Less than 100 years ago we created social security to stop the elderly from suffering and dying penniless and in despair. Today we force them to deliver burger to pay for cancer treatments so billionaires can rape the planet
🚨 do you understand what $25 billion in Mississippi actually means..
the poorest state in America.. $44,966 median income.. 28% of children in poverty.. and Amazon just chose it for data centers..
$25 billion for 2,000 jobs.. that's $12.5 million per job..
they didn't pick Mississippi to help Mississippi.. they picked it for the cheapest land.. cheapest power.. and the most desperate politicians willing to sign whatever Amazon put in front of them..
cotton plantations came for the cheap labor.. factories moved south for the no unions.. now data centers are coming for the cheap electricity and the tax breaks..
the product changes every generation.. the extraction doesn't
Good riddance to one of @SenatorCollins’s worst confirmation votes ever.
But the sickness at ICE goes far deeper than one person at the top.
Dismantle ICE.
Israel’s Iron Dome interceptor missiles are built in Camden, Arkansas.
About a quarter of Camden lives under the poverty line.
Each missile costs about two years’ salary of the workers assembling them.
Actively bleeding, biting her fingernails, lecturing her constituents while hiding behind a barn. Ezra Klein was right — she does embody the Democratic Party!
I’d rather share a country with people who crossed oceans to build a life than to live with people who won’t lift a finger to make life better for anyone but themselves
Don't worry guys it's really morally important you clarify you're anti Maduro right now, it'll be really meaningful just like when you were anti Gaddafi and anti Assad and anti Saddam and all those other times you said surely US bombs will make things better.
If you believe the attack on Venezuela and kidnap of Maduro is about drugs, I genuinely don't know how to help you. Trump just pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez who was an ACTUAL drug trafficker because his tech oligarch buddies were mad about their libertarian crypto fiefdom Prospera being in jeopardy. This is about plunder and power.
People are going to make the invasion of Venezuela about Trump but that will miss the point. This isn't about Trump it's about America. Democrats will line up to support this because the US is a despotic, oligarchic, fake democracy revelling in violence and imperial power
i openly make fun of AI because i think people who use it deserve to hear that they’re losers and aberrations and they deserve to feel ashamed of their choices.
The most amazing part of this clip is the valorization of the 2009-10 Congress that had huge Dem majorities & a big election mandate for New Deal-esque stuff & yet what Dems mostly did was protect their donors by gutting serious financial reform, subsidizing health insurers & failing to pass a promised public option...betrayals that ultimately led to the current political and economic dystopia.