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Jan 5, 2022

America billionaires have had a great time during the COVID-19 pandemic, collectively raising their wealth by around $1 trillion in 2021 alone. And the best part: none of these gains will ever be taxed unless the billionaires sell the assets themselves, something that rarely happens.
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The Young Turks: January 5, 2022

Pharmaceutical companies are raising prices AGAIN on hundreds of drugs starting along with the new year. Manufacturers like Pfizer, Gilead, Vertex, Bayer, and Baush Health US are all raising prices on multiple life-saving products.
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America billionaires have had a great time during the COVID-19 pandemic, collectively raising their wealth by around $1 trillion in 2021 alone. And the best part: none of these gains will ever be taxed unless the billionaires sell the assets themselves, something that rarely happens.
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The Brazilian presidential race is heating up as former president Luiz Lula da Silva leads the race over far-right candidates President Jair Bolsonaro and former judge Sergio Moro. Adding moe drama to the race, Moro was the judge who unjustly jailed Lula for corruption, thus putting Bolsonaro in power by default.
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Former White House press secretary and now Fox News analyst Dana Perino claimed that the traffic jam on I-95 could have been avoided if local police had access to “military-grade equipment”.
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Vice President Kamala Harris took to Twitter to promote the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill as the reason why “America is moving again”. However, this Tweet could not have been more poorly timed as thousands of drivers were stuck in the I-95 traffic jam for almost 24 hours.
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Activists and protestors were arrested and forcibly removed by Florida police for refusing to leave Ron DeSantis’ press conference regarding coronavirus policies. The group was removed from a state Health Department building in Jacksonville where DeSantis was holding the press briefing.
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The January 6th House select committee is asking for cooperation from Fox News host Sean Hannity about his role in the Capitol riots and insurrection. The Committee claims that Hannity had “advance knowledge” of the insurrection as well as “...providing advice” to Trump and other White House officials as the riots were happening.
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Ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro admitted live on TV that Donald Trump and the Republican party attempted to partake in a political coup on January 6th, 2020.
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Actress and activist Emma Watson has received harsh criticism from Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan for expressing solidarity with Palestine and sharing pro-Palestine posts on social media.
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New page: America billionaires have had a great time during the COVID-19 pandemic, collectively raising their wealth by around $1 trillion in 2021 alone. And the best part: none of these gains will ever be taxed unless the billionaires sell the assets themselves, something that rarely happens. - TYT.com