Zack Frink

The NBA on Prime and Peacock is a disaster. I shouldn't have to be subscribed to multiple streaming services to watch a basketball game.

Another example of why workers need a union contract to lock in paid vacation and other benefits. It can't be said enough that having a union is about more than getting raises.

Walgreens workers: it's never too late to start a union www.ufcw.org/start-a-union/

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

Taxes on high earners are too low bsky.app/profile/popc...

Starbucks workers this Thursday 11/13 are starting a long strike to win a first union contract

*** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY***

Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy

Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people.

Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.

We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.

Spoiler alert: they won't

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.

America's political elite has decided that climate change is no longer that important or worth talking about, but rest assured, it's still happening, it's extremely bad, and yes, it is going to affect you here in America.

the democratic party establishment hasnt learned a damn thing since they voted to allow george w bush to invade iraq. not one thing.

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.

Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.

This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.

so much suffering and sacrifice only to to agree to terms that will beget more suffering and sacrifice.

the thing that upsets me about this the most is that Dems had all the momentum, republicans were reeling, and we were getting intra-GOP fighting over the filibuster, all while voters were blaming republicans for their incompetence

this destroys all of this. just a total gut punch

The politics of the shutdown:
*GOP had a strong opening position
*Undercut themselves with the RIFs and unnecessary cuts to blue states/SNAP
*Polls showed GOP getting most of the blame, no reason to assume that would change
*Dem centrists then folded on their key issue of ACA subsidies

i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is

Nobody in American politics hates their own voters more than the Democratic Party

I genuinely can't get over them taking this course after watching Tuesday's results. They hate winning

LESS. THAN. A. WEEK.

Took them less than a week to take one of the most visible public repudiations of the GOP in my lifetime and turn it into hog slop.

I’m so mad my temperature is higher than my ACA premiums.

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.

We are being led by absolute cowards

What is the point of a political party that will not fight for the people?

even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people

Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

The two party system is incompatible with democracy.

We must change our electoral system to restore democracy.

Congrats to the Democratic Socialists of America and Working Families Party for the Senate Democrats continuing to be spineless 🥳