jake

staff writer @commondreams. Views are mine.

Email: [email protected]

[jake @johnsonjakep]

Rare moment: Bernie caught doing the Vince McMahon walk in public

[jake @johnsonjakep]

@WoobieTuesday @commondreams thanks so much, that's very kind

[jake @johnsonjakep]

@IndLeftNews that's very kind, thank you

[jake @johnsonjakep]

this is from an email I got from the pro-Warren PCCC just before Warren tweeted her endorsement of Hickenlooper

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

It’s not clear people have absorbed what an absolute crime this killing was from start to finish.

And it’s not true that nobody was arrested. Cops arrested her boyfriend for trying to save her life from armed dead-of-night intruders.

[Natalie Shure @nataliesurely]

get a load of these absolute fucking ghouls

[The Onion @TheOnion]

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://t.co/rbdfMJOiQ8

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

Reading about the South can make science fiction where the US "becomes a dictatorship" seem naive and redundant—here is Leander Perez, boss of Plaquemines Parish, LA, inspecting the prison camp he built for Freedom Riders. He ruled the parish without opposition for 50 years.

[jake @johnsonjakep]

@EoinHiggins_ 🤔

[jake @johnsonjakep]

or, idk, you could just send people $4,000 checks https://t.co/Ni3SGfUHhb

[Jim Kessler @ThirdWayKessler]

Bipartisan group of 4 senators propose $4,000 refundable tax credit for skills training, apprenticeships, 2- and 4-year programs. We like it! https://t.co/d5kgLv2kr2 @amyklobuchar @CoryBooker @BenSasse @TimScottSC thank u!

[jake @johnsonjakep]

Pelosi says the Heroes Act was "tailored strictly" to meet people's needs and it would have been "irresponsible" to do less, then concedes the bill could have done more but it would have cost too much, then says not spending aggressively will cost more in the long run

[jake @johnsonjakep]

Democrats are means-testing to death student loan relief in a messaging bill

[derek davison @dwdavison]

the emptiest, wettest suit of all time

[David Dayen @ddayen]

Very good point in @ryangrim's newsletter

[jake @johnsonjakep]

lmao COME ON

[jake @johnsonjakep]

translation: 'We don't want to be held accountable for getting our workers sick' https://t.co/kjOxYPpngX

[Jay Timmons @JayTimmonsNAM]

To protect America’s manufacturers that have stepped up to do the right thing during the #COVID19 pandemic, we are calling on Congress to enact targeted liability protections to ensure misguided litigation does not derail our country's recovery.
https://t.co/SbBodBlACS

[David Kaib @DavidKaib]

We are at depression levels of unemployment and we have spent two months sheltering in place with little increase in testing or hospital capacity, but my main concern is American global hegemony.

[Matt Karp 🌹🦏🇺🇸 @karpmj]

"Obama spent most of his considerable political capital defending a cabal of corrupt financiers who very nearly ruined the world economy."

A decade later, Obama's crisis management looks less like an epic historical bungle than an epic historical crime

https://t.co/shiUkJMIUV

[jake @johnsonjakep]

nothing can stand in the way of Congress's bipartisan commitment to handing the Pentagon another $800 billion

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

Unemployment insurance prevented 1.4 million forclosures during the great recession https://t.co/HXu5UCUW4i

[Anton Jäger @AntonJaegermm]

Excuse me what