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Caller from AR asks about how to get “whole foods” in food deserts and Means responds with:
“Just to confirm your question is how can lower income Americans possibly not poison their kids” and “well, ma’am, I think American mothers don’t want to be poisoning their kids”
January 20, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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OU still sucks #hookem
December 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Yass has given over $350 million since 2015 to influence state and federal elections.

“I am not nearly as powerful as Bruce Springsteen," he told
Laura. "If you want to shut me up, you have to shut him up, too.”

our piece w/ @bethreinhard.bsky.social:
washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Meet the billionaire pushing taxpayer-funded school vouchers
How one of the richest people on the planet presses his pet issue: school choice
washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Good Q -- the methodology for the two pieces is different! The top 20 list looks at current billionaires, which includes a lot of folks who aren't currently in the top 100 (Soros, Steyer, JB Pritzker, etc.), meaning their giving isn't in the 2024 datapoint on that chart.
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM