Pennsylvania's "kids for cash" judges, who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks, have been ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds who fell victim to their crimes.
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I should be sleeping but still awake as I can’t help thinking that we have elected officials in Congress who think when we convert to solar power, we don’t have electricity after the sun goes down, so we have to go to bed. This scares me.
It is totally absurd that anyone in this country should have to ration their insulin. We have got to take on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry and drastically lower the cost of prescription drugs.
Jeff Bezos makes some $2,537 every second of the day.
Got that? That means Jeff Bezos — the richest guy on the face of planet — makes nearly 3x more in one second than the median worker in this country makes in an entire week. That is morally obscene.
Tax the billionaires.
Jeff Bezos is the richest guy on the planet. He's gotten $86 billion richer since the start of the COVID pandemic. Does he really need $10 billion from Congress for space exploration?
JUST IN: Prosecutors revealed comms between top Oath Keepers this morning that show evidence they coordinated tactics with the Proud Boys and other militia groups in advance of Jan. 5-6 activities.
I do not like hypocrisy.
I do not like it can't you see?
I do not like it in the House.
I do not like it when they grouse.
I do not like it in the Senate.
I do not like it as a tenet.
Dr. Seuss books have not been banned.
This "controversy" is completely canned.
@Ralphie_May Happy birthday to the late @Ralphie_May, still one of best, brightest, and funniest comedians to ever bless a stage. Still one of my favorites.
Bodies with gunshot wounds lay in the streets for days in Ethiopia's holiest city. At night, hyenas fed on the corpses.
Witnesses describe what might be the deadliest massacre of the Tigray conflict.
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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz traveled to Mexico for a family vacation as his home state struggles with a weather crisis, a source tells AP. The high-profile Republican was expected to return immediately, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. https://t.co/Dpghzsihs5
The Republican Party has a fundamental choice to make. It can be a conservative party that believes in democracy and the rule of law or it can be an authoritarian party that’s built on conspiracy theories, violence and the Big Lie. But it cannot be both.