I've been working for months on this piece about how some huge companies like XVideos—now the most visited porn site in the world—with help from Google and Paypal, profit from rape videos and illegal child sexual abuse material. They devastate kids' lives https://t.co/99CQ89l52I
As stocks plummeted 37% in March 2020, 70% of small business aid went to large, publicly traded corporations. By June, a stock-market rebound made seven of the world's richest people even richer.
The rich keep getting richer: Billionaires made enough to pay for everyone’s vaccine during the pandemic, while workers lost $3.7 trillion.
How did we get here? 🧵
It's hard to find market manipulation more flagrant than this, but since it's being done to protect the wealthiest and most powerful -- Wall St oligarchs who own and control the establishment wings of both parties -- it's very hard to imagine the government treating it as such:
1. Racism
2. Economic exploitation of poverty 3. Militarism
These evils are bipartisan. If not mitigated, all is for naught. Let's make sure the "restructuring" is on target. If not, the burning house analogy stands. #MLKDay
#MLKDay: "These young people are saying that there must be a revolution of values in our country.
As Jimmy Baldwin said on one occasion, 'What advantage is there in being integrated into a burning house?'"
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On September 14, 2001 -- three days after the 9/11 attack, while bodies still lay underneath the simmering rubble in lower Manhattan -- @RepBarbaraLee delivered one of the wisest and bravest speeches in the history of the House, explaining her lone vote against the AUMF. Listen:
Facebook officially silences the President of the United States. For better or worse, this will be remembered as a turning point in the battle for control over digital speech.
A gut microbiota-modulated neural pathway linking the lower intestines to the liver & pancreas autonomously regulates blood glucose, researchers reported earlier this year in Science, which could have implications for some metabolic disorder treatments ($) https://t.co/4PVpzW05M5
Omni Hotels & Resorts, the international luxury hotel chain owned by billionaire Robert B. Rowling, is accused of misusing millions of dollars in PPP funds meant to keep workers on the payroll.
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NEW: U.S. judge again denies bail to Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime companion to Jeffrey Epstein, saying prosecutors have shown she poses a flight risk. Here's our recent story about the renewed bail debate in her case. https://t.co/9sCQi1gz1L