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An Emergency Democracy Crisis is happening right now in Tennessee. Duly elected Democratic State Reps have been kicked off their committees, their ID badges & voting machines have been turned off, & threats being made to expel them. https://www.tiktok.com/@underthedesknews/video/7217911114351332651

The Fed has been hellbent on raising interest rates to slow the economy, but this puts the burden of fighting inflation on workers.

To continue punishing them by increasing rates to drive unemployment, especially when America’s safety nets are in tatters, is just plain cruel.

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Wages grew only 0.2% from Jan to Feb according to today’s jobs report.

Translation: Were not dealing with a “wage-price” spiral — wage gains pushing up prices.

We’re dealing with a “profit-price” spiral — corporate profits driving up prices.

Stop raising interest rates.

Thank you Elie Mystal:

"Dear Media, Stop trying to make it sound like McCarthy is taking a principled stand by "refusing to negotiate with terrorists" when it is EXACTLY these terrorists that McCarthy has capitulated to ever since they attacked the Capitol in hopes of securing their votes for this job."

@TonyStark

In a better world, moderates in the Republican Party (if there are any of those left) would see this as an opportunity to leave the extremists high-and-dry by forming a coalition-of-the-reasonable with the Democrats.
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That would do so much to heal America and to preserve democracy but I don’t expect it because, well, you can imagine.

The GOP, which has often claimed to be the "workers' party," will attempt to use its rules package to exempt itself from federal labor laws by preventing House staffers from unionizing.

From @ddayen@twitter.com:

https://prospect.org/labor/2023-01-04-congress-house-gop-congressional-staff-unions/

BOOM: #KevinMcCarthy has just lost the FIFTH vote for #SpeakerOfTheHouse. House Republican disunity, division, and dysfunction deepens.

Meanwhile, ALL OUR 212 Members are UNIFIED behind #HakeemJeffries.

Leonard Nimoy at a #NOW rally in 1989. His sweater reads "PRO-CHILD, PRO-FAMILY, #PROCHOICE". His sash reads "HONORED GUEST". His pin reads "HONORARY SISTER".

#LeonardNimoy was #Jewish and spoke fluent Yiddish. His parents were first-generation #Ukrainian Jewish #immigrants who fled the Soviet Union and he was born in 1931 in Boston. Jewish activists have always been at the core of support for #abortion rights.

#MayHisMemoryBeABlessing.

https://www.tumblr.com/delphinidin4/690529825685946368/his-sweatshirt-reads-pro-child-pro-family

#socialmedia #tumblr

Do you know who Cheryl Johnson is? You should. Ms. Johnson is the Clerk of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. In lieu of an elected Speaker of the House, she is in charge. This is the first time a black woman has been the presiding officer of the U.S. House of Representatives. Let's hope it takes two years for the Republicans to pick their 'speaker'.

Albertsons bought Safeway. Now Kroger is buying Albertons.

Combined they would control ~22% of the US grocery market, with revenue over $200B.

Add Walmart, these brands would control 70% of the grocery market in 167 cities across the country.

This is why antitrust matters.

#Tesla plunges off a cliff at Devil's Slide on CA's Highway 1, requiring "multiple air ambulances" to rescue critically injured kids. https://www.ksbw.com/article/car-goes-over-cliff-at-devils-slide/42379850

President Biden just eliminated all Electoral College counting loopholes that will prevent the next Trump from trying to cling to power by pressuring the Vice President and using slates of fake electors. https://youtu.be/Rslen25CjW8

How can Democrats regain the working class?

By fighting corporate America's ability to:

—raise prices higher than their increasing costs.

—suppress wages and bust unions.

—bribe lawmakers to cut their taxes and dole out corporate welfare.

President Biden is set to nominate Dr. Ashish Jha as the new permanent director of the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy. To do his job, he'll have to hold pharmaceutical companies to account.

From @MaxMoranHi@twitter.com and @revolvingdoorDC@twitter.com:

https://prospect.org/health/2023-01-02-ashish-jha-white-house-pandemic-preparedness-director/