15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.
Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.
Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.
I've been reporting in East Africa on the impact of President Trump's USAID cuts, and I find that not only are children dying in large numbers but the pace is accelerating as stockpiles run out and people grow weaker. I also obtained an internal Trump administration memo stating that the cost of shutting down USAID is $6.4 billion over two years. That sum could save more than 1 million children's lives; instead, it is being spent to to shut down programs that save lives. Help spread the word. https://t.co/VN9XZIU0b3
Hi. Big one here.
Here is a list of what Donald Trump has spent (or committed to spend) in just 8 short months on ONLY vanity projects:
•White House ballroom: $200,000,000
•Qatar plane retrofit: $400,000,000
•Rename Dept. of Defense to “Dept. of War”: $3,000,000,000 (could run into “billions,” using $3B as a high-end placeholder)
•Rename “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America”: $50,000,000 (federal + state/local/signage/textbooks)
•Military parade: $45,000,000
•National Garden of American Heroes: $34,000,000
•U.S. 250th celebration: $100,000,000
•Air Force One upgrade/manuals (separate from Qatar jet): $84,000,000
•Oval Office redecoration: $1,700,000
•Golf weekends: $18,200,000
Total ≈ $3,932,900,000 (~$3.93B)
To put this in perspective, $3.93 BILLION would be enough to house every single homeless Veteran in this nation.
You don’t hate Donald Trump enough.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on today’s ruling: “We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job.”
RETWEET if you stand with Justice Sotomayor!
Trump’s federal takeover of D.C. isn’t about safety, it’s about distracting Americans from, high prices, a bad jobs report, a falling economy, and the Epstein files.
https://t.co/Sj8KiY4u6V
@stats_feed Thailand. I traveled many places for work, and I liked every place I visited, but the people in Thailand, especially in the countryside, stood out for being incredibly warm and welcoming.
🚨NEW: Donald Trump has fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Erika McEntarfer after she published a weak jobs report that showcased the damage Trump is doing to the U.S. economy.
RETWEET if you stand with Commissioner McEntarfer against Trump!
Good morning and Happy Friday to everyone who agrees that it was a bullshit move for CBS to cancel Stephen Colbert's show just days after he called out their parent company Paramount for bending the knee to trump.
I stand with Stephen Colbert.🙏💪
BREAKING: State Senator Mallory McMorrow just perfectly explained how Donald Trump’s big, beautiful bill is the largest transfer of wealth from the lower class to the wealthiest 1%. This is exactly the message that all Americans need to hear right now.