JD Mathews 🐺🧹

Dad. Partner. Community Organizer. Fmr. @NMWFP Director. This is my personal Twitter and views are my own.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Bernie introduced the Pay Teachers Act today to:
-Require a $60,000 minimum teacher salary
-Mandate a $30/hour minimum wage for school staff
-Triple Title I funding
-Give teachers $1,000 for class supplies
The cost? $450 billion

Cost of Trump's tax breaks for the 1%? $1 trillion

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

the mask is coming off

[Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinst]

When childcare centers are sold, who buys matters.

Increasingly, it’s private equity, not trusted local providers.

Without public tools for ownership transitions, we risk deepening inequality and hollowing out our care infrastructure. #fixingchildcare https://t.co/me2jSAuMjs

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

BREAKING: Israeli Forces and Settlers Retaliate Against Palestinian Activist Featured in BBC’s The Settlers

Prominent Palestinian human rights activist Issa Amro—recently featured in @louistheroux’s BBC documentary The Settlers—shares video of Israeli soldiers raiding his home in Hebron today in retaliation for his appearance in the film. After they left, settlers stormed the house, assaulted him and others, cut down trees, and stole tools and garbage containers.

Amro shares video of an exchange with an Israeli police officer later who threatened him with arrest if he filed a complaint.

Amro is the founder of Youth Against Settlements (YAS), a nonviolent group that documents Israeli abuses and organizes peaceful resistance in the occupied West Bank. He has long faced retaliation from both Israeli forces and the Palestinian Authority. In 2017, he was arrested by the PA for criticizing its leadership online. In 2023, Israeli forces expelled him from his home after he hosted a journalist and an Israeli activist.

Below are videos of Israeli settlers storming Issa Amro’s home. Via Amro’s account. More footage in linked post.

[Senator Jeff Merkley @SenJeffMerkley]

The first sign below is the one people in line could see at DCA this morning: Your photo is "deleted" after your identity is verified.

But TSA posted a second sign—where no one could see it—admitting to the public what I've been saying all along: Your photo will be "saved" for research.

Which is it, @TSA? Are our photos deleted or saved?

[JD Mathews 🐺🧹 @JDMathews1]

@cspan @SenSchumer Garbage position.

[JD Mathews 🐺🧹 @JDMathews1]

Tesla vehicles are so poorly built they have been vandalizing themselves for years; falling apart.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The USDA says egg prices could increase 41% this year.

Meanwhile, the industry is more consolidated than ever and revenues are rising.

Cal-Maine Foods controls a fifth of the egg market. Its revenue jumped 82% in a year—driven by an "increase in the net average selling price."

[JD Mathews 🐺🧹 @JDMathews1]

Private equity greed strikes again. Fire fighting equipment. If we don't get this under control we won't have much of a society left.

[Basel Musharbash @musharbash_b]

This was one of the most appalling stories I’ve ever looked into: A private equity termite rolled up the fire-truck manufacturing industry between 2016 and 2020—and has spent the last 5 years cashing in: doubling the price of fire apparatus, delaying order deliveries for years on end, and contributing to a crisis of preparedness at fire departments around the country.

[Americans For Tax Fairness @4TaxFairness]

Walmart paid $9 billion less in taxes after Trump's tax cuts.

Target paid $3 billion less. Verizon paid $10 billion less. AT&T paid $8 billion less.

Notice how those tax breaks didn't incentivize any of these corporations to lower prices?

Corporate tax cuts don't lower costs.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Just four airlines control 80% of the airline industry — the most concentrated it’s ever been.

And they’re using their power over consumers, and airports, to jack up prices.

But this small airport in Missoula, Montana, is showing how to break the major carriers’ stranglehold.

[JD Mathews 🐺🧹 @JDMathews1]

Please tell the Albuquerque School Board to vote against closing Taft Middle School!

https://t.co/F2804Cv7yP

Taft MS, Coronado ES parents decry APS 'right-sizing' plan https://t.co/VWkpkMxjnz

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

America's four largest potato producers allegedly conspired to raise prices on frozen fries, hash browns, and tater tots by 47%.

This tater trust controls more than 95% of the potato market.

If we want to bring down grocery prices, we must take on corporate consolidation.

[Keith Ellison @keithellison]

I’m not putting this DNC stuff out because I want the job. It’s a great and important job, but I’m occupied as AG of MN. But we had better think about what we want in a DNC chair and fight for it, or elites are going to shove a loyalist down our throats.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

And Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer must use every minute of the end-of-year legislative session to confirm federal judges and key regulators—none of whom can be removed by the next President.

[JD Mathews 🐺🧹 @JDMathews1]

We have too many people in the Billionaire sector.

[JD Mathews 🐺🧹 @JDMathews1]

@DavidCornDC The representation of "signs don't vote."

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

New York 14 - Here’s our official district voting guide:

✅ Vote Harris-Walz, AOC & straight ticket Working Families Party (Row D)
✅ For non-WFP races, vote Democrat
✅ Vote YES on Prop 1
❌ Vote NO on Props 2-6

Fusion voting means your WFP vote counts!

[JD Mathews 🐺🧹 @JDMathews1]

This is pretty funny.

[Martin Heinrich @MartinHeinrich]

A special message for @NellaforSenate from her U.S. Senators.

[Daniel Chacon @danieljchacon]

Albuquerque @MayorKeller also addressed allegations Democrats made it difficult for @realDonaldTrump to find a venue to hold a campaign rally in the Duke City. #nmpol