Robert Castañeda

Tejano 🇲🇽 Progessive 🗽 Lawyer ⚖️

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

America is a failed state with a growing population of elderly people who can't retire

[Maxwell Alejandro Frost @MaxwellFrostFL]

Fascist Gov. Ron DeSantis abused his power & replaced New College’s board of trustees with extreme MAGA lapdogs. They then fired the President & hired one of DeSantis’ friends. Now he has a contract worth $796K A YEAR and 15 MILLION from the state to make the school conservative.

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

This cop went on a power trip and pulled a gun on a child while assaulting a woman

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

We told you this would happen.

They're going after Obergefell, gay marriage, and gay parents in Oklahoma.

You didn't think this would stop at trans people, did you?

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Moderna says it will keep its Covid vaccine free for all people in the U.S.—reversing course on its planned 400% price increase—one day after Bernie Sanders said he would force the CEO to testify.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Ginny Thomas tried to get the Trump White House to buy into a plan to have the Supreme Court throw out the election.

Clarence Thomas was the only SCOTUS Justice to vote to keep the White House's communications about Jan 6. secret.

This is why SCOTUS needs ethics rules.

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Where were all the cops in riot gear shooting rubber bullets?
Why isn’t Tucker Carlson screaming at the top of his lungs?

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

I can’t believe this is a real headline in America in 2023

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

A new Zillow study says that renters who make minimum wage have two options to keep rent under 30% of their income: either find 3 roommates (with 2 people per bedroom) or work 4 full-time jobs.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

This you?

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Holy shit. Top Republican Jim Banks just indicated he wants to find a way to stop “young ladies” from “hopping in a car” to travel to another state for reproductive care. He agreed the fact that women can travel for care means “the fight is far from over.”

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

OUTRAGEOUS: George Santos is going to be appointed to the Small Business Committee, which oversees one of the largest government programs in history: the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

Can a fraud like George Santos be trusted to root out rampant fraud in the PPP program?

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The oligarchy helped finance Trump. In return, they got richer with lower taxes.

Even though Trump is gone, the oligarchs continue to siphon off the economy's gains while the GOP uses culture wars to keep us divided and distracted.

Pay attention. They're playing us.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

“It’s a cruel jest to say to a bootless man he ought to lift himself up.”

—Dr. King, 1967

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

It was a Republican from New York who was arrested.

[Dubula @killerguerilla]

Billionaires don't wake up at 5am. Bus drivers, teachers, nurses, service workers, etc wake up at 5am. Billionaires wake up whenever they want because their wealth doesn't come from their own labor. It comes from the labor of people who will never be billionaires.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Missouri Republicans passed new rules:
1. Women lawmakers are banned from showing their bare arms.
2. Women lawmakers are required to cover their dress with a “second layer”.

The road to the Handmaid’s Tale world is lined with people telling us to stop overreacting.

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

WOW. McCarthy agreed to a secret deal to actually breach the debt limit and shut down everything the govt does beside the military and social security. no faa, border patrol, DOJ, school lunch, education, medicaid, food safety. Everything torched. https://t.co/s9pqbgBdSP

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Kevin McCarthy just said George Santos shouldn’t resign because “a lot of” his colleagues also lie.

He really said the quiet part out loud.

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

JUST NOW: The new House rules would:

-enable the GOP to defund a criminal investigation into Trump.

-defund Office of Congressional Ethics.

-enable a Republican being investigated by FBI to investigate the investigators investigating him.

I'm voting NO on the rules package.