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The firefighters today risking their lives tackling fires across London are the same firefighters who rushed into the blazing inferno of Grenfell. They are trade unionists and true public servants. They have been insulted by a 2% pay offer- a real terms pay cut of at least 9%.

So there are videos of Lauren Boebert telling different versions of this story, pretty much proving Omar right that Boebert made up the version with a police officer frantically rushing toward the elevator

We cannot allow climate change to become the new “religion” guiding every policy decision or become the organizing feature of our government.

It isn’t right that 55 of our largest corporations paid zero in federal income taxes on $40 billion of profits in 2020. It needs to change.

this is somehow a real quote Jeff Bezos: "I want to thank every Amazon employee, and every Amazon customer, because you guys paid for all this ... thank you from the bottom of my heart very much." https://t.co/5JREV6Uha7

So to recap we told people to stay home for the last 325 days and gave them $1,800. That's $5.54 a day. Meanwhile, they pumped about $3 trillion in to the stock market for corporations, which then turned around and did record layoffs anyway.