foruee ☯

The future is now. #UBI #RankedChoiceVoting #DemocracyReform

[Carlos Perea @CarlosIran1]

Happening now: Garden Grove city council getting hammered by residents after the chemical disaster by GKN’s weapons manufacturing facility, which supplies key components for Israel’s fighting jets.

They are demanding the city permanently shuts down the facility.

[Pramila Jayapal @PramilaJayapal]

Child care in Seattle: $30,000 a year.

Child care worker wage: $21 an hour.

Someone is getting rich, and it isn't the families or the workers.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The United States has the largest prison population on earth.

Not per capita.

Total.

More people in cages than China.

More than Russia.

More than every "authoritarian" state it condemns in its annual human rights reports.

1.8 million people.

Disproportionately Black.

Disproportionately poor.

Disproportionately from the zip codes with the worst schools, the fewest jobs, the most abandoned infrastructure.

This is presented as a "criminal justice system."

It functions as a labor system.

Prison labor, paid between 13 cents and $1.15 an hour in most states, produces goods for McDonald's, Walmart, Victoria's Secret, Whole Foods, and the United States military.

The 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, contains an exception clause:

"Except as punishment for crime."

That exception has never been closed.

It has been expanded.

The plantation did not disappear.

It received a different name and a legal foundation.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Congratulations to the California unions who have gotten over 1.5 million people to sign a petition to put a Billionaire Wealth Tax on the ballot.

At a time of massive income and wealth inequality, the richest people in our country must start paying their fair share of taxes.

[Pramila Jayapal @PramilaJayapal]

Elon Musk's net worth: $805 billion. That's more than the bottom 53% of Americans combined.

His effective tax rate: 3.3%.
A truck driver pays 8.4%.

Tax the rich.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

According to a recent poll, 77% of voters support raising taxes on billionaires.

Maybe, just maybe, at a time of unprecedented income and wealth inequality, it’s time for Congress to listen to the American people and pass a wealth tax on billionaires.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

If you paid $1 in federal income taxes this year, you paid more than:

Walt Disney
Citigroup
CVS
Kohl's
Ticketmaster
Tesla
United Airlines
GoDaddy
Paypal
Palantir
Roku
HP
3M
PG&E
Halliburton

That’s absurd. We need real and progressive tax reform.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

If you had $100 in 2021, it was only worth $80 by 2026, due to the declining dollar.

That’s the biggest drop for any five-year period since 2005, per NBC

[Alaa From Gaza @alaafromgaza92]

If you’re wondering how intense the bombing in Beirut was yesterday, then you need to watch this video. It documents the bombardment around the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, near my family’s home in
Nov 2023.

This is what we call a “fire belt,” in Arabic, meaning relentless, consecutive strikes that feel like hell itself. I lived through this many times in Gaza before we left for Egypt. It feels like the end of the world, as if you’re standing in flames from every direction, with no escape and no way out.

Don’t look away from this video.
#Gaza #Lebanon #Beirut #Israël #Israel

[Pramila Jayapal @PramilaJayapal]

These billionaires and their families are buying your government. Not secretly, but legally and in broad daylight – because they can.

The Musk family? $71 million. The Yass family? $55 million. The Brockman family? $25 million. And that's just the top three.

While you're paying more for groceries, more for rent, more for health care, these families are writing nine-figure checks to make sure the politicians who protect their tax breaks stay in power.

That’s not democracy – it's an auction: Power sold to the highest bidder.

Get billionaire money out of politics and tax the damn rich.

[🇱🇧 @lebanesesami]

Today i apologized to my manager for having to take numerous phone calls from Lebanon because of the bombings and she said “omg who’s bombing them?”
This is the reality of living in the US. This is the ignorance of the American people

[foruee ☯ @foruee]

Don't buy Wonderful pistachios.

[Carl Zha @CarlZha]

Zionists billionaires Lynne and Stewart Resnick took control of 58% of water in Kern Water Bank from the state of California in a secret meeting aka "Monterey Amendments" in 1994 in order to grow pistachio. They use more water than San Francisco and LA combined.

Top IDF donor

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

You’re so close. Now say it again, but replace “Iran” with the “United States.”

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

It must be tough work for BBC headline writers to find so many creative ways to avoid saying “occupy”

[Propaganda & co @propandco]

How much is a gallon of gasoline in Iran?

Half a penny.

Filling up this 15 passenger van with Diesel just cost us 15 cents.

The same would cost $127 in Florida.

$180 in California.

[Pramila Jayapal @PramilaJayapal]

Let me break this down simply: We have a greed problem.

We can afford Medicare for All. We can afford to house every person sleeping on the street. We can afford to make public college tuition free and guarantee access to universal pre-k to every child in America.

The money exists. It's just sitting in the bank accounts of billionaires who write blank checks to corrupt politicians to make sure it stays there.

Tax the rich. Fund the people. That's it.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Karoline Leavitt: "Some of the previous leaders are now no longer on planet Earth because they lied to the United States and they strung us along in negotiations, and that was unacceptable to the president, which is why many of the previous leaders were killed"

[Sam Husseini @samhusseini]

Blinken might know how these things work.
https://t.co/oZ3ILUCUO7

[Nature Vid @naturevid2]

Trump in 2008: Anyone who invades the Middle East under false pretenses should be impeached.

Let’s make sure it goes viral here.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

@wanglaurentceo Something like that, if confirmed, should not just "end careers", but be immediately investigated and prosecuted. Imposing collective punishment on civilians is an international crime.