Reporter: Isn’t there concern that this slippery slope to socialism inevitably ends up as full-blown communism?
AOC: I mean, no. I think that’s very silly. We can’t even raise the minimum wage. Do they really think communism is going to happen? No. They’re trying to scare people because they don’t want us talking about the fact that we all have a right to health care.
So they want to call everything they don’t like communist because if people actually wake up to the fact that their elected officials are screwing them over when they get here, they’re going to realize they deserve better and that health care as a right isn’t crazy. They want to call this stuff communist because they don’t want us to realize that the rest of the developed world has guaranteed health care. They want to call it communist because they don’t want you to know that Germany, Italy, the UK, Canada—everybody else—has it better than us, and we spend the most money for the worst care in the developed world.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ decision to oppose an amendment to cut $3.3 billion in U.S. military aid to Israel comes weeks after AIPAC’s PAC sent a record $149,300 earmarked contribution to his joint fundraising committee, Sludge reports.
It is the largest earmarked disbursement AIPAC’s PAC has ever made, and nearly 30 times the standard $5,000-per-election limit for a multicandidate PAC giving directly to one candidate.
New: Mahmoud Khalil just filed a massive lawsuit under the KKK Act of 1871.
He accuses the Trump Admin of colluding with right-wing groups (Betar, Canary Mission, Heritage Foundation) to intimidate, arrest and deport pro-Palestinian activists like himself.
it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize that in 100 years historians are going to use it as shorthand to summarize the whole era you're living through right now.