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Donations by Big Pharma to Republican senators during the 2018, 2020, and 2022 election cycles. But with FDA approvals under attack by a judge Republicans confirmed, David Dayen asks if it was money well spent.

“Americans are taught in high school civics classes that our laws are legitimate because they apply to everyone equally. If we even want to pretend that we believe in this ideal, then Congress must immediately investigate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.”

“Biden must enter the campaign with two objectives:

to contrast the country over which he hopes to preside with the country where Republicans are busy stripping basic rights from women... and to make his case for freedom so forcefully that he dispels some of the doubts raised by his age—which he can only do by subjecting himself to the media and the public more than he has.”

—From Meyerson On Tap

“While the company was obviously cratering, it still managed to sell a lot of stock. But the dumb money that bought the shares must have taken the serious loss. Shares, which were trading at almost $6 as recently as February, are [in April] trading at 12 cents.”

—From Kuttner On Tap

“GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell declared that polling places close to dorms, a previously unknown threat to the republic, somehow made it easier for packs of college sloths ‘to roll out of bed, vote, and go back to bed.’ ”

100 PEOPLE ARE KILLED AT WORK EVERY WEEK in the U.S., according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Terri Gerstein examines the dire state of workplace safety.

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