being tested and treated for the coronavirus.
This is not the time for obscene profits or price-gouging.
Right now we must make health care free—including for the 30 million uninsured. https://t.co/hrDw0MsZw9