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Lifelong Alaskan, transplanted to the Nevada desert. The most powerful law in the universe is the law of unintended consequences. Please wear a mask!

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Apple shares lost 10% of their value.

Then Apple announced plans to buy back $110 billion of its own stock.

After that, Apple shares had their best day since 2022.

There's a reason stock buybacks used to be considered illegal stock manipulations.

They should still be banned.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Stock buybacks were illegal until Reagan made them legal in 1982.

Just about the same time, wages stopped rising for most Americans.

Does that sound like a coincidence to you? 🤔

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Trump wants to cut Social Security so he can give another giant tax cut to the rich.

Biden wants to save Social Security by having the rich — who have become far richer over the past several decades — pay more Social Security taxes.

The contrast couldn’t be more important.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The largest caucus of House Republicans released a plan that cuts Social Security spending by $1.5 trillion.

These are the same Republicans pushing to extend the Trump tax cuts — which would add $3.5 trillion to the deficit.

None of this is really about addressing the debt.

[Tammy Duckworth @SenDuckworth]

BREAKING: After days of publicly claiming to support IVF in the wake of the Alabama Supreme Court ruling, Senate Republicans just blocked my legislation to protect access to IVF nationwide.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Thank you Muscovites. In Putins Russia, this takes courage.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The Supreme Court's new Code of Conduct urges recusal to avoid the *appearance* of impropriety.

So Justice Thomas should recuse from Trump's immunity case. How could he appear impartial given his wife Ginni’s role in Jan. 6?

The code is a sham.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

When we hear how the Supreme Court has delayed Trump's Jan 6 trial, remember that one of the votes to create that delay came from Justice Thomas, whose wife Ginni supported the coup attempt.

Is it any wonder why Americans don't trust the Supreme Court?

[LVMPD @LVMPD]

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[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The effective federal corporate income tax rate:

1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%

Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.

That is how we will pay for it.

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

I am a well-meaning, elderly man who sometime has a poor memory. And I also would be a better choice for president than the narcissistic, fascist who regularly word vomits.

This isn’t hard, people. I choose Biden. Because I’m not stupid.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building a $100 million compound in Hawaii — which includes more than a dozen buildings with 30 bedrooms and 30 bathrooms in total. It also includes a a huge underground bunker.

I don’t want to hear that billionaires can’t afford a wealth tax.

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

Harry Dunn @libradunn is a patriot who showed heroic courage under fire on one of the darkest days in American history. I fully support his run for Congress, sent a donation & wish him all the best for continued success! #GetItDoneDunn 👍

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Extremists are attacking the freedom to vote.

They pass laws to limit drop boxes and make it illegal to offer food and water to people standing in line for hours to cast their ballot.

We are fighting back to protect our very democracy.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

This has always been the GOP's strategy:

1) Cut taxes for the rich by claiming they'll pay for themselves.

2) Explode the deficit.

3) Demand cuts to essential safety nets.

4) Threaten to shut down the government.

5) Repeat.

They're trying to get away with it again.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The CEO-to-worker pay gap at America’s largest companies was 344-to-1 last year. In 1965, the ratio was 20-to-1.

This explosion in CEO pay relative to the pay of workers isn’t because CEOs have become so much more valuable.

They've just gamed the system to line their pockets.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Massachusetts generated $1.5 billion for free school lunches and more by taxing millionaires.

Meanwhile, Nebraska and Iowa opted out of free summer lunch programs. 175,000 Nebraska children and 240,000 Iowa kids will lose out on food assistance.

Child hunger is a policy choice.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

An indicted fake elector is now overseeing elections in rural Nevada.

A Wisconsin fake elector remains on WI's election commission.

In Arizona, the Senate Election Committee chairman and Judiciary Committee lead are both fake electors.

Pay attention: the coup is not over.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The richest 1% accumulated nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world put together over the past two years. It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of extreme wealth concentration to continue.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Once again: Clarence Thomas should not be trusted to rule impartially on any case involving Trump's attempted coup. He must recuse himself.

His wife Ginni Thomas was directly involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Hello?