Pew poll:
61% of Americans support automatically registering all eligible citizens to vote
70% support allowing people convicted of felonies to vote after serving their sentences
78% support making early, in-person voting available for at least two weeks prior to Election Day
Congressional Democrats are calling on Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett to recuse herself from an upcoming case involving a conservative nonprofit that gave at least $1 million to fund a campaign for her Senate confirmation. https://t.co/4jQcFU1r2B
Workers around the world: lost $3.7 trillion in the pandemic
Billionaires around the world: gained $3.9 trillion in the pandemic
It's the biggest one-year wealth transfer in history, yet somehow barely anyone is talking about it.
GOP: 51 votes to appoint 3 SCOTUS Justices to vote on the rights of hundreds of millions of Americans is Democracy—but 51 votes to pass HR1 to protect the voting rights of hundreds of millions of Americans is anarchy.🤔
Members of the LGBTQIA+ community shouldn't be denied the full protection of the federal law, that's why we've got to get the #EqualityAct passed through the Senate and signed into law by President Biden.
This is a hearing on the minimum wage and omg before this I had mistakenly let myself believe that the myth that min wage workers are teenagers had been debunked.
PEOPLE. Only ONE IN TEN workers who would benefit from a $15 min wage in 2025 are teenagers.
Anyone who believes, or pretends to believe, that Biden could have "unity" if he reached out to Republicans isn't following the economic debate. Biden's proposals have overwhelming public support 1/ https://t.co/dHyNeSB5vt
The next time you hear Republicans in Congress accuse AOC of being divisive, please remind them that she used her platform to raise more than $3M for a red state.
Very on brand for republicans to blame power outages in a state that they run entirely on the Green New Deal proposed by democrats that hasn’t even been voted on yet let alone taken effect.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell
We are watching the Republican base getting radicalized in real time.
Short thread on impeachment witnesses:
First, let’s remember that this case had unusual and powerful evidence in the public record. If you are prosecuting a bank robbery and you have the surveillance camera footage, you don’t need witnesses to tell you what happened.
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