Rafael Lopez

vassar ‘29 and music pretentious - progressive politics

[Rafael Lopez @AaronZevin]

@firebornnn Took a selfie with him at the Congressional baseball game!

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani mocks Ronald Reagan’s infamous quote.

“I can think of nine words more terrifying than ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help…’”

“I worked all day and can’t feed my family.”

[snoopy and friends @snoopyandfrien6]

May 14,1991

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Zohran Mamdani has announced a balanced budget for New York City.

The mayor says there will be no cuts to city services.

Instead, with another $4 billion from the state and a new tax on the rich, Zohran and his administration have closed what was a $12 billion budget gap.

[Æthelstan @TheHauskarl]

Larry the Cat will have outlasted 5 British PMs. It's time to start asking if the strength and stability we needed has been right in front of us all along.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

As primary season continues, some Democrats claim the party needs to "move to the center" to win in November.

Hogwash.

Democrats can't repeat the same failed playbook of the last 50 years. It's time for them to grow a spine.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Anthony Bourdain: "Listening to you people makes me want to go join the communist party. You're living off the labor of a repressed underclass."

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The corporate takeover of American politics was rapid and ruthless.

In the 1970s, I watched as thousands of corporate lobbyists descended on Washington. Fast forward to today, and lobbying has become a multi-billion dollar industry.

It all began with the Powell Memo.

[Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo @Claudiashein]

Aquí les dejo el edicto de Carlos I de España en Valladolid, de 1548, en el que habla de las atrocidades de Hernán Cortés, a quien hoy pretende reivindicar la derecha mexicana. Los pueblos originarios son la verdadera reserva de valores del México de ayer y de hoy.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Abdul El-Sayed: “AIPAC and Israel are not the same as Judaism and the Jewish people. I love Judaism and I love the Jewish people. The single most dangerous thing they’ve tried to tell us is somehow they can extend the definition of antisemitism to include a foreign government and its leaders. I call bullshit”

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Warming up in a local Minnesota park for the rally with @peggyflanagan.

[CAT LOVERS @MeowDaily_Cute]

A cat made the entire Yankee Stadium erupt in cheers! Let's go, cat! 😂

[IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy]

Thank you @ChrisVanHollen for sharing US citizen Rachel Corrie’s story from the Senate floor and voting to block the destructive bulldozers that Israeli soldiers used to kill her.

[Juliegrace Brufke @juliegraceb]

The community note on this one is a doozy.

[Congressman Greg Casar @RepCasar]

Today, @SenSanders and I introduced the Home Team Act.

Too often, billionaire sports team owners are getting richer while fans and taxpayers get screwed.

Our bill requires team owners to offer locals the chance to buy a team before moving it away.

[Ryan Shenker @RyanShenker]

Out NOW for FREE on @TheNatsReport

Culture, Process, Alignment: Butera and Toboni Define Nationals’ New Era

https://t.co/j4pA3lXIXW

[Rafael Lopez @AaronZevin]

hell yeah NYN! #savethenats

[Navy Yard Nats @NavyYardNats]

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