Richard X. Boller

IG: Therichardboller

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

In the middle of an unprecedented housing crisis and skyrocketing costs, we are creating the first City-backed program to reduce insurance costs for affordable and rent-stabilized housing.

Housing providers will get the support they need to improve housing conditions while maintaining affordability.

This is a critical step toward a more affordable and stable City for all New Yorkers.

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[Aaron Siri @AaronSiriSG]

Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision reflects that the capture of government by big industry is nearly complete. It affirmed the right of chemical companies to injure, maim, and even kill you and your children with their pesticides, herbicides, etc., with near complete impunity.

This means you can expect increasingly toxic pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, rodenticides, etc., because the more toxic they are, the better they will kill weeds, pests, etc. And farmers that then use the most effective products, no matter how harmful to humans, will have a competitive advantage. The result will be that the farmer who adopts the most effective products (meaning most toxic) will have the largest crop yield. Other farmers, to compete, will then also be forced to adopt the more harmful product. With that, the race to the bottom has begun.

I expect that in the coming decades we will look back and wish to return to the “safer days” of glyphosate. So, bottom line: your government has abandoned you and your children. Think about this decision: 7 out of 9 Supreme Court judges sided with the chemical company against the public, and Trump’s DOJ intervened in the case on the side of the chemical company. Anyone who thinks this administration cares about you over industry profit is, at this point, delusional.

Shame on the DOJ, shame on the Trump admin, and shame on the Supreme Court for letting chemical companies get away with injuring, maiming, and killing Americans with their products instead of just allowing normal market forces to protect us and our children. Now, in addition to vaccines, we can add pesticides, etc., to the list of products that can injure and kill with near complete immunity.

Below is the decision and, in a nutshell, it holds that failure to warn claims brought under state law (which is the primary type of claim one would bring for harms from a pesticide, herbicide, etc.) are preempted by the EPA-approved label such that, if the harm is not on the label, your claim loses (since EPA didn’t add it to the label as a harm), and if the harm is on the label, your claim loses (since it has been disclosed on the label). Meaning heads or tail they win, and you and your children lose.

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[Richard X. Boller @Rich_Boller]

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[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

While Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, is illegally denying food for the poorest children on earth, SpaceX received another $38 million supplemental federal contract yesterday paid for by your taxes. Elon loves corporate welfare for himself, rugged individualism for the poor.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

If Congress actually gave a damn about our data privacy, they would’ve passed a sweeping data privacy bill, not a bill targeting TikTok.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Shoulda listened to Bernie…

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Congratulations, Democrats.

The TikTok ban was initiated by Trump, passed through the House and Senate along bipartisan lines, yet because President Biden signed the bill into law, Democrats allowed Trump to be the hero on this, politically.

Absolute malpractice by leadership.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Jimmy Carter was right when he said that the U.S is "just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery...we’ve just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors, who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves." Rest in peace.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

RIP

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Welcome to the world of oligarchy.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion
Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion

Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion
Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion

Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion
Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion

Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25
Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

As I told @lexfridman, we are rapidly moving towards oligarchy.

Our economy has a greater concentration of ownership that at any time in history. A few large corporations control what is produced and the prices we pay.

The same thing is happening with our political system.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

This is what oligarchy looks like. Elon Musk's Pac spent $200 million to help elect Trump. Since Election Day, Musk has become $55 billion richer, he's now worth $319 billion & will likely get the largest tax break ever while the federal minimum wage has not gone up in 15 years.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Weird. Seems like the groups most rapidly fleeing the Democratic coalition are the exact ones where Bernie Sanders was strongest (working class, Latinos, Bros!). Maybe that guy was onto something!

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

63% of Americans in swing states want Medicare for All.

13% of Americans approved of Dick Cheney's job as Vice President when he left office.

Go figure...

Dick Cheney lied, a million died.

Medicare for All would save 68,000 lives each year.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

So...how exactly did the Liz Cheney Strategy to court GOP voters work out?

2020, GOP Voters: Trump 94%, Biden 6%

2024, GOP Voters: Trump 94%, Harris 5%

Great work everyone!

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Reminder: When Democrats banned assault weapons in 1994 mass shootings went down by 43%.

When Republicans let the assault weapons ban expire in 2004 mass shootings skyrocketed by 245%.

We should NEVER be shy to point these facts out over and over again. Ban assault weapons.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

Is morality objective?

[Melech. @MelechThomas]

He look like a racist Care Bear

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Corporate politicians will not liberate the working class.