This Epstein drop is HUGE and utterly disgusting. I don’t see how this man is allowed to remain in office. Where are the evangelical leaders, the soccer moms, the folks stocking up on eggs, the farmers, the small business owners.
Decide. Who are you?
In 1966, Dr. #MartinLutherKing Jr. along with Bayard Rustin and A. Phillip Randolph, unveiled the "Freedom Budget for All Americans".
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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
Anyone who ever trusted mega-corporations to do the right thing was wrong. That should be clear to all by now. Profit will always be their priority. Everything else comes last. Their ideology is a death cult. If we don't regulate these monsters into planetary boundaries we lose everything.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu:
“Under the Trump administration, groceries are less affordable, housing is harder to build, cures for cancer are farther away, and good news on our economy has been as hard to find as the Epstein list.”
“During the course of the 26-day sit-in, the Black Panther Party played a leading support role in providing food for the demonstrators. Over and over again, the disabled protesters credited the BPP with literally sustaining their struggle, “keeping us alive body and soul,” as one person put it.”
look I'm not myself a political scientist so I can't say what effects it would have for a spate of politicians to crop up saying "the enemy is the oligarchy" and "the enemy is billionaires" while swinging a kettlebell but I think we should try it for science and see what happens
Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
Every governor should be doing this.
In 2016 this guy went to a law office with the goal of killing his wife’s lawyer. He hacked a woman to death with a machete and bludgeoned two other people to death (including a man he falsely thought was that lawyer), then set fire to the building to cover his tracks.
Anyway, Trump just freed him.
As of today the federal minimum wage has now been $7.25 for 16 years.
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more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis
Trump today: "I'm surprised he [Jerome Powell] was appointed. I'm surprised frankly that Biden put him in."
Trump in November 2017: "It is my pleasure and my honour to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve."
Thanks for the clarity. Interesting! Didn't realize states can't go bankrupt. I supposed they can default / get bad credit ratings, but then they can probably still issue low-interest loans and still get buyers (maybe Fed, maybe private investors), right? State tax revenue is always there...
Love the idea! Some Qs, as someone still learning all this:
1) How can we be certain the Fed will purchase these bonds?
2) Blue states can only tax the rich (b/c tax the poor=bad/stupid) or ditch balanced budgets to do this, right?
3) Using fixed or variable interest bonds? Would fixed be better?
hey, you ever re-read the Declaration of Independence? some fascinating stuff in there www.theverge.com/policy/69730...
demand an economy that serves the working class instead of the oligarchs who have been increasingly benefitting from the "the deficit myth" for decades.
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But as this bill's passage shows, the national debt apparently doesn't matter anymore anyway. So it's time we stop talking about "taxpayer money", acknowledge our government can afford anything we can actually do, and...
Why? B/c if we had a fed gov't that pursued fiscal + regulatory policy to ensure dignified jobs for all, free universal public goods and lower costs of living, then workers would be less willing to accept the poor quality jobs & services offered by large corporations and rich people who own them.
Fascism is here because both parties have used "the national debt" as an excuse not to invest (or actively disinvest) in policies that serve the public interest. Why? Because underfunded public services benefit the rich & corporations (their donors and puppet masters).
We should all realize by now that federal budget deficits are not the problem. The national debt is not a "bill that future generations need to pay." The federal government has Constitutional authority to create unlimited $$ to pay its bills.
The real problem is fascism.
The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work.
Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.
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With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
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