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NAU '20

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

While 90 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured and while 600,000 died in the pandemic, the CEOs of six health insurance companies made a combined $236 million in 2020, 45% more than in 2019. This is why we need Medicare for All.

[Marianne Williamson @marwilliamson]

Let’s hope so.

[Existential Comics (find me on bluesky) @existentialcoms]

American politics becomes a lot clearer if you mentally replace the word "freedom" with "property" every time a politician uses it.

[💥 Nurse D, RN/1L @TakeThatNurses]

Fleeing the police is not a crime punishable by immediate execution.

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

Making it illegal to bring food and water to people standing in long lines that are only long because of policies you created to specifically and intentionally limit the electoral power of Black people is honestly more egregious and abhorrent than I have the words for.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

The pandemic hit in 2020. We should not use 2019 income to determine relief eligibility.

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

as opposed to professional investors, who are famously propelled by a mix of generosity and love for all mankind

[☭ @sleepisocialist]

A key message to take away from the stock market fiasco is that the "power" of the ultra-wealthy is largely an illusion. You can bring these people to their knees with any organized effort.

[ACLU @ACLU]

Remember: Dustin Higgs never killed anyone. The man who carried out the murder that Higgs was executed for received a life sentence.

Maryland, where the crimes were committed, has since repealed the death penalty.

This system is completely arbitrary and must be abolished.

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

wow you don’t say

[Gravel Institute @GravelInstitute]

The Military budget just passed. But they won’t let the $2,000 checks come to a vote, in any form.

The maintenance of our dying Empire matters more to them than your survival.

[accidentally based @BasedByAccident]

r/conservative discovers the class divide

[Joey⚡️ @joeygllghr]

Nancy Pelosi is 80 years old and worth $120 million. The last time she had to care about her income was probably 55 years ago when $600 was the equivalent to nearly $5000 today. Old out of touch sell out politicians are ruining the lives of the people theyre supposed to represent

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

“You can either get stimulus money or unemployment but not both,” say Republicans demanding corporate immunity for worker abuse AND tax cuts for the very rich AND subsidies for friends AND total lack of oversight or accountability for their connected pals scamming PPP AND...

[DSA @DemSocialists]

Stories like this are not heartwarming. They are capitalism’s cruelty at work.