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Laurie Garrett Profile picture
@Laurie_Garrett
Jul 27, 2020 • 5 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
"The #JeffBezos Wealth Surge is an unprecedented dynamic in the history of modern markets. Tracking Bezos’ wealth reqs a real-time hr-by-hr tracker. As of [April 10] it has ^ed over $25 billion since Jan1, 2020 & $12B since Feb21, the beginning of the #Covid19 #pandemic."
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2/ Updated data on billionaire #pandemic wealth:
"Between Mar18 & Jul23, US billionaire total wealth increased >$755 billion, an ^ of 25.6%."
"Total US Billionaire wealth is now $3.7 trillion."
Over the same 18 wks, >52.4M ppl filed for unemployment..."
inequality.org/billionaire-bo…
Last week, #JeffBezos "earned" $18 billion in ONE DAY.
That's "billion" with a B.
The #COVID19 #pandemic has been very, very good for Mr. Bezos & Amazon.
He has "helped" with $100 million to Feeding America & $25 million for All in WA.
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Oracle founder Larry Ellison has grown richer since #COVID19 struck -- his giving has been limited to a $7M fundraiser for #Trump reelection.
Apple founding billionaires #LarryPage & #SergeyBrin have given ZERO to pandemic efforts. #ElonMusk gave "ventilators" that...
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...were sleep apnea machines.
You can look up your fav US billionaire & see what he/she is doing about #COVID19.
Or you can accept this: NONE of them have given $ to the #pandemic fight that's close to 5% of the wealth they have gained off of it.
washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…

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This utterly reprehensible Pentagon disinfo campaign executed by the #Trump admin to create Asian suspicion of the Chinese #COVID #vaccine is reminiscent of the CIA's use of a fake #polio vax effort in Pakistan to obtain...
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Trump’s deal to Big Oil [give my campaign $1B & all #Biden climate & green policies will be void] echoes the Teapot Dome Scandal in another #Republican #POTUS race 100 yrs ago. Until now, it was the biggest presidential corruption case in US history.
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Big Oil execs met at #MarAlago and...
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Folks @Reuters made clear, graphic evidence of the collapse of US Congress : in both houses it's seen its productivity plummet by more than half in the 21st Century. At the rate they're going, soon, no laws of significance will pass. MORE
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Since the Reagan Era Congressional legislation has fallen by 2/3rds -- not to mention its failure to pass a full, on-time budget.
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we may being heading into a collapse of AMOC -- the key ocean circulation system.

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"Monday, Monday.
Can't trust that day.
Monday, Monday.
Seems like it just turns out that way."
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I have so many questions that I fantasize #SCOTUS Justices asking, such as:
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-- alleged immunity? (Trump lawyers say he’s immune unless BOTH HOUSES impeached him, following a Senate trial.)
3. How would this “immunity” have applied to Richard Nixon and Watergate activities? To Bill Clinton and the famous blue dress? To George Bush?
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