Today's Supreme Court decision is a direct assault on the promise of the Voting Rights Act. It risks disenfranchising millions of Americans along racial lines and weakening the very foundation of our democracy.
Democracy is not self-sustaining. We must build, preserve, and defend it together.
Here in New York City, we will always lead a government of, by, and for the people — all of the people.
I’ve just launched an entrepreneur networking service in Portugal - it’s called CoFounder and it’s 100% free.
The goal is to create the largest map of entrepreneurs and startups in Portugal, enabling networking and potentially connecting co-founders with each other.
Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.
The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.
As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate.
That’s why we’ve been told for far too long that tax reform is politically infeasible, too complex, and too radical.
Taxing billionaires is not radical.
What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship — and where billionaires can in effect opt out of contributing to the society that made their success possible.
https://t.co/0YCVZJk7ib
This is genuinely one of the most disgusting statements I have ever seen issued by an American official.
It should not stop shocking us that the Republican Party openly embraces this. Fine should be censured & stripped of committees. To ignore this is to accept and normalize it.
Competitiveness can’t be reduced to a narrow, short-term logic.
It means being fairer, more resilient, sustainable & cohesive
Let’s make competitiveness a truly forward-looking project that serves citizens.
BREAKING: Karoline Leavitt just admitted coordination between Trump, Tulsi Gabbard, and the FBI seizing Fulton County ballots... right after Trump said he wants to "nationalize the voting."
If true, this is a massive scandal.
Guedes Carvalho: "Quando é que as pessoas vão receber apoio?"
Castro Almeida: “No final do mês contamos ajudar as pessoas com esse apoio".
Guedes Carvalho: "Mas as pessoas precisam de ajuda já".
Castro Almeida: "Mas para isso já receberam o salário no mês passado [janeiro]”
“Aqueles que não evitaram a trágica consequência de perder a vida”, disse o primeiro-ministro sobre as pessoas que morreram na sequência do mau tempo
@cnnportugal
Between 2004 and 2024, household real income per capita in the EU grew by 22%.📈🏡
Largest growth in household real income per capita in:
🇷🇴Romania (134%)
🇱🇹Lithuania (95%)
🇬🇷Greece and 🇮🇹Italy registered decreases (-5% and -4%, respectively).
👉 https://t.co/Bs5qxkmOMv
Equal work should mean equal pay.
The gender pay gap is real, with women in the EU earning on average 12% less per hour than men.
Today's EU Equal Pay Day marks the date when working women in the EU, on average, stop earning for the year compared to men.