Xavier Becerra is backed by the following corporate special interests:
— $4,500,000 from the healthcare industry to oppose single payer
— $1,000,000 from Chevron and Big Oil to keep gas prices high and increase oil drilling
— $700,000 from private ambulance companies to rip patients off
— $300,000 from Big Pharma to keep drug prices high
I posted these last year and had a thousand chuds in the comments calling me slurs and saying that they would never touch national parks. I’d like to take this moment to say: fuck you.
If you are a California resident voting for Becerra, knowing he’s received millions from PG&E, I have one question, what the actual fuck is wrong with you??????
"If a border wall—or other destructive border infrastructure—is built inside Big Bend National Park, it would be the most egregious assault on the integrity of the entire National Park System since the construction of a dam in the Hetchy Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park more than a century ago."
This is a grave warning from seven high-level NPS superintendents, folks who rarely break ranks and wade into advocacy. I'm proud to see my former superintendent Cindy Ott-Jones among the co-authors.
The $1.7B border wall contract through Big Bend equals more than half of the operating budget of the entire National Park System—the same budget the admin tried to slash by $900 million this year.
This administration is systematically gutting the National Park Service while handing more than 1/2 of the entire NPS operating budget to a billionaire contractor to build a completely pointless wall that will destroy this crown-jewel of the national park system.
H/T @sammiecarrots for flagging this jaw-dropper in @bigbendsentinel.
Californians, if you’re hitting the road this holiday weekend, be sure to AVOID Chevron.
Pro tip: unbranded gas comes from the same refineries, storage tanks, and pipelines, and it meets the same state standards to keep your engine running clean, even if it doesn’t have a fancy name like ‘Techron.’
Big Oil is already making billions off Trump’s Iran War; don’t let them rip you off even more by overpaying for the brand name.