Taught American Foreign Policy and Strategic Studies SAIS Europe, former NYT editorial board, author of The Emergency State (Penguin, 2012, 2013)
Joined June 2014
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David C Unger retweeted
Jun 12
Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.
If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.
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David C Unger retweeted
May 23
Being anti-Trump is not good enough. Democrats need a progressive agenda.
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David C Unger retweeted
May 13
Net worths of the AI oligarchs joining Trump on his trip to China:
Elon Musk: $828 billion
Jensen Huang, Nvidia: $195 billion
Tim Cook, Apple: $2.9 billion
Dina Powell, Meta: $200 million
Do you think they’re losing sleep over the millions of jobs AI could replace?
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David C Unger retweeted
May 14
Amazon cut 30,000 jobs & got a $7.8 billion tax break
Meta cut 8,000 jobs & got an $8 billion tax break
PayPal cut 4,800 jobs & paid $0 in federal income taxes
Disney cut 1,000 jobs & paid $0 in federal income taxes
Corporate tax breaks don't create jobs. They enrich the 1%.
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David C Unger retweeted
Fantastic that Louise Arbour will be the new Governor General. She is one of the great Canadians of our time – and in so many ways.
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David C Unger retweeted
May 6
Obama unveiling an oligarch-funded shrine to himself amid everyone in America being fleeced by oligarchs is an almost too-on-the-nose bookend of a presidency that bailed out its Wall Street donors who were throwing millions of Americans out of their homes.
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David C Unger retweeted
Apr 7
In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists.
Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.
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David C Unger retweeted
Apr 5
Khanna: "No. I'm not supporting new funding. The answer for every Democrat should be 'absolutely no.' It's $400 billion for a war we oppose? We could have universal childcare for that. We could have free public college for that."
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David C Unger retweeted
Apr 3
When Americans stand up and fight for justice, we win.
We took on a king.
We ended slavery.
We built unions.
We won voting rights.
We secured LGBTQ rights.
Again and again, Americans fought back — and won.
We can do it again.
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David C Unger retweeted
Mar 26
Health care? "You're on your own."
Housing? "Nothing we can do."
Grocery prices? "You're out of luck."
$200 billion for another war? "No problem!"
Americans—Democrats, Republicans, independents—are SICK AND TIRED of endless wars.
We need to invest here at home.
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David C Unger retweeted
Mar 17
The war in Iran has already cost $22.8 billion.
For $22.8 billion, we could:
• Provide Medicaid to 6.8 million kids
• Build 2.6 million public housing units
• Fund Head Start for 1.3 million
• Hire 240,000 teachers
• Cancel $20,000 in student debt for 1 million borrowers
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David C Unger retweeted
Feb 28
The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.
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David C Unger retweeted
Feb 24
Last year, Tesla, Ticketmaster and Palantir made billions of dollars in profits, but paid ZERO in federal income taxes.
Do you think Trump will address this outrage at his SOTU address? I doubt it.
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David C Unger retweeted
Feb 19
California is proposing a 5% wealth tax on 200 billionaires worth $2T to protect health care for 3M people.
Let’s get it done—and make billionaires finally pay their fair share. x.com/i/broadcasts/1qJDzPPYd…
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David C Unger retweeted
🚨BREAKING: Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) just proposed a bill that would REQUIRE the President to get Congressional approval for new tariffs.
Do you support this bill?
YES or NO?
Yes , Give me a Thumbs-Up 👍
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David C Unger retweeted
Jan 31
Last night, my amendment to repeal ICE’s $75 billion funding increase and reverse cuts to Medicaid won the support of every Senate Democrat — and two Republicans.
That didn’t happen by accident. It happens when people organize and demand change. The struggle continues.
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David C Unger retweeted
Jan 24
The likely next Speaker of the House is Hakeem Jeffries and he is plainly not up to the task. Gutless, bad communicator, incompetent staff.
Who in the Dem caucus is a better and viable alternative?
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David C Unger retweeted
Jan 23
Rep. @AOC is right. Vertical integration in healthcare has created deep conflicts of interest.
As our @FTC work revealed, these conglomerates have massively inflated the cost of lifesaving drugs.
Rooting out these conflicts will mean better, more affordable care for everyone.
Jan 22
AOC: This is quite a bit of market concentration. Wouldn't you agree?
CVS HEALTH CHAIR DAVID JOYNER: No. I'd suggest it's a model that works really well for the consumer
AOC: I think it works well for CVS. Health insurance gets a cut, pharmacy benefit manager gets a cut, drug manufacturer gets a cut, and the patient gets screwed
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David C Unger retweeted
Jan 21
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital CEO pay: $26.3 million
Montefiore CEO pay: $16.7 million
Mount Sinai CEO pay: $5.4 million
Let’s be clear: These hospitals are not going broke. They can afford to provide their nurses with benefits and safe patient ratios.
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