The #Vikings are signing Pro Bowl QB Kirk Cousins to a one-year, $35 million fully guaranteed extension that puts him under contract through 2023, per sources.
Cousins gets a raise to $40 million in 2022, $55 million payable by next March and a no-trade clause.
We just passed $25.6 billion in #BuildBackBetter investments. This means a LOT of good things are coming.
Here's a thread.
- $9.5 billion for coastal and Great Lakes restoration and climate resiliency projects
- $3 billion to support the #CivilianClimateCorps thru @Interior
NEW: In response to exploitation by Uber & Lyft, drivers in NYC are forming a worker-owned rideshare cooperative called @TheDriversCoop.
The new app offers cheaper rides and returns all profits to the drivers.
It could defeat Uber & Lyft with New Yorkers’ support.
When we landed on the moon, there was great collective pride in that achievement. Our space program should be something that we ALL take part in. We shouldn’t hand over $10B in corporate welfare to Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk, who are jointly worth $350B, to fund their space hobby.
I’m a big fan of crypto, but since it’s Earth Day, let’s talk about its environmental implications. The wildest stat? Bitcoin has the same yearly carbon footprint as the entire country of Argentina.
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