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Mark Rickling retweeted
This isn’t a glitch. These are Republican policies working exactly as intended: the wealthiest are paying less while everyone else is paying more.
Trump ran on tax cuts. But his economic policies have driven up taxes and costs for all but the wealthiest 1% of Americans, a think tank reports. usatoday.com/story/money/per…
Mark Rickling retweeted
We're seeing corporate profits hit all time highs, while corporate tax revenue drops thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. nytimes.com/2026/10/17/busin…
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For those of you not from DC - this means runners, bicyclists, families, sightseers would all be displaced from Hains Point - so that a high-end golf course could be built minutes from the U.S. Capitol and White House.
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Casual public Islamophobia from a CBS News correspondent, an awful look for the network which their new management probably doesn’t care about
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Yup. We're not out of the woods on Graham tariffs. Trump kept the tariff provisions legally on the table as something he can use to tariff, e.g. India or Europe, post-midterms....
(It was clear from the beginning there would be no actual Russia *sanctions*, so 0 surprise there)
On the tariff side of the Graham Act worth noting that Trump admin seems to have announced the tariffs allowed at maximum levels but waived them.(500% for Russia 100% for buyers/facilitators) but waived them. Suggests could come in future for other reasons
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Mark Rickling retweeted
It was clear when Congress passed the Graham Russia Act that Trump would not actually sanction Russia, so no surprise that he waived all the sanctions last night.
Next up: Will he use it to tariff US allies? He didn't last night, but tariffs remain on the table post-midterms...
Mark Rickling retweeted
Trump’s reckless war on Iran drove diesel prices above $6 a gallon, and energy experts agree his Russia diesel deal won’t make a dent. What it really does is fund Putin’s war and undercut our allies. Zelensky is exactly right: Trump keeps giving Putin what he wants and getting nothing back. Americans aren’t getting relief, and Ukraine is getting left out in the cold.
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🚨BREAKING 🚨Trump names new WH Press Secretary: Cabbage Head. Guaranteed to last longer than a Scaramucci.
Mark Rickling retweeted
This is the result of 7+ years of Trump's attacks on @Ilhan, Somali-Americans, & the Muslim community.
Everyone, regardless of party, must speak out against this fascistic abuse of power.
If they can do this to a sitting Congresswoman, they can & will do it to anyone.
BREAKING WSJ:
The Trump admin's investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar is aimed at building a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and other people familiar with the probe. wsj.com/politics/policy/ilha…
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Today, people around the globe took action to say NO to ISDS.⚖️👨⚖️
Here in DC, we handed out flyers to World Bank employees, informing them about the Bank’s secretive corporate tribunals where corporations can challenge public interest policies and get billions in compensation
Mark Rickling retweeted
Unlike the raid on John Bolton, the targeting of Omar has elicited zero condemnation from NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post. theintercept.com/2026/10/15/…
Today, she is the Democratic Party’s leading champion of an industry notorious for fraud, spectacular collapses, and scams — and the eye-watering sums it spends to win the favor of politicians. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
Mark Rickling retweeted
Trump is permitting Russian diesel imports in direct violation of federal statute. He illegally rewards his pal Putin while blaming Zelensky for not bending a knee the way Trump has. More of my comments to AP.
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“The idea that Mark Zuckerberg was sitting in his Harvard dorm room and would have been deterred from starting Meta if the capital gains tax rate was slightly closer to the ordinary income tax rate strikes me as categorically absurd,” argues @NatashaRSarin, professor of law at Yale Law School.
Mark Rickling retweeted
In 2022, my name was on the first law banning Russian fossil fuel imports to deny Putin funding for his brutal invasion of Ukraine. Now, Trump is directly violating that law by removing sanctions to permit the first Russian diesel imports into the US since 2022, when this law went into effect, without satisfying the specific legal conditions for doing so. He illegally rewards his pal Putin while at the same time once again blaming Zelensky for not capitulating to Putin. Meanwhile, every day Putin murders more Ukrainian civilians.
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Instead of using the new sanctions Congress authorized against Putin, Trump is sanctioning the International Criminal Court, which seeks Putin’s arrest for abducting Ukrainian children. Trump’s effort “to cripple” the Court is another major assault on the rule of law and protection of human rights. Good to see our allies defending the Court and not yielding to our bully-in-chief.
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Congressional Budget Office Director Phillip Swagel warned the idea of embracing faster economic growth as the solution for reining in the US federal debt — one being championed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — is unlikely to work bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Mark Rickling retweeted
A tax cheat in the White House is gutting the agency that catches tax cheats.
Republicans spent a decade starving the IRS. To reverse these cuts, I strongly supported a ten-year plan to restore funding for high-end tax enforcement at the IRS, but Republicans killed it in under three. Now Trump and DOGE have driven out more than a quarter of the IRS's remaining auditors and collectors.
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