"If everyone could see what I see coming," said scientist Peter Kalmus (
@ClimateHuman
), "society would switch into climate emergency mode and end fossil fuels in just a few years."
"Today, I watched as armed terrorists stormed the United States Capitol,"
@Ilhan
wrote. "We should not mince words about what this was: a coup attempt."
The U.S. will be at risk of throwing away its "biggest chance to combat climate change" if conservative Democrats tank the reconciliation bill, said Rep.
@AOC
.
"We owe it to future generations, to the Indigenous communities we've signed treaties with, and to every living being on this planet to stop building fossil fuel infrastructure," said
@IlhanMN
on Saturday after speaking with
#StopLine3
organizers.
The mediaโs reporting on the debt ceiling "is inexcusable," says
@RBReich
. Enough with the both-siderism. "Republicans alone manufactured this looming disaster."
Ilhan Omar Warns Progressives Will Revolt If Dems 'Poison' Relief Bill by Curbing Eligibility for $1,400 Checks "Democrats with a slim majority in the Congress can't pass this bill without progressives."
"Let this serve as a reminder that poverty is a policy choice," said
@RBReich
. "In the richest country in the world, it is absolutely inexcusable that millions of our children go to school hungry because they are living in poverty."
In Response to Lies and Hate, Let Me Make Some Things Clear About My
#ClimateStrike
:
@GretaThunberg
"We children shouldn't have to do this. But since almost no one is doing anything, and our very future is at risk, we feel like we have to continue.
"It Can't Be Warren and It Can't Be Sanders": Wall Street Executives Make 2020 Preferences Known "The best indication of who you should vote for in the Democratic primary if you actually want progressive policy is who Wall Street doesn't like."
"Perhaps the greatest crime that Julian Assange committed in the eyes of both Democratic and Republican governments was this: he dared to tell the American people some of the terrible things their government had done.โ"
#FreeAssangeNow
'We Are Not Embarrassed Enough': Ilhan Omar Rips Congress for Failing the Public on Covid Relief "It's really quite shameful that we find ourselves negotiating a deal with such a small amount of money."
'Guilty on All Counts!': In Historic Victory, Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Roundup Cancer Lawsuit
"This is a company that has always put profits ahead of public safety, and today, Monsanto has finally been held accountable."
@OrganicConsumer
Five U.S. senators led by
@SenSanders
wrote that the Pentagon "can no longer expect Congress or the American taxpayer to underwrite record military spending while simultaneously failing to account for the hundreds of billions it hands out every year."
Depressed and Then Diagnosed w/ Autism,
@GretaThunberg
Explains Why Hope Won't Save Planet But Bold Climate Action Can
"We do need hope. Of course, we do. But the one thing we need more than hope is action. Once we start to act, hope is everywhere."
"When a person respects you, they tell you the fuckin' truth." โ
@johncusack
explains his
#IEndorseBernie
"For 40 yrs we've endured class warfare from above. And for 40 yrs
@BernieSanders
was there fighting back."
"Musk's real goal has nothing to do with the freedom of others," argued
@RBReich
. "His goal is his own unconstrained freedomโthe freedom to wield enormous power without having to be accountable."
"Adding dental, vision, and hearing benefits to Medicare is supported by 84% of the American people including 89% of Democrats and 79% of Republicans," says
@SenSanders
aide
@GunnelsWarren
. "It is what the American people want."
"Memo to the Fed: Interest rate hikes aren't working because inflation is being driven by corporations using it as cover to price gouge the people," argued
@RBReich
after the U.S. Federal Reserve raised rates for the sixth time this year.
#FridayNightMassacre
at US Postal Service as Postmaster Generalโa Major Trump DonorโOusts Top Officials
"Trump is actively sabotaging the election under our nosesโthis isn't theoretical, it's happening RIGHT NOW."
"Raising interest rates puts the burden of fighting inflation on low-wage workers," notes former Labor Secretary
@RBReich
. "For once, let's take aim at an actual driver of inflation: corporate profits."
Human rights attorney
@SDonziger
noted that Biden's pick for the federal bench "was paid millions... to help jail me, attack Indigenous peoples, and cover up a massive oil spill in the Amazon."
"We can't bomb our way to peace, equality, and freedom," said
@RepCori
. "With thousands of lives lost and millions more at stake, we need a cease-fire now."โ
"We're a rogue state, the leading rogue state by a huge dimension," Noam Chomsky said of the United States. "And yet we can call for war crimes trials of others, without batting an eyelash."
"We can't extend the child tax credit to combat child poverty," said
@SenSanders
. "But somehow, we can provide a massive amount of corporate welfare to a handful of corporations."
"Sen. Sanders sparked a movement that shifted what is possible in American politics," says
@ninaturner
. "I am proud to be joined by Sen. Sanders in my hometown of Cleveland."
.
@SenSanders
Says Backing Waiver for Covid Vaccine Patents Is 'Common Human Morality' "We must do everything humanly possible to crush this global pandemic and save millions of people who are in danger of needlessly dying."
"If believing that 500,000 Americans should not be forced into medical bankruptcy every single year is radical, than we're proud to be radical."
@IlhanMN
@BernieSanders
"Unless they're investigating themselves, this Insurrection Protection Committee is a sham,"
@reppressley
said of House Republicans' new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
.
@BernieSanders
Hands Over His Social Media Accounts to Walmart Workers Ahead of Attending Annual Meeting to Advocate for Employees
"It's time for workers like me to have a voice at Walmart's executive table."
#EndWalmartGreed
"We need an impeachment investigation into Clarence Thomas' role in the January 6th coup, as well as into Gorsuch, Alito, Barrett, and Kavanaugh's testimony on Roe during their confirmation hearings," said
@IlhanMN
.
Message to
#Davos
Elites from
@GretaThunberg
: 'Act As If Our House Is on Fire. Because It Is.'
"Either we choose to go on as a civiliszation or we don't. That is as black or white as it gets. There are no grey areas when it comes to survival."
Prabowo Subianto "is the most notorious massacre general in Indonesia, and he's also the general who was closest to the U.S. as he was carrying out his mass killings," said journalist
@AllanNairn14
.
"We are going to continue to travel all over this country to ensure that progressives are not left alone when evil lurks," said
@NinaTurner
. "Until justice rings for all, justice rings for none."
"Trumpโs description of Rep. Omarโs goals as 'no government' is much more appropriate to his own policies. Trump has systematically sidelined the key functions of government."
"If Julian Assange is not free, neither are we," said a protester at a Friday demonstration against the WikiLeaks founder's impending transfer. "None of us is free."
"Today we use 100 million barrels of oil every day. There are no politics to change that. There are no rules to keep that oil in the ground, so we can't save the world by playing by the rules because the rules have to change." โteen activist
@GretaThunberg
.
@Ilhan
's "groundbreaking"
#HomesForAll
proposal to build 12 million sustainable, affordable housing units over a decade "will be the new standard by which progressive housing policy is measured."
#HomesGuarantee
#GreenNewDeal
"This is honestly veering on journalistic malpractice and The New York Times owes its readers an explanation," one editor said of the Anat Schwartz controversy.
New Iowa Results: With 97% of Precincts Reported, Sanders Extends Popular Vote Lead Over Buttigieg to More Than 2,500 "We are on the path to victory," said Misty Rebik, Iowa state director for the Sanders campaign.
#BernieWonIA
"With Nina, we know that she will not be afraid to take on the corporate interests that are driving up the price of gas, food, and just about everything else," said
@BernieSanders
in his endorsement of
@NinaTurner
.
"The time is long overdue for Congress to hold the Defense Department to the same level of accountability as the rest of the government," said
@SenSanders
.
"We have the House, Senate, and White Houseโthere are no excuses for our inability to act," said
@IlhanMN
. "We have the power to stop the next eviction crisis and must act now."
"The nationwide formula shortage is a story of corporate power and monopolies," said
@Ilhan
, who is leading a call for an FTC investigation into the consolidated industry.
10 Things We All Lose If
@BernieSanders
Chooses Not to Run in
#2020
"What policy issues would be off the table?" asks
@RoseAnnDeMoro
"What demands for transformation would be watered down?"
Day After GOP Senator Blocked Direct Payments Twice, Poll Shows 88% of Likely Voters Support More $1,200 Checks "We should all wonder what it would take for members of Congress to listen to their constituents and support this," said Rep. Ilhan Omar.
.
@Ilhan
Omar Joins Global Call for Debt Relief as
#Coronavirus
Threatens to Push Developing Nations 'Over the Edge'
"We need to cancel all debt developing countries owe the World Bank and IMF," says
@IlhanMN
.
#COVID19
'The Facts Are Very Clear':
@BernieSanders
Team Hits Back After
@JoeBiden
Claims Social Security Video Was 'Doctored' ""Biden not only pushed to cut Social Securityโhe is on tape proudly bragging about it on multiple occasions."
@fshakir
The moment that โฆ
@BernieSanders
โฉ is about to explain his perspective on
@ewarren
dropping out and stakes of campaign, is moment
@msnbc
decides to cut in to speculate about what he thinks.
'Nowhere to Hide':
@fightfortheftr
Billboard to Target Kyrsten Sinema as Only Senate Democrat Standing Against
#NetNeutrality
"There's no excuse for not supporting this bill."
"The folks who suffer most in a market crash are not the traders on Wall Street. It is ordinary people losing their jobs, getting their pay cut, or losing their pensions."
"The cancellation of up to $50,000 of student debt would relieve an enormous burden from borrowers while pumping billions of dollars per year back into our national economy," says a new letter from Rep.
@AyannaPressley
and Sens.
@ewarren
and
@SenSchumer
.
.
@BernieSanders
Has Been Getting It Right for 40 Years. Now, Says His Movement: 'We Are Going to Win' Featuring words (and art!) of
@johncusack
,
@NaomiAKlein
, &
@mollycrabapple
"Going to be the most epic case of moral whiplash the world has ever seen."
"Israel's genocide on the Palestinians in Gaza is an escalatory stage of a long-standing settler-colonial process of erasure," says a new draft report from
@UNHumanRights
.
"Why do we have to elect
@ninaturner
? Because we need people in Congress who will fight for working people instead of allowing corporations and billionaires to loot the economy," says
@RBReich
.