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Public Citizen has been standing up to corporate power and holding government accountable for 50 years. We're people-powered and accept no corporate money.

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1Feb 3, '25BREAKING: We are suing @USTreasury for its unlawful disclosure of personal & financial information to Elon Musk’s DOGE. This violation puts sensitive information about millions51.4×2.3M80k11k1.6k
2Jul 8, '23“Nobody wants to work anymore” The people’s minimum wage: 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2044.5×2M39k8.2k301
3Jan 19, '24can we please just tax the rich already35.7×1.6M47k4k377
4Feb 11, '25BREAKING: In response to our motion, the court has required CDC, FDA, and HHS to immediately restore critical health info and data that the Trump administration ordered the agencie23.8×1.1M51k8k1.4k
5Sep 30, '20Oh my god, Katie Porter.13.3×0377k97k9.6k
6Jan 6, '21For reference, there were 14,000+ arrests at the George Floyd protests.10.9×0327k102k2k
7Nov 15, '19School shootings from 2009 to 2018: 🇬🇧 0 🇦🇷 0 🇳🇱 0 🇯🇵 0 🇮🇹 0 🇨🇭 0 🇦🇺 0 🇪🇸 0 🇬🇷 1 🇨🇳 1 🇰🇪 1 🇦🇿 1 🇩🇪 1 🇷🇺 1 🇪🇪 1 🇹🇷 1 🇭🇺 1 🇫🇷 2 🇨🇦 2 🇧🇷 2 🇦🇫8.5×0218k89k2.5k
8Apr 26, '22FYI: We’re blocked by Elon Musk. So much for being “committed” to free speech.8.4×0273k36k2.1k
9Jan 6, '21"Blue Lives Matter" only ever meant Black lives don't.6.0×0204k45k752
10Jun 7, '20The NYPD’s budget is $6,000,000,000 That’s more than the city spends on health, homelessness, youth development and workforce development combined.5.9×0165k58k1.6k
11Jan 26, '21BREAKING: Biden is ordering his Department of Justice to end private prison contracts. This is huge.5.6×0208k26k992
12Oct 6, '20This country is so accustomed to its monstrous health care system that when a 2-year-old child with a genetic condition needs to rely on a high school robotics team to meet his bas5.1×0147k52k1.1k
13Oct 27, '19Weeks of paid maternity leave: 🇧🇬 59 🇬🇷 43 🇬🇧 39 🇭🇷 30 🇸🇰 34 🇨🇿 28 🇮🇪 26 🇭🇺24 🇮🇹 22 🇱🇺 20 🇵🇱 20 🇪🇪 20 🇦🇺 18 🇲🇹 18 🇷🇴 18 🇨🇱 18 🇱🇹 18 🇳🇿 18 🇩🇰 14.7×0128k44k1.5k
14Jun 11, '20BREAKING: Steven Mnuchin is now flat-out REFUSING to disclose the businesses receiving $500,000,000,000 in bailout funds, claiming the info is "confidential" 4.5 MILLION businesses4.4×0104k45k1.3k
15Jan 18, '21You stormed out of an NFL game because players peacefully took a knee.4.2×0157k25k399
16May 24, '22Today is the 144th day of 2022. The Uvalde shooting is the 212th mass shooting of 2022. Gun violence is a public health crisis.4.0×0114k39k1.1k
17Aug 10, '20Ted Cruz voted to pass a $740,000,000,000 military budget two weeks ago. That's $2 billion a day, every day.3.9×0121k35k597
18Mar 16, '20American companies denying workers paid sick leave: McDonald's - 517K workers Walmart - 347K workers Kroger - 189K workers Subway - 80K workers Burger King - 165K workers Pizza Hut3.7×083k43k1k
19Oct 9, '20So defunding the police was just too radical, but defunding education is no problem?3.6×0114k32k470
20Oct 12, '20please can we just have health care3.4×0121k25k391
21Apr 24, '21Are we doing this right?3.3×0122k20k822
22Nov 23, '20Imagine having this instead of a $740,000,000,000 military budget.3.2×0113k20k1.2k
23Apr 28, '22Explain why cancelling $1,900,000,000,000 in student debt is a “handout”, but a $1,900,000,000,000 tax cut for rich people was a “stimulus”.3.2×0111k20k730
24Jan 28, '21Now seems like a good time to remind you that a measly 0.1% tax on Wall Street trades would raise $777,000,000,000 over a decade.3.1×0112k20k561
25Nov 17, '20We cannot afford Medicare for All. ⓘ 𝗹𝗼𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 $𝟮 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘆3.0×0112k18k624
26Jan 18, '20Weeks of paid leave for mothers: 🇪🇪 166 🇸🇰 164 🇫🇮 161 🇭🇺 160 🇱🇻 94 🇳🇴 91 🇰🇷 65 🇨🇿 63 🇱🇹 62 🇦🇹 60 🇯🇵 58 🇩🇪 58 🇸🇪 56 🇸🇮 52 🇵🇱 52 🇨🇦 51 🇩🇰 50 🇮🇹 483.0×083k26k1k
27Jun 1, '20Protestors arrested: 4,400+ Not arrested: 3 of the 4 officers involved in George Floyd's death.2.9×080k30k321
28Aug 15, '20Trump’s golf trips have cost taxpayers $134 million. That’s equivalent to 334 years of the presidential salary.2.9×079k29k714
29Jul 2, '21This month in “the war on drugs”2.8×088k23k604
30May 10, '21View post on X2.8×098k18k1k
31Jun 29, '20BREAKING: Gilead is charging $3,000+ for its COVID drug, remdesivir. Taxpayers spent $70,000,000 to develop this drug. It should be in the public domain. Instead, Big Pharma is rob2.7×054k36k519
32Jan 3, '20Here's how much of their wealth the 10 richest Americans gave to charity in 2018: Ellison: 0% Page: 0% Brin: 0% Bezos: 0.1% D. Koch: 0.1% C. Koch: 0.5% Zuckerberg: 0.7% Bloomberg: 2.7×079k24k913
33May 25, '22School shootings from 2009 to 2018: 🇬🇧 0 🇦🇷 0 🇳🇱 0 🇯🇵 0 🇮🇹 0 🇨🇭 0 🇦🇺 0 🇪🇸 0 🇬🇷 1 🇨🇳 1 🇰🇪 1 🇦🇿 1 🇩🇪 1 🇷🇺 1 🇪🇪 1 🇹🇷 1 🇭🇺 1 🇫🇷 2 🇨🇦 2 🇧🇷 2 🇦🇫2.5×076k21k1.1k
34Sep 22, '20BREAKING: The Pentagon funneled nearly $1,000,000,000 of taxpayer money meant for masks and medical equipment to defense contractors building jet engines and body armor.2.4×039k28k1.4k
35Jun 25, '20View post on X2.4×064k24k977
36Nov 21, '20.@AOC: Our country is going hungry and the week before Thanksgiving the Senate broke. I don’t care what party you are. It is an abandonment of responsibilities as elected officials2.3×081k13k569
37Nov 22, '20WHY IS THE SENATE ON VACATION WHILE AMERICANS ARE DYING WITH NO RELIEF?2.2×081k13k95
38Mar 24, '20McDonald’s lobbied against paid sick leave in the Coronavirus relief bill.2.2×070k20k284
39Sep 27, '19Child poverty rate: 🇮🇸6% 🇸🇮7% 🇭🇺8% 🇳🇴8% 🇨🇿9% 🇸🇪9% 🇵🇱9% 🇨🇭10% 🇪🇪10% 🇮🇪10% 🇳🇱11% 🇫🇷12% 🇦🇹12% 🇨🇦12% 🇩🇪12% 🇧🇪12% 🇦🇺13% 🇬🇧13% 🇱🇺13% 🇱🇻13% 🇯🇵14%2.2×066k19k560
40Aug 19, '19Weeks of paid maternity leave: 🇧🇬 59 🇬🇷 43 🇬🇧 39 🇭🇷 30 🇸🇰 34 🇨🇿 28 🇮🇪 26 🇭🇺24 🇮🇹 22 🇱🇺 20 🇵🇱 20 🇪🇪 20 🇦🇺 18 🇲🇹 18 🇷🇴 18 🇨🇱 18 🇱🇹 18 🇳🇿 18 🇩🇰 12.1×052k21k533
41Dec 4, '20BREAKING: The House just passed a bill to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. A historic moment.2.0×068k11k370
42May 30, '20.@AOC: If you're calling for an end to unrest, but not calling out police brutality, not calling for health care as a human right, not calling for an end to housing discrimination,2.0×061k17k721
43Oct 17, '20Federal minimum wage: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 Wealth of 400 2.0×053k21k600
44Sep 25, '20please can we just have health care2.0×072k14k169
45Aug 4, '19As America transforms into a killing field, here are the top recipients of campaign donations from the @NRA: Sen. Burr: $6.9M Sen. Blunt: $4.5M Sen. Tillis: $4.4M Sen. Gardner: $3.2.0×037k26k380
46Dec 22, '20BREAKING: New York just signed Automatic Voter Registration into law. This is huge.2.0×080k8k195
47Nov 10, '2094% of public school teachers have to spend their own money on school supplies.2.0×060k18k259
48Nov 19, '21Travyon Martin was an unarmed 17-year-old kid. He was killed carrying a bag of skittles. The right-wing called him a threat. Kyle Rittenhouse was 17 years old and armed. He shot an1.9×051k20k632
49Sep 9, '20If @AOC's Green New Deal is "extreme," how would describe the blood-soaked skies of Oregon? Business as usual?1.9×064k15k459
50Jul 9, '21oh the horror1.9×073k11k345
51Jul 6, '19Universal health care COULD NEVER WORK ...unless you live in: Australia Austria Belgium Canada Chile Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Israel Ita1.9×056k18k383
52Oct 8, '20Reminder: The Green New Deal is cheaper than a climate apocalypse.1.9×068k11k118
53Oct 23, '19.@AOC: Could I run ads on Facebook targeting Republicans in primaries saying that they voted for the Green New Deal? Mark Zuckerberg: I don’t know the answer to that off the top of1.8×052k12k1.6k
54Nov 7, '18BREAKING: Florida just passed Amendment 4, restoring voting rights to 1.4 million people with a past felony conviction. Not only does this repeal one of the country’s worst Jim Cro1.8×047k19k118
55Jun 17, '21you tried to overturn an election like 5 months ago1.8×070k8.9k247
56Jun 9, '21BREAKING: The Keystone XL oil pipeline has officially been abandoned by its developers. Organizing works.1.8×070k8.1k245
57Mar 24, '21BREAKING: Virginia just abolished the death penalty. They are the first Southern state to do so.1.8×072k6.6k127
58Dec 21, '21BREAKING: Biden is now reportedly considering extending the student loan payment pause. The pressure is working. Keep it up.1.7×065k8k213
59Feb 17, '21|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ | | 90% of the | | plants that failed | | in Texas have | | been oil, gas, | | & coal plants | |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / づ1.7×063k12k275
60Jan 14, '21wow you don’t say1.7×055k13k734
61Nov 30, '20Percent of wages currently subsidized by governments due to COVID: Japan: 100% for small businesses; 80% for large firms Netherlands: Up to 90% Norway: Up to 90% Germany: Up to 87%1.7×038k17k893
62Dec 16, '20This is why we can’t give corporations legal immunity.1.7×051k14k431
63Jun 10, '20The NYPD's $6,000,000,000 budget would make it the 33rd largest military spender on the planet.1.6×049k13k582
64Feb 28, '20Days of guaranteed paid sick leave: 🇱🇺50 🇳🇴50 🇫🇮48 🇦🇹45 🇩🇪44 🇧🇪39 🇸🇪38 🇩🇰36 🇳🇱35 🇪🇸33 🇮🇹29 🇬🇷28 🇯🇵28 🇫🇷24 🇨🇦22 🇮🇸18 🇮🇪17 🇨🇭15 🇦🇹10 🇬🇧10 🇳🇿1.6×045k15k341
65Apr 9, '20BREAKING: The US health care system1.6×061k8.2k156
66Dec 10, '21Imagine having this instead of a $700,000,000,000+ military budget.1.6×062k7.4k383
67Nov 27, '20Never forget that the inventors of insulin thought profiting off of it would be unethical and sold the patent for a single dollar.1.6×059k8.6k253
68Mar 24, '22BREAKING: Congress just reintroduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. This is huge.1.6×054k9.1k422
69Aug 10, '20Imagine thinking college football is a need but health care is a luxury.1.5×048k13k135
70Jan 2, '20Wealth of 400 richest Americans: 2009: $1.27T 10: $1.37T 11: $1.5T 12: $1.7T 13: $2T 14: $2.3T 15: $2.3T 16: $2.4T 17: $2.7T 18: $2.9T 19: $3T Federal Minimum Wage: 2009: $7.25 10:1.5×039k16k455
71Apr 20, '20Police killed Tamir Rice for holding a toy gun.1.5×037k17k225
72May 12, '21Are you kidding me?1.4×048k9k384
73Feb 8, '21Fun fact: If your company can afford a $5 million 30 second Super Bowl ad, they can afford to raise your wage.1.4×055k7.8k77
74Jan 9, '21Impeachment does not "divide our country." Unpunished white power coup attempts divide our country.1.4×050k8.7k101
75Dec 15, '20This is not a heartwarming story, it's a dystopian nightmare.1.4×051k7.6k164
76Jan 13, '21.@AOC: If any member of Congress so much as stutters to say that the Confederacy were traitors to the United States, turn in your pin and get out.1.3×044k7.5k607
77May 16, '19.@AOC to Gilead CEO: The list price [for Truvada for PrEP] is almost $2,000 in the US. Why is it $8 in Australia?1.3×037k12k567
78May 15, '19.@AOC to military contractor exec: I could have covered the insulin costs of a community of 21,400 people for the cost of your price-gouging. I could have sent 21 kids to college. 1.3×039k11k406
79Aug 16, '19Monthly cost of: Lantus (Insulin) 🇺🇸 $373 🇨🇦 $67 🇬🇧 $64 🇩🇪 $61 🇦🇹 $54 🇫🇷 $47 🇳🇴 $42 Januvia (Diabetes) 🇺🇸 $331 🇨🇦 $68 🇬🇧$48 🇩🇪 $39 🇫🇷 $35 🇳🇴 $34 🇦🇹$34 A1.3×033k14k277
80Jul 6, '22Explain why canceling student debt is a “handout” but forgiving $714 BILLION in PPP loans is a “stimulus”.1.3×046k7.3k370
81Jul 15, '20are we doing this right1.3×041k10k221
82Oct 1, '20Katie Porter is doing it again. Day 2.1.3×037k8.3k707
83Oct 4, '22Is this your “free speech” king??1.2×041k4.3k150
84Jun 23, '21View post on X1.2×035k10k361
85Dec 10, '20View post on X1.2×032k12k297
86Apr 14, '22So Elon Musk became $265,700,000,000 richer during the pandemic, but we’re being told inflation is skyrocketing because we got a $1,400 check last year? What a joke.1.1×040k7.8k230
87Jul 8, '21remember like two weeks ago when conservatives tried to convince us that infrastructure had nothing to do with the climate crisis1.1×040k7.5k275
88Oct 10, '20how it started: how it’s going:1.1×040k8k121
89Feb 24, '21BREAKING: The New York Senate just passed a bill to restore the right to vote to people released from prisons. This is big!1.1×043k5.4k83
90Jan 27, '21BREAKING: A bill has been introduced in the Senate that would make D.C. the 51st state.1.1×044k3.8k99
91Dec 30, '20Jeff Bezos could give every single Amazon employee $105,000 and still be as rich as he was before the pandemic. Tax the rich.1.1×038k7k128
92Jul 27, '20The US military spends this amount every 11 days.1.1×031k11k176
93Mar 23, '20Sen. Collins cut $870 million for pandemic prep out of the 2009 stimulus bill.1.0×030k9.2k156
94Jan 23, '20“People’s lives are not commodities.” — @AOC1.0×031k8k430
95Feb 6, '20This is incredible. @RepKatiePorter held up Maine’s SNAP Benefits eligibility form and asked the conservative who ran the program to disclose the same intrusive and burdensome info1.0×028k7.9k693
96Jan 21We sued the Trump admin 30 times since the inauguration. Most of our lawsuits are still in court. But in many of these cases, we have succeeded in stopping, or at least reducing, t1.0×46k86416021
97Nov 29, '20Wild idea: Instead of tying health care to employment we should tie it to human beings.1.0×041k3.9k65
98Jan 6, '21This is what "stand back and stand by" meant.1.0×035k7.1k117
99Nov 24, '20Stock market ≠ economy1.0×035k6.2k196
100Jun 11, '21How it started: How it’s going:0.9×033k6.3k266
101Jan 31, '22Imagine having this instead of a $768,000,000,000 defense budget.0.9×034k4.1k282

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