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“But how can we afford paid leave?”

“But how can we afford free child care?”

“But how can we afford student loan forgiveness?”

“But how can we afford universal health care?”

How? We make the super-wealthy pay their fair share.

Republicans don't give a damn about the deficit. They've raised the debt ceiling again and again while handing out trillions in tax cuts to billionaires.

Their end goal is to gut popular programs like Social Security and Medicare, which tens of millions of Americans rely on.

The safest place from gun violence is an NRA convention, where guns are not permitted because they are too deadly.

Out of respect for tireless #NRA lobbyist Wayne LaPierre, I think we should start calling these incidents "NRA Freedom Parties." At an NRA Freedom Party in Dadeville AL last night, 20 people were shot, mostly teenagers celebrating a sweet 16. Freedom! #guns https://www.wrbl.com/news/more-than-20-shot-at-dadeville-gathering-investigators-on-scene/

When you have lost NPR, the most benign and fair member-funded news organization in the USA, you know you are making bad choices. Get off Twitter; save Tesla.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label

A terf posted this calling it "gaslighting" and "terrible" but I thought it was sweet so I'm reposting it from them.

“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this?

And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”

—Ilya Kaminsky

#poetry #books #humanity #quotes @bookstodon

Did the Pentagon do a thorough security check before they hired 'OG'? Or perhaps they did and liked the cut of his jib.

#leaks #Pentagon #Discord

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/13/pentagon-leaks-og-source-military-base-discord-report

It's long past time the 2006 GOP/NRA championed federal law granting gun manufactures immunity from civil suits be repealed. These lawsuits will compel gun companies to make guns safer to reduce gun deaths-just like car companies did when sued. My MSNBC https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/gop-gave-gun-makers-broad-immunity-lawsuits-dems-work-take-away-rcna79245

Zelensky demands global response to beheading of soldiers in video https://www.rawstory.com/russia-ukraine-war-2659839476/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Born a slave in 1853 (some sources say 1851), Lucy Parsons later became a leading figure in American anarchism and the radical labor movement.

MORE -- https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1886-lucy-parsons-i-am-anarchist/

#Politics #USA #Anticapitalism #Inequality #Anarchism

BREAKING: Well regulated militia strikes again

Active shooter downtown Louisville, Kentucky at a bank near Louisville Slugger Stadium. Mass casualty incident

It’s the guns.

Meet Nebraska State Senator Machaela Cavanaugh

Beginning in February, she has filibustered every single bill that has come before the legislature. Nothing has passed

Why?

She’s filibustering LB574, a Republican made bill that would ban gender-affirming care for anyone under 19

She talks up to 12 hours a day to keep hate from becoming law

Hero.

https://cavanaughforlegislature.org/

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

I wonder how many women will die in the next few decades because we didn't listen to Anita Hill? Thousands? More? [From 2010: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anita-hill-vs-clarence-thomas-the-backstory/]

I don't know about you but I want an organization of people trained in medicine to determine what drugs to put to market, like say the FDA, and not some lone rando judge who may be educated in the law but not much more.

Texas Gov Abbott pardons man convicted of MURDERING a BLM protester--who was white- bc Tucker Carlson demanded it. Killer even posted before shooting he was going to kill someone. GOP is saying you can literally KILL people they disagree with politically and we will protect you.

The cruelty is astonishing

‘Iowa attorney general halts payments for rape victims’ contraceptives, abortions’ https://flip.it/wE8wGp

So let me get this straight: Every federal judge in every single jurisdiction in the U.S. is subject to a binding code of ethics — except the justices on the single most powerful court in the country?

It's long past time to reform the Supreme Court. Here are 5 ways to do it.

An Emergency Democracy Crisis is happening right now in Tennessee. Duly elected Democratic State Reps have been kicked off their committees, their ID badges & voting machines have been turned off, & threats being made to expel them. https://www.tiktok.com/@underthedesknews/video/7217911114351332651