4. Why is Trump bending over backward for the meatpacking industry. Follow the money. One of Trump's biggest financial supporters, Ron Cameron, is one of the largest producers of chicken in the country.
5. Easy to Twitter-shame random people on the street without masks but COVID-19 is being spread aggressively behind closed doors -- in meatpacking plants, prisons, etc.
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1. @CocaCola, as part of its "racial equality plan," pledged it would donate $0 from its corporate PAC to "candidates who make egregious or inflammatory remarks in the equality and inclusion area."
But in the last year, the @CocaCola has donated $5,000 to @RepMikeCollins
2. Last week, students at the University of Mississippi were filmed taunting a black protester. The video showed one student mocking the woman by imitating a monkey.
@RepMikeCollins PRAISED this behavior: "Ole Miss taking care of business"
3. Since February 2020, there has been no net job growth among native-born Americans. The native-born workforce is flat or shrinking. Baby boomers are retiring, and birth rates are low. But there has been substantial job growth in the US since 2/20 because more immigrants are working.
1. When Trump ran in 2016, he pledged to appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade
And that's exactly what he did.
Now, Trump is describing what abortion policy will look like if he wins in 2024.
We should probably pay attention.
2. Trump said if he wins another term in office, it would be up to states whether or not to punish women for receiving an abortion
This isn't a hypothetical
Louisiana legislators introduced a bill that would impose the same criminal punishments on a woman who receives an abortion as a woman who drowns her baby
3. Trump also said that he would permit states to monitor pregnant women to determine if they violate abortion bans
It's a dystopian vision of an anti-abortion surveillance state
1. The nation's largest for-profit hospital chain is putting pregnant women at risk by failing to provide doctors with clear guidance about how to handle medical emergencies in states with abortion bans
Women in desperate need of treatment are being turned away
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2. The same for-profit hospital chain @HCAhealthcare is sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to the legislators behind these abortion bans
We documented hundreds of thousands of contributions to 129 anti-abortion legislators across three states
3. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says that it is critical that hospitals "provide guidance that permits treatment to the full extent of applicable state law and support and defend their clinicians when they provide care to patients."
1. Amdist the chaos of April 2024, there is something that has gotten relatively little attention: a historic victory for union organizing in Chattanooga, Tennessee
And it wasn't just a victory for unions
It was a stinging defeat for Charles Koch and his right-wing allies
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2. The NLRB certified that workers at a Volkswagen auto plant in Chattanooga voted to join the @UAW. The union secured a commanding 73% of the vote.
Koch and others have spent more than a decade trying to prevent this from happening
3. In 2014, a constellation of right-wing groups launched an aggressive campaign to defeat an earlier unionization effort at the VW plant in Chattanooga. They spent months distributing "materials...detailing the negative economic consequences of UAW representation."