KJ Gagnon

love unconditionally, laugh with reckless abandon, live compassionately

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

It's time for a national billionaires tax and a new social contract.

10% of Americans own two-thirds of the wealth. Wages have stagnated. The cost of living has skyrocketed. 

The system is fundamentally broken.

The federal tax code, a corporate code, and an inheritance code were written for a different set of Americans. 

It’s time for an economic reset.

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[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Where is Congress? Where are those so called “fiscally conservative” Republicans? Trump is spending taxpayer money, the money of hardworking Americans, as if it is his OWN money for himself and his vanity projects, all while you sit back and do nothing. 🤬 Grow a spine, cowards!

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

What the heck is going on here?

ABC7 is my local station. It isn’t a partisan network, it’s where millions of Angelenos get local news, weather, fires, earthquakes, and emergency alerts.

So why is the FCC putting its broadcast license under an unusually early review years before it was due?

Explain, with receipts. @FCC

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

The Trump regime is arresting people for touching paint chips but not for touching kids.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis.

Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention.

So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption.

1/ Here it is - in one🧵

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

It is important to resist the commodification of basic human needs. Food, water and healthcare cannot be subordinated to market considerations or geopolitical interests. Access to adequate food is a fundamental human right grounded in the dignity of every person. Meeting this need not only alleviates suffering but also addresses underlying causes of geopolitical instability. Indeed, food security is an essential component of global and integral security. https://t.co/DgkM9RegJ7

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Republicans looked the country in the eye and made a promise. When they rewrote the food stamp program last year, they said children would not be touched.

Pregnant women would not be touched.

Families with young kids would not be touched. They said it on the House floor, on the record, in front of everyone.

A year later we know the truth.

More than 776,000 children have been cut off from food assistance. In the states that track participation by age, kids make up nearly half of everyone who lost benefits.

These are kids who went to bed hungry because a politician wanted a talking point. 

We must be a country that feeds its children. We used to believe that was the bare minimum. Take care of the kid who is hungry through no fault of their own.

The people who broke that promise should have to answer for it, and in November they will.
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[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

Trump wants to create a national database of every registered voter in the country.

Then, he and the GOP want to decide who gets to stay on it.

“It’s a way of essentially taking over the voter registration process,” Marc Elias says, “or, more precisely, taking over the results.”

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

Democrats want to make sure Social Security is there for future generations. Trump hasn’t even bothered to put forward a plan to ensure Social Security stays solvent.

If you don't want your benefits cut, the fight to protect Social Security is happening RIGHT NOW.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

At the G7, the CEOs of the big AI companies sat at the table like heads of state, alongside presidents and prime ministers.

This is the nightmare scene.

Governments need to have a response to the state-like power of these companies, whether it’s by taking ownership shares, breaking them up into smaller entities, or imposing a regulatory structure that controls their power over citizens.

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

🚨🚨🚨A standing ovation for the Washington Post, @wapo . 👏👏👏

You spent a full year investigating whether America's Director of National Intelligence, the woman with access to every classified secret this country has, was being directed by a cult leader who got busted for pyramid schemes in multiple countries.

And you held it until she resigned?

This same cult leader, Chris Butler, has his sect directly tied to QI Group (QNET), a Hong Kong-based company with operations across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

So the real question: Which countries now have access to our national intelligence? Which of our spy names are compromised?

And let's not forget, this is the same Tulsi Gabbard who used her position to do a coordinated hit job on Dr. Fauci, a man who spent his entire life saving Americans.

Imagine if this story dropped while she still had her hands on our nation's secrets.

Our press and mainstream media are failing us at every level.

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[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Morris Katz: “How is it not a scandal that @SenatorCollins is married to a lobbyist who, while she was on the [Senate] committee deciding what firms get money, gave $76 million to her husband, that she has voted to fund wars that have enriched her own stock portfolio. Susan Collins and her lobbyist husband seem like a scandal…”😳

[Matthew Hunt @matthew_hu41905]

🚨 WHERE IS THE MONEY? Blundell reveals that Trump and his cronies gained access to the Kennedy Center’s accounts, and $17 million in operational funds has vanished! This is blatant looting of public institutions. We demand a full investigation now! 🔥😡

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: We see a faithless president, self-dealing, while he depicts himself as Christ, while he depicts the Obamas as apes, while he plunges the nation recklessly into war, plunders our health care, and sends prices soaring. 

And while the people pay more than ever for groceries and housing and health care, he builds a monument to himself. 

While a cancer patient loses health coverage, he adorns his office in gold. 

Voting rights laws are dismantled, prisons for immigrants are full of children, and all the while we see this wickedness advanced and defended by those who wrap themselves in the banner of righteous faith. 

But we ask, where in Scripture are we commanded to deny care to the sick, to take from those with the least to give to those with the most, to violate the house of worship to hunt down the refuge

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

So let me get this straight: Pulling a chunk of paint out of the Reflecting Pool gets you arrested for vandalism, but trump’s terrorists who attacked the Capitol, killed cops, broke windows, stole shit, and smeared their feces on the walls get to go free?

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

A federal court just confirmed what everyone already knew:

Trump’s DOJ is illegally using the machinery of government to target his political enemies with bogus investigations.

That’s not justice. It’s corruption. IT MUST END!

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

There is a 24/7 camera that shows the reflecting pool. If someone went into the pool and made a 250 foot gash, it would have been seen.

trump is lying again. Everyone knows it, but the people at @TheJusticeDept are randomly going after people to soothe trump’s fragile ego.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

John C. Reilly: “Why aren’t people on the right wing concerned about human rights? They’re human too. Elon Musk says don’t be fooled by the empathy trap. Empathy is not a trap, empathy is a superpower. It’s what makes human beings exceptional, our ability to look outside ourself”

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Why is this not in the news??Trump loyalist, Jim Jordan, received ‘dark money’ from ICE detention contractor. 😡 https://t.co/WaWQHn6N5w

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Talarico: “Real men don’t lie and cheat their way through life. They don’t enrich themselves by stealing from other people. They don’t sell their soul to the highest bidder. Real men serve others, weak men serve themselves”