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[Taxes, death and trouble... @Progressive_Lee]

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted”-Douglass

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Ask yourself why the sudden obsession with Fauci now, all in lock step? What are they trying to distract from now? The shitshow in Iran? The economic decline at home? Still no full Epstein files? Trump’s corruption?

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

Fun fact: Moreno’s son-in-law violently assaulted his daughter and may have broken his granddaughter’s collar bone but he hasn’t said a word about it because said son-in-law is also a Republican.

Republican men will protect each other before they ever protect their families.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"Haley Stevens is a Michigander" says the @WSJ while describing @AbdulElSayed as a "fringy" "radical" "Muslim man". Reminder: he's actually born, raised, and educated in Michigan, while the Murdoch media empire consists of a bunch of Islamophobes.
https://t.co/8VlJVIzFKN

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Zohran Mamdani: “A lot of what we’ve come to accept as the facts of life across our country is driven by democratic socialist principles. If today you and I were to introduce the idea of a building that lends out books for free, we would be slandered in the same way that so many new ideas are slandered today and yet that’s the library. And the same thing with the fire department and the same thing with public schools”

[NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact]

The GOP wants to label its political opponents as terrorists.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is the most anti-free press, anti-journalism, anti-First Amendment, anti-free speech administration of our lifetimes, and almost all of the people who screamed about 'Free Speech!' under Biden are silent right now.
https://t.co/YRny7pw0ra

[Taxes, death and trouble... @Progressive_Lee]

@PollTracker2024 Tragic.

[Taxes, death and trouble... @Progressive_Lee]

@neeratanden Narrator: “It’s actually not relevant information to assess.”

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

AOC: “There are things happening in this country that people everywhere are shocked by… A genocide in Gaza committed with American bombs and financed by our American dollars while our kids here at home have to ration their inhalers because politicians tell us that healthcare is too expensive”

[Taxes, death and trouble... @Progressive_Lee]

@neeratanden You’re terrible at this.

[Taxes, death and trouble... @Progressive_Lee]

@Timodc I suggest an anti-fungal cream.

[The Hormuz Report @HormuzReport]

BREAKING: Iran sent a private message to JD Vance during Switzerland talks, warning that Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were "abusing" negotiations — more interested in profiting from insider knowledge than reaching a deal, per Drop Site News.

Iran calculated $9 billion in profits from market manipulation by "individuals close to Trump" — and formally requested $4.5 billion of that sum be allocated to Iran through intermediaries. The Iranian official added: "The exchanged texts will ultimately become part of the historical record."

Iran also raised concerns that Kushner and Witkoff "talk almost every day to Netanyahu" and the Mossad chief — feeding Israeli intelligence with inside information from the negotiations.

The Trump administration denies the claims. Iran says the evidence will be made public. If confirmed, this is one of the most significant financial scandals in modern diplomacy.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Senator Lindsey Graham was one of the most loathsome warmongering anti-worker bigots in the halls of the U.S. Congress.

Graham was as vicious a proponent of imperialist war as they come. For decades, he was a hardened supporter of Israel’s ethnic cleansing and its apartheid state. He effectively called for Israel to use nuclear weapons on the Palestinian people, likened Palestinians to Nazi Germany, and urged that Israel “flatten” Gaza and the West Bank. He called for “regime change” in Iran and was an undying advocate of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. He described American funding for the bloody inter-imperialist proxy war in Ukraine as “the best money we’ve ever spent.”

Graham was virulently opposed to social democracy and socialism anywhere, and especially hated the planned economy in Cuba and social democratic reforms in Venezuela. He celebrated a possible return to capitalism in Cuba by saying “their days are numbered.” He called Venezuela, Cuba, and Colombia “the drug caliphate.”

As working and poor people lost the ground from under their feet in the Covid pandemic, Graham used his position to speak out repeatedly against the bare minimum stimulus. Graham claimed that the relief package would encourage working people to be “lazy” and unemployed. It apparently gnawed at his insides that the Covid relief bill would pay the equivalent of over $24/hour in South Carolina versus the state minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, as the world's richest people doubled their fortunes and the incomes of billions of working people plummeted and over 160 million more people were forced into poverty.

Graham strenuously opposed abortion rights, introduced numerous anti-abortion bills, and voted for every bill he could to cut social assistance for working-class and poor families.

He was a staunch opponent of trans and queer rights. He voted for the horrendous Defense of Marriage Act (scandalously voted for by a majority of Democrats and signed by Democratic President Bill Clinton), and called himself a “proud defender of traditional marriage.” He voted against repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and co-sponsored the bill against trans women in sports.

So in summary, good fucking riddance to Lindsey Graham. Never forget the misery he helped create for hundreds of millions of people. Shame on Democratic Party politicians, including Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Joe Biden, who are eulogizing Lindsey Graham.

We need to build militant mass movements of the working class and build our own party to defeat the right wing, the billionaires, and both their parties.

[Taxes, death and trouble... @Progressive_Lee]

@MaryLTrump Hear, hear.

[Taxes, death and trouble... @Progressive_Lee]

@ChrisMurphyCT

[Taxes, death and trouble... @Progressive_Lee]

@CoryBooker If “Please clap” was a tweet…

[Taxes, death and trouble... @Progressive_Lee]

@_celia_bedelia_ I get it too, but it’s a failed anachronism for a bygone era they are clinging to in desperation. Who does like this? Who is it for?

[Taxes, death and trouble... @Progressive_Lee]

@JoJoFromJerz @StephenM I have nothing to say that tops this.

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

MAGA has lost all standing or credibility to lecture anyone about decency, politeness and civility.

You worship Trump, a ghoul who elevates ghoulish people like Lindsey Graham.

Graham chose to abandon his principles to suck up to Trump for power. He was a genocidal warmonger who had no compassion for Palestinians and Iranians.

Was it worth it? Now he's dead and the majority remember him for the coward that he was.

[Taxes, death and trouble... @Progressive_Lee]

@keithedwards Well done.