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Arlene Martinez

@avmartinez

Comms+ @GoodJobsFirst. Support: econ development equity, corporate reform. Past: @usatoday @mcall @vcstar @latimes. Bilingüe. 👋🏾 https://t.co/IeZLwfOR3o

Ventura, CA Katılım Mayıs 2008
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Arlene Martinez
Arlene Martinez@avmartinez·
Good questions to ask when a company comes looking for public money: would this project happen anyway (usually yes, research shows), what do residents get in return (as in, written into the contract, not claims in a press release) and on what could the money be used on instead?
Good Jobs First@GoodJobsFirst

What would Tampa Bay do with $2.3 billion? Would they fix more roads, upgrade and open more parks, give veterans more services, offer free childcare to working families? The possibilities are endless. What 10/10 probably wouldn't choose? Giving it to a billionaire sports owner.

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Ryan Goodman
Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw·
This is utterly extraordinary. If Hegseth et al got this wrong, think what else is happening with the drug boat strikes and much more. The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm. Gets worse as you read it. 1/
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Luke Goldstein
Luke Goldstein@lukewgoldstein·
what people mean by the rise of the Epstein class in a graphic
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Matt Stoller
Matt Stoller@matthewstoller·
People often scoff at government incompetence, big business is so much worse at everything.
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Austin Kocher, PhD
Austin Kocher, PhD@ackocher·
The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵
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J. Dale Shoemaker
J. Dale Shoemaker@JDale_Shoemaker·
A billionaire business associate of Jeffrey Epstein is bankrolling a massive data center campus here in Western NY. The man's work with Epstein? Restructuring financial holdings to avoid paying taxes. He now wants $1.4B in tax breaks for the data center. investigativepost.org/2026/03/19/dat…
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Zephyr Teachout
Zephyr Teachout@ZephyrTeachout·
I coined the terms "surveillance wages" and "surveillance prices" a few years back to try to wake people up to how totally dystopian the price and wage world we are entering is. SO gratifying to see state AGs now seeking outright bans and incredible grateful to @EmeritaTorresNY leading the fight In New. York. I believe we are going to ban surveillance prices in New York. Wages next.
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Warren Gunnels
Warren Gunnels@GunnelsWarren·
A 5% wealth tax on billionaires IS the compromise. Elon Musk Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2026: $825.5 billion Jeff Bezos Wealth 2012: $18 billion 2026: $234 billion Mark Zuckerberg Wealth 2012: $44 billion 2026: $218 billion Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 an hour 2026: $7.25 an hour
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Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein@robinsreport·
@unitehere @Shift_HKS @Kennedy_School 11/ There was also this line that "nobody wants to work anymore" which was almost completely untrue. Rather the evidence was that bosses didn't want to hire anyone anymore. Any yet that narrative never arose. Until now!
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Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein@robinsreport·
Jeez louise this is blowing up. If you are a worker who has experienced understaffing please DM me with your story. And someone please post this on r/antiwork!
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1/ As I reported my book, I noticed something that has completely changed American life: widespread chronic under-staffing. It leads to, among other things, deadly medication errors at pharmacies, flight delays, messy stores, and the crime wave. From me today @TheProspect

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Patchen Mortimer
Patchen Mortimer@patchdj·
This is a huge problem. The American people gave companies *tons* of grace during the pandemic, and they saw precisely how much slack they had and decided to take even more. I don't know the incentives to fix this, but unionization & making owners/managers miserable is a start.
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein@robinsreport

1/ As I reported my book, I noticed something that has completely changed American life: widespread chronic under-staffing. It leads to, among other things, deadly medication errors at pharmacies, flight delays, messy stores, and the crime wave. From me today @TheProspect

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Sophia Benoit
Sophia Benoit@1followernodad·
You read stuff like this (great article) and it’s like … Honestly, how did it take us so long to get here? The *obvious* route in a system like capitalism is to understaff and pass the cost of that choice onto the worker and the consumer.
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein@robinsreport

1/ As I reported my book, I noticed something that has completely changed American life: widespread chronic under-staffing. It leads to, among other things, deadly medication errors at pharmacies, flight delays, messy stores, and the crime wave. From me today @TheProspect

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The American Prospect
The American Prospect@TheProspect·
Millionaires are again threatening to flee NYC if Zohran Mamdani is elected, but progressives are calling their bluff. “It is sort of stunning how little people making over a million dollars a year migrate out of New York state.” From @robinsreport: trib.al/nyLo1oA
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Good Jobs First
Good Jobs First@GoodJobsFirst·
Join us 3/18 at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT, when we'll hear from city officials - including Denton, TX and Eugene, OR - about how they've increased engagement with communities around economic development incentives, and on a limited budget! Register here: bit.ly/modelwebinar
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ProPublica
ProPublica@propublica·
The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. Read more: propub.li/3P4KLbo
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Stephen Caruso
Stephen Caruso@StephenJ_Caruso·
“When you have predominantly multimillionaires who are making policy decisions for over 300 million Americans, those policy debates and discussions are distorted by the fact that the decision-makers are extremely wealthy individuals,”
Taylor Giorno@taylorgiorno_

The Senate is a millionaires club 💰 73% of senators have a median net worth of more than $1 million, compared to just 7% of the U.S. population! That's one of the many findings from Capitol Gains, a @NOTUSreports project all about wealth in Congress notus.org/capitol-gains/…

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American Economic Liberties Project
American Economic Liberties Project@econliberties·
Today's strike at one of the Big Four meatpackers underscores the harsh reality of the overconcentrated industry: CEOs and middlemen are getting rich, while workers are barely making ends meet. It's time to break up the Big Four meatpackers.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS

Nearly 4,000 meatpacking workers are on strike in Colorado — the first big strike the industry has seen in decades. They work for JBS, an immensely corrupt company that's harming U.S. consumers, and its own workers.

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Olivia Solon
Olivia Solon@oliviasolon·
“We value your privacy”
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