My name is Salem, I am a social worker running for congress in PA’s poorest district
I am aggressively pro-labor & believe that healthcare, housing, utilities, food, & clean water are human rights
Please donate to help me take this fight to congress! 👇🏽
Kellogg’s is openly “pre-hiring for strike replacement workers” who will “cross the picket line”.
Don’t cross the picket line. Protect the unions. Protect the workers.
PPP loans were created in 2020.
Within 1.5 years, over 80% of them have been forgiven, totaling $600+ billion.
Student loans started around 1958-1965.
60+ years later & .6% of student loan debt has been forgiven.
No one asked how we would pay for business loan forgiveness.
15% of Bernie supporters prefer Trump over Biden.
What this really means is Bernie is winning over Trump voters. Which is how we win.
He’s getting bipartisan support AND the independent vote.
But please, keep telling me how this is a bad thing.
#UniteWithBernie
Biden made moves that helped conservatives get on SCOTUS, Pelosi backed anti-choice Democrats, RBG refused to retire when it was safe, & Obama dropped codifying Roe v Wade as a priority after getting elected
but sure, it was Susan Sarandon & the Bernie supporters who caused this
Nancy Pelosi first ran for congress in 1987 against Harry Britt, an openly gay socialist & activist during the civil rights movement. She has single handedly undermined the working class ever since, working endlessly to protect the power of the wealthy.
#PelosiMustGo
As a gay man, I’d like to use my platform to tell the
@HRC
(Human Rights Campaign) to take a seat. Y’all endorsed Clinton & she actually DID have an anti-LGBTQ past & y’all ain’t say nothing bout that OR her Howard Stern appearance.
Have. A. Seat. 💺
So Robinhood & Webull are protecting wealthy investors of corps like GameStop & AMC by blocking working class folks from buying stocks, & Apple is protecting them from bad reviews in the App Store.
Y’all realize wealthy capitalists have been rigging everything against us, right?
Dave Young, the Democratic DA in Denver who refused to charge the murderers of Elijah McClain, called for the arrests of peaceful protest leaders who criticized him. Now they sit in jail facing 30 fabricated federal charges (including "kidnapping").
This is police state fascism.
I have to say, the
#PeoplesConvention
has already covered more progressive issues in one hour than the Democratic National Convention did in four days.
PPP loans were sold as being a bailout for small businesses, but more than 500 larger businesses got hundreds of millions in PPP loans & had them forgiven - many of those businesses are tied to billionaires or politicians.
Another handout to the rich.
Do not do nice things for cops. Do not get near them. They are angry, abusive, & on a power trip. Do not go near them for anything.
They will kill you.
#PoliceBrutalityPandemic
To be clear, I’m not against helping small mom & pop shops. But many of those small businesses are still struggling & still haven’t had their PPP loans forgiven.
If congress can bail out big businesses & billionaires (as they so frequently do), they can bail out regular folks.
Biden/Harris: We won’t get involved in the fight for a $15 minimum wage in the Senate, we want to respect the rules & the parliamentarian that we can legally overrule
Also Biden/Harris: We will break domestic & international laws to bomb Syria
@vote4robgill
@Applebees
I used to work at Applebee’s and this is not just one individual who has an anti-worker mindset - it’s almost all of them.
When I was promoted to manager-in-training they had meetings about which workers they wanted to fire and would plan how they were going to set them up.
So are Biden supporters going to go organize for their electable centrist, or are they just going to continue yelling “VBNMW” at Bernie supporters for the next 9 months while they don’t do anything & then blame us when they lose to Trump?
This is absolutely unbelievable. This has to go against protocol, right? Since when is it okay to hold our citizens down while they are being gassed? The people of Portland are being treated like prisoners of Guantanamo. This must be stopped.
An absolutely horrifying moment last night in Portland.
During an arrest last night, the feds hold the arrestee down *in the gas* unchecked, for a totally unnecessary period of time.
No one is struggling because they buy lattes or avocado toast. Around 80% of workers are struggling living paycheck to paycheck while 2 men have more money than almost half the country combined.
This is not normal - this is an issue with our system, not with individuals.
The U.S. economy crashes a minimum of once per decade while the rich get richer & the poor get poorer, but there’s still people trying to convince us that this hypercapitalist system is successful & good
#ShouldHaveKnownItWasAScam
@vote4robgill
@Applebees
Applebee’s frequently mistreats minority workers and even allowed one guest to verbally abuse & harass my partner - she used homophobic slurs and threatened him with physical assault. Guess what Applebee’s did about it?
They said it was “part of the job”.
This what Joe Biden, a white man running for President, said to Charlamagne - a black host on the radio show The Breakfast Club.
It’s time to admit that
#JoeBidenIsARacist
, and we shouldn’t be replacing one racist with another one.
#YouAintBlack
Let’s be clear - what has happened to Britney Spears is a violation of basic human rights. She has been abused for profit & it’s not something that should’ve ever been legal to begin with. Legality ≠ morality & in no stretch of the mind is the conservatorship moral.
#FreeBritney
If you think that any news source coming from Russia or China is propaganda, then why aren’t all the news sources from the United States also propaganda?
@jimstewartson
There is no evidence that Bernie supporters gave us Trump. In fact, 75% - 85% of Bernie supporters voted for Clinton, & Bernie campaigned for Clinton. Around 1 in 10 Bernie supporters voted for Trump - because 12% of his supporters were GOP who crossed party lines for him.
It’s not “private” healthcare - let’s call it what it is.
It’s corporate healthcare. And it’s exactly why the United States has one of the worst healthcare systems despite spending more on healthcare than any other country.
#MedicareForAll
@iamharaldur
In the U.S., servers and bartenders can make as low as $2.14 an hour. Tips are not “extra” for doing a good job, tips are the payment for services. So if you refuse to tip, you are refusing to pay for services you already received.
So the Biden White House fired ppl for weed use.
Harris locked up folks for weed, bragged about using it when she ran for office, & now her admin is firing ppl for using it in the past in a place where it’s legalized.
Is this the big bold progressive agenda Biden was on about?
@mtgreenee
@AOC
So you didn’t read all 14 pages of the Green New Deal before you criticized it?
This is a good example why people don’t trust the government. So many elected officials talking about things they haven’t even educated themselves on. Thanks for admitting it tho
Surely Joe Manchin & Kyrsten Sinema will block the $7.7 trillion military budget bill in the Senate since it’s much more expensive than the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better price tag they objected to.
Man, he doing Jill Scott the same way that Diddy did Lizzo. Men always questioning the validity of women that they don’t find attractive.
Women don’t exist for men to find attractive & it ain’t y’all’s business why or who others find attractive.
Y’all misogynist & fatphobic.
No one ever holds a candidate accountable for the actions of their supporters until it’s
@BernieSanders
.
Imagine - “Hillary/Warren/Biden supporters are so rude to me; they need to control them!”
We’d be laughed at & called thin-skinned.
Why is he held to higher standards?
Last night was another night full of
#PhillyExplosions
. There was actually one in my neighborhood a couple blocks from the house. I’ve heard different explanations, but I want answers from officials.
Because if our military is using psyche warfare against us...all bets are off.
The USSR did more to defeat the Nazis than the U.S.
The idea that it was the U.S. that went in & single handedly saved everyone from the Nazis is American exceptionalism propaganda.
The U.S. recruited Nazis & brought them here after ignoring Hitler for almost a decade.
So we can’t afford universal healthcare or housing for all or free college or universal internet, but we can afford to keep sending tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine?
How does that work?
Imagine your whole family is suffering & you have the power to help them - but you decide to go on vacation instead.
That's what congress did to the American people.
It's time.
#GeneralStrike
Pushing student loans was always a scammy attempt to profit off of young people who need education. They shouldn't have existed in the first place.
#CancelStudentDebt
Why does the mainstream media demonize
@BernieSanders
& his supporters?
Because if he wins, the fascist rule of corporate America will crumble & we - the working class - will take back our power.
A cop got fired because of public backlash, not because the police department wanted to do the right thing - and this is usually the case around disciplinary action. Cops are taught to protect their own, not to protect us. We need to reimagine community security
#DefundThePolice
Today is Roma Holocaust Memorial Day, in which we remember the victims of the Romani genocide (we call this Porajmos) committed by the Nazis, in which up to 90% of Roma in Europe were executed.
The U.S. still doesn’t recognize Romani as people, our holiday, or teach our history.
@MattWalshBlog
Target is a corporation.
They are literally capitalists, which is not “left”, much less “far left”.
Anyway, good luck with your boycott, I’m sure it’ll be just as successful as y’all’s Disney boycott.
Kellyanne Conway has apparently leaked her daughter Claudia’s nudes as some sort of revenge against her daughter for getting video footage of Kellyanne abusing Claudia.
As someone who grew up facing abuse, this hits hard for me.
Kellyanne needs to go to prison.
@Tim_Org
Folks spend hours on job applications (not including cover letters), & 99.9% of the time applicants get no response. And y’all think you are entitled to them spending extra time & resources on your entitled ass to say “thank you”?
Girl bye. Shorten your applications.
For the record, I favor a single-payer healthcare system that covers everyone for everything & I don’t believe employers should have the right to demand doctor notes.
Today I was contacted by 3 news outlets.
Someone contacted local media & told them I'm "not a registered voter".
I changed my legal name since last cycle. I'm an abuse survivor.
I will not be intimidated. Our campaign & our movement are strong.
🌹Fear will not stop us.🌹
@vote4robgill
@Applebees
Applebee’s told me that in order to succeed in their business, I would need to abandon my humanitarian and socialist views. This occurred after I had objected to setting up employees to get illegitimately fired.
Applebee’s knows they are anti-worker. They don’t want you to know.
Odd to hear the U.S. government say they are worried about the safety or sovereignty of Ukraine considering they just backed a violent coup carried out by Nazis in Ukraine not even 10 years ago.
Medicare For All is cheaper & more efficient than our healthcare system. Housing for all is cheaper & more efficient than letting people go without.
Providing life saving services like these isn’t just the ethical choice - it’s the economic one. There’s no reason not to do this.
The U.S. military has
- killed 20 million+ people
- overthrown at least 36 governments
- interfered in 85+ foreign elections
- tried to assassinate over 50 foreign leaders
- dropped bombs in over 30 countries
& that’s just since World War 2
A single-payer Medicare For All system is cheaper than forcing people to go without healthcare.
Housing everyone is cheaper than forcing people to live on the streets.
Those of y’all who are opposed to universal programs are going to have to stop hiding behind money arguments.
Too often is “professionalism” weaponized to enforce classism.
Impoverished people do not speak or act like the bourgeoisie - most often, “professionalism” is the expectation to follow the social norms of the bourgeoisie - or risk unemployment, ostracization, or worse.
Last night a curfew was implemented minutes beforehand, & they used this as another excuse to tear gas & mace us (peaceful protestors).
Now the Philly PD has no problem letting white supremacists patrol Philly after curfew with bats & assault rifles.
Fuck y’all fascists.
Influencer Brooklyn Dad was paid $57,000 by a corporate funded super PAC to smear Bernie Sanders & Tara Reade.
So little money to smear a Jewish candidate & a sexual assault survivor while peddling right wing DNC talking points & selling out women & the working class.
Congress had no problem bailing out corporations with the very first COVID relief package, but a year later & still no monthly UBI? We watched this work in other countries.
If you can bail out the corporations you can bail out the people.
#MonthlyStimulusNOW
#PeoplesBailout
Sorry
@jk_rowling
, but
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
. Trans women are women; trans men are men.
We stand with the decision to protect people from those who cannot respect ALL of our LGBTQ+ community.
Use your platform for good - not for marginalizing oppressed people.
Ban political parties. Force our politicians to run on *actual policies* instead of party affiliation.
This is a position I would have fought for in Congress.
I just participated in a peaceful protest in Philly. When the media was there the cops were friendly & took a knee with us.
Once the media left, the cops became aggressive, provoked us, & tried to surround us before firing tear gas.
They just want a Photo Op for the cameras.
I grew up poor right here in the United States, “the greatest country in the world”.
I lived in houses without heat in the winter bc we couldn’t afford the utility bills.
I skipped meals & lived off of $20 a week.
Not one more soul should go through that. Abolish poverty.
Bernie did not want to force people to vote in person during a pandemic, and the Democrats did.
Bernie dropping out is literally saving lives.
He doesn’t use pandemics & working-class people as pawns to win political games.
When your 245 year-old government still refuses to make sure you have your basic needs met or pass legislation supported by the public, but they constantly greenlight spending trillions of dollars on wars & intervention - your government does not work for you
We need new leaders
Will Smith must've slapped the sense out of a lot more people than just Chris Rock because so many who said "violence is never the answer" are now justifying the illegal bombing of over 10,000 innocent Palestinian people.
Idk who need me to hear this but, if
@JoeBiden
can’t get through a 2 hour debate he doesn’t need to be in charge of running the country for 4 years. 💁🏻♂️
Celebrating a socialist losing an election is right wing capitalist shit.
@carterforva
got legislation passed that saved lives & will continue to for years to come. Lee Carter showed us what accomplishments are possible when you elect grassroots socialists.
Thank you, Lee 💜