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- The Postal Service has informed states that they’ll need to pay first-class 55-cent postage to mail ballots to voters, rather than the normal 20-cent bulk rate. That nearly triples the per-ballot cost.
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's campaign has put together seminars on what to do if you’re being evicted or confronted by ICE agents and how to organize collective child care while schools are struggling to coordinate reopenings. prospect.org/politics/polit…
- An estimated 160 people died in Sheriff Arpaio's "concentration camps." Trump pardoned him on Friday. theprosp.ec/2wLTtlz
- One of the measures being crammed into the omnibus is a proposal from Sen. Thom Tillis to turn unauthorized commercial streaming of copyrighted material like an album on YouTube, a video clip on Twitch, or a song in an Instagram post into a felony. prospect.org/power/senator-…
- Following a decade of devastating cuts, 60 percent of U.S. counties now have no daily newspaper. But @AndrewYang (#YangGang) is the only presidential candidate so far to have put forward a policy proposal to address the crisis. prospect.org/article/public…
- “Why aren’t we attacking corporate profits in any way? Because that’s been estimated to be 30, 40 percent of inflation,” @jonstewart said on @TheProblem @AppleTVPlus. We agree. Our Great Inflation Myths series covers how corporate greed fuels inflation: prospect.org/greatinflation…Danger! Workers are doing too well! Call the Fed to shut that down! A conversation with former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. Watch the full interview in our latest episode, now streaming on @appletvplus.
00:00 - "Studios burn people out, not because they need to, but because they can." @athurlow writes about Hollywood workers' fight to get some of the richest companies in the world like Amazon, Apple, Disney, and Netflix to treat workers fairly:
- The FTC recently found that fracking CEO Scott Sheffield colluded with OPEC to fix oil prices, costing the average American over $2,100 a year. Sheffield is a GOP mega-donor, and has also contributed to some Democrats. @lukewgoldstein reports:
- According to Secret Service director, Trump's private force is currently operating in parallel to Secret Service: theprosp.ec/2iJyGZa
- With his voter fraud conspiracies, Trump's telling one of the biggest lies a president ever told, says @JasonKander: theprosp.ec/2l1qKCD
- Democratic senators are demanding answers on Carl Icahn's ethics conflicts and his role in policymaking theprosp.ec/2ne8Wpk
- Daughter of immigrants, Gwen Ifill represented the most American of success stories, writes her cousin @Sifill_LDF: theprosp.ec/2gY3HVa
- New York's @AGSchneiderman is one of the leaders of the resistance against Donald Trump: theprosp.ec/2kCpYsv
