Emily Burkhardt (she/her)

I'm a weird person finding my purpose as I adventure with @rcmelick! 💙 MS Science Teacher🔬CO Native🏔 Gardener🌱Traveler🛫Mom👩‍👦

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

To have the best public school system, we have got to radically change our attitude toward how we invest in education. No public school teacher should make less than $60,000 a year. I am proud to introduce the Pay Teachers Act to begin to address the crises schools face today.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
If every other major country can have paid sick leave for its people,
The United States can, too.

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

It says a lot about the House Republican caucus that we just found out one of their members is the granddaughter of an actual Nazi and nobody seems all that surprised.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

The craziest thing about the Chinese spy balloon is that Republicans want you to forget that they’re coming for your books, your history lessons, your teachers, your right to bodily autonomy, the pronouns you use, the words you say, your Medicaid, Medicare & your Social Security.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

When Harriet Tubman was born, Thomas Jefferson was alive.

When Harriet Tubman died, Ronald Reagan was alive.

We are not as far removed from history as some would lead us to believe.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Socialism is a scare word they've hurled at every advance the people have made. Socialism is what they called public power, social security, deposit insurance, and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for anything that helps all people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

It remains extremely bizarre that the media is treating Donald Trump like a normal candidate, instead of the person who led an insurrection against our government

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

Pharma buys off Congress. No action on drug prices.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Counterpoint: it should be.

[Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich]

holy fucking shit, DOCTOR Jill Biden gets to be called doctor because she EARNED a DOCTORATE. it's that simple. how fucking weak and fragile do you have be to fear educated women? grow the fuck up already. now shut the fuck up and go back to being mad at M&Ms or whatever

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

If we made the police academy a 4-year program I bet we'd get rid of a lot of the "bad apples." I don't understand how a lawyer has to go to school for 8 years to understand the law enough to practice it, but it only takes 6 months to learn it enough to enforce it.

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

As the only African born, not being on the Africa subcommittee is not just an elimination of a unique voice but an elimination of all the voices that have never been heard on a committee on the continent.

It’s racist, xenophobic and discriminatory.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Overdraft fees were created in 1990.
Credit scores were created in 1989.

We can live without them.

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

Republicans: “We are going to plunge the world economy into chaos unless you cut Social Security!” Democrats: “No.” Media: “high wire brinkmanship between the political parties!”

[Michael J. Stern @MichaelJStern1]

#1 - 50,000,000 chickens have died in the U.S. due to Avian flu.

#2 - Supply and demand made egg prices increase.

#3 - That's classic capitalism, which y'all love...until you pay $5 for a dozen eggs. Then you want the government to do something about it. That's socialism.

[Colombia @jet_set]

It is SO CLEAR what happened and pretending like we don’t know/it’s a great mystery is bucket-swilling nonsense.

She filed for divorce and bc he could not control her anymore, he killed them all with a gun he kept in the house for their “protection.”

https://t.co/OBJa5BAaZ7

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

So all it took for Kevin McCarthy to become Speaker was to concede massive power to the people who tried to overthrow the US government on the fucking anniversary of the day it happened.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

Kevin McCarthy becoming Speaker by offering concessions to the pro-insurrection caucus on the two year anniversary of January 6th is just a perfect statement about the GOP

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

yes, please do enlighten me. email me at [email protected]