WATCH: "A filled room of 9/11 first responders and...a nearly empty Congress": In hearing for 9/11 victims fund, Jon Stewart lambastes absent lawmakers, saying, "They did their jobs with courage, grace, tenacity, humility...18 years later, do yours!" https://t.co/yJJ9zj40cl
"We only have empty pockets when it comes to the morally right things to do, but when it comes to tax cuts for billionaires and when it comes to unlimited war we seem to be able to invent that money very easily," Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says. https://t.co/cgpyxY7z1g
Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in 2015, appealed his guilty verdict in December. Yesterday, he lost the appeal https://t.co/R97vu8OcPe
Single-payer healthcare: Exists in 16 countries
Tuition-free (or nearly-free) college: Exists in 15 countries
Major economies already running on at least 30% renewable energy: 4
Super spoOoky, right? 👻
It’s not that the US can’t have these things. It’s that we choose not to.
@NYGovCuomo Perhaps someone should have thought about traffic congestion before authorizing an additional 65K FHVs to operate in NYC. Which one of you is responsible for that @NYGovCuomo@NYCMayorsOffice#TLCstatistics
I will be advancing new legislation to require that hospitals preserve rape kits for at least 5 years.
The current NYS requirement of a minimum of only 30 days retention is one of the shortest in the nation.