Mainstream media, politicians, and universities are bowing down to the 1%. We're organizing on college campuses to fight corporate greed and build student power.
Join @sanders.senate.gov and @heyjohnrussell.bsky.social live and help launch More Perfect University.
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At the same time the Purge Palantir campaign is calling on politicians to reject campaign money from the company’s PAC and executives, and bring a halt to its surveillance practices.
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Public pension funds in over half of U.S. states hold billions of dollars in Palantir stock, according to @Sludge.
Public workers in several of these states, like Maine, New Jersey, New York, and Oregon, are protesting the fact that their pension funds are being funnel to this dangerous company.
UPDATE: Students representing ~280 universities and 46 states have joined MPUniversity in just 36 hours!
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Minnesota’s Boundary Waters comprise over a million acres of untouched forest and thousands of lakes and streams, accessible largely by canoe. On Thursday, Senate Republicans voted 50-49 to open the area up to mining.
Exactly 100 members of Congress have become lobbyists for foreign governments since the year 2000, according to @quincyinst.bsky.social.
The top countries they've gone to work for include Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Libya, Qatar, Russia, and China.
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Pete Hegseth has issued a memo directing the Pentagon to terminate the union contracts of 300,000 workers in the Department of Defense.
This illegal move will undoubtedly be challenged in court.
BREAKING: Prosecutors in Minnesota have charged an ICE agent with two counts of assault related to a road rage incident. A nationwide warrant has been issued for his arrest.
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BREAKING: The House just failed to pass a resolution to end Trump's war with Iran by one vote.
The count was 213-214.
Just one Democrat, Jared Golden, voted to let Trump keep waging the war.
On Monday the Trump admin will launch the tariff refund system for the $166 billion in tariffs they illegally collected.
And all of that money will go to companies.
56,497 importers are set to get refunds so far, with no requirement they pass that money along to customers.
Sen. Mike Crapo blocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren's last-ditch attempt to preserve the IRS's free Direct File program.
In the last election cycle, Crapo was the top GOP congressional recipient of campaign contributions from the corporate PAC of TurboTax's parent company.
BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren has introduced a bill that would allow you to file taxes for free directly with the IRS.
The bill has support on both sides of the aisle, and would bring back and expand the free taxing filing program that the Trump administration killed off.
... an outcome that the federal government had called for when filing its case almost two years ago, though it is sure to be vigorously contested by Live Nation.
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The judge overseeing the case, Arun Subramanian, will determine remedies in a separate proceeding. That could include significant divestments by Live Nation, or even a breakup of Live Nation and Ticketmaster —
BREAKING: A jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster to be an illegal monopoly that overcharges fans.
After the federal government settled the case, 34 states kept pursuing the giant ticket and concert company.
Now, the states have won.
This Tax Day 287 major companies are avoiding $139,256,870,000 in taxes on $1 trillion of their 2025 profits.
The average federal income tax for an individual is 14.5%.
But in 2025, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, paid just an 8% tax rate.
Meta paid just 3.75%.
Amazon paid just 1.37%.
Palantir and Tesla paid nothing.
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Today is the day. We're launching More Perfect University, and Bernie Sanders is getting in on the ground floor. Join him and John Russell in launching a whole new way for students to speak truth to power.
Starbucks is partnering with ChatGPT.
The coffee giant has launched an app within the OpenAI chatbot that is supposed to "provide inspiration for customers’ drink orders."
Consumers will still need to complete their orders on the Starbucks app or website.
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Mainstream media, establishment politicians, and universities bow down to the 1%, and it's up to us to speak truth to power. So now we're launching a new program to do just that.
That includes ensuring consumers can take legal action against businesses that exploit their data to rip them off.
This bill is an important first step towards cracking down on predatory pricing schemes, but fully regulating dynamic and surveillance pricing means going further.
Maryland and every other state still have work to do to regulate promotional offers, loyalty programs, and temporary discounts.
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And, at the same time, the company says that, "OpenAI is testing sponsored ad placements in ChatGPT."
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Ticketmaster has teamed up with ChatGPT.
The ticket monopoly has launched an app within OpenAI's chatbot.
Ticketmaster's announcement reads: "Fans can now discover events and explore ticket options directly inside ChatGPT, without needing to leave the conversation."
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From when the bill was introduced:
“This is not a fair market,” Moore said. “This is a stacked deck. This is about profit … Profit that’s extracted from people who are seeing their bills increase and who are struggling to afford basic goods.”
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