A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, the health care we can access and, now, the information we receive.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
Just over a year ago, I read a paper which showed that when private equity buys nursing homes, death rates go up 10%. I was a med student at Stanford, but I halted my studies to investigate. Today, that investigation was published in @NewYorker https://t.co/cQzbWggk46
Pakistan 🇵🇰 flood disaster
National emergency declared. Some officials are comparing monsoonal rains this year to 2010 - the worst flood year on record where nearly 20% of the country became submerged. This is impacting over 30,000,000 people right now.
https://t.co/VjZVHVEZpm
I’m going to say it once more: 207 Republicans voted against a Democrat/Biden bill that would have prevented Gas Companies from price-gouging. In plain words, every single Republican voted to keep gas prices high. If you want lower gas prices, vote for the Democrats in November.
You rarely hear from mothers of Russian soldiers. This lady came up to us at an anti-war protest in Moscow, desperate for the safety of her 22 yr old son. She told us there were only 10 men left in his regiment. If there are voices Putin fears, it’s these
BREAKING: Putin is about to start conducting domestic terror attacks (false flag) against civilians inside Russia and will blame it on Ukraine. In order to unite the Russian population against Ukraine/West.
SOURCE: #WindofChange
Each November, the practice of ‘falling back’ an hour disrupts our lives and robs us of daylight hours. I've joined @marcorubio in pushing for bipartisan legislation to make Daylight Saving Time permanent and restore an hour of afternoon sun during dark winter months.
The Freedom to Vote Act would:
--Require states to offer same-day voter registration
--Ban partisan gerrymandering
--Expand automatic voter registration nationwide
--Shine a light on dark money
The Senate must pass it!
Because it’s going to get a lot worse. PR tip: 60 Minutes has a significantly larger audience (10mm+) than anything so far and will tease hearing. In addition, there are larger problems all coming at the same time. I’ll list them in no particular order:
THREAD: The NYT just published one of the most irresponsible pieces of garbage on "crime" I've seen. A sensationalist headline. Uncritical. Filled w/ police propaganda & surmise. Printing falsehoods as legitimate arguments. This is actively dangerous stuff.https://t.co/FiG2JEMM03