If there's one thing Americans can agree on, it's that there's too much money in politics.
But the Supreme Court just decided to demolish some of the last safeguards we had left - creating an even bigger role for special interest spending.
We must do whatever it takes - including a constitutional amendment if necessary - to combat the influence of money in our political system.
🇺🇸 Donald Trump purchased $5 million of Axon stock days before ICE awarded a $220 million Taser contract.
In any functioning democracy, this would be called massive corruption and He would have faced at least 2 years in jail.
One thing that's interesting about Justice Roberts's birthright citizenship opinion is how his careful explanation of history shows how the immigration debate rarely changes. The argument that "these people are too different to join us" has just failed, socially, culturally, economically, and morally, time and time again.
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
He got ‘canned’ because Trump launched a frivolous lawsuit against CBS News and then pressured the owners, in the middle of a merger, to do his bidding. Trump will now have an ‘ombudsman’ at the network directly reporting to him on ‘bias’.
As someone who claims to believe in free speech and is opposed to government censorship, this should be something you’re concerned by and condemning.
Children clung to life in Sudan by the slenderest of threads, supported by community soup kitchens. Then the USAID funding cuts came, and their mothers watched them starve to death one by one. https://t.co/ZZVmidOS9c
The Republican budget is apparently going to have a slush fund to bail out red state hospitals while allowing blue state hospitals to close because of the devastating Medicaid cuts.
Let's call this what it is - a fundamental corruption. A blow to the heart of our 50 state union.
This is oligarchy. This is obscene.
While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.
End this oligarchy.
The last few days have truly been a low point for the American news media. And it’s all because journalists in this country—and their corporate masters—lack the courage to say what they all know and say endlessly in private:
That @realDonaldTrump is stupid, and nuts.
This shouldn’t be hard. But they make it so, for their readers, viewers, listeners, and the country as a whole. Most of the rest of the world got over this long ago.
Mr. President, don’t take your anger out on me - I’m just a silly girl.
Take it out on whoever convinced you to betray the American people and our Constitution by illegally bombing Iran and dragging us into war.
It only took you 5 months to break almost every promise you made.