Elissa

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:

🇦🇺 0
🇨🇦 0
🇩🇰 0
🇫🇮 0
🇫🇷 0
🇩🇪 0
🇮🇸 0
🇮🇪 0
🇮🇹 0
🇯🇵 0
🇳🇱 0
🇳🇴 0
🇵🇹 0
🇪🇸 0
🇸🇪 0
🇬🇧 0
🇺🇸 530,000

There’s a lesson there.

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.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

"fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" = well, that's the internet won for the day; logging off, ttyt

@crockett.house.gov thank you

When will this madness stop?

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Notes from the ER in an Anti-Science Age These conversations are increasingly common. And increasingly exhausting.

Notes from the ER in an Anti-Science Age canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/07/07/n... by @codeblackamerica.bsky.social

Republicans in Congress have structured the most painful benefit cuts in their budget bill to kick in AFTER the 2026 midterms. 

But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately.

Remember this.

Here’s an idea: instead work to end residential properties being owned by banks and hedge funds. Stop allowing the total conversion of properties to non-owner occupied vacation rentals.

Shameful legislation…it is nothing but a money grab for greedy developers. It will not provide affordable housing (merely discounted inflated rates that trap people in perpetual rent at the expense of home ownership). It will have catastrophic effect on historic preservation & habitats.

These are not the words befitting a person holding that office.

Clouds, 1897, John Singer Sargent

If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country.

We will hold this administration accountable.

Absolutely!

🗃️

NPR Sues Trump Over Order to Cut Funding

Important lawsuit for people who care about free speech & the free press. NPR sues Trump admin over a basic constitutional principle: Congress, not POTUS controls the power of the purse & their fed’l funding www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/b...

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily blocked the Trump administration from further dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services!

The #Epilepsy Community Unites to Oppose Cuts to Crucial Federal Epilepsy Programs: buff.ly/eOJ5UCJ

SSU's actions to close athletics department, programs deemed 'unlawful', halted by judge Tuesday's ruling, made by Sonoma County Superior Judge Kenneth English, found that SSU violated the law in its decision-making process for the cuts.

SAVE SONOMA STATE:
www.ktvu.com/news/ssus-ac...

Health coverage should not be tied to employment. Private insurance should be scrapped. Until there is universal healthcare, CEOs should be required to have the same coverage they typically offer their employees, and no CEO should earn more than 20% of their lowest paid staff.

He tanks the stock market, and he and his rich buddies buy low…

Then he pauses the tariffs, and stocks rise…

He and his rich buddies sell high.

Rinse and Repeat…over, and over again.

It isn’t Rocket Science…

It’s actually criminal.

"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong

(April 8, 2025)

The problem is sociopathic corporate greed. 🧐

Fear has a way of being contagious.

But courage is also contagious.

Yes, businesses absolutely need to show the tariff at the checkout screen. Don't hide it into the cost of the product.