Jesse Harrison

[Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot]

In his much-anticipated speech, Trump made quite a few allegations about elections. Let's break down some of them here...

[Jurassic World @JurassicWorld]

Rest in peace, Sam Neill. Thank you for bringing Dr. Grant to life.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Amazon cut 30,000 jobs & got a $7.8 billion tax break

Meta cut 8,000 jobs & got an $8 billion tax break

PayPal cut 4,800 jobs & paid $0 in federal income taxes

Disney cut 1,000 jobs & paid $0 in federal income taxes

Corporate tax breaks don't create jobs. They enrich the 1%.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Disney: $8.3B in profits
$0 paid in taxes

CVS Health: $6.57B in profits
$0 paid in taxes

Tesla: $5.7B in profits
$0 paid in taxes

Citigroup: $4.45B in profits
$0 paid in taxes

United Airlines: $4.3B in profits
$0 paid in taxes

Coinbase: $1.62B in profits
$0 paid in taxes

Palantir: $1.58B in profits
$0 paid in taxes

PayPal: $1.43B in profits
$0 paid in taxes

Yum! Brands: $1B in profits
$0 paid in taxes

At least 88 companies reported $105B in profits last year, and paid $0 in taxes.

But Republicans want you to think someone working 40 hours a week for poverty wages, relying on SNAP and Medicaid to survive, is the problem.
https://t.co/mLksxq8qo7

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I enjoyed my chat with Hank Green.

Three years ago, AI leaders, including Elon Musk, warned we were moving too fast and even called for a pause.

Nobody listened.

@AOC and I are saying the same thing: slow it down and make sure AI works for people — not just billionaires.

[Right Wing Watch @RightWingWatch]

Former Trump administration official William Wolfe admits that he and his fellow Christian nationalists intend to gain power and impose their morality upon everyone: "Frankly, yes, we are going to impose it upon you. If you don't like it, I'm sorry." https://t.co/aVTXKOlZWd

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

it took just over a year to get from "I'll lower costs on day one" to "I'm raising prices and it's good, actually"

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

“Nazi” isn’t a slur. It’s a word that describes real people who earnestly believe in their ideas. Their ideas are disgusting and hateful, but of course they often do not realize it.

I keep running into racists who think that it’s not white supremacist to think that white people are inherently superior to other races. No…that’s the whole definition!! The fact that they believe it earnestly and don’t think it’s an idiotic, hateful belief doesn’t mean it’s not an idiotic, hateful belief.

Nazi isn’t a word that means “bad evil boogeyman” it means “someone who believes in their own racial superiority, extreme protectionist nativism, the purifying of society by eliminating undesirables, expansionism, active suppression of dissent, and total state power held in the hands of a very small group.”

Make sure the people you’re cheering for don’t believe these things because otherwise…

[Jesse Harrison @jj_harrison]

@jprutherford Isn't he named in an ongoing sexual violence lawsuit?

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

When a Government is scientifically illiterate, but doesn’t know it, then its actions (or inactions) can be a recipe for the dismantling of an informed and enlightened Democracy. #ScienceMatters

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

The “pro-life” party is defunding childhood cancer research.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US.

When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported, Trump refuses to lift a finger.

[Mark Hertling @MarkHertling]

Interesting. Two grievances in the Declaration of Independence condemned the Crown for denying legal protection, especially imprisonment without cause.

“For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury.”

“For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses.”

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

This is what oligarchy looks like.

Since the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision, spending by billionaires in elections has grown more than 16,000%.

End billionaire control of our democracy. Overturn Citizens United.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

ways Trump is making the American economy great again so far

-- draconian tariffs that will increase prices
-- demonizing federal workers, instituting a hiring freeze, and offering "buyouts" to FAA employees ahead of the worst plane crash in decades
-- making people believe air travel is unsafe due to women and people of color

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

all I know is that had President Biden forced out the FAA chief under pressure from his top adviser and his corrupt motives, and then the next week there was a plane crash that killed more than 60 people, Republicans would be howling that it was an impeachable offense.

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

BREAKING: The Department of Veterans Affairs has CANCELLED SUICIDE PREVENTION TRAINING because it includes considerations for the LGBTQ+ community.

Veterans suicide.

[Jesse Harrison @jj_harrison]

If you don’t see what is happening here… you need to open your eyes and learn history… and quick

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the departments of defense and homeland security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

From "Where Do We Go from Here", Martin Luther King Jr speech, 16 Aug 1964. Atlanta, GA.

"And I must confess, my friends, that the road ahead will not always be smooth. There will still be rocky places of frustration and meandering points of bewilderment. There will be inevitable setbacks here and there. And there will be those moments when the buoyancy of hope will be transformed into the fatigue of despair. Our dreams will sometimes be shattered and our ethereal hopes blasted. We may again, with tear-drenched eyes, have to stand before the bier of some courageous civil rights worker whose life will be snuffed out by the dastardly acts of bloodthirsty mobs. But difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.…
When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."