Mara ☮

born in NM. raised in PNW. the SW is life. democrat. looks best on a soap box.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

You know how much House Republicans claim to care about stopping fentanyl and border security?

Their #MAGABudgetDisaster cuts 2,000 Customs and Border Protection agents and officers.

You remember how they screamed about not defunding the police? Their budget cuts funds for 11,000 FBI personnel and cuts support for local law enforcement agencies.

Train derailments? They want 11,000 fewer rail safety inspection days. Tell that to East Palestine.

Why all of these dangerous cuts? Because the wealthy and big corporations won't keep themselves rich, now will they?

[Steven Beschloss @StevenBeschloss]

It's hard to overstate the danger to a free society, democracy and truth with Kevin McCarthy handing over 41,000 hours of Jan. 6 footage to Fox's election-denying, pro-Putin propagandist Tucker Carlson. This is a betrayal of American democracy and freedom.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. The book IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black is one of the best and most important books I've ever read. Everyone should read it, especially anyone working in tech, journalism, or law. A few things about it are astonishing.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

While @SarahHuckabee touts public safety, here is what she skips over:

Arkansas has the one of the highest murder rates in the nation.

[The White House 46 Archived @WhiteHouse46]

In President Biden’s first two years in office, he’s created more jobs than any President in a four-year term.

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

The video of Tyre Nichols skateboarding was uploaded to YouTube by his friend Austin Roberts in Sacramento. He said, "I want him to be remembered as the kid smiling in the skate video and not the kid that was fighting for his life."

Rest in our love and your smiles #TyreNichols.

[Thom Hartmann @Thom_Hartmann]

Every time some reporter sticks a microphone in front of a Democrat and asks about the debt ceiling the response should be:

“Yes, we have to pay the bills that Donald Trump ran up.”

[RyanP says release the Epstein files @PerspectiveRoll]

Today I noticed that the House website has been scrubbed of the report Elijah Cummings compiled detailing Mike Flynn and Donald Trump's attempts to sell our nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia bypassing our treaties and Congress... good thing I saved a copy! Read this and share!

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

.@BernieSanders: "Why is it that in Europe, inflation is at 11%? You think that's Joe Biden's fault? In the UK, it's at 10.1%. And it is higher in many parts of the world than it is in the US... The major reason for inflation today is the outrageous level of corporate greed."

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

The choice is clear.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

BREAKING: Democratic candidate Max Rose has appealed a decision by Twitter to restrict his campaign ad as “sensitive” about how women DIE when they can't get a life saving abortion.

RT if you agree an ad trying to save women’s lives shouldn’t be restricted!

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Republicans are always talking about the deficit. Well, guess what? The last guy increased the debt with tax cuts for big corporations. Not a penny of it was paid for.

This year, we've reduced the deficit by more than $1 trillion.

[Max Flugrath🗳️ @MaxFlugrath]

Yesterday, Georgia doctors, nurses & medical students demanded that Gov. Brian Kemp expand Medicaid.

Kemp refuses to expand Medicaid as hospitals close, 70% of Georgians struggle to afford care & Georgia is #3 in uninsured residents.

Listen to what these experts had to say.⬇️

[Mara ☮ @lobogirl71]

@BBCLauraKT Or, elderly gentleman in the middle of 1 of the most formal ceremonies known to man worried he will spill ink from the wells on himself & needs someone to move it as he has time constraints to fulfill his duties

Perspective is everything & this was prob tough for him to get thru

[Alex Marzano-Lesnevich @alexmlwrites]

I graduated with six figures of student debt. I’ve paid back 150% of what I borrowed so far, but I still owe 40% of the original amount, bc of interest. Most of the time the payments have been higher than rent. The debt has shaped every decision I’ve made in my adult life. 1/

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

It's now law that big corporations pay a minimum 15% tax on the profits they report to their shareholders, instead of getting away with paying zero dollars in federal income taxes.

[Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell]

If MAGA-Republicans win Congress they’ll fight for Donald Trump.

If Democrats win Congress, we will fight for you.

That’s what’s on the ballot.

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

I feel like the media is having a hard time metabolizing the fact that this congress has been historically productive. And acknowledging the size of these accomplishments, and the degree of difficultly, - it’s just hard to do accurately without sounding a bit left leaning.

[officebob @OfficeBob]

A friend with classified document experience has given me permission to post her comments here, and so...a thread:

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