Let me get this straight: We can afford to bail out airlines that have spent 96% of their cash flow on stock buybacks over the last decade, but can’t afford to extend unemployment benefits for working people during an economic catastrophe?
I don't know who needs to hear this, but hyper-independence is the result of trauma.
"I don't need *anybody* & must do everything myself" really means, "My ability to trust has been injured by people systemically letting me down and failing me."
You do need people. We all do.
@gelles I hope they don't settle.
Biden's AG should investigate as part of a pattern of RICO debt-skipping in a large number of cases involving a slush fund syndicate of the Trump family, Trump Org, its subsidiaries & shell corp'ns, Trump2016 and Trump2020.
https://t.co/REcZGGHtjV
Next, I was blown away by how utterly unprepared the @HudCoTweet Freeholders who supported the ICE contract were to answer questions about it. They clearly didn’t understand who had the power to terminate the contract, hadn’t done a budgetary analysis, couldn't defend it.
Taxes paid by billionaires have decreased 79% since 1980. Amazon paid 1.2% in taxes last year. We spend more on defense than the next 10 countries combined.
So yes, there are many ways we pay for a progressive agenda.
We’ve got a quarter of a million dead and cases surging. But instead of fighting the pandemic, Donald Trump fought tooth and nail against a smooth transition during this crisis.
He's leaving just the way he came in—selfish, reckless, and completely incapable of leadership.
We've heard Joe Biden speak quite a few times since the election, and I haven't heard him brag about the size of his victory, or how great he is. He's only been talking about what he can do for America.
How refreshing.
If you want to know why COVID relief is tied up in Congress, one key reason is that Republicans are demanding legal immunity for corporations so they can expose their workers to COVID without repercussions.
Dems don’t want you to die for a check. That’s what we’re fighting over.
Couples pledge many things to one another, in a lifetime. When it comes to my parents, I only remember one -- so big, we simply called it the Promise. Some day it would have to come home to roost. What would happen, then? I wrote about it, for @gqmagazine: https://t.co/4Mlsx6z2tJ
We’ve suffered a great loss. Travis Nagdy, a young leader committed to the fight for justice, is gone.
As we marched for Breonna Taylor, it was often Travis and his megaphone leading the way. A bullet took his breath, but we still hear his voice.
Rest in Power, young Brother.
With Secretary Mnuchin pulling the plug last week on the CARES Act lending programs -- and the Fed going along with him -- let’s review how poorly these programs have performed during the last 8 months of economic turmoil. 1/