NEW: After Rep. Katie Porter gave emotional speech to fellow Dems about skyrocketing grocery bills, she said it felt like the first time it sank in with some colleagues
One told her it's not coming up in polls. Her response: “You don’t know what to ask”https://t.co/tdKGBhmUPl
— Sarah Ferris (@sarahnferris) May 11, 2022
Category: Class War
They’re gouging us
Unleash the DOJ and go after the corporations!
Gas prices reach record highs as Biden says global forces are to blame https://t.co/mbQwhTWkiA
— Suburban Guerrilla Ω (@SusieMadrak) May 10, 2022
Opinion | The baby formula shortage is an outrage. A sane country would fix it. https://t.co/cMcPERhuVm
— Suburban Guerrilla Ω (@SusieMadrak) May 10, 2022
Oh swell
NEW: Dems may be sleepwalking into a chaotic situation few are discussing.
If Ds fail to pass slimmer BBB that extends enhanced ACA subsidies, voters will learn they’re up for big premium hikes next year just before they cast ballots in the midtermshttps://t.co/1bv5CfhH0O
— Joseph Zeballos-Roig (@josephzeballos) May 7, 2022
Not in time
Unless it includes a lobbying degree!
Stanford University has received a $1.1 billion gift, one of the largest single donations to a U.S. institute of higher education. It will use the money from venture capitalist John Doerr and his wife, Ann, to launch a new school focused on climate change. https://t.co/qc6WR83GPL
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 5, 2022
Man who has car elevator checks in
Desperate polls call for desperate measures: Dems consider forgiving trillions in student loans. Other bribe suggestions: Forgive auto loans? Forgive credit card debt? Forgive mortgages? And put a wealth tax on the super-rich to pay for it all. What could possibly go wrong?
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) April 27, 2022
If we start forgiving student loans, where does it end? Bailing out giant wealthy banks??? Subsidizing the coal mining industry???
— Chris Mohney (@chrismohney) April 27, 2022
There’s a conversation to be had
“[T]here is no reason for any company, property, or trust ever to be held anonymously… Tax havens should be illegal. The only people who need to keep their houses, businesses, and income secret are crooks and tax cheats.” https://t.co/BLggvQk5Md
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) April 24, 2022
Good
Only about 1% of more than 11,000 songs played on country music radio from 2002 to 2020 were by Black artists, a new study shows.
The @BlackOpry is working to change that, having a place where Black people in country music can make their voices heard.@PriscillaWT has more. pic.twitter.com/Ceu010zueK
— Top Story with Tom Llamas (@TopStoryNBC) April 20, 2022
The next front in the war on women
Ppl are clueless about the religious lobbyists at state capitols all across the U.S. who are pushing to take away legal birth control because they see it as the same thing as an abortion.
Wake up.https://t.co/OSRgWAR3jC
— InkBetweenFreckles (@InkonElbows) April 16, 2022
The rich get richer
“The best route to riches? Finance and investments. More than a quarter of the wealthiest people in America made their money in this industry, which includes hedge funds, private equity&money mgt.”
You know, the tools the average American has access to! https://t.co/gQwXhqXOM9
— Aki Peritz (@AkiPeritz) April 17, 2022
This will be interesting
Because the Air Force Academy and leadership is shot through with extremist fundamentalist “Christians”:
NEW: In an incredibly unusual move, the Air Force is making a point to let its hundreds of thousands of personnel know that it will provide families with medical + legal help if they are being hurt by new state laws attacking gay and transgender children. https://t.co/QeR0J7GSoE
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) April 13, 2022