It’s damn near 2026 and the federal minimum wage is STILL $7.25 per hour.

This government shutdown is what “small government conservatism” looks like in practice.

This is not a moment to abandon principles and morals. Human rights are worth fighting for. Democracy is worth fighting for. People need housing, healthcare, education, and the ability to live a good life. That’s not controversial.

Republicans want us to believe that the Democrats, who couldn’t even raise the minimum wage when they held the House and Senate, are somehow so powerful that they can shutdown the government when they hold no power? They’re are getting bullied by Jeffries & Schumer? Please 😂

Things still cost too much and people still don’t make enough money.

"Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful." - Assata Shakur Rest In Power.

Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Biden administration said the economy was booming. Now, the Trump administration is saying the economy is booming. Meanwhile, people can’t afford rent. Working class Americans are being played.

If having a felony conviction on your record doesn’t disqualify someone from being the President, it shouldn’t disqualify someone from voting. People with felony convictions should be able to vote.

Every single person who works full time should be able to afford housing, groceries, bills, with some left over on their paycheck, alone. That’s common sense and any system that isn’t designed to do so must be addressed.

If having a felony conviction on your record doesn’t disqualify someone from being the President, it shouldn’t disqualify someone from voting. People with felony convictions should be able to vote.

Strikes and boycotts are how working class Americans flex power right now.

One thing Democratic Party leadership and pundits are failing to fully grasp is just how much trust has been lost in them. The average Democratic voter feels betrayed that in the face of a second Trump term, the Democratic Party pushed for President Biden to run again, all while funding a genocide.

People are stressed out about the cost of groceries, the cost of housing, the lack of decent wages. People who vote Democrat are feeling it. People who vote Republican are feeling it. People who vote third party are feeling it. People who don’t vote are feeling it.

We can have better. We can have universal healthcare. We can have tuition-free college. We can have universal childcare. We can have affordable housing. We can have livable wages. We can have affordable food. We have to stick together & demand better for the working class.

Canceling everything except student and medical debt. Smh.

Thirteen unhoused people were hurt in Minneapolis. And America shrugs. These folks are not invisible. Not disposable. Not less human. The relative silence on this tragedy is a moral failure.

Demartravion "Trey" Reed, a 21-year-old Delta State University student, was found hanging from a tree on campus yesterday in Mississippi. There must be a full and thorough investigation into his death.

Protect the First Amendment 🇺🇸

Anyway, release the Epstein list. Ban congressional stock trading. Eliminate corporate and dark money from politics.

The American people are united on so much: wanting better wages, lower costs, banning Congressional stock trading, releasing the Epstein list, getting dark money out of politics. So much. Be skeptical of those trying to pit us against each other.

Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson & Cynthia Morris Wesley. 62 years ago today, these four girls were killed by white supremacist hatred in the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing. We must remain steadfast in our collective fight against anti-Blackness and hate in every form.

The elites want neighbors to hate each other in order to uphold a political and economic system that has always benefited them. If the working class is divided, it’s easier to continue to exploiting the people.

This is a time for people to come together and push for things we agree on: - Release the Epstein list. - Ban congressional stock trading. - Get corporate and dark money out of politics.

This is a time for people to come together and push for things we agree on: - Release the Epstein list. - Ban congressional stock trading. - Get corporate and dark money out of politics.

We’re still not shopping at Target 🤷🏾‍♀️

This is a moment in time that requires all Americans to recognize each other’s humanity. This has been an issue since our founding: dehumanization. We are all human beings. The most powerful in our system want us divided for their benefit.

Today is yet another sad day for America. Our political landscape filled with hate instead of love and humanity and it must change. It cannot go on like this, it is unsustainable. 1/3

Political violence must be condemned. Always. I’m praying for Charlie Kirk and his family.

Larry Ellison is worth roughly $400 billion. Elon Musk is worth roughly $385 billion. Meanwhile, the minimum wage is still $7.25/hour, 86% of Americans stress over grocery prices, and most are living paycheck to paycheck.

Don’t hate the liar so much that you lose sight of loving the truth.

The Epstein list shouldn’t be a partisan thing. The victims deserve justice and those who committed these heinous crimes need to be held accountable. And Americans deserve to know if those in powerful positions are guilty. Democrat or Republican.

America did this first…

1. This isn’t a Nazi regime, it’s an American one. 2. You cannot say the institutions have fallen and also say the way to fight back is gerrymandering maps so you can take control of said institutions.

Well, my home state of Ohio is gerrymandered in favor or Republicans, but they can do more.

He’s not, though. Redistricting is done at the state level. The GOP holds more states. If CA redistricts, other GOP states will do so. We have to look further ahead.

Yes. Both have/had good tweets. Both support genocide. Fetterman says he supports universal healthcare, Newsom vetoed it in CA. Newsom went to homeless camps and threw people’s belongings away.

No. Not at all.

Remember, Fetterman had good tweets, too.

FAFO.

Remember a few days ago when there was consensus forming in the Democratic Party that the most effective way to win the people over was to champion progressive populist policies? So do I…

Remember a few days ago when there was consensus forming in the Democratic Party that the most effective way to win the people over was to champion progressive populist policies? So do I…

My bill countered their bill. If their bill passed, mine would’ve had to, as well. Both bills failed and Ohioans were able to continue accessing contraception without permission from their spouses.

Imagine we’re all on a bus that hasn’t moved & people are upset. Gov. Newsom is the equivalent of someone hopping in the driver seat and driving it towards a cliff. Those of us trying to get him to stop are being shouted down because “at least someone is driving!”

THAT. WAS. THE. POINT.

Or—stay with me—I’m a historian and former legislator who knows to look 5 steps ahead and identify unintended consequences, someone with a track record of defeating the GOP through asymmetrical means. For YEARS.

We are not in 1930s Germany. We are in the United States of America. The same United States of America that was founded on genocide and chattel slavery. The same United States of America that enforced Jim Crow, permitted lynching, and is currently practicing mass incarceration.

We’re still boycotting Target.

Ok, let’s lay out this “plan” - gerrymander the maps nationwide in order to install Democrats into power in the House. - win 60+ seats in the senate (can’t gerrymander those) - elect a president who will agree to signing a federal gerrymandering ban. 1/🧵

1. That isn’t true. 2. The Democratic Party has tens of millions of dollars, tens of millions of members, and has political connections with activists groups as well as organized labor. “Here’s what we can’t do” has led America down this path.