Congress gets free healthcare for life, a pension when they retire, and $79 A DAY for lunch... that’s all BEFORE their $175,000 a year salary.
The system is a joke and tax payers are the punchline.
The fact that almost EVERY former confederate state is moving to completely eliminate Black representatives almost immediately after the SCOTUS decision should be more than enough proof that voting rights still need protection and racism is far from gone in this country.
Bayer is a German chemical company. They make Roundup. Roundup gives people non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Bayer has paid over $11 billion in cancer lawsuits.
This week, Congress is going to vote on a bill that gives Bayer permanent immunity from being sued by Americans who get cancer from their product.
Here is how it happened. 🧵
This private school in Fayetteville, NC pocketed $4,271,109 in public tax dollars this school year via school vouchers.
They ban students who practice specific religions like Islam and Buddhism, and they also deny admissions to LGBTQ+ students whom they call "perverted." #nced
North Carolina had a 7-7 map. Their GOP moved it to 11-3. Guess who said NOTHING? Whiny ass @coachbrucepearl. He didn’t say a damn thing. As Della Reese said in Harlem Nights, “Kiss my ENTIRE ass!”
How the hell is everything so expensive when all we've done for 40+ years is give corporations the tax breaks they swore they needed to hire workers and lower prices?
ZOHRAN: “TBH, I don’t think too much about how Republicans portray me. The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery— to be told a city-run grocery store is implausible but $500 MILLION/day to kill ppl in Iran & Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”
There have been two days in NBA history, spanning 80 years, where at least nine games were played with an average margin of victory being at least 24 points.
Only two such days. In 80 years.
One was yesterday.
The other was Sunday.
🚨BREAKING: Trump just officially proposed a $1.5 trillion military budget.. the current budget is $895 billion.. that's a 67% increase in a single year.. in the middle of a war he says will "make a fortune"..
that's roughly $4,500 from every single American.. man, woman, child.. this year alone..
in April 1953, President Eisenhower gave a speech called 'The Chance for Peace'.. he said: "every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed"..
Eisenhower was a five-star general who commanded the largest military operation in history.. and he spent the last years of his presidency warning America about exactly what we're watching happen..
your hospital can't afford nurses.. your school is cutting teachers.. your rent is up 40% in three years..
but the military budget just went up 67% in 12 months..
the war is paying for itself..
just not for you..
The administration who convinced an entire generation of Americans to not go to college and pick up a trade instead has now decided they’re going to shut down the nations largest trade school who trained and educated the entire generation of Americans who were told not to go to college.
Texans were sold on the notion that vouchers would serve the kids who needed them most to "escape" failing public schools.
But now that applications are closed, the data shows 73% of applicants are already enrolled in private or home schools.
We are hurtling toward an outcome that was predicted from the very start: a massive transfer of our public money into private hands with no accountability. #txlege
*taps the sign*
"corporations will create jobs if you give them tax breaks" is the lie billionaires tell so you support giving their companies more tax breaks.
This isn’t a small deal. Restaurant Depot is where most mom & pop restaurants go to buy inventory because Sysco is so expensive.
Restaurant Depot was privately owned. Sysco is owned by… you guessed it, BlackRock & Vanguard.
Now private equity can control pricing for food costs with zero competition. Just like they did with housing.
This should be an anti-trust violation, but we have politicians that work for Big Corp, not us.