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Why are the billionaires laughing?

It’s easy to laugh when the corporate press treats you as a glorious success instead of the epitome of a broken social order. Billionaires laugh because they know the corporate media prefers to fawn over them rather than hold them to account.

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Kanya Bennett

Kanya Bennett

Kanya Bennett serves as a Legislative Counsel in the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office.

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