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18 Feb, 7 tweets, 5 min read
1. Everyone should know about what @kroger, the nation's largest supermarket chain, is doing to make sure their frontline employees don't make a few extra bucks an hour

This is a company which had $3 BILLION in profit in the first 3 quarters of 2020

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@kroger 2. @Kroger ended its $2/hour hazard pay in May. And as the pandemic got worse, refused to reinstate it

So the Seattle passed an ordinance requiring large grocery stores to pay $4/hour in hazard pay

@Kroger RESPONDED BY CLOSING ITS TWO SEATTLE STORES

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3. @Kroger also closed two stores after Long Beach passed a similar ordinance.

The "new extra pay mandate" makes it "impossible to operate a financially sustainable business"

Kroger is planning to spend $1 billion this year on stock buybacks

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@kroger 4. So what is @Kroger doing instead? According to an internal memo obtained by popular.info, Kroger is giving all employees "1000 fuel points."

This is the equivalent of $1 off a gallon of gas at participating stations. Or about $12 bucks

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5. I talked to a worker at one of the stores being closed. They are not enthused about the fuel points because they don't have a car.

They report employees who have been risking their lives during a pandemic are now "anxious and scared" about paying rent

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6. Keep in mind not every larger grocer responded this way. Trader Joe's is increasing pay by $4/hour across the entire country.

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7. While many people struggled, grocery stores have received a windfall during the pandemic.

Instead of fairly compensating its employees putting themselves at risk, @Kroger is spending billions to boost its stock price, rewarding executives and investors

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20 Feb
Total COVID hospitalizations are now below 60K overall for the first time since early November. As recently as a month ago, the number was 130K+

With the number of vaccinations slated to increase over the coming weeks and months, we have a chance to continue to drive this down
After a year of this, I think we are conditioned to ignore good news. But there is reason for optimism.

Yes, the variants add another unknown factor, but so far all the vaccines are effective at keeping people ALIVE and OUT OF THE HOSPITAL

That's not a small thing
If our hospitals aren't full of COVID patients and people aren't dying life is going to become more normal.

Stay strong.

This is tough but we'll get there.
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This is now a factual question. Cruz can prove this is true by showing his original receipt for his ticket, showing a return trip on Thursday.
Cruz’s kids are ten and older, unclear why they needed to travel with more than one adult. And if they do, how are they managing the trip back? The whole thing makes no sense.
This is floating around but I haven’t seen it verified. But Cruz has put his plans to return at issue. He can prove his version — that he always intended to return the next day — is true.
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18 Feb
1. So Facebook banned all Australian news sources from its platform because of PROPOSED legislation that would require Facebook to negotiate compensation for Australian media outlets

It's not even a law yet.

That's important.
2. Facebook's dramatic action to cut off news to Australians (and others) in the middle of a pandemic isn't a RESPONSE to a law.

There is no law passed yet.

It's an attempt to BULLY the Australian government into not passing the law.
3. Facebook's actions today can best be understood as an aggressive lobbying effort.

It's showing Australian government its willing to follow through with the ban.

Tough to square this bare-knuckled approach with the company's supposed commitment to free speech.
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17 Feb
1. Yesterday, Congressman @BennieGThompson, with the assistance of the @NAACP, filed a civil lawsuit against Trump for violating the KKK Act.

The lawsuit lays out how 1/6 was not just an attack on democracy but a racist attack on democracy

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@BennieGThompson @NAACP 2. The basis of the 1/6 riot was the false voter fraud claims by Trump, Giuliani and other allies

These claims of voter fraud across multiple states were made up out of whole cloth. They were based on nothing

And yet they all had something in common

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@BennieGThompson @NAACP 3. In each state Trump and Giuliani sought to invalidate votes in cities with large Black populations.

In PA it was Philadelphia

In MI it was Detroit

In GA it was Atlanta

The insurrection was an effort to nullify the ballots of Black voters

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16 Feb
1. @NYGovCuomo became a pandemic star by contrasting himself with Trump

Cuomo crafted an IMAGE of being determined, honest and grounded in science

But 11 months later this image is falling apart

Follow along for a FACTUAL assessment of Cuomo's record

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@NYGovCuomo 2. Cuomo WROTE A BOOK, published in October, celebrating his own leadership during the pandemic.

Cuomo writes that NY had "confronted and defeated" the virus, and had "achieved what all the experts told us was impossible."

Today, things look different.

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@NYGovCuomo 3. Today, New York has 338 people hospitalized with COVID per million residents.

This is the HIGHEST NUMBER IN ANY STATE by a considerable margin.

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12 Feb
UPDATE: @Walmart and @SamsungUS have finally terminated their relationship with @mschlapp's lobbying firm.

Schlapp, who also chairs @CPAC, has relentlessly attacked the BLM movement & pushed the lie that the election was stolen from Trump through fraud

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@Walmart @SamsungUS @mschlapp @CPAC .@mschlapp's firm was being paid $50K/quarter by Walmart and $20K/quarter by Samsung.

The blow was cushioned by a $750K Q4 payment by Pete Petit

Petit, who was convicted of securities fraud in November, hired Schalpp to help him secure a pardon from Trump

Petit did not get one
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