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
Just a reminder that being a garbage collector/sanitation worker is more dangerous than being a cop. And their roles are absolutely essential to preserving public health.
The city with the largest Puerto Rican population outside of Puerto Rico, the largest Jamaican population outside of Jamaica, the largest Chinese population outside of China, etc. and yet there is no demand to pay fealty to those places.
the funny thing is that everyone on the right is looking at this and going "PRICE CONTROLS" but the actual video makes a libertarian argument that license fees are driving up prices
I don't care if the tech bros think it makes their service better, I want to be able to opt out. I want to be able to use Google search without consuming extra water for an AI summary I didn't ask for.
In Fahrenheit 451, the abolition of reading began with tech companies simplifying books into summaries that you could read in five minutes. Because people no longer engaged with the texts, they forgot how to think. Then came the book-burnings.
Yeah.
I mean, you guys know she wasn’t a random commuter, right?
She trained for this as an act of civil disobedience. She was an activist. She didn’t stagger into the wrong place at the wrong time, she was fighting segregation.
NPR receives $2-3M/year in federal funding.
PBS receives $80-85M.
The military-themed birthday parade Trump is throwing himself will cost taxpayers $92M.
We’re told cutting news and kids programming to fund an authoritarian birthday bash somehow “makes America great again”
So, he guts USAID, destroys the U.S. Institute of Peace, causes starvation, spread of disease, lowers U.S. presence in the world, helps China and Russia and destroys tens of thousands of careers. Hell of a legacy.
I am claiming that Congressman Braden Gill is here illegally.
There is no time for due process.
He will now be put in prison for life in El Salvador.
Goodbye.