The top 1% has long been richer than all poor people combined.
Now they're richer than the entire middle class, too.
And the Senate is cutting services for the poor and middle class to avoid making the 1% pay the same in taxes as everyone else.
https://t.co/8IqyXBK9cM
It’s so sad how mad people can get at a bunch of young people that just don’t want to get shot in our schools or our communities.
This is just some of the many emails we get @AMarch4OurLives every single day.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but no. Medicare is not going broke. Senior citizens who cannot afford dentures, hearing aids and eyeglasses - they are going broke. Yes. We must expand Medicare to cover dental, hearing and vision care.
I think a lot about how filing taxes is free and easy in every other country but here there's a multi-billion-dollar tax prep industry that lobbied to make it so complicated you have to pay them every year, and Congress just goes along with it.
Think that sums up a lot.
Teresa Sperry, 10yo, Suffolk, Virginia, died of #covid19 9/27/21. She'd been assigned the role of "class nurse", helping kids to the nurse's office. The Superintendent sent out an email that failed to encourage masking, vaccination, or social distancing. https://t.co/aiJk35OWJN
Stunning—670,000 white flags 🏳 flying in Washington DC. You can guess what they stand for during this pandemic - that is 1 flag for every 500 people. Let that sink in. Let that motivate us all to end this. #COVID19
Message to journalists:
If someone says it's raining and someone else says it's sunny, your job is not to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and then report the truth.
There is something wrong with a society that allows Elon Musk to add $150,800,000,000 to his wealth during a pandemic while over 38 million Americans faced hunger.
When we pass the reconciliation bill, we will:
- lower RX drug prices
- provide paid family leave to every worker
- dramatically lower the cost of child care
- finally lead the world in the fight against climate change
We cannot let powerful special interests stand in our way.
Love this Tik Tok on @Chevron's unprecedented and illegal private prosecution of me. It has more than 200,000 views.
Independent content creators exposing Chevron's lies can make a critical difference in the outcome.
The mainstream media needs to start covering these Indigenous success stories, to show the rest of the country what’s possible when a nation comes together — and puts the health of the community— above divisive partisan politics.
Can capitalism be salvaged? What would it take to build a more just economic system in America? Seeking answers to those questions in part 2 of the Transforming Capitalism podcast. With @ninaturner@profwolff@StephanieKelton@DanPriceSeattle... https://t.co/z9IuVqxnsZ
"He speaks from such a place of deep ignorance, and it's not just ignorance. It's ignorance that's hurting people."
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Texas's GOP Gov. Abbott for defending the state's abortion law by saying he's working to "eliminate all rapists."