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🎯 FACT: Home insurance companies raked in $167 billion in profits last year, a staggering 91% jump, while jacking up premiums on everyday South Carolinians.
Insurance CEOs walked away with millions, even as coverage shrank and claims were denied and delayed at record highs.
Help us promote Insurance Reform in South Carolina.
Read here: prospect.org/power/2025-07-2…
The number of disabled people in the U.S. jumped nearly **35%** in 4 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports, noting it may be largely related to LC and to post-infection worsening of chronic conditions.
insurancenewsnet.com/innarti…
Better check your wallet. Climate advocate groups file complaint saying Blackrock, which manages mostly retirement funds, provides capital for rainforest deforestation- which accelerates climate warming and climate change. bit.ly/3ARfmT5@ccbecker271@alexcoolidge@OECD
"We have the power," said marchers on Saturday in response to last week's gross and sad display of hate in the Short North. Thanks to the dedicated Paul Becker @ccbecker271 and his skills with the 35 mm. @TheOCEQI@mojotil#ColumbusOhio
The world needs a new climate finance goal to come out of #COP29 – building on last year’s commitment to transition away from fossil fuels. Mukhtar Babayev, get @COP29_Az back on track! No more excuses, no more delays, it’s time.
New: Rahm Emanuel is weighing a bid for DNC chair, 3 ppl with knowledge tell Axios.
Axelrod has been an early booster this week.
axios.com/2024/11/15/rahm-em…
Donald Trump wants revenge. And he might get a major assist from Democrats in making that happen.
On Tuesday, Congress is poised to approve a powerful new tool that Trump could use to crush his political enemies
Scoop by me, via @theintercepttheintercept.com/2024/11/10/…
Over on MSNBC @AymanM argues that if Dems don’t come to their senses and embrace @BernieSanders style populism, they will be doomed to many more electoral disasters.
How did Democrats -- the party of FDR, Social Security, Medicare and labor unions -- become a party of high-income voters? And how did the party of Trump and Musk win with voters making under $100,000 per year? @AymanM explores this fierce debate within the Democratic Party.
Background thread on HR 9495 - the bill to empower the Exec to simply strip US orgs they don’t like of their non-profit status, set to be passed by the House this week 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Also see: theintercept.com/2024/11/10/…
More background in the bill, set to be passed by the House this week, that seeks to empower the Executive to target & strip the non-profit status of orgs it doesn’t like 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
"When we treat the working class as synonymous with white people, we're ignoring what's happening with...people that are opting out of the electoral process altogether."
@MalaikaJabali on how Dems are losing working class voters because too many have given up on politics.
Israel killed dozens of people in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. This is just today.
Bombing three nations in one day, killing women and children, will get less coverage and none of the outrage Amsterdam did. This dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims is not normal. Their lives matter.
"A Democratic Party that is chummy with billionaires but then tying to argue that it's in the interest of unions, it doesn't pass the smell test for a lot for working people."
@MauriceWFP on how cozying up to the wealthy has cost Democrats the working class.