Saul Alinsky would approve

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system. It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.

Citation: The Panda’s Thumb, Part 4, ch. 13 “Wide Hats and Narrow Minds” (1980)

The idea that they can avoid all suffering while gleefully leaving people behind to die horrible deaths tells you all you need to know about the cruelty of these Christians. #rapture and by the way, where are the #EpsteinFiles?

Calling Trump “Hitler” is not exactly accurate. Sometimes he acts like Stalin.

I would not be surprised if Kirk was murdered by his own side. He was a threat to those holding power and he is now a convenient martyr.

"All who take the sword will perish by the sword" (Matthew 26:52). He who advocates gun violence will die by gun violence. I don’t like this world we live in, but this is what the Republicans have wrought.

Lack of empathy leads you to commit the fundamental error that it can never happen to you.

Houston Poverty Fact Sheet: www.uhd.edu/academics/pu...

Slavery as it existed in the South was the most brutal system of bondage the world has ever experienced. It was so horrific that its effects are felt to this day.

The threat that taxing billionaires will make them leave is dumb. Without billionaires we can build small businesses, which are the backbone of the economy and without the unfair practices of billionaires, small businesses can actually thrive. Honestly, I can’t wait for billionaires to leave.

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People are going to die in the street. This is what y’all voted for. #BigUglyBill

The excessive accumulation of wealth is mental illness. Why would anyone want more money than they can ever use?

I know that is ridiculous to take such statements seriously but the fact that we are all going to die is exactly why everyone should have access to the best possible medical care regardless of income or employment status.

The rich are stealing from everyone else. For great wealth to exist, great poverty is necessary.

This is an important article. We can protect our democracy! www.huffpost.com/entry/psycho...?

I'm giving you a mission for this Memorial Day holiday weekend. I want you to talk to two people—friends, neighbors, cookout attendees—about why Trump's proposed budget would be a disaster for American kids. We owe the next generation every chance, and this isn't it.

Trump's big beautiful bill expands the estate tax exemption yet again. While millions will get kicked off healthcare and lose crucial food assistance, Republicans are enabling the super-rich to pass down their obscene wealth virtually tax free. We must stop this bill.

The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans. You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.

They're arresting Members of Congress. Perhaps a sternly-worded letter is in order. Or, perhaps, it's time to play some damn hardball with the DOJ.

Absolutely 💯

Macron shook one hand.

Today marks the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, which began the American Revolution. Our nation was founded on resistance to arbitrary authority and monarchical power. We built a democracy in the face of impossible odds. We must continue to protect it.

Glad House Dems are demanding a full briefing—because immigration agents showed up at L.A. elementary schools, and DHS lied about it. Watch the video. Hear the truth from L.A.’s superintendent. Then ask why the hell Homeland Security is targeting kids. Don’t let this go!!!

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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This is unconstitutional! This is abuse of power!

This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode the deficit. 3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat. They're trying to get away with it again.

"We now have the techniques and the resources to get rid of poverty. The real question is whether we have the will." — Martin Luther King Jr., March 31, 1968

Bernie is very wise.

Republican Gabe Evans is having a telephone town hall on Wednesday if anyone wants to ask why he wants to cut Medicaid engagement.mail8.housecommunications.gov/f/a/fBu7RJYe...

Our economy is far larger than it was decades ago. Where have most of the gains gone? To the top. Any path forward must include a fight to restructure the economy toward more widely shared prosperity. This isn’t a blue state vs. red state phenomenon. It’s a class phenomenon.

@brianstelter.bsky.social @cnn.com ya'll covering this? Massive crowds @betoorourke.bsky.social @timwalzparody.bsky.social

When oligarchs talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful. When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability. Know the truth.

I don’t really like to comment on political strategy but WTF are Schumer and Newsom, two of the most powerful leaders in the Democratic Party, doing right now?

@therickwilson.bsky.social has an urgent message for the Dems: SHUT IT DOWN! Watch:

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Poverty kills. Those who pay low wages and deny housing, healthcare, and food are murderers.

One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ? They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses. That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue. The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on.

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