😩 JESUS CHRIST!!! Cops give a brutal beating on the bridge between Ohio and Kentucky to young people who were protesting against Trump's policies and against the Genocide in Gaza.
Spread this far & wide!!!
Dave Matthews: “I will never stop calling for an end to the violence in Gaza and the West Bank and Lebanon and for that matter the Congo and Sudan and Ukraine or the horrific violence against immigrants and their neighbors in our country”
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.
Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.
Some falsebeliefs that are hurting the Democratic Party:
1) Republicans are better at messaging bc their audience is dumb.
2) Republicans are better at keeping together their coalition because the Democratic coalition is more "diverse."
The reality is that Democrats back opaque, convoluted, marginal policy ideas because the straightforward, popular policies like Medicare for All, a living wage, tax the rich, are opposed by their donor base. The inverse conservative policies (cut taxes/cut government) can be said straightforwardly because those policies are in line with what the corporate donor base both parties share support.
Democrats sound convoluted not because their policies are "smarter," but because they have to employ more sophistry to do their donor's bidding while not upsetting the base. They have to use rotating villain voting + the filibuster + rely on executive vetos + sunsetting popular policies like the child tax credit in order to make sure nothing they *say* they want sticks.
To point #2: This is so racist is wrong. There is very little "diversity" of opinion among the issues that ALL Americans-- not just the Dem base -- want. Medicare for all is an 88% issue among Dems, and 49% among Republicans. The overwhelming majority of Americans want it. Dems blaming "diversity" for not running on popular, economic populist policies is wrong and downright hateful.
"[I]t's a gangster enterprise of of imperialism. You can't separate capitalism from imperialism. And we have this mythology of democracy that sometimes does allow for people to improve their standards of living. But at this point, it is very clear that we don't have democracy. We don't have the rule of law, we have something else." -@Aaron_Good_
This is considered revolutionary idea in DC - take yes for an answer. @RoKhanna has found a genius way of getting things done - why don't we find areas of agreement and at least do those? Isn't it amazing that no one else thought of that? Epstein Files was perfect place to start!
I understand people need to travel, but a worker’s strike right now would end this shutdown in less than 24hrs! If all flights suddenly stopped…the shutdown would end before Sunday Morning Football.
It really is unacceptable for ATC workers to be asked to continue to work after missing multiple paychecks all while members of congress continue to get paid during this shutdown and Republicans refuse to come to the table.