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THE MORE GAPS THERE ARE, THE MORE GUNS

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Nearly all credible research shows that we need fewer guns and better accountability and regulations for the ones we keep; the only thing left for us to do is haggle over the details.
NO IFS, ANDS, BUTS, OR SNAKES IN YOUR HOME

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Right now you are perhaps running through the other animals that people keep as pets to prove me wrong. You can do that but in my opinion it is you that is wrong, not me, and I am willing to stand by this opinion in the face of all of the internet vitriol that will come my way.
HERE'S A RAISE, NOW GIVE US YOUR BONUS

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Last week, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (net worth: $150 billion) boasted about his company's recent decision to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour. For some useful perspective on what that means for actual humans, we now bring you the thoughts of a longtime Amazon customer service employee.
SOLID BEER AND SOLIDARITY

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Beyond being one of the first, Anchor is also by far the most prominent craft brewery to attempt a union drive. Founded in 1896, Anchor is considered by many experts to be the birthplace of craft brewing, thanks in part to its reinvention in the '60s and '70s under the leadership of Fritz Maytag, who purchased the company in 1965.
BLUE CROSS, GREEN BILLS

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Wendell Primus, the top health policy aide to Nancy Pelosi and owner of an incredible name, reassured executives from Blue Cross Blue Shield in a private meeting in December that Democratic leadership "would be allies to the insurance industry in the fight against single-payer healthcare."
'MEDICARE FOR ALL' MEANS 'FOR ALL'

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Why shouldn't Democrats aim for a more popular and more achievable public option? Because it'll end up being neither, because it might actually halt progress toward single-payer, instead of being an "on ramp," and because it is an insufficient and immoral response to the current crisis of healthcare in America.
NOT HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS

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Not only does access journalism take up column inches that could otherwise be dedicated to actually covering politician's atrocious policies, but it softens the journalist's resolve to fillet them as coldly as they should. The target for these humanizing anecdotes isn't the reader — it's the journalist.
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