[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@RBReich](/creator/twitter/RBReich) "The Senate will vote this week on whether to strip over a billion dollars in funding from public broadcasting and radio at Trumps direction. Why Because like every dictator he knows that his biggest enemy is an educated and informed public"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945502696280117570) 2025-07-16 15:16:03 UTC 1.5M followers, 63.6K engagements "FYI: Gutting funding for public media will cut off news sources for millions of Americans. Thats exactly what Trump wants: to exert even more control over the news and information that the public receives or doesnt even receive at all. Its a hallmark of dictatorship"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1944079349210124633) 2025-07-12 17:00:10 UTC 1.5M followers, 61.1K engagements "Never before in American history not even in wartime has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us while simultaneously preventing others Congress the courts the American people from having a say or even knowing what hes going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945219605812629654) 2025-07-15 20:31:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 61.8K engagements "We must be precise in calling out the Trump administration for what it is: a fascist regime"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945936701379039491) 2025-07-17 20:00:38 UTC 1.5M followers, 49.5K engagements "Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. Its been nothing short of a disaster"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1947069301275402669) 2025-07-20 23:01:10 UTC 1.5M followers, 75.6K engagements "By moving to the so-called center Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality economic insecurity and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. There is no more "center" anymore. Watch"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1944585140354641997) 2025-07-14 02:30:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 37.9K engagements "The DOJ just sued six corporate landlords for using algorithmic software to allegedly price-gouge millions of renters. Some like Camden Property Trust have even seen their profits skyrocket and spent millions on stock buybacks while engaged in this scheme. This is huge"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1877083102096261181) 2025-01-08 20:01:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 33K engagements "Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. Thats why Trump is attacking the Dept. of Education science and the arts to prevent us from learning. It's fascism"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945141496677634250) 2025-07-15 15:20:46 UTC 1.5M followers, 142.2K engagements "Targeting unions. Detaining labor leaders. Gutting worker protections. It's no coincidence Republicans are choosing to do this now. Attacking unions has always been a hallmark of fascism. Be warned"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945925218939105409) 2025-07-17 19:15:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 31.6K engagements "What do Rosie ODonnell Lula John Brennan and James Comey have in common"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945152477352833363) 2025-07-15 16:04:24 UTC 1.5M followers, 12.1K engagements "When I win I will immediately bring prices down starting on Day One"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1946284083879055576) 2025-07-18 19:01:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 154.5K engagements "In April The Biden-Harris Labor Department expanded overtime pay rules. Roughly XXX million more workers would have been eligible for OT pay under the new rule. A Trump-appointed judged blocked it yesterday. Go ahead and keep telling me that the GOP is the party of workers"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1857876797402083495) 2024-11-16 20:02:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 1.2M engagements "As Trump continues his nonsensical trade war know the truth: tariffs aren't paid by other countries. They're eventually paid by us at the checkout line"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1942978283923988843) 2025-07-09 16:04:56 UTC 1.5M followers, 26.3K engagements "The "pro-worker president" thinks workers should have fewer days off"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1935865560786780604) 2025-06-20 01:01:30 UTC 1.5M followers, 218K engagements "Immigrants are critical to our society. Theyre also critical to the American economy paying billions in taxes and boosting economic growth. The demagogues who say otherwise are just trying to divide us against each other to consolidate their own power. Don't fall for it"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1942282468746485856) 2025-07-07 18:00:01 UTC 1.5M followers, 89.7K engagements "Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1942625112370327720) 2025-07-08 16:41:33 UTC 1.5M followers, 120.4K engagements "Why is Trump so hell-bent on defunding PBS Its part of a larger plan one where he can control not just what we do but what we think. Watch:"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945091852866060668) 2025-07-15 12:03:30 UTC 1.5M followers, 1.2M engagements "Jeff Bezos is worth $XXX billion and is reportedly spending $XX million on a three-day wedding in Venice while sailing around on his $XXX million yacht. If he can afford to do that he can afford a wealth tax and to pay Amazon workers a living wage. Hello"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1937632118244270080) 2025-06-24 22:01:11 UTC 1.5M followers, 833.1K engagements "A record XX percent of American adults think immigration is good for the country according to a new Gallup poll. That's because immigration IS good for the country and our economy"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1943777319342268439) 2025-07-11 21:00:01 UTC 1.5M followers, 79.2K engagements "Since 1980 there have been over XXX weather disasters in the US with total damages over $X billion. These disasters have cost $XXX trillion in total and killed nearly 17000 people. Don't tell me we "can't afford" to address the climate crisis. The truth is we cant afford not to"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1942293827965812914) 2025-07-07 18:45:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 141.9K engagements "Ken Kies a former corporate lobbyist who helped the ultra-wealthy dodge taxes is now serving as the Treasury's top tax policy official and will write the rules implementing Trump's Big Ugly Bill. Government of by and for the corporate elite"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945208047363596689) 2025-07-15 19:45:13 UTC 1.5M followers, 18.6K engagements "This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode deficits 3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1944200148214546827) 2025-07-13 01:00:11 UTC 1.5M followers, 99.7K engagements "Im delighted to tell you that "The Last Class" a film about my final semester teaching is playing in XX theaters in XX states. Thankyoufor showing up to see the film for showing up for each other and for keeping up the fight. Find a screening:"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1946646503235174456) 2025-07-19 19:01:07 UTC 1.5M followers, 19.1K engagements "According to a new report defense contractors like Lockheed Martin Boeing and Raytheon have raked in over HALF of Pentagon spending since 2020. Trump's new $X trillion annual DoD budget will pad their pockets even further as he cuts the social safety net. War is a racket"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1943022644984504637) 2025-07-09 19:01:12 UTC 1.5M followers, 35K engagements "Trump's budget gives ICE more funds than most countries' militaries. ICE is now ramping up by offering signing bonuses. Meanwhile Trump is slashing education funding and closing the Dept. of Ed. XX% of teachers have spent their own money on school supplies. Priorities"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1946306758764314851) 2025-07-18 20:31:06 UTC 1.5M followers, 44.6K engagements "Trump's big ugly budget megabill gives ICE more cops than the FBI more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons and a larger budget than most countries' militaries. Once the bill is fully implemented nowhere in America will be safe from Trump's secret police state"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1944801279286358344) 2025-07-14 16:48:52 UTC 1.5M followers, 25K engagements "ICE detained a veteran and U.S. citizen for three days. They didnt let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didnt let him change or shower. They didnt give him a reason for his detention. Under this regime no one is safe"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254136200061222) 2025-07-18 17:02:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 751.8K engagements "Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; its the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945981945201963066) 2025-07-17 23:00:24 UTC 1.5M followers, 40.9K engagements "When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law and then executes on that promise it is the Judiciarys duty to check that lawlessness not expedite it. -Justice Sonia Sotomayor"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945242255666647421) 2025-07-15 22:01:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 145.1K engagements "Workers at the CFPB are sounding the alarm that the Trump administration has forbid them from doing their jobs. This is all part of a bigger plan to gut the Bureau so Wall Street will have an even easier time picking your pocket"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945959194286284813) 2025-07-17 21:30:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 24.1K engagements "ICE just got a XXX% detention funding boost. Palantir software is being used to create the federal governments first national citizenship data bank. The Trump regime is attacking naturalized citizens and birthright citizenship. Be warned Trumps police state is here"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1942350940977131642) 2025-07-07 22:32:06 UTC 1.5M followers, 99.2K engagements "Americans electricity bills are predicted to rise by as much as XX% over the next decade thanks to cuts to clean energy production in Trumps big ugly bill. Red states are likely to see the biggest increases. Trump put his Big Oil donors over his own voters"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1944811916657832210) 2025-07-14 17:31:08 UTC 1.5M followers, 48.6K engagements "I'm guessing Elon won't have a problem with this government spending"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1944842081845043546) 2025-07-14 19:31:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 54.5K engagements "Communities hit by natural disasters like the tragic Texas floods dont have the resources to rebuild on their own. Thats where FEMA comes in providing billions of dollars to help with search & rescue survivors needs and debris removal. Trump wants the agency gone"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1943037739969945936) 2025-07-09 20:01:11 UTC 1.5M followers, 26K engagements "The House just passed major crypto legislation that makes it even easier for Trump to balloon his crypto fortune. This is corruption in broad daylight"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1946240817737171069) 2025-07-18 16:09:05 UTC 1.5M followers, 47.5K engagements "MAGA is revolting over Jeffrey Epstein. Is it over for Trump"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1946601341150789855) 2025-07-19 16:01:40 UTC 1.5M followers, 37.9K engagements ""We are involved in a serious social revolution. By and large American politics is dominated by politicians who build their careers on immoral compromises and ally themselves with open forms of political economic and social exploitation." John Lewis March on Washington"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945997012282777699) 2025-07-18 00:00:17 UTC 1.5M followers, 17.4K engagements "The Trump regime is about to burn XXX tons of USAID emergency food. Why Because it expired after its shipment was delayed. XXX million children could have eaten for a week. Nowtaxpayers will spend $130K for it to be destroyed. This isnt just inefficient its cruel"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945230680113258519) 2025-07-15 21:15:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 118.8K engagements "An economy needs predictability. Investors wont invest consumers wont buy and producers wont produce if economic policies change on a whim. I haven't always agreed with Jerome Powell but the Fed's independence is vital. Trump doesn't care about this. He only cares about subservience"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945544322381697037) 2025-07-16 18:01:27 UTC 1.5M followers, 20.6K engagements "Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. Harry Truman 1952"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1937914964104114675) 2025-06-25 16:45:06 UTC 1.5M followers, 771.8K engagements "Surveillance pricing or as its sometimes called personalized pricing is another way for corporations to pull one over on you. Here to explain how it works (and what we can do about it) is former FTC chair Lina Khan"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1947038807431245938) 2025-07-20 21:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 29.9K engagements "Trump is pledging full support to Texas after its deadly floods and rightfully so. But California has yet to receive $XX billion in aid to rebuild from Januarys devastating wildfires. A president is supposed to govern for all Americans not just those who voted for him"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1943407655835341114) 2025-07-10 20:31:06 UTC 1.5M followers, 487K engagements "We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy freedom social justice & the rule of law. A new generation that gives meaning to the we in we the people. Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani the Democratic Party should embrace him as the future"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1943430319366934746) 2025-07-10 22:01:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 50.7K engagements "The next days and months and years will demand from all of us great courage and solidarity. Be prepared"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1946978412108595248) 2025-07-20 17:00:01 UTC 1.5M followers, 85.3K engagements "Tell me your health care system is broken without telling me your health care system is broken"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1946295191578488899) 2025-07-18 19:45:08 UTC 1.5M followers, 17.4K engagements "Why is Trump lashing out so hard against reports on his close ties to Jeffrey Epstein Perhaps because a majority of his own voters think the government is hiding information about the case. Heather and I discuss Trump's latest meltdown on today's Klatch"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1946583090689609741) 2025-07-19 14:49:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 21.2K engagements "Undocumented immigrants cant enroll in Medicaid. They can only ever access it temporarily when they need lifesaving medical care. This only makes people afraid to access the medical care theyre legally allowed to receive. But Trump doesnt care. His only goal is to sow fear"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1946676456706265391) 2025-07-19 21:00:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 77.7K engagements "As the Senate considers voting to approve Trump's devastating funding cuts to public broadcasting listen to the words of LeVar Burton. The Capitol switchboard is(202) 224-3121. Contact your senators today and urge them to oppose these cuts"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1944822192773939208) 2025-07-14 18:11:58 UTC 1.5M followers, 24.5K engagements "As corporate media bows to Trump public broadcasting has never been more important to our democracy. Public radio stations reach XX% of Americans. If they close millions lose access to critical news. Trump is trying to control not just what we do but what we know. Be warned"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1946272774697242814) 2025-07-18 18:16:04 UTC 1.5M followers, 38.1K engagements "ICE just became the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the entire country. Theres no telling what Trump is planning to unleash now"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1941512837060231483) 2025-07-05 15:01:46 UTC 1.5M followers, 141.5K engagements "Natural disasters cost the U.S. billions of dollars every year and are becoming more common. But the Trump regime suspended work on a NOAA tool aimed at helping prepare for future storms. Trump is declaring fake "emergencies" while gutting our ability to deal with real ones"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945902619727167814) 2025-07-17 17:45:12 UTC 1.5M followers, 13.8K engagements "As ICE terrorizes communities remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill. And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants. Cashing in on cruelty"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1942649921548558701) 2025-07-08 18:20:08 UTC 1.5M followers, 42.9K engagements "Trump's FTC approving the $36B Mars-Kellanova merger will lead to less competition in a food industry already dominated by a few price-gouging corporations. Reminder that Trump never actually cared about making groceries cheaper"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1938311299852890369) 2025-06-26 19:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 29.1K engagements ""The issue of government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government and economics or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women." FDR 1932"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1944532567782269264) 2025-07-13 23:01:06 UTC 1.5M followers, 33.9K engagements "15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1943384981075578928) 2025-07-10 19:01:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 173.4K engagements "Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone. Don't fall for it"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1944472174942687658) 2025-07-13 19:01:07 UTC 1.5M followers, 76.7K engagements ""The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR 1937"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945185376676544941) 2025-07-15 18:15:08 UTC 1.5M followers, 46.2K engagements "Throughout history tyrants have understood that their major enemy is an educated public. Trump is no different. Thats why hes trying to control not just what we do but what we think. Watch:"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1947099205991817580) 2025-07-21 01:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 30.9K engagements "Medicare for All - "That's socialism" Social Security - "That's socialism" Debt free education - "That's socialism" Universal childcare - "That's socialism" $X trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy. "That's just how it is.""  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1940085775795737076) 2025-07-01 16:31:08 UTC 1.5M followers, 966.1K engagements "The Senate just passed Trump's request to cut $XXX billion in federal funding for public broadcasting. Why is Trump so hell-bent on gutting funds for PBS and NPR Its part of a larger plan one where he can control not just what we do but what we think"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945858688704545112) 2025-07-17 14:50:38 UTC 1.5M followers, 134.2K engagements "Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars who refuse to show their faces will arrest you because of the color of your skin or even because you spoke out against Trump. And Republicans in Congress just boosted their funding. Call it what it is. It's fascism"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1944887920755671353) 2025-07-14 22:33:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 75.4K engagements "Our unaccountable Supreme Court gave our unaccountable president the power to effectively end the Department of Education. And it did so without any explanation because the case came through its secretive shadow docket. SCOTUS is rubber-stamping Trumps authoritarian regime"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1946616064583815178) 2025-07-19 17:00:10 UTC 1.5M followers, 124.6K engagements "Trumps EPA has: -Killed $XX million in research into forever chemicals in farmlands -Attempted to roll back forever chemical limits in drinking water -Delayed rules requiring corporations to report their forever chemical usage How does this make America healthy again"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945947920152342710) 2025-07-17 20:45:12 UTC 1.5M followers, 27K engagements "Democrats cannot win back working class voters with corporate backed politicians. The path forward is paved by leaders like @ZohranKMamdani who stand up to the oligarchy and fight to make life affordable for working people"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1944864480971936161) 2025-07-14 21:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 145.7K engagements "RFK Jr. just fired thousands of federal workers at crucial health agencies including the FDA CDC and NIH. These are the people who inspect our food track infectious diseases and research life-saving treatments and cures. How is this "Making America Healthy Again""  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945551784220512684) 2025-07-16 18:31:06 UTC 1.5M followers, 125K engagements "The House is expected to take up industry backed crypto "regulation" this week that does nothing to address Trump's own crypto investments. This leaves the door open to quid pro quos and grift from the most self-dealing president in American history. Legalized corruption"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1944853205105426464) 2025-07-14 20:15:12 UTC 1.5M followers, 24.2K engagements "Anyone wanting to understand the brouhaha over Pam Bondis refusal to turnover (or even acknowledge) the Epstein files need look no further than what the Supreme Court just did. Let me explain"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945869994446799226) 2025-07-17 15:35:33 UTC 1.5M followers, 13.9K engagements "To be sure both parties have supported ICE in the past. But Trump has given ICE more cops than the FBI more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons and a larger budget than most countries' militaries. This isnt business as usual. This is a fast track to full-blown dictatorship"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945970558153130369) 2025-07-17 22:15:10 UTC 1.5M followers, 57.3K engagements "Fairshake a major crypto Super PAC says it has more than $140M in its war chest to spend on the 2026 midterm elections. This already eclipses the $134M the crypto industry spent in 2024 to buy itself a subservient Congress and White House"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945196668242059445) 2025-07-15 19:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 14.2K engagements "72% of people swept up in Trumps immigration raids have no criminal record. That includes at least XXX people detained in deplorable conditions in his Alligator Alcatraz in Florida. This was never about targeting criminals. It was always about terrorizing immigrants"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1944898510165348615) 2025-07-14 23:15:13 UTC 1.5M followers, 88K engagements "ICE just got a XXX% detention funding boost. Palantir software is being used to create the federal governments first national citizenship data bank. The Trump regime is attacking naturalized citizens and birthright citizenship. Be warned Trumps police state is here"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1947008638502993967) 2025-07-20 19:00:07 UTC 1.5M followers, 100.8K engagements "As Trump slashes NOAA and the National Weather Service several of his appointees including Howard Lutnick have close financial ties to companies that would profit from privatizing weather forecasting. Everything is for sale"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1943766023343054926) 2025-07-11 20:15:08 UTC 1.5M followers, 54.6K engagements "Delta Airlines reportedly wants to use AI to set individualized ticket prices for passengers. It's the latest company to embrace a shady tactic called "surveillance pricing" that weaponizes your personal data. Watch Lina Khan explain how it works"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945601838457454997) 2025-07-16 21:50:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 419.3K engagements "Trump and his cronies claim they support immigration as long as its done legally. But today thousands of Afghans in the U.S. lose their Temporary Protected Status. Theyre here legally and would be targeted by the Taliban if they had to return home. The cruelty is the point"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1944875859325685786) 2025-07-14 21:45:13 UTC 1.5M followers, 73.9K engagements "Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution or were brought to America under duress or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1944782722360107243) 2025-07-14 15:35:07 UTC 1.5M followers, 90.1K engagements "As Trump's family businesses invest heavily in crypto. -He's instructing the government to ease up on regulating the industry -His SEC is dropping major lawsuits against crypto companies -His DOJ terminated a team focused on crypto crimes. See the problem"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1943698431463067990) 2025-07-11 15:46:32 UTC 1.5M followers, 73.9K engagements "We hear that immigrants are "freeloaders" yet they're being arrested at their workplaces and LA's economy is floundering without them. Hello"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1943754955375968325) 2025-07-11 19:31:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 99.6K engagements "Under Reagan's tax cuts the average tax cut for the top X% was 68x larger than the average cut for middle-class households. Under Bush's tax cuts it was 16x larger. And under Trump 36x larger. The GOP has always governed for the privileged few"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1944562765982556163) 2025-07-14 01:01:06 UTC 1.5M followers, 111K engagements "That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress our allies or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they Hello"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1936634041467351157) 2025-06-22 03:55:11 UTC 1.5M followers, 442.9K engagements "Inflation rose in June as Trump's tariffs contributed to price increases. As I've been saying tariffs aren't paid by other countries. They're eventually paid by us at the checkout line"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945164628188700858) 2025-07-15 16:52:41 UTC 1.5M followers, 42.2K engagements "The price of Huggies diapers went up X% between April- June. Inflation right Wrong. Kimberly-Clark the maker of Huggies reported that the cost to make its products *fell* by $XX million. They took the money and ran banking $XXX million in operating profits in Q3 2023"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1725627385041592720) 2023-11-17 21:30:03 UTC 1.5M followers, 960.4K engagements ""A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." The Declaration of Independence"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1941316374808162670) 2025-07-05 02:01:06 UTC 1.5M followers, 77.5K engagements "A U.S. citizen and former Marine detained. A 15-year-old boy with no criminal record held at "Alligator Alcatraz." A father who has lived here for XX years. No criminal record. Still held by ICE after nearly X months. We are witnessing the cruelty of Trump's police state"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1946736853551391087) 2025-07-20 01:00:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 335.4K engagements "Reminder that Paramount needs approval from the FCC to be acquired by Skydance a media company founded by the son of billionaire Trump-backer Larry Ellison. Always follow the money"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1946223298758496401) 2025-07-18 14:59:28 UTC 1.5M followers, 146K engagements "The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.Will we listen to his words today"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1943348607920267425) 2025-07-10 16:36:28 UTC 1.5M followers, 144.9K engagements "As Trump and his allies in Congress try to gut public funding for PBS watch this 1971 clip of Rev. Jesse Jackson and the kids of Sesame Street. This is why we need public broadcasting"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945559255357989275) 2025-07-16 19:00:47 UTC 1.5M followers, 227K engagements "A Trump-appointed judge overturned a Biden-era rule that removed medical debt from credit reports. The ruling came days after Republicans voted to kick millions of Americans off healthcare which will likely cause medical debt to skyrocket. A perfect storm of cruelty"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945612650651472375) 2025-07-16 22:32:58 UTC 1.5M followers, 61.2K engagements "Trump is firing immigration judges. His regime is ending "temporary protected status" for thousands of people here legally. ICE is arresting asylum seekers at their hearings. The DOJ is threatening to strip immigrants of their citizenship. Trump never actually supported "legal immigration.""  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945591593492165060) 2025-07-16 21:09:17 UTC 1.5M followers, 37.5K engagements "Two days after the deadly Texas floods FEMA struggled to answer calls from survivors to its disaster assistance line. Why Because hundreds of employees who answered phones were fired after Kristi Noem didn't approve new contracts. "Efficiency.""  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1944831825035088197) 2025-07-14 18:50:14 UTC 1.5M followers, 19.4K engagements "Protecting us from financial predators. Keeping our air and water clean. Making sure our food wont make us sick. Regulations help keep us all safe. So why is Trump gutting so many of them Hint: follow the money"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1944502097359106490) 2025-07-13 21:00:01 UTC 1.5M followers, 32.2K engagements "trickle down economics trickle down economic trickle down economi trickle down econom trickle down econo trickle down econ trickle down eco trickle down ec trickle down e trickle down trickle dow trickle do trickle d trickle trickl trick"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1939809979814297792) 2025-06-30 22:15:13 UTC 1.5M followers, 1.7M engagements "Giving tax breaks to the wealthy and big corporations. Slashing Medicaid and SNAP. Gutting worker and consumer financial protections. Eviscerating safety and pollution regulations. Trump's agenda is for the oligarchs not the people"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1946317805630144983) 2025-07-18 21:15:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 38.5K engagements "Im old enough to remember when corporate lobbyists started taking over Capitol Hill and swarming lawmakers. Now The lobbying business is all about sucking up to Trump like he's Louis XIV"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1946263719433916692) 2025-07-18 17:40:05 UTC 1.5M followers, 13.7K engagements "Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans often equate nationalism with patriotism. But this couldnt be further from the truth"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1941995575194366057) 2025-07-06 23:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 29.8K engagements "Private equity has fueled the nationwide housing crisis. Now the industry is looking to get its hands on everything from youth sports leagues to your 401k. Here's what you should know about the investors making your life worse"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1946706617753534746) 2025-07-19 23:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 29.9K engagements "Republicans in Congress have structured the most painful benefit cuts in their budget bill to kick in AFTER the 2026 midterms. But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy Those begin immediately. Remember this"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1944109785432904191) 2025-07-12 19:01:07 UTC 1.5M followers, 35.5K engagements "Trump's mismanagement of the economy especially when it comes to his tariffs could do major damage to the country. His incompetence shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. He's running the country like he ran his businesses into the ground"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1944049111994360057) 2025-07-12 15:00:01 UTC 1.5M followers, 54.6K engagements "Trump is conducting an authoritarian witch hunt against universities and foreign students simply because theyve engaged in free speech that his regime doesnt like. This is an attack on the First Amendment and we must all stand up against it"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1944442144996917422) 2025-07-13 17:01:48 UTC 1.5M followers, 52.8K engagements "More than XXX rural hospitals could close due to Trump/Republican Medicaid cuts. Rural areas will also be hit especially hard by food stamp cuts. And public broadcasting stations in rural areas could shut down if the Senate passes its rescission bill. I thought Republicans loved rural America"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945518814575177751) 2025-07-16 16:20:06 UTC 1.5M followers, 17K engagements "Gutting funding for public media will cut off news sources for millions of Americans. Thats exactly what Trump wants: to exert even more control over the news and information that the public receives or doesnt even receive at all. Its a hallmark of dictatorship"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1945879300072190427) 2025-07-17 16:12:32 UTC 1.5M followers, 82.6K engagements "The XX richest Republican members of Congress have a net worth of $XXX billion. They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich. Meanwhile they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents"  [@RBReich](/creator/x/RBReich) on [X](/post/tweet/1939428943141990753) 2025-06-29 21:01:07 UTC 1.5M followers, 134.8K engagements
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"The Senate will vote this week on whether to strip over a billion dollars in funding from public broadcasting and radio at Trumps direction. Why Because like every dictator he knows that his biggest enemy is an educated and informed public"
@RBReich on X 2025-07-16 15:16:03 UTC 1.5M followers, 63.6K engagements
"FYI: Gutting funding for public media will cut off news sources for millions of Americans. Thats exactly what Trump wants: to exert even more control over the news and information that the public receives or doesnt even receive at all. Its a hallmark of dictatorship" @RBReich on X 2025-07-12 17:00:10 UTC 1.5M followers, 61.1K engagements
"Never before in American history not even in wartime has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us while simultaneously preventing others Congress the courts the American people from having a say or even knowing what hes going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like" @RBReich on X 2025-07-15 20:31:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 61.8K engagements
"We must be precise in calling out the Trump administration for what it is: a fascist regime" @RBReich on X 2025-07-17 20:00:38 UTC 1.5M followers, 49.5K engagements
"Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. Its been nothing short of a disaster" @RBReich on X 2025-07-20 23:01:10 UTC 1.5M followers, 75.6K engagements
"By moving to the so-called center Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality economic insecurity and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. There is no more "center" anymore. Watch" @RBReich on X 2025-07-14 02:30:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 37.9K engagements
"The DOJ just sued six corporate landlords for using algorithmic software to allegedly price-gouge millions of renters. Some like Camden Property Trust have even seen their profits skyrocket and spent millions on stock buybacks while engaged in this scheme. This is huge" @RBReich on X 2025-01-08 20:01:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 33K engagements
"Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. Thats why Trump is attacking the Dept. of Education science and the arts to prevent us from learning. It's fascism" @RBReich on X 2025-07-15 15:20:46 UTC 1.5M followers, 142.2K engagements
"Targeting unions. Detaining labor leaders. Gutting worker protections. It's no coincidence Republicans are choosing to do this now. Attacking unions has always been a hallmark of fascism. Be warned" @RBReich on X 2025-07-17 19:15:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 31.6K engagements
"What do Rosie ODonnell Lula John Brennan and James Comey have in common" @RBReich on X 2025-07-15 16:04:24 UTC 1.5M followers, 12.1K engagements
"When I win I will immediately bring prices down starting on Day One" @RBReich on X 2025-07-18 19:01:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 154.5K engagements
"In April The Biden-Harris Labor Department expanded overtime pay rules. Roughly XXX million more workers would have been eligible for OT pay under the new rule. A Trump-appointed judged blocked it yesterday. Go ahead and keep telling me that the GOP is the party of workers" @RBReich on X 2024-11-16 20:02:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 1.2M engagements
"As Trump continues his nonsensical trade war know the truth: tariffs aren't paid by other countries. They're eventually paid by us at the checkout line" @RBReich on X 2025-07-09 16:04:56 UTC 1.5M followers, 26.3K engagements
"The "pro-worker president" thinks workers should have fewer days off" @RBReich on X 2025-06-20 01:01:30 UTC 1.5M followers, 218K engagements
"Immigrants are critical to our society. Theyre also critical to the American economy paying billions in taxes and boosting economic growth. The demagogues who say otherwise are just trying to divide us against each other to consolidate their own power. Don't fall for it" @RBReich on X 2025-07-07 18:00:01 UTC 1.5M followers, 89.7K engagements
"Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity" @RBReich on X 2025-07-08 16:41:33 UTC 1.5M followers, 120.4K engagements
"Why is Trump so hell-bent on defunding PBS Its part of a larger plan one where he can control not just what we do but what we think. Watch:" @RBReich on X 2025-07-15 12:03:30 UTC 1.5M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Jeff Bezos is worth $XXX billion and is reportedly spending $XX million on a three-day wedding in Venice while sailing around on his $XXX million yacht. If he can afford to do that he can afford a wealth tax and to pay Amazon workers a living wage. Hello" @RBReich on X 2025-06-24 22:01:11 UTC 1.5M followers, 833.1K engagements
"A record XX percent of American adults think immigration is good for the country according to a new Gallup poll. That's because immigration IS good for the country and our economy" @RBReich on X 2025-07-11 21:00:01 UTC 1.5M followers, 79.2K engagements
"Since 1980 there have been over XXX weather disasters in the US with total damages over $X billion. These disasters have cost $XXX trillion in total and killed nearly 17000 people. Don't tell me we "can't afford" to address the climate crisis. The truth is we cant afford not to" @RBReich on X 2025-07-07 18:45:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 141.9K engagements
"Ken Kies a former corporate lobbyist who helped the ultra-wealthy dodge taxes is now serving as the Treasury's top tax policy official and will write the rules implementing Trump's Big Ugly Bill. Government of by and for the corporate elite" @RBReich on X 2025-07-15 19:45:13 UTC 1.5M followers, 18.6K engagements
"This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode deficits 3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat" @RBReich on X 2025-07-13 01:00:11 UTC 1.5M followers, 99.7K engagements
"Im delighted to tell you that "The Last Class" a film about my final semester teaching is playing in XX theaters in XX states. Thankyoufor showing up to see the film for showing up for each other and for keeping up the fight. Find a screening:" @RBReich on X 2025-07-19 19:01:07 UTC 1.5M followers, 19.1K engagements
"According to a new report defense contractors like Lockheed Martin Boeing and Raytheon have raked in over HALF of Pentagon spending since 2020. Trump's new $X trillion annual DoD budget will pad their pockets even further as he cuts the social safety net. War is a racket" @RBReich on X 2025-07-09 19:01:12 UTC 1.5M followers, 35K engagements
"Trump's budget gives ICE more funds than most countries' militaries. ICE is now ramping up by offering signing bonuses. Meanwhile Trump is slashing education funding and closing the Dept. of Ed. XX% of teachers have spent their own money on school supplies. Priorities" @RBReich on X 2025-07-18 20:31:06 UTC 1.5M followers, 44.6K engagements
"Trump's big ugly budget megabill gives ICE more cops than the FBI more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons and a larger budget than most countries' militaries. Once the bill is fully implemented nowhere in America will be safe from Trump's secret police state" @RBReich on X 2025-07-14 16:48:52 UTC 1.5M followers, 25K engagements
"ICE detained a veteran and U.S. citizen for three days. They didnt let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didnt let him change or shower. They didnt give him a reason for his detention. Under this regime no one is safe" @RBReich on X 2025-07-18 17:02:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 751.8K engagements
"Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; its the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way" @RBReich on X 2025-07-17 23:00:24 UTC 1.5M followers, 40.9K engagements
"When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law and then executes on that promise it is the Judiciarys duty to check that lawlessness not expedite it. -Justice Sonia Sotomayor" @RBReich on X 2025-07-15 22:01:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 145.1K engagements
"Workers at the CFPB are sounding the alarm that the Trump administration has forbid them from doing their jobs. This is all part of a bigger plan to gut the Bureau so Wall Street will have an even easier time picking your pocket" @RBReich on X 2025-07-17 21:30:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 24.1K engagements
"ICE just got a XXX% detention funding boost. Palantir software is being used to create the federal governments first national citizenship data bank. The Trump regime is attacking naturalized citizens and birthright citizenship. Be warned Trumps police state is here" @RBReich on X 2025-07-07 22:32:06 UTC 1.5M followers, 99.2K engagements
"Americans electricity bills are predicted to rise by as much as XX% over the next decade thanks to cuts to clean energy production in Trumps big ugly bill. Red states are likely to see the biggest increases. Trump put his Big Oil donors over his own voters" @RBReich on X 2025-07-14 17:31:08 UTC 1.5M followers, 48.6K engagements
"I'm guessing Elon won't have a problem with this government spending" @RBReich on X 2025-07-14 19:31:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 54.5K engagements
"Communities hit by natural disasters like the tragic Texas floods dont have the resources to rebuild on their own. Thats where FEMA comes in providing billions of dollars to help with search & rescue survivors needs and debris removal. Trump wants the agency gone" @RBReich on X 2025-07-09 20:01:11 UTC 1.5M followers, 26K engagements
"The House just passed major crypto legislation that makes it even easier for Trump to balloon his crypto fortune. This is corruption in broad daylight" @RBReich on X 2025-07-18 16:09:05 UTC 1.5M followers, 47.5K engagements
"MAGA is revolting over Jeffrey Epstein. Is it over for Trump" @RBReich on X 2025-07-19 16:01:40 UTC 1.5M followers, 37.9K engagements
""We are involved in a serious social revolution. By and large American politics is dominated by politicians who build their careers on immoral compromises and ally themselves with open forms of political economic and social exploitation." John Lewis March on Washington" @RBReich on X 2025-07-18 00:00:17 UTC 1.5M followers, 17.4K engagements
"The Trump regime is about to burn XXX tons of USAID emergency food. Why Because it expired after its shipment was delayed. XXX million children could have eaten for a week. Nowtaxpayers will spend $130K for it to be destroyed. This isnt just inefficient its cruel" @RBReich on X 2025-07-15 21:15:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 118.8K engagements
"An economy needs predictability. Investors wont invest consumers wont buy and producers wont produce if economic policies change on a whim. I haven't always agreed with Jerome Powell but the Fed's independence is vital. Trump doesn't care about this. He only cares about subservience" @RBReich on X 2025-07-16 18:01:27 UTC 1.5M followers, 20.6K engagements
"Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. Harry Truman 1952" @RBReich on X 2025-06-25 16:45:06 UTC 1.5M followers, 771.8K engagements
"Surveillance pricing or as its sometimes called personalized pricing is another way for corporations to pull one over on you. Here to explain how it works (and what we can do about it) is former FTC chair Lina Khan" @RBReich on X 2025-07-20 21:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 29.9K engagements
"Trump is pledging full support to Texas after its deadly floods and rightfully so. But California has yet to receive $XX billion in aid to rebuild from Januarys devastating wildfires. A president is supposed to govern for all Americans not just those who voted for him" @RBReich on X 2025-07-10 20:31:06 UTC 1.5M followers, 487K engagements
"We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy freedom social justice & the rule of law. A new generation that gives meaning to the we in we the people. Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani the Democratic Party should embrace him as the future" @RBReich on X 2025-07-10 22:01:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 50.7K engagements
"The next days and months and years will demand from all of us great courage and solidarity. Be prepared" @RBReich on X 2025-07-20 17:00:01 UTC 1.5M followers, 85.3K engagements
"Tell me your health care system is broken without telling me your health care system is broken" @RBReich on X 2025-07-18 19:45:08 UTC 1.5M followers, 17.4K engagements
"Why is Trump lashing out so hard against reports on his close ties to Jeffrey Epstein Perhaps because a majority of his own voters think the government is hiding information about the case. Heather and I discuss Trump's latest meltdown on today's Klatch" @RBReich on X 2025-07-19 14:49:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 21.2K engagements
"Undocumented immigrants cant enroll in Medicaid. They can only ever access it temporarily when they need lifesaving medical care. This only makes people afraid to access the medical care theyre legally allowed to receive. But Trump doesnt care. His only goal is to sow fear" @RBReich on X 2025-07-19 21:00:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 77.7K engagements
"As the Senate considers voting to approve Trump's devastating funding cuts to public broadcasting listen to the words of LeVar Burton. The Capitol switchboard is(202) 224-3121. Contact your senators today and urge them to oppose these cuts" @RBReich on X 2025-07-14 18:11:58 UTC 1.5M followers, 24.5K engagements
"As corporate media bows to Trump public broadcasting has never been more important to our democracy. Public radio stations reach XX% of Americans. If they close millions lose access to critical news. Trump is trying to control not just what we do but what we know. Be warned" @RBReich on X 2025-07-18 18:16:04 UTC 1.5M followers, 38.1K engagements
"ICE just became the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the entire country. Theres no telling what Trump is planning to unleash now" @RBReich on X 2025-07-05 15:01:46 UTC 1.5M followers, 141.5K engagements
"Natural disasters cost the U.S. billions of dollars every year and are becoming more common. But the Trump regime suspended work on a NOAA tool aimed at helping prepare for future storms. Trump is declaring fake "emergencies" while gutting our ability to deal with real ones" @RBReich on X 2025-07-17 17:45:12 UTC 1.5M followers, 13.8K engagements
"As ICE terrorizes communities remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill. And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants. Cashing in on cruelty" @RBReich on X 2025-07-08 18:20:08 UTC 1.5M followers, 42.9K engagements
"Trump's FTC approving the $36B Mars-Kellanova merger will lead to less competition in a food industry already dominated by a few price-gouging corporations. Reminder that Trump never actually cared about making groceries cheaper" @RBReich on X 2025-06-26 19:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 29.1K engagements
""The issue of government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government and economics or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women." FDR 1932" @RBReich on X 2025-07-13 23:01:06 UTC 1.5M followers, 33.9K engagements
"15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day" @RBReich on X 2025-07-10 19:01:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 173.4K engagements
"Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone. Don't fall for it" @RBReich on X 2025-07-13 19:01:07 UTC 1.5M followers, 76.7K engagements
""The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR 1937" @RBReich on X 2025-07-15 18:15:08 UTC 1.5M followers, 46.2K engagements
"Throughout history tyrants have understood that their major enemy is an educated public. Trump is no different. Thats why hes trying to control not just what we do but what we think. Watch:" @RBReich on X 2025-07-21 01:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 30.9K engagements
"Medicare for All - "That's socialism" Social Security - "That's socialism" Debt free education - "That's socialism" Universal childcare - "That's socialism" $X trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy. "That's just how it is."" @RBReich on X 2025-07-01 16:31:08 UTC 1.5M followers, 966.1K engagements
"The Senate just passed Trump's request to cut $XXX billion in federal funding for public broadcasting. Why is Trump so hell-bent on gutting funds for PBS and NPR Its part of a larger plan one where he can control not just what we do but what we think" @RBReich on X 2025-07-17 14:50:38 UTC 1.5M followers, 134.2K engagements
"Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars who refuse to show their faces will arrest you because of the color of your skin or even because you spoke out against Trump. And Republicans in Congress just boosted their funding. Call it what it is. It's fascism" @RBReich on X 2025-07-14 22:33:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 75.4K engagements
"Our unaccountable Supreme Court gave our unaccountable president the power to effectively end the Department of Education. And it did so without any explanation because the case came through its secretive shadow docket. SCOTUS is rubber-stamping Trumps authoritarian regime" @RBReich on X 2025-07-19 17:00:10 UTC 1.5M followers, 124.6K engagements
"Trumps EPA has: -Killed $XX million in research into forever chemicals in farmlands -Attempted to roll back forever chemical limits in drinking water -Delayed rules requiring corporations to report their forever chemical usage How does this make America healthy again" @RBReich on X 2025-07-17 20:45:12 UTC 1.5M followers, 27K engagements
"Democrats cannot win back working class voters with corporate backed politicians. The path forward is paved by leaders like @ZohranKMamdani who stand up to the oligarchy and fight to make life affordable for working people" @RBReich on X 2025-07-14 21:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 145.7K engagements
"RFK Jr. just fired thousands of federal workers at crucial health agencies including the FDA CDC and NIH. These are the people who inspect our food track infectious diseases and research life-saving treatments and cures. How is this "Making America Healthy Again"" @RBReich on X 2025-07-16 18:31:06 UTC 1.5M followers, 125K engagements
"The House is expected to take up industry backed crypto "regulation" this week that does nothing to address Trump's own crypto investments. This leaves the door open to quid pro quos and grift from the most self-dealing president in American history. Legalized corruption" @RBReich on X 2025-07-14 20:15:12 UTC 1.5M followers, 24.2K engagements
"Anyone wanting to understand the brouhaha over Pam Bondis refusal to turnover (or even acknowledge) the Epstein files need look no further than what the Supreme Court just did. Let me explain" @RBReich on X 2025-07-17 15:35:33 UTC 1.5M followers, 13.9K engagements
"To be sure both parties have supported ICE in the past. But Trump has given ICE more cops than the FBI more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons and a larger budget than most countries' militaries. This isnt business as usual. This is a fast track to full-blown dictatorship" @RBReich on X 2025-07-17 22:15:10 UTC 1.5M followers, 57.3K engagements
"Fairshake a major crypto Super PAC says it has more than $140M in its war chest to spend on the 2026 midterm elections. This already eclipses the $134M the crypto industry spent in 2024 to buy itself a subservient Congress and White House" @RBReich on X 2025-07-15 19:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 14.2K engagements
"72% of people swept up in Trumps immigration raids have no criminal record. That includes at least XXX people detained in deplorable conditions in his Alligator Alcatraz in Florida. This was never about targeting criminals. It was always about terrorizing immigrants" @RBReich on X 2025-07-14 23:15:13 UTC 1.5M followers, 88K engagements
"ICE just got a XXX% detention funding boost. Palantir software is being used to create the federal governments first national citizenship data bank. The Trump regime is attacking naturalized citizens and birthright citizenship. Be warned Trumps police state is here" @RBReich on X 2025-07-20 19:00:07 UTC 1.5M followers, 100.8K engagements
"As Trump slashes NOAA and the National Weather Service several of his appointees including Howard Lutnick have close financial ties to companies that would profit from privatizing weather forecasting. Everything is for sale" @RBReich on X 2025-07-11 20:15:08 UTC 1.5M followers, 54.6K engagements
"Delta Airlines reportedly wants to use AI to set individualized ticket prices for passengers. It's the latest company to embrace a shady tactic called "surveillance pricing" that weaponizes your personal data. Watch Lina Khan explain how it works" @RBReich on X 2025-07-16 21:50:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 419.3K engagements
"Trump and his cronies claim they support immigration as long as its done legally. But today thousands of Afghans in the U.S. lose their Temporary Protected Status. Theyre here legally and would be targeted by the Taliban if they had to return home. The cruelty is the point" @RBReich on X 2025-07-14 21:45:13 UTC 1.5M followers, 73.9K engagements
"Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution or were brought to America under duress or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not" @RBReich on X 2025-07-14 15:35:07 UTC 1.5M followers, 90.1K engagements
"As Trump's family businesses invest heavily in crypto. -He's instructing the government to ease up on regulating the industry -His SEC is dropping major lawsuits against crypto companies -His DOJ terminated a team focused on crypto crimes. See the problem" @RBReich on X 2025-07-11 15:46:32 UTC 1.5M followers, 73.9K engagements
"We hear that immigrants are "freeloaders" yet they're being arrested at their workplaces and LA's economy is floundering without them. Hello" @RBReich on X 2025-07-11 19:31:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 99.6K engagements
"Under Reagan's tax cuts the average tax cut for the top X% was 68x larger than the average cut for middle-class households. Under Bush's tax cuts it was 16x larger. And under Trump 36x larger. The GOP has always governed for the privileged few" @RBReich on X 2025-07-14 01:01:06 UTC 1.5M followers, 111K engagements
"That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress our allies or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they Hello" @RBReich on X 2025-06-22 03:55:11 UTC 1.5M followers, 442.9K engagements
"Inflation rose in June as Trump's tariffs contributed to price increases. As I've been saying tariffs aren't paid by other countries. They're eventually paid by us at the checkout line" @RBReich on X 2025-07-15 16:52:41 UTC 1.5M followers, 42.2K engagements
"The price of Huggies diapers went up X% between April- June. Inflation right Wrong. Kimberly-Clark the maker of Huggies reported that the cost to make its products fell by $XX million. They took the money and ran banking $XXX million in operating profits in Q3 2023" @RBReich on X 2023-11-17 21:30:03 UTC 1.5M followers, 960.4K engagements
""A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." The Declaration of Independence" @RBReich on X 2025-07-05 02:01:06 UTC 1.5M followers, 77.5K engagements
"A U.S. citizen and former Marine detained. A 15-year-old boy with no criminal record held at "Alligator Alcatraz." A father who has lived here for XX years. No criminal record. Still held by ICE after nearly X months. We are witnessing the cruelty of Trump's police state" @RBReich on X 2025-07-20 01:00:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 335.4K engagements
"Reminder that Paramount needs approval from the FCC to be acquired by Skydance a media company founded by the son of billionaire Trump-backer Larry Ellison. Always follow the money" @RBReich on X 2025-07-18 14:59:28 UTC 1.5M followers, 146K engagements
"The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.Will we listen to his words today" @RBReich on X 2025-07-10 16:36:28 UTC 1.5M followers, 144.9K engagements
"As Trump and his allies in Congress try to gut public funding for PBS watch this 1971 clip of Rev. Jesse Jackson and the kids of Sesame Street. This is why we need public broadcasting" @RBReich on X 2025-07-16 19:00:47 UTC 1.5M followers, 227K engagements
"A Trump-appointed judge overturned a Biden-era rule that removed medical debt from credit reports. The ruling came days after Republicans voted to kick millions of Americans off healthcare which will likely cause medical debt to skyrocket. A perfect storm of cruelty" @RBReich on X 2025-07-16 22:32:58 UTC 1.5M followers, 61.2K engagements
"Trump is firing immigration judges. His regime is ending "temporary protected status" for thousands of people here legally. ICE is arresting asylum seekers at their hearings. The DOJ is threatening to strip immigrants of their citizenship. Trump never actually supported "legal immigration."" @RBReich on X 2025-07-16 21:09:17 UTC 1.5M followers, 37.5K engagements
"Two days after the deadly Texas floods FEMA struggled to answer calls from survivors to its disaster assistance line. Why Because hundreds of employees who answered phones were fired after Kristi Noem didn't approve new contracts. "Efficiency."" @RBReich on X 2025-07-14 18:50:14 UTC 1.5M followers, 19.4K engagements
"Protecting us from financial predators. Keeping our air and water clean. Making sure our food wont make us sick. Regulations help keep us all safe. So why is Trump gutting so many of them Hint: follow the money" @RBReich on X 2025-07-13 21:00:01 UTC 1.5M followers, 32.2K engagements
"trickle down economics trickle down economic trickle down economi trickle down econom trickle down econo trickle down econ trickle down eco trickle down ec trickle down e trickle down trickle dow trickle do trickle d trickle trickl trick" @RBReich on X 2025-06-30 22:15:13 UTC 1.5M followers, 1.7M engagements
"Giving tax breaks to the wealthy and big corporations. Slashing Medicaid and SNAP. Gutting worker and consumer financial protections. Eviscerating safety and pollution regulations. Trump's agenda is for the oligarchs not the people" @RBReich on X 2025-07-18 21:15:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 38.5K engagements
"Im old enough to remember when corporate lobbyists started taking over Capitol Hill and swarming lawmakers. Now The lobbying business is all about sucking up to Trump like he's Louis XIV" @RBReich on X 2025-07-18 17:40:05 UTC 1.5M followers, 13.7K engagements
"Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans often equate nationalism with patriotism. But this couldnt be further from the truth" @RBReich on X 2025-07-06 23:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 29.8K engagements
"Private equity has fueled the nationwide housing crisis. Now the industry is looking to get its hands on everything from youth sports leagues to your 401k. Here's what you should know about the investors making your life worse" @RBReich on X 2025-07-19 23:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 29.9K engagements
"Republicans in Congress have structured the most painful benefit cuts in their budget bill to kick in AFTER the 2026 midterms. But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy Those begin immediately. Remember this" @RBReich on X 2025-07-12 19:01:07 UTC 1.5M followers, 35.5K engagements
"Trump's mismanagement of the economy especially when it comes to his tariffs could do major damage to the country. His incompetence shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. He's running the country like he ran his businesses into the ground" @RBReich on X 2025-07-12 15:00:01 UTC 1.5M followers, 54.6K engagements
"Trump is conducting an authoritarian witch hunt against universities and foreign students simply because theyve engaged in free speech that his regime doesnt like. This is an attack on the First Amendment and we must all stand up against it" @RBReich on X 2025-07-13 17:01:48 UTC 1.5M followers, 52.8K engagements
"More than XXX rural hospitals could close due to Trump/Republican Medicaid cuts. Rural areas will also be hit especially hard by food stamp cuts. And public broadcasting stations in rural areas could shut down if the Senate passes its rescission bill. I thought Republicans loved rural America" @RBReich on X 2025-07-16 16:20:06 UTC 1.5M followers, 17K engagements
"Gutting funding for public media will cut off news sources for millions of Americans. Thats exactly what Trump wants: to exert even more control over the news and information that the public receives or doesnt even receive at all. Its a hallmark of dictatorship" @RBReich on X 2025-07-17 16:12:32 UTC 1.5M followers, 82.6K engagements
"The XX richest Republican members of Congress have a net worth of $XXX billion. They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich. Meanwhile they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents" @RBReich on X 2025-06-29 21:01:07 UTC 1.5M followers, 134.8K engagements