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[Our Revolution @OurRevolution]

Amazing news: Aisha Wahab advances in her race for Congress in CA-14!

@aishabbwahab has been a voice for housing justice, workers’ rights, and affordability that is taking on corporate power and fighting for working families.

This is the kind of people-first leadership we need in Congress.

[Jane Kim 金貞妍 @JaneKim]

Thank you, California.

While there are many votes left to count, we have a strong lead and a clear path to the general election in November.

California is ready to turn the page on a broken status quo — and we're ready to fight and win affordable, available insurance for all.

[Our Revolution @OurRevolution]

Jane Kim is one of the fiercest advocates for working families. She has proven time and again that she will fight big money and corporate actors throwing workers under the bus.

Congratulations — together we will elect @JaneKim as Insurance Commissioner of California 💙

[Ben Freeman @BenFreemanDC]

"At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the U.S. to the Israeli military more than ever before."

Here's the story: 🧵

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

We’re in final stage of capitalism where global capital can’t expand or sustain past profits. It’s now consuming public institutions and key systems, sacrificing democracy, welfare, infrastructure, education, healthcare, and ecosystems for short-term gain.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

You know what Mamdani taxed the rich and then suddenly libraries started to work, potholes got fixed, childcare exists, and workers get paid more.
That's why billionaires are losing it and want him gone!!!

[Rocky Fernandez @rockyfernandez]

For reasons I can’t understand, the guy who spent lots of money to create a young voter mobilization effort (@NextGenAmerica) didn’t spend $20M on one for himself in a 3-4 point race. & charges $33 for a lawn sign. Still, vote @TomSteyer

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

The deal with Iran will go down as one of the most incompetent ever made. The U.S. lost on virtually every point. We just don't win anymore!

[Winter @LeftyWinter]

Mamdani: "Of the Margret Thatcher quote, the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. If anything my friends, it seems you eventually need a socialist to clean up the mess."

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

If ocean water is too corrosive to cool data centers then we should force the richest people in the world to build desalinization plants. At least it would mean extra drinking water for, you know, actual people.

[daz @MetamateDaz]

If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, legal protections, bailouts, and trade protections?

and why when citizens need these things, it's socialism?

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani mocks Ronald Reagan’s infamous quote.

“I can think of nine words more terrifying than ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help…’”

“I worked all day and can’t feed my family.”

[Paddystinian @Paddystinian]

"Israel was constructed on the ruins of another society.

You cannot continue to victimize somebody else just because you were a victim once."

Prof. Edward Said
Palestinian-American academic, literary critic, and political activist.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Amazon cut 30,000 jobs & got a $7.8 billion tax break

Meta cut 8,000 jobs & got an $8 billion tax break

PayPal cut 4,800 jobs & paid $0 in federal income taxes

Disney cut 1,000 jobs & paid $0 in federal income taxes

Corporate tax breaks don't create jobs. They enrich the 1%.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Zohran Mamdani is proof that politicians could get a lot of shit done if they actually cared about people

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Can't stop thinking about Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive worth $828 billion, spending $290 million to elect Trump, becoming $563 billion richer since Trump was elected and ending humanitarian aid that will lead to the deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest kids on the planet.

[Max Burns @themaxburns]

Tonight, after a year of screaming about holding ICE accountable, 144 House Democrats joined 203 Republicans to pass CORCA, a bill that grants DHS and ICE sweeping new power to collect American citizens' personal information under the guise of combating retail theft.

[R @shibadad8]

Wait so wtf were the previous NYC Mayors doing?

[Oasis @oasishealthapp]

Children living near Driscoll's strawberry farms have a 38% higher childhood cancer rate than average.

But Driscoll's can't be sued for any of it.

They don't own a single farm, grow a single berry or apply an ounce of pesticides themselves

They are a genetics and marketing company making $3 billion a year, licensing plant patents to over 700 farms and taking a cut.

Their president said it himself: "Driscoll's is not involved in the fruit farming"

Researchers identified 13 pesticides linked to childhood cancer when sprayed within 2.5 miles of a home.

98.5% of those leukemia-linked pesticides were applied in Watsonville, California (Driscoll's main strawberry operation).

- Schools sit just yards from the fields
- 41,000 lbs of pesticides applied within 1 sq mi of an elementary school
- Pesticides linger in the air for up to 72 hours

Driscoll's is currently #1 strawberry in the U.S.

Check for pesticide testing on the Oasis app

[James J. Zogby @jjz1600]

Btw, back in the late 70’s the Wash Post published cables from the US visa officer in Jerusalem, detailing over 20 cases of Palestinian prisoners being raped by Israelis. I met these torture victims. Their stories were devastating
Israel must stop lying. They torture & rape