Left-Coaster

Remember: If your vote didn't matter, billionaires wouldn't be spending their fortunes trying to buy our elections. Stay calm, support good candidates, do whatever you can to get out the vote, and vote as soon as you can. Don't let Big Money win.

"The jokes just write themselves" would be a great line here if it wasn't so maddeningly true.

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In March, Washington State passed a tax on millionaires to fund public education, childcare, and expand its earned income tax credit. Now, special interest groups backed by the rich are trying to trick voters into repealing the tax by claiming it will apply to non-millionaires. Don't fall for it.

Why did I just see a commercial during a college football game featuring tRump and his campaign promises with the by-line "Paid for by the U.S. Government?" WTF? Our tax dollars??? Oh, hell no. I want a refund.

AI advocates say we have no right to stop innovation in the free market. Hogwash. We don’t allow corporations to come up with new nuclear weapons or varieties of cocaine or biological pathogens. We protect the public from certain kinds of innovation. We need guardrails on AI before it’s too late.

Reminder: progressive is mainstream

Take 20 seconds , read the whole thing.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

We watched Trump's dangerous and deranged speech so you don't have to. Here are the moments you need to know about:

The reason why ICE agents continue to shoot people is because nothing ever happens to them when they do. They essentially have been granted full immunity for whatever they choose to do to people by a lawless regime of thugs.

Cartoonists Are The Only Real Journalists Left In The USA.

Oh I'm feeling this! The hypocrisy is deadening.

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

From Minnesota Indivisible Alliance: What if the most powerful thing we can do right now… isn’t just march? What if it’s showing the people running this country that we control something they can’t take away: Our labor. Our money. Our participation. Minnesota already proved it. <1>

WE NEED TO KEEP CALLING THIS OUT BECAUSE IT MATTERS: California is the 4th largest economy on Earth, and the most populous state in the country. This isn’t a place for amateurs. Becerra has the experience for a state this big, this complex, and this consequential. 🧵

"This is an important thing to think about."

My Saturday morning thought... If the 75,017,626 people who voted for Kamala would just show up together on one day, this shit would be over.

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

"All we say to America is, 'Be true to what you said on paper.'" These words — spoken by MLK Jr. shortly before he was killed on this day in 1968 — ring just as true now. Let's honor his legacy by continuing the fight for social and economic justice.

War, what is it good for? 🙌🏽 Absolutely nothing‼️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Springsteen aka The Boss still knows how to shake the ground & remind us what really matters. 💃🏽🤘🏽🎸🕺🏼

Let’s be clear. Trump says WE CANT INVEST IN AMERICA cause we are fighjting wars. ONE PROBLEM with that . Six weeks ago we were NOT fighting wars and YOU STILL DIDNT WANT TO INVEST IN AMERICA. SO your logic is WRONG. AGAIN

You live somewhere. You care not only about there, but about elsewhere. You care about your home, neighborhood, state, country, region, continent, and world. A violation anywhere pains you. To help overcome violations everywhere attracts you. That is internationalism. It’s exemplary

But we know a president is not a king unless we bow. A dictator is not a dictator unless we bow. Our knees, your knees are not made for bowing to power drunk neo-fascists. We stand and speak truth to power...-Rev. William Barber MARCH 28TH WE MARCH! NO KINGS 3.0 www.nokings.org

An excerpt from Jesse Jackson’s powerful speech to the Democratic National Convention on July 19, 1988. May he rest in peace.

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This is worth the read from a combat veteran. Is ICE on a mission or a bunch of mercenaries?

Ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura: “We’re a 3rd world country now. I know. I’ve been to ‘em. I spent 17 months in SE Asia while the draft dodger was playing golf… that’s what happens in a dictatorship. In comes the military. That’s what’s happening here.” 🇺🇸

The government is saying that violence rules. That snatching foreign leaders and territories, and shooting US citizens in their cars at point blank range, is justified. That resistance is not only futile, it is dangerous. They can say these things. But they cannot force us to believe them.

FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

"January 6th didn't fail. It just took five years to succeed."

These people are lawless. Soulless. Ungovernable in the most literal sense. They are destabilizing the entire world.

If the US holds Venezuela, we will seize 17% of oil -- yesterday's technology. If China uses this precedent to take Taiwan, it will own 60% of semiconductors -- tomorrow's technology. See what happens when you elect evil & stupid at the same time? Really American FB

We must hold ourselves to the fundamental truth that sovereign nations are sovereign. We must respect and maintain rules-based order. Anything else will lead to chaos and another world war. Congress must act and act swiftly.

"It was the best attack on sovereignty..." is the punchline that will be used at Trump's trial at some point, hopefully sooner rather than later.

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You know, I'm 70 years old, and I've been thru hell, climbed close to heaven, and touched back down here on Earth, which had everything necessary for humans to thrive. Greed has destroyed much. Maybe it's too late to save it. But we need to try.

Here’s Zelenskyy, freely walking in Kupyansk that Russia claimed to have occupied. So when we talk about “occupied territories in exchange for peace”, what exactly are we talking about.

It seems this Admiral may be a DEI hire - Dangerously Entitled Ignoramus...and now a war criminal.