Billionaires in the U.S. are .0005% of the population, yet accounted for 18% of 2024 electoral spending.
Just 150 billionaire families spent nearly $2 billion.
This is not democracy. It is oligarchy.
Time to overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.
Los Angeles is a city of immigrants, and we are better for it.
City Council must immediately take up and pass the Sanctuary City Ordinance and enshrine protections for immigrant communities in L.A. into law. Our communities cannot afford to wait.
Memes work. Earlier this year, @nypl launched a meme campaign to get library funding restored. It was a success, with people attributing the restoration of over $58M to the social team's strategy. I chatted with NYPL’s social manager about it, here’s what I learned:
The casting director who decided to cast Carol Burnett as twisted theater villain and enlisted Tim Curry and Bernadette Peters to play her sleazy sidekicks was operating on a wavelength unknown to mere mortals.
Recalling Civil Rights Era Abuses, LDF Roundly Condemns Rising Violations Against Peaceful Protesters and Calls for Immediate Federal Intervention - https://t.co/Y0jdj4CBGF
“As I remember it, the Civil Rights Movement had no arrests, the Vietnam protests were peaceful, and no bricks were thrown at Stonewall.” That’s how a lot of you sound this week.