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GOP Megadonor Celebrates His Profits From “Huge Increases In Rents” As Millions Face Eviction

GOP Megadonor Celebrates His Profits From “Huge Increases In Rents” As Millions Face Eviction

NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMiscBillionaire Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman bragged about his firm’s big earnings off high rents — and he boasted that his firm “was a huge winner coming out of the global financial crisis” in 2008.ShareThis report was written by David Sirota and Andrew PerezThe world’s largest private equity firm has campaigns against rent control and been by the United Nations of fueling a global housing crisis. Now, as millions are threatened with eviction during the pandemic, Blackstone’s top executive is openly bragging that the firm is making huge profits off...

December 12, 2020
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We Can’t Follow Obama Back to Brunch

We Can’t Follow Obama Back to Brunch

NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMiscAs Trump dishonestly casts himself as a populist, Democrats are suggesting that we can all tune out and go back to brunch if they win the election. If we do that, we’re doomed.ShareThis report was written by David Sirota and Andrew Perez. It is the first of a two-part series being released just before the election.In the closing hours of the 2020 election, Donald Trump is dishonestly his reelection bid as a crusade against the corrupt swamp that he helped expand and , while Democrats are promising that if Trump is defeated, voters will finally be...

November 2, 2020
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How Wall Street Kills Grandma

How Wall Street Kills Grandma

NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMisc20,000 nursing home residents died from 2004 to 2016 because they lived in nursing homes run by private equity firms, according to updated data.ShareThis report was written by Julia Rock and David Sirota.As governors in and face political crises over their handling of the pandemic, the scandals have spotlighted how a amount of COVID casualties have occurred in the nation’s nursing homes. The situation is a cautionary tale not only about political corruption, but about the consequences of a nursing home infrastructure being run by for-profit...

February 22, 2021
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Cuomo And The Lincoln Project Are Media-Created Monsters

Cuomo And The Lincoln Project Are Media-Created Monsters

NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMiscA culture of impunity led media to celebrate a governor who presided over a cover-up of nursing-home carnage and boost a GOP group now engulfed in scandal.ShareThis story was written by David Sirota and Andrew Perez.In the chaos of 2020, the national press corps used all of its magical mythmaking and storytelling powers to conjure two towering political heroes for a country in crisis. From the maw of the media machine, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Lincoln Project emerged as our alleged sentinels bravely battling a deadly pandemic and an...

February 12, 2021
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House Dems Demand Harris Advance $15 Minimum Wage

House Dems Demand Harris Advance $15 Minimum Wage

NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMiscIn a new letter, nearly two dozen House Dems are pressing Vice President Kamala Harris to ignore the Senate parliamentarian and fulfill her minimum wage promise.ShareThis report was written by Julia Rock and Andrew Perez.Progressive House lawmakers are demanding Vice President Kamala Harris use her power as presiding officer of the Senate to immediately advance the $15 minimum wage that she has long said she supports.“Eighty-one million people cast their ballots to elect you on a platform that called for a $15 minimum wage. We urge you to keep that...

March 1, 2021
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Six Takeaways From Election Night

Six Takeaways From Election Night

NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMiscDems’ weak economic message helped Trump, the Lincoln Project embarrassed itself, and a ton of grassroots money was set on fire.ShareThis report was written by David Sirota, Andrew Perez and Julia RockAs the country awaits the final results of the presidential election, there are already six key lessons to be gleaned from election, campaign finance and public opinion data.The Democratic ticket pretty much ran away from economic issues — sure, it had decent position papers, but economic transformation was not a huge part of its public messaging, and...

November 4, 2020
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SCOOP: Stimulus Bill Bails Out Defense Contractors, Denies Direct Payments to Families

SCOOP: Stimulus Bill Bails Out Defense Contractors, Denies Direct Payments to Families

NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMiscBuried in the new 525-page stimulus bill is a provision granting military contractors benefits that are being denied to workers and small businesses across the country.ShareThis report was written by David Sirota and Julia RockEarlier this year, Republican senators the idea of spending money to pay Americans not to work during the pandemic. Only a few months later, a group of GOP senators has signed onto bipartisan stimulus legislation that would authorize the government to pay idle defense contractors to not work, even as those contractors’ during...

December 15, 2020
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States Are Ignoring New Data Showing How To Halt COVID Spread

States Are Ignoring New Data Showing How To Halt COVID Spread

NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMiscNew research shows stay-at-home orders and eviction bans are key — but Gov. Gavin Newsom is reopening California with a weak eviction moratorium.ShareThis report was written by Walker Bragman and David Sirota.Facing a , California’s pandemic outbreak is so out of control that public officials have had to in order to accomodate a spike in cremations. Meanwhile, public opinion data shows for keeping businesses closed to halt the outbreak.In response to the emergency, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom stay-at-home restrictions, from the state’s vaccine...

January 26, 2021
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“I Feel The World Is Turning A Blind Eye”

“I Feel The World Is Turning A Blind Eye”

NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMiscWhile the Biden administration drags its feet on the Yemen crisis, aid workers on the ground there say the situation is worse than ever.ShareThis report was written by Walker Bragman.Congress is scrutinizing President Joe Biden’s policy on Yemen this week, with House and Senate subcommittees hosting hearings on the crisis in the Arab state.During Wednesday’s House hearing, Tim Lenderking, the Biden administration’s special envoy to Yemen, described the situation in stark terms. “The level of suffering there,” he told lawmakers, “is...

April 22, 2021
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The American Rescue Plan’s Money Cannon Is Great, But Not Enough

The American Rescue Plan’s Money Cannon Is Great, But Not Enough

NewsletterLatest NewsNational PoliticsMiscThe good, the bad, and the ugly of the COVID-19 relief bill.ShareThis report was written by David Sirota, Julia Rock, and Andrew Perez.When Joe Biden signs the American Rescue Plan (ARP) he will prove that the Democratic Party is finally willing — at least for a moment — to turn on the money hose and for once aim it not at Wall Street moguls, but instead at the raging wildfire of poverty and desperation incinerating the poor and middle class.That’s the very good news. The bad news is that the party’s COVID-19 relief bill also indicates that Biden...

March 11, 2021
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