Jeff Bezos is the richest guy on the planet. He's gotten $86 billion richer since the start of the COVID pandemic. Does he really need $10 billion from Congress for space exploration?
Airlines got $25 billion in bailout money and cut 90,000 workers anyway. We are spending money to prop up companies that should just go directly to people and families.
Social norms are changing. I understand that, and I’ve heard what these women are saying. Politics to me has always been about making connections, but I will be more mindful about respecting personal space in the future. That’s my responsibility and I will meet it.
In my on-boarding to Congress, I get to pick my insurance plan.
As a waitress, I had to pay more than TWICE what I’d pay as a member of Congress.
It’s frustrating that Congressmembers would deny other people affordability that they themselves enjoy. Time for #MedicareForAll.
President Eisenhower said “the American mind that its best is both liberal and conservative.” I think that’s true. The resistance to authoritarianism is not a Left/Right issue. We are all Americans.
If you’re saying what you really think & feel about what’s going on in America today, it will disturb and fatigue you but say it anyway. Forces are counting on people getting too exhausted to resist, to surrender from sheer lack of emotional fortitude. It’s psychological warfare.
Vice Pres. Pence praises the Trump-Putin summit: "Disagreements between our countries were discussed at length, but what the world saw, what the American people saw, is that Pres. Donald Trump will always put the prosperity and security of America first." https://t.co/PYLijnzpsu
There are 3 main components to peace creation: 1)Create more economic opportunities for women, 2) create more educational opportunities for children, and 3) address more vigorously the unnecessary suffering of millions throughout the world. #wagepeace
The younger you are the more you know some things, and the older you are the more you know other things. No generation has a monopoly on truth, so much as each has its own unique insight into it.
A policy that separates young children from their parents isn’t a “deterrent”. It’s unconscionable.
A policy that traumatizes children isn’t a bargaining chip. It’s abhorrent. https://t.co/piB3h9X0ke