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UFC Freedom 250 is emblematic of how politically connected corporations can gain extraordinary prestige and influence despite unresolved criticisms of their labor practices. https://t.co/sKmE5bTBkk

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This fiscal year we are spending the equivalent of the largest economic stimulus packages in American history. It’s a hugely inefficient stimulus, funneled toward the rich, the military-industrial complex, and a mass abduction and deportation program. https://t.co/APwLcLWQIN

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Today, we’re publishing internal documents from Bay Area groups that make it explicit: billionaires are spending millions upon millions on abundance specifically to topple progressives and put politics back under elites’ control. https://t.co/OkVyijoMge

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As punishment for organizing a hunger strike in a Washington state detention camp, federal immigration agents forced Cuban national Rogelio Bolufé onto a plane, threatened him with torture, took him to Ecuador, and left him there with nothing. https://t.co/Tm1uy3L8pW

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Trump’s Bait and Switch on the Top Intelligence Job
Jay Clayton’s appointment as director of national intelligence is not much of an improvement over Bill Pulte. https://t.co/zJ83iGGkES

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As the leaked documents demonstrate, the abundance project is orchestrated by Silicon Valley elites—they even use the word “elite” by choice. https://t.co/5j8YIXRmUi

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Wy has the U.S. economy not fallen off a cliff? There could be another, less-discussed factor: enormous, if quiet, support from the government sector. https://t.co/eQpvckJLNk

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As punishment for organizing a hunger strike in a detention camp, federal immigration agents forced Cuban national Rogelio Bolufe onto a plane to Ecuador. https://t.co/c9MMwJEg5y

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Earlier this month, Consumer Watchdog uncovered an incredible scandal involving Uber. The story isn’t about leveraging Uber’s technology or its ability to surveil riders and drivers. It’s just an insurance scheme, one of the oldest plays in the books. https://t.co/5hixYYtWlc

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Democrats and Republicans allied with the intelligence community are both exploiting the pretend deadline as a means to get something they want. Unfortunately, that something has little to do with ending warrantless surveillance on American citizens. https://t.co/vajtQrJrW3

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Few Democrats are making a stink about the endless ratcheting up of funding for Trump’s mass deportation machine. https://t.co/CEB2os6IXl

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Trump and Putin: When Delusional Idiots Go to War
Two autocrats staffed by craven yes-men assumed that Iran and Ukraine were theirs for the taking.https://t.co/lRuNqDY2wF

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ICE and CBP have gotten nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars under Trump in the last year. The GOP is still trying to add more. https://t.co/WL5TGMbN9X

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Congress is staring down the barrel of a manufactured crisis. https://t.co/okMk9b3Gz5

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Who is in the decision-making positions insidegovernment really matters to insurance companies, and they don’t like to leave that to chance. https://t.co/cA5jYWeQX5

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The Right Voting Reforms—and the Wrong Ones
Insurgents are defeating establishment candidates across the country. But bad election laws and Trumpian interventions could frustrate these trends. https://t.co/Bbko26eH9F

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Despite the shaky-at-best valuation, Musk is eyeing a windfall of hundreds of billions of dollars for himself and his friends, while banks and financial insiders will go home with a nice bonus of their own. https://t.co/5JzWiPo5dD

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The progressive nonprofit Demand Progress has set up a new monitoring effort, called AI Money Watch, to follow one particular AI PAC called Leading the Future. https://t.co/K4UyvsIj2q

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The need for rental assistance didn’t abate even after Trump called off the intensity of the surge and many ICE agents left the area. If anything, it’s only getting worse. https://t.co/A7CfOK1VTb

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