Philip Storch

Politically Progressive, Business Owner, NY Jets, Mets and Knicks Fan, skier, tennis player

[Philip Storch @stphil]

@whoseurlefty Follow the money

[Philip Storch @stphil]

Most of our lawmakers and main stream journalists have been bought and paid for.

Half our our citizens have zero representation and are receiving biased, non fact based information

USA USA USA

[Jack Cocchiarella @JDCocchiarella]

I wonder why one of the “reporters” of the a Plater “story” would want to hurt his campaign…

[Philip Storch @stphil]

@jeffcharlesjr Platners candidacy is a moment of truth for the Democrat Party.

Do you want to win elections with candidates who are popular with the majority of voters or do you want to serve your generous corporate donors, including AIPAC?

[Philip Storch @stphil]

@neeratanden is paid to demonize Progressive challengers who run against corporate sponsored incumbents.

She’s a gift to the GOP, bad landlords, bad employers, Insurance companies, arm manufacturers and an enemy of working people, environmentalists……

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[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

People who create Israel conspiracies around a Maine Senate race are no different in their antisemitism than Republicans who blame Jewish space lasers for the weather.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Graham Platner's primary accuser, Lyndsey Fifield, is a pathological liar (see below) whose main cause is Israel.

Make of that what what you will. I know one's views of the #BelieveWomen framework radically shifts based on the politics of the accused, but it's clearly relevant:

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

To understand the stakes of the progressive vs. centrist fight to control the Democratic Party, just compare Zohran's term so far with Spanberger's.

Zohran:
- Free childcare for 2-year-olds
- Banned junk fees
- Filled 100,000 potholes
- New bike and bus lanes across the city
- Wealth tax on luxury second homes
- Millions of dollars won for tenants and thousands of apartments repaired

Spanberger:
- Vetoed bill to let public workers unionize
- Vetoed bill allowing class-action lawsuits
- Vetoed bill to stop warrantless arrests by ICE
- Vetoed bill legalizing cannabis sales
- Vetoed bill to lower prescription drug prices

Trump was defeated in 2020, only to return in an even more dangerous form four years later. So we already know that it is not enough to beat MAGA once at the ballot box.

If Dems don't pair their next electoral victory with Mamdani's commitment to positively improving people’s lives, rather than Spanberger's model of selling out to corporations, we are going to be right back in the maws of fascism one election later. And this time, we might not be facing an authoritarian as incompetent and self-defeating as Trump has been.
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[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”

Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.

This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:

“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.

A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.

A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.

A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.

A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.

You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.

In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.

Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.

Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.

Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.

Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.

Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.

And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.

And you call Greenland badly governed?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.

‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’

When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?

Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.

Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.

Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.

And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.

You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.

So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.

The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.

And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Why on earth does the US keep a for-profit healthcare system that delivers worse outcomes at higher costs than countries with universal healthcare?

The answer is infuriating:

For-profit healthcare has generated 51 billionaires on Forbes' annual billionaires list, and in a country ruled by profit, creating billionaires is more important than investing in the health and well-being of its own people.

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Before the revolution, Cuba was run by the Mafia and a military dictator who routinely kidnapped rural peasants, including children, and strung them up in town squares based on the mere suspicion that they might be aiding the rebels.

Dictator Batista's government troops attacked peasant villages, burned down farmers' homes and destroyed their crops. The army executed a campaigned of bombing the countryside and evacuating whole villages. Anyone who dared to stay behind was labeled a traitor and subject to torture and execution.

All this was happening in the background while rich Americans used Cuba as their playground. The Mob ran the casinos and brothels, drawing movie stars, pop singers and rich businessmen who spent and gambled away their money, which went directly into the pockets of the American Mafia and dictator Fulgencio Batista, who personally raked in millions of dollars a year as his cut of mob activities.

In return, Batista made mobster Meyer Lansky minister of gambling for Cuba and gave him free reign of the island.

Cuba touted itself as the richest economy in the Caribbean in the 1950s, but none of that money went to the peasants, many of whom were literally starving in the countryside.

Meanwhile, notable Americans such as JFK and Sinatra were traveling to the island to take advantage of private orgies set up for them by the mob. The women and girls were provided courtesy of the Mafia, who controlled the human trafficking rings that complimented their gambling empire.

All the while, Batista was allowing Cuba to be used as a hub for international drug smuggling to move heroin into the United States.

Through narcotics trafficking alone, Cuba was more of a threat to the US under Batista than it ever was under Fidel or Raul Castro.

When the Cuban people had finally had enough, they deposed their dictator and chased him and his thugs away. The response of the US to Cuba's revolution was to enact an embargo, attempting to strangle its economy for the past 60+ years.

But despite Cuba having an economy equivalent to that of New Hampshire and a population 3.2% that of the United States, little Marco Rubio is rattling the saber and trying to convince at least a few Americans that Cuba is a threat to the richest nation in the world.

Trump is now illegally blockading the island, preventing oil, food and medicine from reaching its people. The DOJ just indicted Cuba's former president Raul Castro - now 94 - on ridiculous charges and Trump - who's ego is bruised from the debacle in Iran - thinks he has finally found and "enemy" in Cuba small enough to do what he isn't able to do in Iran.

[Philip Storch @stphil]

IMO The DEM party establishment couldn’t stand a chance vs progressive challengers in a fair fight.

This explains why they have spent $millions fabricating the negative far left myth.

#medicare4all

[Philip Storch @stphil]

@overton_news Far left = anyone who opposes corporate sponsored lawmakers

[Philip Storch @stphil]

@overton_news Brutal honesty?
Bill Maher caters to people who can afford tickets to his performances and the companies that sponsor his shows

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Meet the 42 House Democrats who just voted with Republicans to renew warrantless surveillance power for Donald Trump and Stephen Miller — pass it on

[Philip Storch @stphil]

@PpollingNumbers Trying the same strategy over and over again and expecting different results = democrat party voters

[A Left-Wing Account ™️ @PushDemsLeft]

7 years ago today.

It was always painfully obvious this exact outcome would happen, but Democrats just wouldn't listen.

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Democrats control all houses of government in both NY and CA. Both states have single payer Medicare for All-style healthcare bills sitting in committee and in both states, Dems refuse to advance the bills for a floor vote.

Voters gave Dems the power, Dems chose their donors.

[Jeremy Slevin @jeremyslevin]

Net favorability among independents:
Bernie Sanders +21
Democrats in Congress -36

Net favorability among moderates:
Bernie Sanders +24
Democrats in Congress -31

Centrists on this website will do anything to avoid looking in the mirror.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Nobody fully believes Dems are serious about fixing the affordability crisis because nobody fully believes Dems are willing to offend their donors who are creating the affordability crisis.

Dems’ donor fealty has created a credibility gap.

It’s their biggest political problem.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

The U.S. spends far more on healthcare than other rich countries. $15,000 per person (almost double), 18% of GDP (nearly twice as high), and healthcare inflation is 7% (roughly double others).

Yet outcomes are worse. Life expectancy is lower, infant & maternal mortality higher, and chronic disease like diabetes and heart disease higher. Canada with single payer has far lower costs than the US, and even than Germany & Switzerland, and provides better, universal coverage.

Most important, in an AI world, people's healthcare must not be dependent on their job.

Every doctor should be in network.

Medicare for All is needed for our time.

It is a moral and economic imperative.