Hey @Delta, you canceled my Boston → Denver flight this morning, forcing me to rebook on another airline to make an important business meeting tomorrow. Meanwhile, this is what it looks like outside. As a Gold Medallion member this was disappointing, hoping you’ll make it right.
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People in California and New York pay 20% of federal taxes and have 4 Senators. People in 21 states--AK ID UT MT WY ND SD NE KS OK IA MO AR LA MS AL TN KY IN WV SC--pay 15% of federal taxes and have 42 Senators.
What's that old saying? Oh yeah, taxation without representation.
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"The House represents citizens based on district populations, while the Senate represents citizens on an equal state basis."
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NY and CA have a total of 78 seats in the House, while the other states mentioned in the tweet have a combined total of 90 seats.
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Extremist Republican state legislators are willing to risk women’s lives and safety in their pursuit of a right-wing, misogynistic, and out-of-touch agenda. We need to fight back, and I’m in this fight all the way.
thehill.com/homenews/senate/…
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BREAKING: Kansas voters overwhelmingly back keeping abortion rights enshrined in the state Constitution, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/3zzywZ4
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Originalism is not a serious legal theory.
It’s a pretext to use third-rate historical analysis to justify pre-determined policy outcomes.
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AOC: Not only is it not normal, it is internationally embarrassing and delegitimizing to the US because for all the billions and trillions this body authorizes in the name of national security we can’t even keep our kids safe from their schools being turned into a war zone
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Let’s vote on a bill to protect Roe v. Wade. NOW. Let’s get everyone on the record—and let’s hold people accountable.
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Just want to point out that Will Smith saying “love will make you do crazy things” after punching a man on live television is pretty much straight out of the domestic abuser handbook
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God this just messed me up
ALT Image of a text that reads: "I've done the math as well as I can. Every month I work an estimated 140 hours. The landlord does not work but instead 38 hours I work are for him. Worse, 65 hours are accounted for by student loans & 10 hours by credit card payments. The company that pays me uses me as a vessel to move money to other companies. My wallet stays empty. For 4 days each month my work is done for me to have money to eat, drink, buy a sweater or to waste in a bank. My boss takes another trip, thinks I can live like this, that we both can."
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This is an incredible exchange between a local reporter and a far right politician:
reporter @KTVBBrian presses Idaho Lt. Gov McGeachin on speaking at a white nationalist conference last month.
Via @KTVB
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Ioffe: Every time I’m asked by Americans do Russians really believe this stuff… as if we don’t have the same thing happening here. You have 40% of the American population that was convinced in just one year that Donald Trump actually won the 2020 election…
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Student debt isn't just crushing our kids. Nearly 9 million borrowers are over the age of 50 and hold more than 20% of the federal student debt. @POTUS should #CancelStudentDebt and bring millions of Americans more financial stability. Let's do this.
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Student debt holds people back from starting businesses, buying homes, and saving for the future. @POTUS, 2022 is a great year to keep your promise and #CancelStudentDebt.
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Prices on everything from light bulbs to mattresses to motor oil are going up on Amazon. Why? @AGKarlRacine explains how the @Amazon “Fair Pricing Policy” leads to higher prices for American consumers. Congress needs to act so our agencies have the resources to fight this.