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Hello Peppermint retweeted
It’s beyond sad. It’s beyond disappointing; at this point, it’s disqualifying for anyone with ambitions for higher office as a Democrat, or a Republican, for that matter, to be fighting to keep billionaires from being taxed while kids don’t have health insurance and the cost of living goes sky-high.
These billionaires are also the ones hellbent on replacing entire workforces with the AI they are developing with our tax dollars (watch the “Musk” doc). We are also living through the largest wealth gap in modern history. At this point, the only way to balance out the economic forces that have bought our politicians and keep rigging the game against working people is through taxes.
Let’s hope Gavin gets some sense and walks this back. It’s crazy that this is what he chooses to spend his political capital, and part of his legacy, doing. He vetoed the bill that would have put a “kill switch” on AI for our protection. He vetoed a bill that would have gotten forever chemicals out of cookware. Time and time again, he goes with corporate interests over the well-being of the people, even after his own bipartisan legislature votes for something.
And here we go again.
Gavin, we aren’t looking for the Democratic version of Trump. That was a good goof. Please try something else. It’s tired.
The people need a champion, man. A real, bona fide champion who isn’t just tough in tweets or press conferences, but tough when it comes to the real imbalances people are struggling with every day: billionaires vs. people and the planet.
Hello Peppermint retweeted
For decades economic development has relied on tax breaks and subsidies for the largest corporations, a trickle-down approach that too often falls short.
@NYCMayor and @NYCEDC are charting a new path.
In the first deal of its kind in NYC history, the public is investing $30 million in a quantum lab - in exchange for three board seats and 15% of the revenue generated from technology it creates.
And if any firm coming out of the lab merges, gets acquired, or IPOs, the city gets a payout.
When public dollars are invested, the public should share in the wealth and innovation those investments create.
nytimes.com/2026/10/14/nyreg…
Hello Peppermint retweeted
On average men were diagnosed in 3 months. Women in 2 years.
Women's auto-immune diseases aren't trickier.
But doctors afford women less epistemological authority.
Women are simply considered less trustworthy, even, especially, about themselves.
theguardian.com/society/2026…
Hello Peppermint retweeted
California’s 5% billionaire wealth tax is THE most important ballot initiative in the country.
At a time of massive income and wealth inequality, the billionaire class must start paying their fair share of taxes.
Hello Peppermint retweeted
Instead of adding pink ribbons to their products this month maybe companies should just remove the cancer causing ingredients.
Hello Peppermint retweeted
I find it fascinating that supposed left-wingers are campaigning to put male sex offenders in women’s prisons, trying to shut down women-only rape crisis centres and cheering on Big Pharma’s lucrative move into chemical castration of minors, but here we are.
Hello Peppermint retweeted
Private Equity ruins everything and it will ruin sport.
SCOOP: The @Yankees are nearing a deal that would eventually hand a whopping 16% stake in the venerable franchise to private equity giant Apollo Capital Management. The Steinbrenner family would relinquish a “de minimis” slice of its controlling equity, finalizing a transaction that will give the famed franchise a new, cash-rich partner, the @nypost has learned.
nypost.com/2026/09/20/sports…
Hello Peppermint retweeted
The Paramount/Warner Brothers merger seems facially illegal, and the state AG lawsuit challenging it is very strong.
It’s troubling to hear that the states may now settle for behavioral remedies, allowing the deal to go through subject to various promises from the firms. Behavioral remedies routinely fail, and the stakes here are particularly high given that a strong democracy requires open markets for sound journalism and creative expression.
The states were right to step up, and I hope they keep fighting to protect this market, its workers, and the millions of Americans who value a free press and a vibrant film industry.
Hello Peppermint retweeted
To my friends in the Bay Area: I'm hearing Rob Bonta is about to cave and hand Warner Bros over to the Ellisons. We can't let him do that. Can you show up outside his AG office in Oakland tomorrow at 5pm to reject this backroom deal? Reject the deal. The people don’t want it!
mobilize.us/notabovethelaw/e…
Hello Peppermint retweeted
Why do you appreciate unions?
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
Hello Peppermint retweeted
Because employers would rather underpay 5 people and make them do the work of 8 instead of being fully staffed and pay living wages
Hello Peppermint retweeted
Severe COVID-19 may reactivate some dormant viruses that remain in the body after prior infections, a new study suggests. abcnews.link/QDGYb4e
Hello Peppermint retweeted
A severe bout of COVID-19 can wake up an army of dormant viruses hiding inside the body
go.nature.com/4w9FoY9
Hello Peppermint retweeted
Family members are scouring Bay Area cities for signs of Chantel Brooks, who disappeared after leaving work in San Francisco. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti…
Hello Peppermint retweeted
NEW: Apple reportedly got $2.2 BILLION back in tariff refunds. Amazon got $600 MILLION.
What's their plan to give YOU your money back?
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pressing companies entitled to refunds for illegal U.S. tariffs to return the money they are recouping directly to consumers. cbsn.ws/45LK37S
Hello Peppermint retweeted
A severe bout of COVID-19 can wake up an army of dormant viruses hiding inside the body
go.nature.com/4fQZTCZ
