Union Life

Trade unionist and social justice enthusiast. “The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too.” 🌾🌹

[Ben Peck 🤠🍊 @TheBenPeck]

@bofrench

[Union Life @union_life]

@bofrench Racist Fuck

[Ford News @FordJohnathan5]

BREAKINGNEWS: CNN has now released an extended clip of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Representative Alexandria Cortez briefly greeting each other. Destroying the MAGA narrative they laughed at 9/11 victims. 🚨

[Former Fetterman Staffers @FettermanStaff]

Hello, Twitter.

We’re a group of former campaign & Senate staffers for John Fetterman who are disgusted with what he's become.

If you were troubled by yesterday's Wall Street Journal story... trust us, that's just the tip of the iceberg.

It's even worse than you thought.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Behind closed doors, John Fetterman dodges constituents, alienates fellow Democrats and shows little interest in the work of a senator. https://t.co/aA9BM9UQle

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

The new WSJ report on John Fetterman is absolutely brutal:

- Canceled on 3 paralyzed veterans who traveled to DC to discuss their care, then showed up less than an hour later for a Fox News interview

- Reportedly refused meetings with constituents and lawmakers, including Pennsylvanians seeking help on Medicaid, homelessness and flood relief

- Asked why he had to meet with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, then reportedly said they “just want free trips to DC”

- Skipped 11 of 12 full committee hearings during one stretch

- Later had aides help ensure he was marked “present” at hearings even when he reportedly stayed for a minute or less

- Backed out of a funeral for 3 slain police officers after learning it would last three hours, responding: “3 hours??”

- Stopped regularly attending caucus meetings

- Told Israel’s ambassador he would write an op-ed based on points the ambassador sent over. Embassy staff later sent drafted talking points, but Fetterman’s own staff withheld them over concerns about potential Foreign Agents Registration Act issues

- Former staffers say he increasingly prioritized conservative media appearances and Israel advocacy over basic Senate work

And yes, there are texts…

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

[Wes Moore @iamwesmoore]

.@LauraLoomer - you traffic in low level insults, cruelty, and ugliness.

You attack and insult Black women because you believe peddling racism is good for your clicks and your business model.

And while everyone with internet access and ignorant opinions doesn’t deserve a response, this is someone who is an advisor of Donald Trump and who should be condemned by all.

We will never let anyone steal our joy or let those that don’t matter too much, matter too much.

But to Laura Loomer, if you are going to attack brilliant, bold, beautiful Black women, know this: they are way out of your league. Respectfully, I suggest you sit this one out.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

The craziest part about Donald Trump renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America is that he raped kids with Jeffrey Epstein.

[Student Debt Crisis Center (SDCC) @DebtCrisisOrg]

A four-year degree. A thirty-year student loan repayment timeline. Nobody calls that a fair trade when you say it plainly.

[Student Debt Crisis Center (SDCC) @DebtCrisisOrg]

"I didn't go to a fancy school...I have been on the SAVE plan since it started. I am extremely scared of what my life is going to look like when I go back into repayment. I am living paycheck to paycheck as it is, with a decent job, in a crap economy." - Borrower from New York

[Student Debt Crisis Center (SDCC) @DebtCrisisOrg]

Social Security checks getting garnished for decades-old student debt. That's the system working exactly as designed, and that's the problem.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This unhinged bigot and conspiracy theorist was once banned from Uber for being so extreme.

She is now granted interviews with heads of state.

We live in the worst timeline.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

While you were figuring out how to pay rent, your president made $2.2 billion.

While your groceries got more expensive, he was collecting $636M off a memecoin his own supporters lost money on.

Who exactly is he working for? Not us.

[Virginia Political Memes @VApoliticalmeme]

Danville, VA councilman Dr. Gary Miller has gone viral on Instagram and TikTok (nearly 5 million views) with his promise to build more sidewalks. Good governance works!

[ABC News @ABC]

JUST IN: After two people climbed to the top of the Empire State Building and unfurled a banner on top of its spire Wednesday afternoon, one of the climbers appeared to propose to the other. https://t.co/ngG3jOeTBU

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I'm not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I'd take away from what happened in NY yesterday.

1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away.

2. Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings. The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It's a question mark.

3. Conviction beats caution. The candidates who said hard things about rent, about who pays for what, about Gaza, they won. The triangulators lost.

4. Cost of living is everything. Everything else is wallpaper.

5. The middle is not a strategy. It's an empty room. Voters reached past the establishment to grab someone who actually believes something.

6. Don't fear the base. Court it. The Democrats who ran from their own voters lost. The ones who ran toward them won.

7. If you want to lead a party you have to be willing to fight inside it. Mamdani didn't ask permission. He took the field.

The lesson under the lessons: the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led.

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

Americans realizing it is illegal to touch water in public but if you touch children on private islands you will become the president of the US

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

WAKE TF UP

[𝓙𝓲𝓶𝓶𝔂 𝓙 @JimmyJ4thewin]

A graduate at Allen High School in Texas proudly displays the PaIestinian flag on stage as she receives her diploma, only for staff to try to rip it away.

She was police-escorted out of the graduation ceremony but it didn’t stop her from celebrating.