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According to AP, the typical pay package for S&P 500 CEOs rose to $17M last year — an increase of 9.7%. At half of the companies surveyed, it would take the median worker 192 years to make what the CEO did in one year. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

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Last Year's Move to Toronto open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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Can We Survive a New Apartheid Engineered by America’s Elites? open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

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GOP conspiracy theory and callous mockery start the week. open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...

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The Week Ahead open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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It’s the last month for this SCOTUS term, so I put together a little cheat sheet to help you understand the context & significance as the Court announces decisions. With more than 30 left to go, they’ll start coming fast & furious as we get into the month. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

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The plaintiff, a victim of Epstein, claims the gov't concealed its conduct for years & "At no time did the FBI or any other government entity reach out to Maria to investigate or seek to understand or resolve her claims or otherwise in any way substantively respond to her claim.

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Honolulu police say they are launching a review after attorneys accused officers of arresting sober drivers to meet quotas. The ACLU of Hawaii says it has identified at least 127 people arrested from 2022 through 2024 who had blood alcohol levels of 0.00.

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If the US stops fluoridating water, in 5 yrs American children would suffer an additional 25.4 million cavities, with an added cost of $9.8B, and loss of 2.9 million quality-adjusted life years, disproportionately borne by children currently on public health insurance or who lack insurance entirely.

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Remember when Donald Trump got caught with all sorts of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after saying he didn't have anything, and then he got indicted but the judge slow walked the case to death? Yup. He did that.

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Yikes, this is really true and so horrifying

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Mike Johnson and Russ Vought Continue to Lie About Medicaid Cuts House Speaker Mike Johnson and OMB Director Russ Vought denied that people will lose Medicaid coverage under the Republican budget. Experts disagree: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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May 31, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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How the American Dream of a middle class helps democracy open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

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Elon may be on his way out, but DOGE is still gutting countless government programs and services that millions of Americans rely on. Here are seven ways that DOGE is ruining your life. https://youtu.be/M5LD2CSOzmI?si=tyT84SUJ9sZlnjwo

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So Do I! We All Should!!

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Cutting $20 billion to NIH over 25 years may save $500 billion on paper, but it’d end up costing $8.2 trillion in lost human health. But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."

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They want to dismantle our education system because they know that once you’re educated it’s impossible to fall for their grift & lies (unless you’re blinded by hate & racism so they love stoking that too!)

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Confessions.

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Is it too much to ask for a president who’s tougher on Vladimir Putin than he is on Harvard?

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Saturday Report 5/31/24 — The Trump Administration wants to create an “Office of Remigration”: Say what?!? open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

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The Democracy Index open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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Trump's latest pardon spree revives the long, scandalous history of clemency-for-loyalty. Austin Sarat argues it’s time to rein in a power too easily abused.

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"I think it falls to all of us as Americans to continue to project in our own ways the values that this country is supposed to stand for" Tom Malinowski joins Jen to discuss Trump's incoherent (i.e. nonexistent) foreign policy strategy

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This is great news. Chicago hosts an event to honor the new pope on June 14th, the same day Agent Orange expects a parade in his honor. I'm an atheist, and I love this. chicagodefender.com/chicago-to-h...

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May 30, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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DOGE in retreat, and the power of persistence. open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...

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A big win! A panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit just blocked the Trump administration’s push to move forward with massive layoffs. The court denied the government’s request to overturn a lower court ruling, meaning the layoffs can’t happen, for now.

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someone got ahold of the adderall

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The removal of the legal status immigrants... not criminals. The right-wing extremists on the U.S. Supreme Court has revoked the legal status of immigrants. Does this include the white South African immigrants welcomed by the White Supremists in the White House?

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Why is this paper referring to them as agents; taking at face value their claim they were FBI? There's nothing in the article that suggests there was any verification. I'm not just talking about the politics of the rhetoric, I'm talking about the literal facts. This should not be reported this way.

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Pardons for sale. So much for Back the Blue, hey?!

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