The #PABudget is due on June 30th. We have an obligation to pass a moral budget that reflects the just economic power and sustainability we deserve. That's why we urged @PaSenate last week in Harrisburg to fund education, #WholeHomesRepair, #RaiseTheWage, and end preemption!
The system as it is has numbed us, then would have us believe there’s something wrong with us that we feel numb.
To be consciously alive today is to recognize how off things are; the anxiety this causes is not dysfunctional, but functional.
As long as corporate profits rather than humanitarian values are the organizing principle of our civilization, people and planet will continue to suffer…. and our civilization will continue to decline.
The status quo will not disrupt itself.
Fundamental change comes from the people, or it does not come about at all.
There's a saying in AA about what happens when you grow "sick and tired of being sick and tired."
You have to make a decision; your only two choices then are to spiral down, or to spiral up.
It feels like the country is "sick and tired of being sick and tired" now, and people are spiraling down all over the place.
What we need is a collective spiraling up, enough of us willing to say "No, we're not going down. We have decided not to. And we get that staying where we are is a form of spiraling down, just more slowly."
We can choose to rise.
We can commit to change, break with the past, cut the cord that has bound us to undue corporate influence on our government and on our lives, and start a season of repair.
The only thing stopping us is the thought that it can't be done.
#DisruptTheSystem
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Leslie Stahl’s interview isn’t a one-off atrocity. It’s just one symptom of the media turning a blind eye to fascism.
In just the last two weeks alone, the mainstream media have refused to recognize the threat posed by the Republican party and its de facto leader, Donald Trump.
First, they based an entire week of reporting and analysis on Donald’s social media post that falsely claimed he was going to be arrested on March 21.
Then, 60 Minutes made the confounding decision to give a platform to insurrectionist and fascist Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The Republican Party has fallen in line behind Donald and, now that indictments against him have been announced, they will stop at nothing to undermine the American people’s faith in the rule of law. Donald’s attacks on social media against NY DA Alvin Bragg have already resulted in an avalanche of death threats.
But just as they did in 2016, the media keep giving Donald millions of dollars worth of air time.
It’s time for the media to take sides—democracy or fascism.
It shouldn’t be that fucking hard.
In other news today…Finland joining NATO is a big blow to Putin This is not what he envisioned when he thought he was going to weaken and divide NATO and the west when he invaded Ukraine
With the U.S. already at the highest level of poverty in advanced democracies, we're dropping 15 million people from medicaid and 30 million from SNAP benefits this week.
It’s not just economic poverty staring us in the face.
It's moral poverty staring at us in the mirror.