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Top 15 US billionaires 2013-2018 play the federal tax system. Michael Bloomberg rips it off the most: he pays only 4.1% on his billions in income. A federal tax system of, by, and for the richest keeps them that way.
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People are like, “This is barbaric! What country do we live in?” The United States. One of the most barbaric, racist, cruel, unequal, unhealthy, carceral, militarized, human-rights abusing societies in the world. American Exceptionalism is a sickness keeping us from getting well.
Jon Donaire Desserts brings in BILLIONS of dollars every year, but they're telling their workers that $1 more per hour raise is too much.
The corporate greed is sickening. I proudly stand with these workers in their fight for fair wages. https://t.co/nIb2C04aQq
In 1985, with 3 months left on his sentence for petty theft, Christopher Trotter was involved in a prison uprising. The uprising was sparked by the beating of a handcuffed and shackled prisoner by racist guards who were members of a KKK splinter group, the Sons of Light. 1/3
MUST WATCH: @GavinNewsom campaigned on a promise to lead the fight for single payer health care - then insurers funneled huge money to him & his party, and now California Dems just killed single-payer legislation in their Dem-controlled legislature.
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50% of people on Rikers Island have a mental health issue. 50% of people on Rikers have a substance use issue. If we want *real* public safety and *real* humane treatment of our state’s most vulnerable, we need #TreatmentNotJail https://t.co/EvgrBR7wxQ
When police resign instead of following this very easy rule, just imagine how many codes of conduct they routinely break, how important it is to their occupational identity that they obey no civilian authority.