Dual master's in public policy and environment and natural resources. Animal lover, especially cats big and small. Opinions are my own. RT≠endorsements.
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Cathy Cowan Becker retweeted
🎯 FACT: Home insurance companies raked in $167 billion in profits last year, a staggering 91% jump, while jacking up premiums on everyday South Carolinians.
Insurance CEOs walked away with millions, even as coverage shrank and claims were denied and delayed at record highs.
Help us promote Insurance Reform in South Carolina.
Read here: prospect.org/power/2025-07-2…
Cathy Cowan Becker retweeted
No one could have foreseen this.
The number of disabled people in the U.S. jumped nearly **35%** in 4 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports, noting it may be largely related to LC and to post-infection worsening of chronic conditions.
insurancenewsnet.com/innarti…
Cathy Cowan Becker retweeted
Has she signed it yet?
New York guv Kathy Hochul pressed by climate activists to sign superfund "polluters pay" bill.
Fingers crossed that ethics outweigh politics here. bit.ly/3BtEsro
@insideclimate @ccbecker271 @OhioEnviro @GovMikeDeWine @OhioSierraClub @ohiodnr
Cathy Cowan Becker retweeted
Turning off the replies to announce the death of your CEO should tell you that you are predatory and evil, but it's nothing they don't already know.
Cathy Cowan Becker retweeted
Better check your wallet. Climate advocate groups file complaint saying Blackrock, which manages mostly retirement funds, provides capital for rainforest deforestation- which accelerates climate warming and climate change. bit.ly/3ARfmT5
@ccbecker271 @alexcoolidge @OECD
Cathy Cowan Becker retweeted
This is a political party committed to destroying itself.
New: Rahm Emanuel is weighing a bid for DNC chair, 3 ppl with knowledge tell Axios.
Axelrod has been an early booster this week.
axios.com/2024/11/15/rahm-em…
Cathy Cowan Becker retweeted
Instead of “once upon a time,” Korean folk and fairy tales often begin with 호랑이 담배 피우던 시절에. It means “back when tigers smoked (pipes)”
ALT Illustration of a tiger, wearing a snazzy red jacket, smoking a pipe
Cathy Cowan Becker retweeted
It would be good for Democratic party voters to find out if their representative is going to vote for this -- and to make opposition to it clear.
Donald Trump wants revenge. And he might get a major assist from Democrats in making that happen.
On Tuesday, Congress is poised to approve a powerful new tool that Trump could use to crush his political enemies
Scoop by me, via @theintercept theintercept.com/2024/11/10/…
Cathy Cowan Becker retweeted
Over on MSNBC @AymanM argues that if Dems don’t come to their senses and embrace @BernieSanders style populism, they will be doomed to many more electoral disasters.
How did Democrats -- the party of FDR, Social Security, Medicare and labor unions -- become a party of high-income voters? And how did the party of Trump and Musk win with voters making under $100,000 per year? @AymanM explores this fierce debate within the Democratic Party.
Cathy Cowan Becker retweeted
Background thread on HR 9495 - the bill to empower the Exec to simply strip US orgs they don’t like of their non-profit status, set to be passed by the House this week 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Also see: theintercept.com/2024/11/10/…
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Cathy Cowan Becker retweeted
More background in the bill, set to be passed by the House this week, that seeks to empower the Executive to target & strip the non-profit status of orgs it doesn’t like 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Cathy Cowan Becker retweeted
"When we treat the working class as synonymous with white people, we're ignoring what's happening with...people that are opting out of the electoral process altogether."
@MalaikaJabali on how Dems are losing working class voters because too many have given up on politics.
Cathy Cowan Becker retweeted
Israel killed dozens of people in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. This is just today.
Bombing three nations in one day, killing women and children, will get less coverage and none of the outrage Amsterdam did. This dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims is not normal. Their lives matter.
Cathy Cowan Becker retweeted
"A Democratic Party that is chummy with billionaires but then tying to argue that it's in the interest of unions, it doesn't pass the smell test for a lot for working people."
@MauriceWFP on how cozying up to the wealthy has cost Democrats the working class.
Cathy Cowan Becker retweeted
If you are a federal employee, is there unfinished business — a sensitive project, a little-known but key policy, a lawsuit — you worry will be quashed? Are there records, research or databases that should be preserved? / Tips? Contact @propublica propublica.org/article/secon…
Cathy Cowan Becker retweeted
Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay
ALT I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
Cathy Cowan Becker retweeted
#Antartctic sea #ice extent has set a new record low for the time of year.
fediscience.org/@PoLaRobs/11…
Cathy Cowan Becker retweeted
Says the guy that moved heavin and earth to defeat the biggest progressive movement since fdr - along with Obama and neoliberal elites - the existential threat to dems was not Trump or fascism it was new deal politics was going to make their billionaires mad
Q: What is your reaction to Bernie Sanders remark that the Democratic Party is out of touch with working people?
DEMOCRATIC REP. CLYBURN: "I do not agree that we are not a party of working men and women...We ought to just chill out for a while...don't worry about blaming anybody."
"I think we all just take stock of who and what we are and not get caught up in the pointing fingers assigning blame."
Cathy Cowan Becker retweeted
Q: What is your reaction to Bernie Sanders remark that the Democratic Party is out of touch with working people?
DEMOCRATIC REP. CLYBURN: "I do not agree that we are not a party of working men and women...We ought to just chill out for a while...don't worry about blaming anybody."
"I think we all just take stock of who and what we are and not get caught up in the pointing fingers assigning blame."