Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” 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.

Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps

Wow! The lengths Trump will go to just to make Americans starve. His administration has ordered states to “immediately undo” any steps taken to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families.

This is, unsurprisingly, nonsensical. Is he suggesting eliminating health insurance and giving people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt?

He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.

Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Trump’s Spin on the Economy Won’t Work President Donald Trump is taking a page from former President Joe Biden when it comes to the economy: trying to convince Americans that their lived experiences of higher prices aren’t real. It’s a hea...

“If Trump continues to tell people that the economy is better than they think it is, they will have no choice but to conclude that he doesn’t understand their lives and doesn’t care about their hardships.”
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One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power.

The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever.

But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.

This afternoon, I will welcome President Zelenskyy in Brussels.

Together, we will participate in the Coalition of Willing VTC.

At the request of President Zelenskyy, I will join the meeting with President Trump and other European leaders in the White House tomorrow.

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🛑 No place for hate in Europe.

What happens when 150 EU citizens unite to find solutions to hatred? They bring big ideas and even bigger determination.

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We’re not distracted and it’s not going away.

If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear

Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?

What Israel is doing by targeting journalists doctors and staff is crime They want to destroy everything our voice to the world service providers to patients But we will not be broken We will continue to provide care to the patients till the last moment This is genocide
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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from removing collective bargaining rights for thousands of Department of Defense school employees.

When we talk about authoritarian oligarchs, Putin is the model. He is worth some $200 billion, kills dissidents and rigs elections.

And he started this horrific war in Ukraine.

We all want peace. But any peace talks must include the Ukrainians. It’s their country.

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Washington DC has 702,000 people, is 45% Black and has 0 senators

Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators

DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover

📌He’s a 79-year-old morbidly obese, sickly old man with swollen ankles and accelerating dementia.
Time is not on his side. It is his most dogged adversary.
And it’s running out for this terrible man.

Black FEMALE mayors to be exact (Muriel Bowser and Karen Bass).

They knew his kind was out there! Someone the Enemies of Our Nation could easily Corrupt and use. 🤔🧐🤨

Venus and Jupiter putting on a good show this morning.

#FreeDC

47 25. How ironic!

Tim Cook is a double faced traitor to the LGBTQ+ community who literally kiss the very same traitor who incited the insurrection – also known as bribe- to exempt Apple from tariffs.

‘If these words reach you … Israel has succeeded in killing me’: the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza Anas al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera reporter, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Sunday night. This is the message he had prepared for his family, and his call for the world not to forget Gaza

"I entrust you with Palestine – the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world"

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