What does it say about the US justice system that over two years after the Capitol attack and deadly insurrection, its ringleader is not only still unindicted, he’s still inciting violence and plotting to retake office?
You want to fix policing? Remove their immunity so that they can be sued, and if you win, damages come out of the department's pension fund instead of from taxpayers.
They'll clean house on their own. Quickly.
@ninaturner And let's remember, human time is our most precious resource. Then Mother Earth, then plenty of other stuff, and then capital. In short, we don't eat capital.
The Jan 6 insurrectionists were neither poor nor rich. They came mostly from US "middle class" savaged by the last 40 years of "neoliberal globalization" - the ideology hiding a huge redistribution of wealth to the richest in the US. https://t.co/DkoRRxkoFP
IRS is cozy with the super-rich's tax attorneys. So they evaded taxes since the IRS "lacks resources" to stop them. Result: $7 trillion "owed but not collected." Dems and GOP somehow "fail" to change this for many years. https://t.co/nefV3WgmmS
A tale of two Talibans in 2022: one in Kabul denying women's right to college/university educations, and another in Washington denying women's right to control their own bodies. Desperate tries to reverse history.
Over last 40 years, the already unequal US wage system worsened sharply. This graph shows tiny growth for 90% of Americans vs huge growth for the already richest. Societies with such deepening injustice usually explode.
If this year taught us anything, it's that:
1) Workers keep America going, not billionaires.
2) Corporate profits don't trickle down to workers.
3) Poverty is a policy choice.
4) Health care is a human right.
5) Strikes work.
I hope we act on these lessons in the new year.
I’m sick of political corruption.
I’m sick of mega-donors buying politicians.
I’m sick of candidates who take these bribes and the Parties that don’t say anything to them.