SCOOP from @by-cjewett.bsky.social & me:
Markwayne Mullin urged the Department of Health and Human Service to remove warnings from the FDA website about the health risks of the gas station drug kratom.
Mullin owns equity in a leading kratom company called Botanic Tonics that could have benefited.
America's roughly 1,100 billionaires (and 1 trillionaire) are collectively worth a record $9.24 trillion.
The wealth of the bottom half of the US, roughly 65 million households? $4.3 trillion.
It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of wealth concentration to continue.
"do you have any hobbies?" uh yeah it's called my rich inner life, brother