Feeling lousy about the state of the world? You have every right to feel that way.
But let me say something else as clearly as I can: I’ve been at this fight a very long time, and right now I find lots of reasons for hope.
Ten, to be exact. Hear me out:
1/12
Are we all just forgetting that Trump was a registered democrat before he ran for president? He doesn’t actually hold conservative views lol. He takes advantage of the most vulnerable to his populist rhetoric. He studied game theory in college, not political science!
This comes just one day after @GOPLeader announced his intent to reward white supremacist members of Congress who incite violence.
Same party who just appointed 200+ judges, many unqualified, to federal courts- 70% of whom were white men.
And that’s just scratching the surface.
There will be no real progress in this country unless we have the courage to take on Wall Street, the insurance companies, the drug companies, the fossil fuel industry, and all the other forces of greed.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Many Dems didnt want AOC on panel bc they thought she’d put them in uncomfortable positions on a host of policy issues
For them, Rep. Rice was safer pick
"To be clear, I blame Larry Nassar and I also blame an entire system that enabled and perpetrated his abuse," Simone Biles gives her opening statement at a Senate hearing on the FBI's handling of the Larry Nassar investigation.
Today we held the first Congressional hearing in modern history on public banking.
Apparently it is too high of a bar to expect Republican members of Congress to, you know, actually read the bills they’re talking about, but nevertheless it went very well!
You know how you go to get the vaccine and no one asks for money and you aren’t worried about how much you’ll have to pay? Now imagine all healthcare was delivered like that.