Today Rand Paul wants to force an 85-year-old Dr. Anthony Fauci to address the American people but refuses to ask the same of 84-year-old Mitch McConnell.
🙋🏾♂️ Hi, Councilman from Pontiac, MI (Home of the Pontiac Car).
It is because of the historical relationship between Pontiac’s working class and the UAW that allowed for the mass upward economic mobility of Michigan families for generations
Let's go Abdul "Firebird" El-Sayed!
@Bubbachitchat1@CraigDMauger I just checked my kitchen table, and you know what wasn't on it? Shooting protestors, crypto scams, a damn ballroom, and beating up on trans kids. You know what was on it? Higher bills for gas and groceries.
4 years ago, U.S. Rep. Andy Levin of Michigan said it’s against Jewish law to support AIPAC. Levin, who is Jewish and once led a synagogue, was later defeated by Haley Stevens, who is not Jewish and was backed by AIPAC.
Boomers bought houses for less than a year’s salary, got free college, lifetime pensions, and jobs that didn’t require 6 degrees + 10 years of unpaid internship
Then spent the next 40 years calling everyone lazy
Insane work tbh
Reporter: Isn’t there concern that this slippery slope to socialism inevitably ends up as full-blown communism?
AOC: I mean, no. I think that’s very silly. We can’t even raise the minimum wage. Do they really think communism is going to happen? No. They’re trying to scare people because they don’t want us talking about the fact that we all have a right to health care.
So they want to call everything they don’t like communist because if people actually wake up to the fact that their elected officials are screwing them over when they get here, they’re going to realize they deserve better and that health care as a right isn’t crazy. They want to call this stuff communist because they don’t want us to realize that the rest of the developed world has guaranteed health care. They want to call it communist because they don’t want you to know that Germany, Italy, the UK, Canada—everybody else—has it better than us, and we spend the most money for the worst care in the developed world.
BREAKING: $95 billion on the floor at 4pm today.
$60B for defense.
$13B for the Iran war.
$10B for voter suppression.
$0 for healthcare.
Not one dollar. Not one committee. They didn't even pretend. No one should vote Republican ever again.
#HealthcareNotWarfare
Congress is not serious.
We are voting on a stock trading ban for members of Congress…
BUT Republicans added voter-ID in the legislation.
Not to get Dems to vote for voter-ID,
but to get them to vote against the stock trading ban, so they can use it in the Nov. election.
I spent the last few months talking to people across the political spectrum, and to people who want nothing to do with politics at all. Here is what I learned.
We are not a divided country. We are a country being divided, on purpose, by an American oligarchy that profits from the fight. They’ve captured our government, denied our healthcare, looted our treasury, and saddled us with crippling debt.
I believe in a New New Deal. Healthcare as a human right. The right of every family to a decent home, and an end to endless wars.
And a dividend paid to every American from the AI economy, because these machines were built on the whole of human inheritance. That inheritance belongs to all of us, and not just to the handful of men playing God with our very existence.
And none of it happens if we just move on. Donald Trump, his family, and his administration are robbing us blind, not just of our money, but of our faith in one another, and they have to answer for it. Truth and reconciliation, not revenge. Then we break the system that let them do it.
The question is not whether we will lose our democracy. The question is whether we will fight to take back what has already been stolen.
I learned in recovery that you can’t heal what you won’t name. Neither can a country.
It is disgusting that AIPAC - which spent tens of millions attacking Obama - is now spending like crazy to lie and suggest he endorsed Haley Stevens. It's everything wrong with politics. Support @AbdulElSayed
I'm proud to endorse my friend, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, as our next U.S. Senator from the State of Michigan. Abdul isn’t a career politician. He’s a public health leader who spent his life trying to heal people before he ever asked for their vote.
He believes healthcare is a human right. He believes working people deserve the dignity of a living wage. He believes corporations shouldn’t be able to buy our Democracy. At a time when too many politicians are asking what is politically safe, Abdul is asking what is morally right.
Read why I'm supporting Abdul on my Substack: https://t.co/53dhiNlKAp
@AbdulElSayed@MikeRogersForMI My favorite is the people who drive diesel trucks and leave them idling for 20 minutes in the school pick up line but are mad at Canada. Without Canada’s wildfires we have some of the worst air quality. Ever been down river?
THE LABOR DEPARTMENT JUST DROPPED NEW WAGE DATA AND IT'S BRUTAL.
Corporate profits up 47% since 2020.
Worker wages up 12% in the same period.
Meanwhile groceries up 35%, rent up 40%, utilities up 28%.
Your paycheck grew 12%. Your bills grew 35%.
The math is simple: you're getting poorer every year even when you get a raise.
You can't budget your way out of this. The system is designed so your income can never catch up to your expenses.
That's not an accident. That's policy.