A Trump-appointed judge just struck down a Biden rule expanding overtime pay to 4 million working people.
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) November 21, 2024
It's really surprising how little media coverage this has received. Trump faced no real questions about this issue during the campaign. 1/
(link)https://t.co/TBx4fNDxmx
Category: Fuck the Poor
They think this gets votes?
Not from anyone who’s not an insurance executive!
Why Floridians pay too much for homeowners insurance
This article explains it all.
They want you to believe they’re principled
But the only real principle is cold, hard cash:
An anti-tax advocacy group with ties to billionaire Jeff Yass and shipping magnate Richard Uihlein is jockeying for a fresh round of corporate levy cuts should Donald Trump win a second term in the White House https://t.co/u2VsctVUcZ
— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) May 17, 2024
Law as a weapon
The Stigma of Felon Disenfranchisement: In an excerpt from @JoshuaADouglas's new book on the Supreme Court, the legal scholar shows how it undermines voting rights by using an obscure phrase to bless the disenfranchisement of millions.https://t.co/XPqmnovXdj
— Washington Monthly (@monthly) May 14, 2024
Of course
Wow.
This is all you really need to know.
The Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee who are pushing to overturn the Biden Admin's cap on credit card late fees…
Have taken $8M from credit card industry lobbyists.
Shocker. I know. #StopJunkFees pic.twitter.com/DJ5QCAHSBv
— Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 (@NickKnudsenUS) May 7, 2024
Maybe someone should do something?
ICYMI: ‘Greedflation’ caused more than half of last year’s inflation surge, study finds, as corporate profits remain at all-time highs https://t.co/s2bzsncOA6
— Evans Donnell (@EvansDonnell) April 11, 2024
Republicans aren’t nice people
Missouri AG Andrew Bailey thinks the US Constitution gives him some sort of duty or authority over the disposition of federal loans.
The topic is predatory “student loans” which have enslaved a generation of young Americans while providing nothing of value in return.
Grifter. pic.twitter.com/76ho1E1GQB
— Chris Vickery (@VickerySec) April 9, 2024
Missing
The missing men are from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Mexico, and live in Dundalk & Highlandtown. They are in their 30s and 40s, he said, w spouses & children.
All of them came to the city for a better life.
“They are all hard-working, humble men" https://t.co/y2YjBBh9OD— Justin Fenton (@justin_fenton) March 26, 2024
Second chances
President Biden came into office promising to expand the social safety net as no president has since Lyndon B. Johnson.
But even though Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress until last year, he couldn’t fulfill his most ambitious goals. https://t.co/6HCybYA4Mi
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 20, 2024