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“Be kind. For everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.” ~ Ian MacLaren #BlackLivesMatter music 🎶laughter

[🫧dar jaz🫧 @darjaz]

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

[🫧dar jaz🫧 @darjaz]

I’m going to @JeffreyGuterman’s upcoming Space. Will you join too? https://t.co/NI5t6YsBDM

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@JeffreyGuterman I have cancer and I’m up and sitting in my recliner.

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@JeffreyGuterman Doing so much better.

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@JeffreyGuterman Hi Dr. Jeff. I’m still alive!

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The IRS has collected $1.3 billion in overdue taxes from wealthy Americans since receiving new enforcement funding from the Inflation Reduction Act.

Increased IRS funding is a good thing.

It means the agency can finally go after the real freeloaders in America: the super-rich.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Your regular reminder that if not for the Trump and Bush tax cuts, federal revenues would keep pace with federal spending indefinitely.

Instead, these tax cuts have added $10 trillion to the debt.

The so called "party of fiscal responsibility" is full of it.

[🫧dar jaz🫧 @darjaz]

@MarkHamill Hahahaha!!!

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Corporations say they were forced to raise prices.

But profits increased at a faster rate than costs — and hit a record high in 2023.

News flash: Corporations are using inflation as cover to get rich.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Corporations say they were forced to raise prices.

But profits increased at a faster rate than costs — and hit a record high in 2023.

News flash: Corporations are using inflation as cover to get rich.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Ever notice how forgiving loans is suddenly a big problem when students get much-needed relief, but nobody blinks an eye when billionaires get their PPP loans forgiven? Or when corporations are handed billions in subsidies?

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Corporate profits have now reached record highs, yet the price hikes won’t stop.

Why?

Well, in 75% of US industries, fewer companies control more of the business compared to twenty years ago.

Minimal competition means maximized price-gouging.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Trump's team weirdly keeps asking: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"

March 2024: 303,000 new jobs added
March 2020: 701,000 jobs lost

Remember, Trump's mishandling of the pandemic made both the number of lives lost and the economic toll far worse.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Are we better off than four years ago? If you were alive in 2020, you already know the answer. Let's ask a different question.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Billionaires who condemned Trump are now flocking to his campaign.

It’s obvious why.

Biden wants a 25% tax on billionaires.

Trump wants to double down on tax cuts for the rich.

All they care about is lining their own pockets no matter the cost to everyone else.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Your April Fools' Day Reminder that trickle-down economics is the greatest trick of all. It's nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich at your expense. Don't fall for it.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The wealth of the 1% hit a record $44 trillion at the end of last year.

This small group of wealthy individuals now holds 30% of the nation’s wealth.

Don't tell me that they can't afford a wealth tax.

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

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[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Between 1978 and 2022:

-Worker pay grew by 15%

-Top exec pay jumped by 1,209%

Major US CEOs are now paid 344 times more than their typical employees.

When I say corporate CEOs are exploiting labor, this is what I mean.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Between 1998 - 2020, the Department of Justice didn’t file a single monopolization claim against anyone.

Since then, enforcers have filed major antitrust suits against Facebook, Amazon, Google, and now Apple.

Antitrust is back in a very big way — and that's a good thing.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

4 years ago today, Trump admitted that more than 200,000 Americans were likely to die from Covid — just weeks after promising it would "go away" on its own.

That same day, he bragged about the high TV "ratings" of his pandemic briefings.

It's only ever been about his ego.