Jeffries is right: got to find a path toward fixing healthcare. One of those paths is getting rid of people like Jeffries and passing Medicare for All.
Glenn makes the important point that the reason such an authoritarian surveillance state is emerging in the U.S. is because the billionaires financing it are terrified that normal Americans will one day understand how little control they have over anything in their increasingly economically unequal country and that Americans will ultimately decide to revolt against it.
The ultra-wealthy like Carnegie used to engage in philanthropy to try to mollify class tensions.
But since elites no longer aspire or even pretend to contribute to the public (they’d rather live on private islands), they have instead decided to construct a national apparatus for surveillance and control to achieve the same outcome.
Mitch McConnell has repeatedly voted against federal paid sick leave legislation. He voted no in 1993, 2015, 2020, and 2022.
He has currently been on paid sick leave for over 7 weeks (if he is even still alive).
You dont hate politicians enough.
AIPAC spent $30 million trying to defeat Abdul El-Sayed in the primary. They lost.
Now, they plan to spend tens of millions more against him in the general election.
This is not democracy. This is oligarchy and a corrupt billionaire-funded campaign finance system.
Fight back.
"Dying for your country is a patriotic fairy tale. In reality, you will bleed out in the mud like a butchered dog for absolutely nothing." - Ernest Hemingway
Republicans paid $40 MILLION of your tax dollars to Morocco to invade Spain.
And then they all pretended like borders matter and clutched their pearls like invasions are offensive.
R’s and D’s are the same and the Uniparty has put us in $40 T in debt and Americans LAST.
SERIOUS QUESTION: “Why is it that it takes 900 years and 5000 impact studies to build high speed rail but a 5 minute city council meeting is all it takes to approve a massive data center?”
So if I purchase a DVD and digitize it, that’s copyright infringement. But if an AI company buys my book and scans it to train their system, that’s perfectly fine? Once again, corporations are allowed to play by their own rules. I’m so sick of the hypocrisy.
Data center project committing fraud by impersonating residents to manufacture consent.
Unreal levels of corruption, you don't hate AI and these robber barons enough.