This thread will be dedicated to the victims of the mass shooting in Buffalo.
This is Ruth Whitfield, 86. Her son, the former Buffalo Fire Commissioner, said she was on her way from visiting her husband in a nursing home and stopped at the store to get something to eat.
Kanye is just showing the world how scary it can be for a woman in Kim’s situation. Now imagine someone not having security, financial independence, or a way out.
When we talk about income and wealth inequality in America today, this is what we're talking about.
Right now, the two wealthiest people own more wealth than the bottom 40%. Got that? TWO PEOPLE own more wealth than 40% of our people.
Is that remotely acceptable to you?
Not lost on me that most service workers could hop in any desk job and do a passable day’s work but most office people could not last a single shift in a restaurant or bar with any real customer volume
Anytime you hear a “rise in crime” or “spike in shootings,” remember: whatever they claim, it’s happening despite investing most on policing in the history of the world. A brutal indictment of the efficacy of policing. Yet police are using their failures to get even more?
Just this year, the Senate has filibustered TWO major pieces of voting rights legislation.
It’s time to end the filibuster and protect the sacred right to vote.
Wealth of U.S. billionaires: $3.65 trillion
Estimated annual cost of the Build Back Better Act: $350 billion
We don’t suffer from scarcity. We suffer from greed.
Did I mention that 51 members of Congress and their spouses own up to $5.8 million worth of defense contractor stocks — stocks that see massive returns when we engage in endless, unwinnable wars.
Does that seem like a problem to anyone else?