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Billionaire Republican megadonors, with the extension of the Trump-GOP tax cuts on the line, dotted the top 10 election spenders last cycle. Their net worth gain under the tax law, per @4taxfairness.bsky.social: - Citadel CEO Ken Griffin: $34B - Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman: $32B - others...

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The office of JD Vance, who once extolled the need to protect the freshwater of the Great Lakes, didn’t respond to questions from ProPublica about how the Trump administration’s cuts have affected Great Lakes research.

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NEW in @prospect.org: Much has been made of Elon Musk stepping back from DOGE. But RDP research finds that at least 46 DOGE staffers have direct financial or professional ties to Musk and his companies—indicating that the billionaire will have lasting power over the group.

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The Trump tax bill includes tax breaks for silencers, thanks to a Republican lawmaker who owns a gun shop worth millions of dollars. His gun store was previously under a federal monitoring program after too many guns sold there were used in crimes www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Trump Republicans move bill to gut healthcare for millions of Americans and starve millions of kids. People are going to die unnecessarily bc of this monstrosity. They are all in to give away billions to the ultra rich in tax breaks while robbing the poor.

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I wrote about the risks of a "sudden stop" if investors lose faith in America. The bond market is amplifying those risks minute by minute as yields shoot higher after the budget monstrosity paulkrugman.substack.com/p/gaming-out...

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🚨Trump’s toadies in the House are planning to ram through their cruel and heartless cuts that will gut healthcare for millions, starve children in the dead of night. The fact that they are pulling this legislative heist when majority of Americans won’t be watching tells you what you need to know.

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NEWSLETTER: Ahead of Memorial Day Weekend, we look back at RDP's recent work on the Trump appointees corrupting the patent system, bipartisan support for crypto scams, Democrats at Big Law firms caving to Trump, and more! Catch up on our work you may have missed ⬇️

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Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data @epi.org from me & Adam Reich of Columbia Labor Lab. In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before. www.epi.org/blog/america...

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Even the most bare-bones, facts-only reporting here fails the basic task of truth-telling if it doesn’t lead by pointing out that these charges are manufactured, malicious, politically motivated attacks. @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/05/20/t...

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Trump and Musk have blood on their hands. NYT, 5/17 - www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/w... NYT, 5/16 - www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...

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I am up in The New Republic: Are Some Dems About to Cave to Crypto? It Wouldn’t Be the First Time newrepublic.com/article/1950... A reminder of one of the first acts of Biden Administration under Jeffrey Zients.

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NEW in @prospect.org Our @timi-iwayemi.bsky.social and Alex Moss detail Trump appointees' plans to hijack the patent system and defang the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, which serves as a critical safeguard against dubious, low-quality patents. prospect.org/politics/202...

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Out today, our @hannahstoryb.bsky.social explores the political and personal consequences of the "age of AI" in a first-ever visual newsletter. "Taking back democracy is about so much more than systems—it means insisting on a politics that actually values people," she writes.

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In most other wealthy countries, governments set a single price for a drug that is usually based on analysis of the therapeutic benefit of the medicine and what other countries pay. But in the U.S., companies are largely free to set their own prices. By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social

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An awful U.S. media failure. The press is not reporting that tens of thousands of #Africans will die now that Trump has cut off their HIV/AIDS medications. My article @newrepublic.com. #PEPFAR @froomkin.bsky.social @protecttruth.bsky.social @fairmediawatch.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1947...

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Asking the question "Is Trump manipulating the stock market" is impossible to answer when the effective job description of the agency that polices financial markets is "Protect Donald Trump." Our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social report: prospect.org/economy/2025...

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Latest with @kennystancil.bsky.social

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“Going door-to-door, especially in critically hit areas, to share information is very important…Getting rid of it completely is really going to hamper some things.”

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Poultry plants are horrific workplaces. Everything moves at lightning speed with numerous dangers few protections. I spoke to workers whose bodies have been wrecked by this work, which the Trump administration is aiming to speed up even more: thefern.org/2025/05/no-m...

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It’s time to reconsolidate a counterculture and politics against this shit. Science, art, medicine, poetry, philosophy as the beautiful life, the fullness of human civilization, that they want to destroy. Humanism, not cynicism, not slop, not tech “””nerd””” culture

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The Khan-led FTC showed that U.S. fossil fuel execs conspired w/ OPEC to limit global oil supply, so they could raise prices & boost profits. Biden did not use this scandal—Trump mega-donors making your life more expensive!—to his full advantage. Dems now have a second chance.

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Human wastewater contamination is so bad in Alabama homes that 1 in 3 adults in one county had hookworm. Biden funded efforts to improve sanitation there. But the effort is cancelled as "DEI". www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

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NEW TRUMP TRACKER We've created another resource to help monitor the Trump administration's attacks on health and science

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NEW in @prospect.org: The Trump admin’s attacks on FOIA offices will obstruct access to the sorts of public records that have previously exposed important stories about conflicts of interest and corporate abuse. It’s hard to understand that as anything but intentional. /1

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Our @kennystancil.bsky.social is quoted in this new piece in Grid detailing how former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is greenwashing fracked gas. 🧵w/ more work we've done on this ⬇️

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My colleague @kennystancil.bsky.social and his @publiccitizen.bsky.social collaborators are featured in this piece on how former Philly Mayor Michael Nutter is greenwashing natural gas: gridphilly.com/blog-home/20...

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NEWSLETTER: To mark day 100 of Trump 2.0, we explore a couple of the ways Donald Trump & Associates have promoted the corporate takeover of government.🧵 1/

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New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency. Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...

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Terrific work by @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social and @publiccitizen.bsky.social to help everyone understand how climate change is driving the insurance crisis in the United States.

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NEW: "Mapping the Home Insurance Crisis" contains a series of interactive maps and tables to help people make sense of the climate change-fueled home insurance crisis. A collaboration with @publiccitizen.bsky.social. 🧵 ⬇️

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Elon Musk and DOGE are literally declaring people that are very much alive to be dead and gutting their retirement security. Government is not your weird cousin’s start-up – mistakes like this can leave your mom or grandma without money for food or prescriptions.

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"Emissions linked to Chevron, the highest-emitting investor-owned company in our data, for example, very likely caused between US $791 billion and $3.6 trillion in heat-related losses over the period 1991–2020" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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an attorney gave some casual legal advice to a couple undocumented immigrants with legal resident children. so MAGA storm troopers showed up at his house, cut off his wifi, and accused him of obstructing an immigration investigation radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

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"Many of the people who are developing the next generation of cancer diagnostics and treatments are being run out of the country, the funding pipeline for research and trials is being strangled, and the institutions that provide access to existing treatments are being pummeled."

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Judges are under attack for blocking Trump’s illegal actions. His GOP allies are willing to dismantle judicial power to normalize lawless executive rule. These attacks on the law aren’t politics, they’re a crisis.

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NEW: a hidden class of consultants are helping companies use tariffs as a pretext to impose lasting price hikes, as they did during inflation. These very practices were under scrutiny by the FTC before the Trump admin ended the probe, giving companies a “green light” to gouge

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BREAKING: An American Airlines flight had its wing clipped by another plane at DCA. No one was injured, but 5 lawmakers members of Congress were on board. One of the planes involved was reportedly operated by Republic Airways, whose CEO is set to become FAA administrator.

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NEW: Having Gutted the IRS, DOGE is Now Preparing to Shutter the Tax Division at the Department of Justice. For the Super-Rich Paying Taxes Will Probably Be All But Voluntary Going Forward. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...

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Bee's home filled with ash during the wildfires. Holly pays $350/month to heat her studio apt. Desperate for safety & change, both turned to a trusted source: the tenant union. The climate crisis hits tenants hardest, but tenants are fighting back. I wrote about it in @shelterforce.bsky.social

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Today: DNC launches the "People's Cabinet... a lineup of policy experts & national & local leaders" to brief the public on Trump's actions. A month ago in @theprospect.bsky.social: our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social call for a "shadow cabinet" to brief the public on Trump's actions.

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Hey look at this, there's allegedly a cartel to artificially increase the price of construction equipment rentals for the last 15 years, something that for some reason hasn't come up in the entire debate about housing prices! llz8rh0l.cdn.imgeng.in/wp-content/u...

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We're so glad to see this idea come to fruition! Last month, we laid out the case for a well-coordinated response to Trump and Musk's ongoing assault on ordinary people. prospect.org/politics/202...

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Yes. More people may be alive if not for Trump and Musk's decimation of federal weather forecasting and disaster response efforts. DOGE is putting Americans in harm's way—worsening preventable suffering and likely causing premature deaths, as we warned: prospect.org/environment/...

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Elon Musk's goal is to put the government in control of a contractor, and to hand off pieces of it to friends and allies. This is a great piece breaking that down from Brett Heinz. prospect.org/power/2025-0...

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Check out this amazing investigation from our own @andy-rowell.bsky.social and @ninalakhani.bsky.social about AI, data centers, and how Trump's fossil fuel donors stand to benefit!

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It's official, the Trump administration has halted or dropped enforcement against over 100 corporations. These corporate pardons are further proof the president’s true base is billionaire executives and corporate elites. www.citizen.org/news/enforce...

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A stunning assault on the First Amendment Before Rubio's confirmation, senators and pundits acted as though he was a "sane," "rational," "normal," "moderate" nominee. He's constantly showing himself to be a right-wing extremist.

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hegseth is actually right they werent “war plans” they were “war crime plans”

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