It's kind of amazing that the Democratic Party has watched the undeniable popularity of Bernie Sanders for a decade and has done nothing except move to the right. Almost as if they are beholden to large corporate interests and don't actually stand for anything else.
In America today, working class people live, on average, 7 years shorter lives than the wealthy. Stress kills.
In Altoona, Wisconsin this weekend I asked people how economic stress impacted their lives.
The responses I got were painful, but not surprising.
If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too.
Anyone - left, right, or center - who has highlighted the importance of constitutional rights + free speech should be sounding the alarm now.
ICYMI: “They died telling their stories. DOGE isn’t real. THIS is real. F*ck Elon Musk.”
9/11 First Responders rip Musk & DOGE after Trump’s administration cut funding for the World Trade Center health program.
Someone on tiktok pointed out theres more kids in Texas with measles than trans college athletes in all of America.
Guess which they want you focused on?
Totally insane. First, a gym full of people. Then an overflow crowd. Then an overflow-overflow crowd, and an overflow-overflow-overflow crowd.
More than 9,000 people came out in Warren, MI to say NO to oligarchy & NO cuts to Social Security, Medicaid, and VA programs.
There’s nothing efficient about shutting down U.S. National Parks when they collectively bring in over $55B a year yet cost over $3.5B a year to upkeep. This is the kind of stupid bullshit what you do when you deliberately want to crash the economy.
Historian here:
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt