Kroger projects $4.9 billion in profits in 2022.
Now it's purchasing Albertons, the second largest grocery store chain, for $25 billion.
Albertsons previously acquired Safeway for $9.2 billion.
Why are grocery prices up? Grocery store goliaths are buying the competition.
Relying exclusively on the Fed to raise interest rates puts most of the burden of fighting inflation on lower-wage workers.
As the economy cools, working people will be first to be fired.
Stop raising interest rates. Our target must be corporate profits.
A lobbyist for the Saudi company buying up drought-striken Arizona's groundwater for export has been elected to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, which has oversight of water disputes.
Arizona is undergoing a severe water shortage.
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Congressman Hakeem Jeffries has asked FBI Director Chris Wray to open a Criminal Investigation into the Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the USPS Board of Governors. RT IF YOU WOULD SUPPORT AN INVESTIGATION
Sixty three years ago in October 1959, The Twilight Zone premiered. As my dad said: The writer’s role is to menace the public’s conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.
When it comes to conflicts of interest, Supreme Court justices only have to follow the honor system. It isn’t working (looking at you, Justice Clarence Thomas). I’ve got a bill to overhaul the recusal process and make them finally follow a binding code of ethics.
In just a few weeks, for the first time in over a decade, Democrats have the chance to be on the offensive. We can codify Roe, end partisan gerrymandering, ban assault weapons, transition to renewable energy. Hold the House and elect TWO more Senators. We are so close. Let's go.
In 1869 it was decided to have 9 Supreme Court justices because there were 9 Circuit Courts.
Now there are 13 Circuit Courts. So what exactly are we waiting for?
How we end the filibuster and make Manchin and Sinema irrelevant:
Defend these 5 races:
Bennet (CO)
Warnock (GA)
Kelly (AZ)
Cortez Masto (NV)
Hassan (NH)
Win 2 of these 3 races:
Fetterman (PA)
Ryan (OH)
Barnes (WI)
That's it.
Let's get this done.
If Mehmet Oz loves Pennsylvania, then why is his favorite gas station on campaign reports in Princeton? Why is his doctor in Manhattan? Why did he skip voting in America to vote in Turkey & why was he registered to vote in NJ the last 34 years?
I'm voting for John Fetterman.
Interesting today: the Cherokee Nation, the largest tribal nation, launched a new campaign to get a nonvoting delegate in the US House, like DC or PR has.
A seat was promised to them in 1835 treaty. House can vote to approve—Cherokee are pushing for floor action by December
If you give me two more Democratic senators, and Democrats keep the House, I promise you we will codify Roe v. Wade.
We will once again make Roe the law of the land.
We will once again protect a woman’s right to choose.
Hard to broadcast your contempt for democracy more profoundly than by voting against disclosure of large campaign contributors.
Here's the list of senators who did just that, filibustering a vote on the DISCLOSE Act.
In case you missed it (you definitely did), Senate Republicans voted yesterday against the DISCLOSE Act to ban secret money in elections. What does that tell you about their priorities?