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How the US sets its poverty rate is shocking
It's so horrible, it should actually piss you off
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How the US sets its poverty rate is shocking
It's so horrible, it should actually piss you off
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House Dems Want To End Citizens United So We Never Get Musked Again
'Corporations are not people and money is not speech,' said Pramila Jayapal.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek’s CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Susan Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
When the rich see that the billions of dollars they spend on candidates doesn’t necessarily win elections, maybe they will quit!
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