āIf we erase January 6th, it didnāt happenā
āIf we donāt release certain inflation data, thereās no inflationā
āIf we donāt measure food insecurity, no oneās hungryā
āIf we delete research on right-wing violence, thereās no right-wing violenceā
āIf we stop Covid testing, weāll have fewer casesā
The Trump administration wants you to believe their propaganda is fact, and control the majority of mainstream media and social platforms to reinforce their lies.
This is what authoritarianism looks like.
If one takes a comprehensive view of taxation in the US, hereās the picture that emerges:
All social groups pay broadly the same effective tax rate today ā around 25%-30% of income, all taxes included ā with billionaires having the lowest tax rate: 24% on average in 2018ā20.
https://t.co/SEzTC7VifI
Youāre not (and Iām not) mad enough about the state of our government. This is blatant theft, on top of all of the other horrific things heās doing. Donāt become complacent.
The damage from a reactionary Supreme Court:
Citizens United allows billionaires to buy elections.
Ending Roe v. Wade takes away a woman's right to control her body.
Louisiana v. Callais strips voting rights away from Black Americans.
Our rights are under attack. FIGHT BACK.
SCOTUS: Courts are not allowed to intervene and change a map if it's too close to an election unless it benefits Republicans then it's okay
https://t.co/IEZsqwWe01
Lying in a legal briefing would get you disbarred as a regular lawyer. But when youāre an unelected, lifetime appointee with powers to write decisions that completely undo & remake the Constitution, the decision gets to stand & you get to keep your lifetime position. Outrageous.
Wow. Chaos on the Tennessee House floor. Tennesseans yelling in the gallery and Democrats locking arms in one final stand, as Republicans vote to advance new congressional maps that will carve up the stateās only majority-Black congressional district.
Meanwhile, Ruby Bridges, the first black student to be integrated into a white school (under heavy protest and with severe violent backlash), is only 71. The people that perpetrated attacks on her and her family are still alive, voting, hating. How could racism possibly be dead?
The Supreme Courtās ruling on the VRA is an embodiment of what the modern racist right winger thinks - race should be ignored; colorblindness = no racism. But pretending that racism doesnāt exist in our politics, our institutions, and in fact our citizenry has never been a
This credo allows them to stereotype, shrink the rights of, or even murder a black person without race being a factor, at least in their eyes, and now, sadly, the eyes of the law. They want you to believe institutional racism is a thing of the past.
A while back, Dunkin Donuts used Rob Gronkowski in some ads. But my friend and I had no idea he was a football player, so we thought Dunkin came up with an Original Character named "Gronk" to advertise their energy drink.
Flop followed by a flop. Probably the best flopping team in the league. Donāt let the media tell you OKC is better. OKC is top heavy (Shai) but the Knicks can flop effectively 1-8.
@d_crouser@ShamsCharania Still canāt be showing any symptoms, bc the risk for a major brain injury is way higher if something like this were to happen again while heās still concussed.