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jake

@johnsonjakep

staff writer @commondreams. Views are mine. Email: [email protected]

 Portland, ME
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Joined May 2014
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Rare moment: Bernie caught doing the Vince McMahon walk in public
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this is from an email I got from the pro-Warren PCCC just before Warren tweeted her endorsement of Hickenlooper
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It’s not clear people have absorbed what an absolute crime this killing was from start to finish. And it’s not true that nobody was arrested. Cops arrested her boyfriend for trying to save her life from armed dead-of-night intruders.
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@CNN11 Jun 2020
The detective who applied for the warrant that ended in the March shooting death of Breonna Taylor has been placed on administrative reassignment, the Louisville, Kentucky, interim police chief said. cnn.it/2YmEObS
Breonna Taylor death: Detective who applied for warrant put on administrative reassignment | CNN

Breonna Taylor death: Detective who applied for warrant put on administrative reassignment | CNN

The detective who applied for the warrant that ended in the March shooting death of Breonna Taylor has been placed on administrative reassignment, the Louisville, Kentucky, interim police chief said.

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get a load of these absolute fucking ghouls
Mark Geragos (@markgeragos) profile pictureMark Geragos@markgeragos5 Jun 2020
57 Buffalo police resign. The union is upset with treatment of the two officers who were suspended. “Our position is these officers... were simply doing their job. I don't know how much contact was made. He did slip in my estimation. He fell backwards." buffalonews.com/2020/06/05/5…
57 members of Buffalo police riot response team resign after shoving incident

57 members of Buffalo police riot response team resign after shoving incident

All 57 of the members of the Buffalo Police Department’s Emergency Response Team resigned Friday from the unit which responds to riots and other crowd control

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Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First bit.ly/2AeY0zK
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Reading about the South can make science fiction where the US "becomes a dictatorship" seem naive and redundant—here is Leander Perez, boss of Plaquemines Parish, LA, inspecting the prison camp he built for Freedom Riders. He ruled the parish without opposition for 50 years.
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or, idk, you could just send people $4,000 checks xitter.gq/ThirdWayKessler/status…
Jim Kessler (@ThirdWayKessler) profile pictureJim Kessler
@ThirdWayKessler20 May 2020
Bipartisan group of 4 senators propose $4,000 refundable tax credit for skills training, apprenticeships, 2- and 4-year programs. We like it! cnb.cx/2z7IaqF @amyklobuchar @CoryBooker @BenSasse @TimScottSC thank u!
Senators release bill to offer $4,000 skills training credit to workers displaced by coronavirus

Senators release bill to offer $4,000 skills training credit to workers displaced by coronavirus

The bipartisan proposal from Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Ben Sasse, Cory Booker and Tim Scott aims to help workers who lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic get new skills training.

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Pelosi says the Heroes Act was "tailored strictly" to meet people's needs and it would have been "irresponsible" to do less, then concedes the bill could have done more but it would have cost too much, then says not spending aggressively will cost more in the long run
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Democrats are means-testing to death student loan relief in a messaging bill
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the emptiest, wettest suit of all time
Boston Magazine (@BostonMagazine) profile pictureBoston Magazine@BostonMagazine14 May 2020
"With due respect to Senator Markey, who is a good man, there’s more to this job than the way you vote and the bills that you file." bostonmagazine.com/news/2020…
Joe Kennedy III Wants You to Know He's More Than Just a Name

Joe Kennedy III Wants You to Know He's More Than Just a Name

The inside story of his controversial quest to be Massachusetts’ next Senator Kennedy.

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Very good point in @ryangrim's newsletter
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lmao COME ON
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translation: 'We don't want to be held accountable for getting our workers sick' xitter.gq/JayTimmonsNAM/status/1…
Jay Timmons (@JayTimmonsNAM) profile pictureJay Timmons
@JayTimmonsNAM4 May 2020
To protect America’s manufacturers that have stepped up to do the right thing during the #COVID19 pandemic, we are calling on Congress to enact targeted liability protections to ensure misguided litigation does not derail our country's recovery. documents.nam.org/GR/Associa…
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We are at depression levels of unemployment and we have spent two months sheltering in place with little increase in testing or hospital capacity, but my main concern is American global hegemony.
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"Obama spent most of his considerable political capital defending a cabal of corrupt financiers who very nearly ruined the world economy." A decade later, Obama's crisis management looks less like an epic historical bungle than an epic historical crime thenation.com/article/cultur…
How Obama-Era Economics Sold Us Short

How Obama-Era Economics Sold Us Short

Faced with the shattering 2008 crisis, Obama and his key advisers largely sought to restore the wobbly pre-crisis status quo.

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nothing can stand in the way of Congress's bipartisan commitment to handing the Pentagon another $800 billion
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Unemployment insurance prevented 1.4 million forclosures during the great recession nber.org/papers/w20353
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Excuse me what
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This is going to be an enormous problem. The second wave is a foreclosure wave.
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Democrats initially asked for a 15% increase in the maximum SNAP benefit in this interim bill, which would've amounted to an additional $25 per person monthly. $25 per person. They couldn't even get that
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overall the SNAP increase would have cost around $5 billion. In the CARES Act, Democrats let Republicans slip through a tax cut for millionaires that will cost $170 billion over the next decade theintercept.com/2020/04/19/…
Some Democrats Not Aware of Millionaire Tax Break Before Voting on CARES Act

Some Democrats Not Aware of Millionaire Tax Break Before Voting on CARES Act

Senate Finance Committee Democrats tried to eliminate the provision, but when both chambers voted on the package, several Democrats did not know it existed.

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