FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history.
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS๐บ๐ธ
Casual reminder that the myth of โpulling yourself up by your bootstrapsโ is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
CNBC: China went from the biggest buyer of soybeans to 0 purchases of soybeans. That happened on President Trump's watch.
BROOKE ROLLINS: Well, so, we have seen a decline from China buying soybeans for years
This is a documented case of public man-made death. Why? Because a government dismantled oversight, purged experts, and ruled by decree, all things our assessment highlights.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
Blumenthal: Weโre going to continue finding more of the ballroom donors who evidently didnโt want their names revealed. And let me name them: BlackRock, Susquehanna International, Nvidia, OpenAI, Vantive, and Extremity Care.
And so, we will use every possible resource to expose this corruption to
Illinois Gov.ย JB Pritzkerย is writing to DHS Secretaryย Kristi Noemย to request that immigration raids not be conducted around Halloween celebrations this weekend, warning of "traumatized children," according to Politico. tinyurl.com/mw4x86vz
Q: What do you call it when many people in multiple events are deliberately killed on the open seas outside of a declaration of war?
A: Murder. Mass murder. Crimes against humanity.
An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. Itโs a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Donโt be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
โThis has NOTHING to do with the SHUTDOWN. The law REQUIRES and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption.
So that is a DECISION the president is making on his own to ALLOW people to go HUNGRY." - Senator Peter Welch on SNAP Cuts
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
Itโs corporate greed. Itโs an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Let this sink inโฆ
โAt least one expert now predicting this could trigger greatest hunger catastrophe in the U.S. since the Great Depression.โ
๐ The Dept of Agriculture posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid wonโt go out on November 1.
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
New York is potentially able to undo the Trump commutation of Santos. It passed law just for this situation after Trump pardoned Manafort.
newrepublic.com/article/2019...
WOW. A third of ICE recruits canโt pass a fitness test that I do multiple times a week, and Iโm a 51 year old woke cat lady with a nose ring who loves a soy latte.
Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Got buried in the news this weekend, but President Jesus said the F word on CNN at like 2pm in the afternoon. The next day he posted a poop-filled scat video, but tell Me more about the dignity of the office of the presidency.
America is not feeling the full effect of the shutdown because so many people are working without pay.
While I respect their dedication (or fear of losing their jobs), that needs to stop.
All federal workers should refuse to work without pay. Give Congress 10 days to get its shit together, or
NBC just gutted the very teams that gave marginalized voices a seat at the tableโthen called it โrestructuring.โ
The cuts:
๐NBCโฏBLK (Black community coverage)
๐NBCโฏLatino (Latino community coverage)
๐NBCโฏAsianโฏAmerica (Asian American community coverage)
๐NBCโฏOut (LGBTQ+ community coverage)
If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.
If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
This gentleman is spot-fucking-on about Trump's AI-generated video of himself dumping shit on No Kings protesters. As Americans, we should all be disgusted by this psychologically damaged human abomination. ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐