Friday, October 11, 2019

Some Tweets from David Sirota

David Sirota is candidate Bernie Sanders' speechwriter.


  •   Retweeted
     13 minutes ago
    Bad taste: PG&E gas employees wined and dined customers at Sonoma winery just before mass power outages.
    1 reply7 retweets18 likes
     
     
  •  2 hours ago
    Sidenote: This info is available in SEC records. When media publish stories about corporate executives laying off workers, it would be good if those stories included information about how much those corporate executives have been paying themselves.
    Halliburton paid 6 top executives $200 million in 36 months -- then the company blamed layoffs on "local market conditions." Receipts:
    7 replies91 retweets259 likes
     
     
  •  2 hours ago
    The IMF now says climate change could cause "human extinction": Exxon & Shell are projected to boost oil production: The ocean is now literally boiling with methane: And yet none of this is big news on TV.
    18 replies212 retweets330 likes
     
     
  •  2 hours ago
    Halliburton paid 6 top executives $200 million in 36 months -- then the company blamed layoffs on "local market conditions." Receipts:
    Company officials say the layoffs were due to local market conditions. About 650 employees were affected across Halliburton’s Rockies region including in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and North Dakota.
    6 replies128 retweets274 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     14 hours ago
    In 2025 there will only be two media jobs: aftershow producer at a website owned by one of the streaming conglomerates, and writer of billionaire-funded nonprofit longform that neutrally covers the debate between displaced coastal populations and yacht owners enjoying more space
    1 reply13 retweets87 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     16 hours ago
    Fires, explosions and toxic releases: Front Range residents fight fracking boom
    1 reply35 retweets39 likes
     
     
  •  5 hours ago
    This is wealth redistribution
     
    6 replies77 retweets191 likes
     
     
  •  5 hours ago
    We've heard forever that private corporations are the best drivers of the economy, but a corporate-run power company just paid out hundreds of millions of dollars to investors & execs - and then crippled one of the world's largest economies.
    19 replies280 retweets590 likes
     
     
  •  5 hours ago
    Same hedge fund billionaire that turned Puerto Rico's disaster into a Wall Street profit scheme:
    September: PG&E forks over $570 million to a hedge fund billionaire October: PG&E shuts off power to Northern California
    3 replies86 retweets155 likes
     
     
  •  5 hours ago
    September: PG&E forks over $570 million to a hedge fund billionaire October: PG&E shuts off power to Northern California
    10 replies264 retweets447 likes
     
     
  •  7 hours ago
    Notice that Colorado Republican lawmakers somehow don't mention that Halliburton is pleading poverty to justify its layoffs -- after the company paid 6 executives $200 million in 36 months
    Despite what says, Halliburton pointed at the Democrat-led oil and gas regulations passed last year as a reason for layoffs. Maybe should have listened when the voters overwhelmingly shot down the anti-energy Prop 112. …
    4 replies99 retweets183 likes
     
     
  •  10 hours ago
    This is wild. You gotta watch this video of completely flailing around.
    1:54
    Breaking: refuses to answer question whether it is appropriate for the President to ask a foreign leader to investigate a rival. Quite the exchange in Denver
    Show this thread
    18 replies67 retweets300 likes
     
     
  •  11 hours ago
    Colorado just passed first-in-the-nation climate legislation that lets lawmakers see if bills they are voting on would increase or decrease carbon emissions. I hope every state & fed lawmaker who sees this will pass it in their legislatures & in Congress.
    2 replies75 retweets217 likes
     
     
  •  11 hours ago
    Oh, and if that wasn't bad enough -- PG&E is about to be taken over by hedge funds, which means power for millions of people would be controlled by a handful of Wall Street vultures:
    As PG&E shuts down power, remember that PG&E: - paid 8 execs $62 million in 36 months: …
    12 replies144 retweets297 likes
     
     
  •  11 hours ago
    As PG&E shuts down power, remember that PG&E: - paid 8 execs $62 million in 36 months: - spent $18 million on lobbying since 2016: - "pumped out $4.5 billion in dividends and let the tree budget wither"
    41 replies932 retweets1,619 likes
     
     
  •  11 hours ago
    A review of IRS records shows that the "Coalition Against Socialized Medicine" is actually the Coalition Funded By The Pharmaceutical Lobby
    9 replies306 retweets576 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     12 hours ago
    These goons are absolutely terrified of a child and it rules
    MORE POPULAR THAN JESUS? Greta Thunberg to Preach the Climate Word in Denver -
    3 replies40 retweets278 likes
     
     
  •  13 hours ago
    Here's a depressing thing: real journalists face mass layoffs, while the dudes who pushed the Iraq War and the Saddam-Osama lie snap their fingers & instantly raise $6 million for their latest right-wing propaganda venture.
    10 replies112 retweets294 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     22 hours ago
    "none of the Ivy endowments beating a 60-40 portfolio in the 2008-2018 period" Ok. So focus on index funds and you will beat Harvard big shot investors. Yes it is that simple. Oh and keep clear from private equity funds. They are not overperforming except in excel speadsheets.
    Are Ivy League Endowments Making the Same Old Mistakes? Before following the advice of UHNW consultants to invest like endowments and join a private "40% club" where "membership brings benefits for…
    3 replies12 retweets40 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     14 hours ago
    Read Bernie's plan to stop the assault on journalism by Wall Street, billionaire businessmen, Silicon Valley, and Donald Trump.
    Re-upping this evergreen observation: Trump's election has prompted a lot of liberals to express support for journalists, but do just about nothing to pressure CEOs and policymakers responsible for putting us out of work.
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    1 reply67 retweets239 likes
     
     
  •  14 hours ago
    Truly sad to see this news. Splinter published some of my own reporting -- and it has been one of my favorite outlets. Such a bummer that it is shutting down.
    As of today, Splinter will cease publication. It has been my greatest honor to have been the editor of this site and I will love this staff to my dying breath. Thank you to all of our readers, fans, and haters—it’s been a thrill. Further details TK. Splinter forever.
    1 reply21 retweets145 likes
     
     
  •  14 hours ago
    “PG&E pumped out $4.5 billion in dividends and let the tree budget wither"
    50 replies539 retweets1,056 likes
     
     
  •  14 hours ago
    🤔
     
    17 replies171 retweets600 likes
     
     
  •  15 hours ago
    Things the media covered this month: getting a haircut & billionaire Steve Schwarzman publishing a vanity book Things the media didnt cover this month: a new IMF report warning that climate change could result in “infinite costs” & “human extinction”
    11 replies205 retweets480 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Oct 9
    "...the suggestion that Sanders should stand down...because of a health condition that many Americans live and work with is not only callous, but carries a bitter flavor of discrimination," writes and
    32 replies286 retweets885 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Oct 9
    The IMF just issued a report declaring that "the risk of catastrophic & irreversible disaster is rising, implying potentially infinite costs of unmitigated climate change, including...human extinction." As far as I can tell, no media outlet reported on it
    43 replies926 retweets1,412 likes
     
     








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