1. 🧵"If you are taking seats from Black people...then you are a thief."
Baton Rouge civil rights activist Gary Chambers said the quiet part out loud Friday as GOP lawmakers push to wipe out Louisiana’s majority-Black districts.
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There’s no justification for shooting someone ten times in the back.
There’s no justification for shooting someone ten times in the back.
The debate about what Alex Pretti did or didn’t do is irrelevant.
The agents committed murder.
It wasn’t a “bad shoot”. It was a killing
Every country has a powerful right wing that argue “if you tax the wealthy, they’ll leave”
We need to start calling their bluff.
We need to make it so the ultra wealthy either contribute enough to be a positive part of society, or be globally shunned and unable to extract further funds from us.
That politician you want to prop up, is not going to be the answer or resolve the inherent problems the country is undergoing, but anyone you elect that isn't MAGA or the regressive GOP is a step in the correct direction.
So Trump is declaring war on Los Angeles?
Rather than protest, I think everyone should go into lock down and general strike. Bring everything to a stop. Give Trump nobody to fight and no money to burn either.
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We must expect and demand that the executive branch follow the law.
We must expect and demand that the executive branch comply with court orders.
To expect and demand anything less is a form of obeying in advance.
Defeatism is a form of surrender.
America taking over Greenland is a foolish idea. America destroying its relationship with Canada is utter idiocy. America applying tariffs and engaging in trade wars with neighbors is economic nonsense. A lunatic is holding America hostage and his enablers are making fools of themselves.
You have $100 in your checking account.
One day, you check your balance and it's $60. You haven't made any withdrawals.
You call the bank. They say $40 was taken as part of their "waste, fraud and abuse" program.
Would you be ok with it?
Coz it's happening to your social security and Medicaid.
The top 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth.
The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth.
Read that back.
Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.
We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State.
H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.
People are wildly optimistic or apathetic in ways that underscore profound naivete or other fundamental misunderstanding. Even obviously engaged Democratic voters and activists.
The state has been captured. The modern welfare state is collapsing. The coup is ongoing. We need to fill every square.
The Have Nots vs The Have Yachts:
Your reminder that teachers can only deduct up to $300 worth of teaching supplies on their taxes, which are necessary to do their jobs, while CEOs can write off their private jets and yachts, which are not necessary to do theirs.
THIS.
"Boycotting" an election doesn't send the message that you're unhappy, because it doesn't lose them money like it would for a business. You're not the nation's customer.
Refusing to vote sends the message that you're fine with whatever result you get, that other people can decide for you.