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supporting advocates and action for a more humane world #climate #women #sustainability #democracy

[Jason Reid @JasonReidx]

Gisèle Pelicot is the person of the year.

[Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath]

There was a @PplsAction protest at UnitedHealthcare offices.

This disabled woman was denied approval for treatment:

"A year ago, while UnitedHealthcare was celebrating over a billion dollars at first quarter profits, I was selling the last of my belongings that had any value."

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:

Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000

There’s a lesson there.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Holy shit. United Healthcare kept $20 billion of their subscriber's money in 2022 while denying their healthcare claims. That's messed up.

[Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath]

A DOCTOR SPEAKS OUT:

“I want to talk a little bit about UnitedHealthcare and why certain recent events may have happened against their CEO. In my opinion, UnitedHealthcare is the most evil company in the United States right now.”

He then lays out their business practices.

[Darrel Rowland @darreldrowland]

Ohio Dem Sen Sherrod Brown in final remarks to Senate Banking Committee he chairs:
"When I was growing up, the CEO-to-worker pay ratio was 20-to-1. That was still good money
Today, that ratio is 344-to-1
When the economy fundamentally does not reward work, while Wall Street...

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

150 billionaire families spent $1.9B on the 2024 election through October.

It's a huge amount of money — but it represents just 0.07% of their overall wealth.

It essentially costs them nothing to drown our democracy in cash.

We must get big money out of our politics.

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Thank you Vice President @KamalaHarris for putting your faith in me, and selecting me as your running mate. Campaigning at your side was the honor and privilege of my life.

[m’kaila🫒🧃 @mkailasobLIVion]

this is what yall voted for btw

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Come on guys, make this go viral. If she can get out the vote, we can too!

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Kamala, thank you for the compassion and joy you’ve brought to our politics. Your leadership is what our country needs.

I could not be prouder to be in this with you. You will make an incredible President of the United States.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

As the great Congressman John Lewis reminded us, democracy is not a state—it is an act.

Now is our time to act. And together, we will win: https://t.co/VbrfuqVy9P.

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

wow. she's closing with an Eminem ad. if that doesn't trend on this platform, elon officially broke it. https://t.co/umRbluAWsp

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Our opportunity economy invests in the middle class, because the middle class makes everything work.

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

I have a confession and a plea to folks who are flirting with voting Jill Stein.

When I was a 20 year old college student in 2000, I voted for Ralph Nader instead of Al Gore. I loved the progressive message Nader offered, and Bush and Gore seemed kinda the same to someone who was paying peripheral attention.

I've regretted that vote for my entire adult life.

Ultimately, George Bush won by a margin of 500+ votes in the state of Florida over Gore. And that was the ballgame. Ralph Nader peeled 97,000+ votes away from Gore. If only 600 of those 90,000 had voted for the major party candidate that more aligned with their values, things would have been very different.

When I was in my senior year of college, 9/11 happened. The country and western world rallied around Bush's resolute response to the traumatizing terror attacks. I was in NY at the time, and it was a terrifying moment for the nation.

But the consequences of Bush being in office at that moment were immense.

Bush's disdain for his dad's nemesis, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, led him to invent a rationale to invade a country that literally had nothing to do with 9/11. End result? He killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people, thousands of American troops, and spent over a trillion dollars of taxpayer money in the process.

Beyond the completely immoral and indefensible Iraq War, Bush was a complete disaster as a president. His "No Child Left Behind" effort turned public schools into standardized testing centers. He tripled down on fossil fuels and ignored climate change. His tax cuts for the rich helped contribute to the 2008 economic downturn that led to the Great Recession.

He was a terrible president.

In an alternate reality, Al Gore would have been president in 2001 when terrorists attacked America. Would he have gone into Iraq? Absolutely not. Would he have ignored global warming? 100% no! Gore was perhaps the preeminent proponent of fighting climate change at that time. Would he have passed massive tax cuts for the wealthy? No way.

This is a sliding doors scenario. What would have happened? We can't be sure. But one thing is for sure: those votes for Ralph Nader (in Florida in particular) were EXCEPTIONALLY consequential for the lives of millions around the world. Gore would have offered a more forward-facing, environmentally conscious & peaceful presidency that wasn't so rooted in grievance and privilege.

My point is:

Either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will win the election. That is a fact. You might feel the need to submit a "protest vote" as I did in 2000.

Just be ready to wear it when Donald Trump wins, strips away reproductive rights from all Americans, implements an economy-destroying tariff, dismantles the entire federal government, eliminates the Department of Education, prosecutes his perceived enemies, and devolves America into chaos.

There are no perfect choices. But rest assured, there are only two.

Trust me - I've been wearing my vote for a quarter century.

[ilana @ilanawurman]

the most-watched political tiktok the day before the election.

this has been such a special campaign. time to win ❤️

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

In 23 states you can REGISTER AND VOTE TODAY!

Pass it on and #VoteKamala!

[Dana Goldberg @DGComedy]

If you plan on voting for Jill Stein or Trump because of the war in the Middle East, please watch and reconsider. It’s just 6 minutes and it’s worth the watch.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Keep going.

We are within the margin of effort.

And if there’s one thing we know how to do, it’s outwork expectation.