Ram Venkat

An average engineer, sports fanatic, trivia buff, wine lover and a Stern MBA.

[t-money 🇺🇲🇵🇦 @tyizar]

✴️We lost 745 American residents to covid 19 today.
✴️131 K additional residents contracted covid - gaining a pre-existing condition.
✴️The leader of the country's coronavirus taskforce is on vacation
✴️There are no national mask or stay home orders

While sickness & death mounts

[Ram Venkat @pvenka_99]

Beware of @AHS_Warranty. Terrible experience with a simple HVAC issue. They contract with pretty incompetent contractors who cannot fix simple issues. First guy was useless, the second guy is too far away to care to come and diagnose. No follow ups. Summer heat. Senior at home!

[dawn_cerullo @dawn_cerullo]

Connecticut Homeowners thinking about Going Solar should read this first: https://t.co/Cd4tq7JN0l

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

You definitely should NOT rt this photo of @RickSantorum with Russian spy @Maria_Butina that Rick wants off the internet

[NYU Stern @NYUStern]

Prof @AswathDamodaran's remarks on #Walmart and #Flipkart at the Nordic Business Forum 2018 are featured, via @BloombergQuint: https://t.co/IFKv60zpOa

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

NEW RULE:

Cheat & lie & commit enough felonies to become president — and you’ll get not just the office with all its powers, but a permanent get-out-of-jail-free card!

Retweet if you doubt Madison and Hamilton were dumb enough to put that incentive scheme in place.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The gun lobby is getting weaker by the day as Americans realize that groups like the NRA are only out to protect gun industry profits.
https://t.co/HGrkjueKhf

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

This is awesome.

[Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive]

Thomas Farr has compared the court decision upholding the Affordable Care Act and expansion of healthcare for millions of Americans to two of the most shameful court decisions in our nation’s history. These are the statements of an ideologue, not an impartial judge.

[Andrew Feinberg @AndrewFeinberg]

And if you believe this is why he’s canceling the meeting, I have some Iraqi dinars to sell you.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

A damning verdict on Mr Trump from Robert Mueller will only be effective if there is political will to enforce it https://t.co/ssrByM3scd

[Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive]

It’s clear Special Counsel Bob Mueller has more work to do and he must be allowed to complete it free from interference. The bipartisan legislation to protect the Special Counsel must be brought to the Senate floor for a vote immediately.

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

what all-GOP government under Trump has wrought:
—no Obamacare repeal
—no infrastructure plan
—no border wall
—no executive oversight
—short-term tax-cut stimulus
—long-term budget deficits
—chaotic trade conflict
—House Democratic sweep
https://t.co/MpaYKttN7J

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

YEMEN:

85,000 children have died of starvation and disease.

U.S. made bombs have hit school buses/hospitals/weddings.

Al Qaeda & ISIS are growing.

The battle lines haven't moved in 3 years of fighting.

And this week, the Senate can vote to get the U.S. out of this disaster.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Australia's economy has been growing for 27 years without a recession—a record for a developed country https://t.co/Kow8tGcKy1

[Tim O'Brien @TimOBrien]

Trade war fallout: The number of farms filing for bankruptcy is increasing across the Upper Midwest, following low prices for corn, soybeans, milk and beef. https://t.co/PzLlMoxdGb

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Good morning.

Florida Republicans write laws to deny the right to vote to 20% of African-Americans.

They gerrymander districts to disenfrachnce Democrats.

Their Congressmen in DC fight against the Voting Rights Act.

FYI there’s only one party cheating in Florida.

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. By putting our own interests first, with no regard for others, we erase the very thing that a nation holds dearest, and the thing that keeps it alive: its moral values.

[Soledad O'Brien @soledadobrien]

It is not said enough just what a horrible person the President is (we often focus on the lying, the gaslighting, the bigotry). But his cruelty at every turn doesn’t get highlighted enough. Strange to want to be President for a third of the country—and screw the rest.