joe assad

I’m not here. This isn’t happening.

[joe assad @jassad]

@CollinRugg The Democratic party needs a complete overhaul. Tech fascism coming at us from all sides.

[joe assad @jassad]

@TCTone This x100000!

[joe assad @jassad]

@cwarzel Steve Jobs did this in a meeting with all the Time Inc editors-in-chief, plus Norm Pearlstine in 2010 before the Ipad launch. That get on board or be called a Luddite and be left behind just keeps on working. You’d think there’s enough evidence to the contrary at this point.

[joe assad @jassad]

@pitchfork 🙋‍♂️

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Kyle Kulinski on Trump crying about Jimmy Kimmel’s joke: “We are not fucking doing this anymore. You make nuclear threats on a regular basis. You triple-tapped an elementary school you bitch. You bombed a hospital. You’re arming and funding a genocide in Gaza. You are the war criminal of all war criminals. You are the terrorist of all terrorists. You don’t get to go on a colossal murdering spree and then whine about mean language”

[🇺🇸 Justice @250_Revolution]

Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for 40 years on every salary I received. Those jobs may not have always been the work I wanted to be doing at the time, BUT I always had a job. The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.

I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it. The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.

If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security. If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved! This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.

That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it’s a fact).

And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.

Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger "Ponzi scheme" than Bernie Madoff ever did. They took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer.
But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!

Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.

😡😡😡✅

[Dominik Hasek @hasek_dominik]

Congratulations to all Americans who dared to take to the streets today and publicly expressed their stance and disagreement with the actions and policies of their president. #WeSayNoKings 👍👍👍

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WTF?! William Kelly — a terrorist who stormed the church in Minnesota — just stormed out of court and demanded MORE leftists terrorize federal agents

"This is a RESISTANCE against FASCISM!"

"The EXECUTIONERS are walking free!"

He must be LOCKED UP.

[joe assad @jassad]

@HoopsCrave You’re Pepsi to his Coke

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

We need to stop regarding Democrats as ineffective public advocates

& instead treat them as the violent collaborators of fascism they so evidently are

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

“LET US OUT!”

women & children scream for help inside a detention camp in TEXAS, where private prisons like core civic make billions of taxpayer dollars holding them while abusing, neglecting them, refusing them health care, feeding them dirty food & water, etc.

In our name🇺🇸

[Lesley Abravanel 🪩 @lesleyabravanel]

Combat veteran William Vermie says he was denied access to an attorney after being detained for filming ICE in Minneapolis. When asked "why go public?" he responds "I have privilege, retired. I'm white, middle class veteran. If I can't stand up for people who need it, who will?"

[joe assad @jassad]

@MattGinella @katie_ginella 👊

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

Everywhere. Now. Until he’s gone.

[Akilah Hughes @AkilahObviously]

The whole country has to general strike.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

[Steven Hyden @Steven_Hyden]

For @ringer I wrote about the extraordinary American life (and sure to be afterlife) of Bob Weir.
https://t.co/wjLKlWT4o7

[𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 💀 @DeadsoundApp]

all gone

[Zeynab Day @ZeynabDay]

I've rarely heard truer words:

[joe assad @jassad]

We’ve been conditioned to think too many things are simply inevitable so get on board and accept it