Sessha Batto

Socialism: The community coming together to help people who are hungry.
Capitalism: Elected oligarchs price gouging and starving people while they laugh at us from Gatsby parties.

We already know what makes our communities safer, and it's not troops on our streets.

It's giving people accessible housing, food, employment, health care, and education opportunities.

Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.

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Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”

The result was “institutionalized hunger.”

@kristencrowell.bsky.social
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They are paying ICE, the military and for his stupid ballroom

They won’t fund SNAP or air traffic controllers

These are choices

Budgets are moral documents

Trump's not going to suddenly get more sane than this.

There's no mechanism for that to happen, biological or psychological.

This is the top of the rollercoaster...

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.

Patriots owner Robert Kraft calls Mamdani NYC election 'sad' and victory speech 'divisive' New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft said that Zohran Mamdani's election win made him "sad" and that his victory speech was "divisive."

Mandani speaks after the election that he won, concerning his care and love for the average working class of New York and the nation, of course the billionaires are going to say they are "hurt" by that, they have a vested interest in the starving of the middle class. Billianaires help themselves.

Once again:

Speaker Johnson is violating the Constitution. Time to remove him.

"Neither House, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting."

Art. I § 5.

Shutdowns hurt people and it will be good news when the government reopens.

But it is vital that Congress also address both the looming massive spike in health care costs for 20M *and* deliver a funding deal that the President can’t undo the parts he just doesn’t like. 🧵

Seriously? He has no idea how insurance works or how to govern. I’ll never get over 77 million people thinking a man this incompetent belongs anywhere near the Oval Office.

The GOP is petrified of Zohran Mamdani because they know once democratic socialism works here, as it has in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland, they will never be elected again.

Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge" "Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."

“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

I'm not particularly conspiracy minded, but I do find the hypothesis, that the reason Trump hasn't sat down with Dem Congressional leaders to negotiate an end to the shutdown is because his handlers are hiding his condition, credible.

This morning, I spoke at the SOMOS Labor Breakfast.

"We are not looking to remake New York City in my image. We are looking to remake it in the image of struggling workers across the five boroughs."

Truth

The DOJ completed a study on political violence that found right wing violence had increased to become the most violent group, with over 500 deaths since 1990. The report vanished from the DOJ website without explanation. #FuckTrump

josheeirl - So, @thedemocrats, what did we learn today? If you actually want to get young people to Ao vote, you're going to need to run democratic socialists / progressives like Mandani, AO, Crocket, etc. Stop running 70 year old establishment Dems. Their time is over. TAKE THE HINT.'

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This is fuckign insane.

If Dems had a few neurons they would hire Mark Cuban (whom I do not support) or Norm Eisen or whomever to do an intense DOGE style waste, fraud and abuse study to go through all the crazy waste that these guys have done.

The White House keeps unilaterally taking entirely voluntary actions which it openly says are intended to inflict more pain and then they're I guess surprised - along with most of the DC media - about why they seem to be taking the blame for the shutdown.

Virginia's blue wave proves targeting trans students doesn't win, Democrats say Democratic leaders say the results of Tuesday’s election in Virginia prove attacking transgender student policies isn’t a winning strategy issue. Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears...

“Roem…says targeting trans children is a losing proposition.

“’The Republican Party is simply wrong about this. People don’t want their politicians signaling out and stigmatizing the very people they’re elected to serve.’”
@nbcwashington.com #Virginia #vagov
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Disgusting.

"Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the West"

Two words: algorithms and incentives. Mostly incentives. Until we modify or eliminate incentives, all we can do is watch as the fabric of society is pulled apart, strand by strand. www.ft.com/content/5060...

Exxon’s Latest Supreme Court Hail Mary - The American Prospect Oil companies insist that if cases are allowed to proceed, it could have major ramifications for the future of their industry. Will a Supreme Court willing to grant Trump immunity for his crimes do the same for Trump’s oil industry backers?

Oil companies are looking to the Supreme Court to rescue them from dozens of lawsuits. Recent financial disclosures from the justices show four of them have oily fingers, with past or present financial or familial ties to the industry. From @hannahstoryb.bsky.social:

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Marc Elias Named 'Human Rights Hero' by American Bar Association Civil Rights and Social Justice Section

NEWS: Marc Elias has been named a "Human Rights Hero" by @americanbar.org's Civil Rights and Social Justice Section.

"If you care about the survival of our democracy, you should familiarize yourself with his work," Section member Bobbi M. Bittker wrote.
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Marc Elias breaks down how death by a thousand inconveniences is the new GOP strategy. #crookedcon2025

Afghanistan cost taxpayers $2.3 trillion. We got zilch in return.

They've trained us to think that it's weakness to have government social programs. Actually, it's social investment.

Our taxes SHOULD go to education, healthcare, maternity, & other supporting systems instead of wasted on war. 🧵

The GOP doesn't want less spending—they want a smaller pool of RECIPIENTS.

Their goal is to allocate our taxes to the fewest Americans possible & it’s those leeches that are hoarding the benefits of taxation.

Subsidizing their greed instead of using taxes on programs that benefit We, The People. 🧵