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Justin Pearson on data centers: We are being asked to sacrifice our drinking water to cool computers whose main use case is to take our jobs.

Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.

Reps. Pramila Jayapal, Chris Deluzio, and Pat Ryan have introduced a bill to break up meat monopolies. Good. Right now, 4 meat processing corporations control 80% of the market, allowing them to squeeze customers and farmers alike. Minimal competition means maximal price gouging.

How Farmers Are Getting Shafted By Monopolies | Robert Reich

Just 4 firms control 85% of the beef market, 66% of the pork market, and 54% of the poultry market.The result?-Lower pay

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Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.