Remember: The richest 1% evade roughly $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
146 workers died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on this day in 1911. The bosses responsible were never held accountable for the awful working conditions that sparked the blaze. Remember this today as politicians and their corporate backers attack workplace safety.
Go for it
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Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
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The U.S. has conducted 19 strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, killing at least 76 people.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
Agree or disagree?
Labor organizer Mother Jones died on this day in 1930.
“I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.”
President Trump said he will pardon former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted in a U.S. court of trafficking drugs to the U.S., and threw his support behind a conservative Honduran presidential candidate.
Baristas are on strike. So guess what? Starbucks doesn’t get a dime.
We stand with the workers — not the billionaire brewing union busting on the side. #NoContractNoCoffee
https://seiu.co/NoStarbucks
TSTIL says feed the hungry 🤘🖤
Nearly 8 in 10 Americans agree that spending by wealthy donors and corporations in our elections gives rise to corruption — including majorities of Republican and independent voters.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
We must overturn Citizens United.
“This guy wants to create a ballroom for his rich friends while completely turning a blind eye to the fact that babies are going to starve when the Snap benefits end in just hours from now.” – Kamala Harris
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Ultimately the goals of a radical feminism and socialism are the same — justice and equality for all people, not simply equal opportunity for women or equal participation by women in an unjust system.
F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
#OtD 1 Nov 1850 Elisabeth Dmitrieff was born in Russia. A revolutionary from a young age, she went to the Paris Commune of 1871 at 20 years old and organised working class women in the Women's Union, which she co-founded with Nathalie Lemel stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8132...
🍎Food isn’t a bargaining chip. 🏨Healthcare isn’t a luxury.
Hunger should never be a consequence of politics.
And people are not pawns in a political game.
42 million Americans’ meals are on the line.
Get the facts: https://seiu.co/3L84tAT
Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
Totodile is ready for tomorrow night 🤙🏼
What do Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Comcast, Meta, and HP have in common?
They all once pledged to stop donations to anyone who tried to overturn the 2020 election.
And now they're all donors to Trump's White House ballroom. popular.info/p/these-corporations-sto...
Breaking news: A group of Democratic attorneys general sued the USDA to make billions of dollars in contingency funds available as SNAP, the nation’s primary anti-hunger program, is on the verge of running out of money.
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Screenshot of headline reading: Measles spreading beyond the center of the Utah-Arizona outbreak Cases are now popping up in more touristy areas of Utah, according to a health official.
Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000.
RFK Jr. must resign.
ICE violently detain father & son walking to school—teenage boy had to be rushed to hospital.
"I was just going to school," kid cries out. "I'm underage!"
The 16-year-old star athlete is a U.S. citizen—agents sent him to the hospital with severe injuries to his back & neck.
Houston, Texas.
