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Mar 16 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Giant food company CEOs think they own Congress. It’s time to show them otherwise.
It’s also time for DOJ to enforce the antitrust laws. Price fixers belong in the slammer. salon.com/2022/02/17/gia…
So, @mngop blames @POTUS for inflation while being in the back pocket of giant food company CEOs who are fixing prices. DOJ needs to start enforcing the criminal provisions of the Sherman Antitrust Act. If they put a few executives in handcuffs, some prices will settle down.
This letter from @ewarren to DOJ's Antitrust Division exposes price fixing in the poultry industry. Price fixing in the pork industry is also being investigated and litigated. This is what meat company CEOs and the GOP say is just "inflation."
We call BS
warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
This food company CEO also excelled at playing Monopoly. His campaign contributions to state legislators got him appointed chair of U. of Minnesota's Board of Regents. His hobby in retirement is voting for tuition increases and pay increases for top execs.
startribune.com/pay-watch-gene…
University of Minnesota Board Chair and former CEO Ken Powell, when he voted to approve this huge pay package, said we should trust the free market to set executive compensation.
Meanwhile tuition, like the price of food, is fixed by the powers that be.
twincities.com/2021/12/17/umn…

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Mar 13
The price of pork at the grocery store is sky high.
But hog farmers in Minnesota are getting less.
So, where's all the money going?
Don't we have antitrust laws?
Wake up #MN01. It's time for a blue wave in rural America!

Hog prices keep sliding nationalhogfarmer.com/news/hog-price…
The sharply rising price of pork in grocery stores minus the stable or declining price paid to hog farmers and declining real wages for labor equals PROFIT for big meat processing corporations. They reinvest a portion of that profit to buy seats in Congress. What a #SpamScam!
"Hog prices...are half of the $134.41/cwt. June peak and are close to dropping below the year-ago level for the first time this year."
Don't talk about "inflation" to the Minnesota farmer. They're not getting the money. Big business is.
It's time for a Blue Wave in rural America!
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Mar 10
My opponent in #MN01 was the CEO of Hormel during this price fixing conspiracy alleged in multiple federal suits. You contributed to his campaign every time you bought a sandwich.

Restaurants Sue Hormel, Others For Alleged Pork Price-Fixing Scheme tcbmag.com/restaurants-su…
Sick of sky high food prices?
In Congress I'll hold DOJ's feet to the fire and insist they enforce the Sherman Act, prosecuting anti-trust violations and putting price fixing executives in the slammer.
Help us flip #MN01 blue here:
painterforcongress.org/?fbclid=IwAR3I…
Within two years former Hormel Foods CEO Jeff Ettinger gave $5,000 to the Republican Senatorial Committee and $50,000 to the Minnesota Victory PAC of @Tim_Walz. Putting bets on red and blue is a favorite strategy in pay to play. The rest of us just pay at the checkout lane.
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Mar 3
Justices Gorsuch and Sotomayor are right. This information should be disclosed. Despite the Court's ruling, @POTUS has the power to order disclosure of this and all other information about the torture program and should do that. Disclose all of it.
nytimes.com/2022/03/03/us/…
“We know already that our government treated Zubaydah brutally — more than 80 waterboarding sessions, hundreds of hours of live burial and what it calls ‘rectal rehydration.’ ... But as embarrassing as these facts may be, there is no state secret here.”
The torture jihadists want torture information kept classified.
The academic freedom jihadists think torture lawyer John Yoo should be teaching law students and advising presidents about executive power.
Time to call BS.
Transparency and accountability are the only path forward.
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Feb 23
The Glencore-PolyMet sulfide mine will destroy the Lake Superior Watershed and other Minnesota waterways. Our message to Putin friendly Glencore: Get Lost!
startribune.com/new-lawsuit-sa…
If the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is a bad idea, this is worse.
Glencore's C.E.O. got the medal of friendship from Vladimir Putin.
This is one more reason we don't want the Glencore-PolyMet sulfide mine in Minnesota.
reuters.com/article/us-rus…
Foreign sulfide mining companies say we should allow the Lake Superior watershed and Boundary Waters to be polluted so they can mine copper and nickel for electric vehicle batteries.
What for? Russian tanks?
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Feb 9
Corporations across America use bias training to improve the workplace and avoid discrimination lawsuits, but some clueless academics still insist that law schools shouldn't do the same. It would be terrible if they prepared students for the real world.
reuters.com/legal/governme…
One of the most vocal critics of the ABA rule on bias training is a professor who insisted that law school deans must remain silent about racism and the murder of George Floyd and who called history scholar Nikole Hannah-Jones an "imbecile" because he disagreed with her. Nuts.
One Twitter clown wrote in his blog "It is a shame there is no solid evidence such training is effective in reducing bias."
Depends on who's doing the training. This guy obviously shouldn't be the one. He denies or justifies bias every time he sees it.
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Feb 9
This is disgusting. If a priest had made these statements advocating for the morality of adult sex with children, police would've carried out multiple search warrants by now. Mentally disturbed people are now calling this "practicing philosophy."
wgrz.com/article/news/l… via @WGRZ
This SUNY "philosophy" professor needs to retire and be given a one way plane ticket to Palm Beach. He might be welcome at Mar-a-Lago.....
Anyone who says that advocating for the morality of adult sex with children is "practicing philosophy" does not possess the mental competence to teach philosophy or any other subject. Not a safe person to allow on any campus.
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