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1. Tens of thousands of nursing home residents are dying of COVID-19

In response, the nursing home industry has launched a multi-million dollar lobbying campaign to acquire legal immunity against residents

AND IT'S WORKING

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2. COVID-19 did not create the problems at nursing homes. It exposed them.

The GAO found that between 2013 and 2017, 82% of the nation's 15,000 nursing homes had "an infection prevention and control deficiency cited in one or more years."

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3. The nursing home industry "has spent more than $4M on lobbying over the past year, employing more than a dozen full-time lobbyists."

It recently hired "Brian Ballard, former lobbyist for President Donald Trump"

16 states have granted them immunity

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4. The nursing home industry is now focused on California. Governor @GavinNewsom is expected to decide soon whether to issue an executive order giving them what they want

1,434 nursing home residents have died from COVID-19 in California

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5. One issue is that nursing home staff is severely underpaid, often making little more than minimum wage.

This forces many to work at multiple facilities, a practice that now spreads the virus

Granting immunity will likely prompt more cost cutting

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6. The problems in the nursing home industry have been exacerbated in recent years by private equity investment

Private equity firms have spent billions acquiring nursing homes, leading to "cost-cutting, declining quality of care & increasing violations"

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1. The internal revolt at Facebook is the result of its contradictory messages colliding

Facebook has pitched itself to employees as a progressive & inclusive company

Meanwhile, its public policy team is run by GOP operatives focused on placating Trump

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2. Ultimately, Zuckerberg is in control.

And he's sided with the GOP operatives over the vast majority of his employees

It's a massive gamble

Facebook's future depends on its ability to attract and retain talent

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3. Zuckerberg could just own up to what he's doing

Instead he told employees that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" is not a dog whistle

The people who work there are smart and won't be fooled by this dissembling

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1. Major corporations publicly embracing Black Lives Matter — including @citi, @Google, and @amazon — have given hundreds of thousands of dollars to members of Congress rated "F" by the NAACP over the last two years

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@Citi @Google @amazon 2. In a corporate blog post titled "I can't breathe, @citi says it "cherishes diversity and inclusion and is willing to stand up for those values"

In the last 2 years, @citi has donated $242,000 to 127 members of Congress who are rated "F" by the NAACP

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@Citi @Google @amazon 3. @Google CEO @sundarpichai tweeted that the company supports "racial equality in solidarity with the Black community"

Google has donated $351,000 to 89 members of Congress rated "F" by the NAACP over the last 2 years

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This was DC around 10PM, 3 hours after the curfew
I’ve since learned these were US Army Blackhawk helicopters. They were so low they were blowing debris off the ground
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