Pharma company Merck used government funds to develop a new Covid medicine.
The drug costs them less than $18 to produce. They’re charging the U.S. government $712 — 40 times the price to produce it.
Their sales could reach $7 billion by the end of the year.
An outrage.
Will someone please explain to me how Arizona Republicans can get away with a recount of votes using a partisan contractor with at least one vote-counter who stormed the Capitol on January 6?
Impeachment is “divisive” only if there’s an actual *divide* about the President’s conduct. If you’re ok with what he did, stand up and say it. But don’t hide behind weasel words like “divisive.”
Today is a reminder, a painful one, that democracy is fragile. To preserve it requires people of good will, leaders with the courage to stand up, who are devoted not to pursuit of power and personal interest at any cost, but to the common good.