.@JamesTalarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves.
The Powell memo outlined a strategy. Unite corporate special interests, privilege corporate perspectives in the media, appoint sympathetic judges to the court, and buy politicians in both political parties.
And it worked. Republicans and some Democrats sold the false gospel of trickle-down economics. Trickle-down economics is not a theory, it is theft.
Since the late 1970s, mega donors and corporate special interests have been buying politicians in both political parties. And then those politicians turned around and rigged the economy to benefit their wealthy donors at our expense.
We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis.
BREAKING: Independent Mayor of Arlington TX, Jim Ross, endorses James Talarico for US Senate:
“I’m tired of criminals running for office. Talarico is what is right for this state.”
"Dying for your country is a patriotic fairy tale. In reality, you will bleed out in the mud like a butchered dog for absolutely nothing." - Ernest Hemingway
Always remember that San Antonio residents & most Texans face skyrocketing electric bills because Greg Abbott let gas companies make record profits during Uri.
Then Abbott got $1 million from the gas company CEO.
It’s the Greg Abbott Corruption Tax. https://t.co/TCcEdzcHSL
In TX: Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare just CLEARED the meeting room, kicking out public speakers who are opposed to the GOP plan to cut half of the battleground county's Election Day voting locations for November:
El-Sayed: "Mike Rogers is a guy who wants to put a data center in your backyard so he can make himself feel a little more manly by making an AI video ... he's a guy who went back to Florida so he could lick every single boot Donald Trump owns to bet for his endorsement."
USPS is a service for the American people. It is not a business to be run for profit.
It is the only mailing service that cannot cut off delivery to certain locations simply due to it not being “cost effective”
You HAVE to enjoy life after you get off work or you gone feel like you slaving away. Like PLEASE go have drinks on a random Wednesday. YES do that beach picnic too. That’s right, go practice pottery on a Tuesday evening. That go to work, go home, go to work, go home shit is 0/10
EL-SAYED: I want to make healthcare, groceries and gas more affordable, get rid of data centers, remove corporate money from politics and tax the rich.
Republicans: El-Sayed is Muslim.
people keep minimizing this USPS situation but it’s actually very scary. access to medication, government services, affordable and accessible shipping for small businesses, people in rural areas. it’s the one postal service that’s required to serve every address in the country! that benefits everyone, whether you personally use it every day or not.