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[James Rehwald @JamesRehwald]

How US corporate media and state propaganda advance ruling class interests at home & abroad

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Catastrophic. A filibuster carveout is not enough. We need to reform or do away with the whole thing, for the sake of the planet.

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

Everyone. Take a moment. The billionaires are fucking insane. They are leading our society directly to collapse on multiple fronts and they literally think we can all just up and move to Mars. Do. Not. Defend. Them.

[Coll @TheLeftTea]

Capitalism: where low-income people being able to buy a fucking house is called a nightmare scenario.

[Hayes Davenport @hayesdavenport]

If you voted for @nithyavraman, about 16 people on a redistricting commission decided your vote didn’t count tonight. They erased her district. And barely anyone knows it happened.

It’s not over. City Council will vote on maps in December.

We have until then to let people know.

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

A reminder that this is what “bipartisanship” got us for the infrastructure package.

This is a half-measure. That’s why we can’t support this bill without first passing the Build Back Better Act to deliver the resources our communities desperately need.

[JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1]

The GOP wants to take over all public school boards. CRT and mask mandates are a pretext, which they use to manipulate low information people to help them. This has been a long term GOP goal. They want to take over public education. So they can kill it. 1/

[Jacobin @jacobin]

For a fraction of the cost of the War on Terror, the US could have decarbonized its electrical grid, erased student debt, extended the Child Tax Credit for 10 years, guaranteed free preschool, funded global vaccines — and still have had money to spare. https://t.co/P364gzUTcG

[Matt Lech @MattLech]

Joe Manchin wants this to be your house someday

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The fact that John Roberts allied with the 3 liberals, means it was a 5-4 decision. Which means Amy Coney Barrett was the crucial fifth vote. Which means RBG should have retired. Which means Stephen Breyer really really needs to retire right now.

[Morgan Harper @mh4oh]

This is BIG! We raised over $250K in less than 36hrs since the launch of our campaign—without a dime of corporate PAC money!

This was only possible because you know in order to flip Ohio blue we need fresh, new leadership & a new game plan. It’s our turn

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

America must finally guarantee paid leave and child care.

RT if you agree.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

They need you to think that the real horror is a messy exit rather than the hundreds of thousands of lives lost and two trillion dollars spent to make war profiteers billions and rebuild the Taliban.

[Marc Daalder 😷 Wear a Mask @marcdaalder]

Because NZ is going into lockdown, the international hot takes brigade will be out in full force. Some useful comparators:

Unemployment
NZ: 4%
US: 5.4%
UK: 4.7%

Debt-to-GDP in 2024
NZ: 28%
US: 111%
UK: 101.5%

#Covid19 Deaths Per 1M
NZ: 5.2
US: 1,893.8
UK: 1,964.1

#nzpol

[Mark Takano @MarkTakano]

BIG NEWS: I’ve just introduced legislation in Congress calling for a four-day work week. It’s well past time that Americans have more time to live their lives, and not just work. Retweet if you agree, we need to make this a reality.

[Aren LeBrun @arenrlebrun]

The #AfghanistanWar began 40 yrs ago when the US decided it could not tolerate the leftist, Soviet-allied Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. To bait a USSR invasion, the CIA began Operation Cyclone, which financed the Afghan “mujahideen,” a group of radical jihadist militants.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

We will do ANYTHING to get working class people to get vaccinated…except give them a single day off work.

[Pastor Ben @BenjaminPDixon]

Listen, family: America needs your kids to go back into physical school buildings for one reason and one reason only — so you can go to work and spend money during business hours so billionaires can keep getting rich in the pandemic.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Former UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in Jacobin: “With military budgets ballooning across the world, powerful countries are preparing for conflict, not cooperation, to deal with the climate emergency.” https://t.co/iPHOUyrf7I