I am so horribly disgusted at the reports I'm hearing of mass numbers of sexual assaults and then mass numbers of forced hysterectomies in the border camps that Latino refugees have been locked in, and frightened for the future of our country if these stories are true. 1/7
Unfortunately the news has become so partisan, and so rarely in agreement, that it's hard to know what's true and what's not.
I'm glad that there is going to be an investigation into these crimes, and if these stories are NOT true then whoever is making them up should be... 2/7
cast out of media or politics (including corporate lobbying) and have to clean toilets at a middle school.
"So vote for Biden" I hear you call. The problem is that he and Obama are the ones who built those camps and he's never said, even once, that he would free those... 3/7
people or close those camps. I've heard it said that corporations behave like sociopaths, because they only care about the bottom line and have no regrets. I think that politicians who are run by corporate money, similarly, do things that are so completely horrifying, and... 4/7
seemingly without emotion, that they too behave like sociopaths.
Being Jewish, I'm terrified that when we defeat fascism (and I believe we've been fascist since 9/11) we are going to find the kinds of things that I've seen in Holocaust Museums. Pictured is the art of... 5/7
Jewish children in Prague, where they buried Jewish people on top of others, in layers. It's not as easy as "vote for Biden". These kinds of policies have been getting worse and worse for decades. I'd even tie Joe Biden's 94 Crime Bill to this, even though it was pre-9/11. 6/7
Yes, it's worse now, but it's probably going to get worse still, no matter who is the president in 2021. 7/7
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So, it's the end of the year- the day where all the elected officials pretend that they've done so much for you, or if they're in the opposition party, how much they could have done for you if their party was in power, even though they didn't when it...
was. Tonight they'll probably be at high end parties, dancing like the smooth criminals they think they are.
20-30 million renters never got help with their rent, even though the government took away their income sources, especially small business owners and independent...
contractors like taxi drivers and hair stylists. Parents DID get monthly $250 checks, but that's officially over and the government got away with pretending they "cut childhood poverty in half."
During a year of pandemic, tens of millions of people were deprived of...
@YouTube is killing Primo! It's also killing @JordanChariton. At the same time, it's also keeping other independent journalists down. YouTube (owned by Google), like Facebook and Twitter, is so intertwined with the government that...
it is essentially an arm of the government. And the government is silencing dissent with many forms of censorship.
There will be no questioning of the US support of violent extremists all over the world, no questioning illegal voter purges or other...
election "irregularities" that are documented and provable, no questioning of Joe Biden's economic policy- except on lamestream media where an establishment narrative manager can safely deflect any criticisms as incorrect, justifiable or propaganda. The...
"The government always seeks to give just enough wealth to just enough people to avoid revolution." That is an over arching theme of Howard Zinn's writing.
Today, after 45 years of rapidly growing economic inequality and barely staving off a political revolution...
through primary election rigging, we see a Congress and a president who are traditionally right wingers giving poor families a few hundred extra dollars, providing stimulus checks and now, pushing a green infrastructure bill, despite Biden's refusal to ban fracking and...
actually increasing oil drilling.
What we are seeing is not neoliberals not being as bad as we've been saying all along, it is not Joe Biden trying to be progressive and it is not some big awakening where Nancy Pelosi has realized she's just a government employee.
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Why is it important to pay attention to what they DO and not what they SAY? This is the perfect example: HR 4373, introduced by @RepBarbaraLee, is yet another bill funding coups and funding Israeli crimes as well. The bill, which incidentally....
continues to use "Russian aggression" as an excuse, gives $3.3 billion to Israel unconditionally, gives money to the National Endowment For Democracy (which is a CIA front), USAID, which is a regime change engine, pays Juan Guaido's salary and funds....
coup actions in Colombia/Venezuela, Syria, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, Pakistan, Nicaragua and Cuba. It even funds airplanes to fight the war on drugs in the Andes, which it specifically states can be used for any program in any region and has a section... congress.gov/bill/117th-con…
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My cannabis themed comment for today's city council meeting:
"I am asking again for the council to re-examine the city's cannabis ordinance based on 4 points: 1. The ventilation requirement is illegal and discriminatory. 2. The city should not be banning people from...
growing a plant in their back yard. 3. Residents should be able to purchase their products here in town. As stated in previous comments, cannabis is less harmful and less addictive than tobacco, alcohol or opiates- all of which are available in town. 4. This council gave the...
people its word, over nine months ago, that it would re-examine this ordinance in just six months, and it is important for elected bodies to keep their word. 5. Cannabis dispensaries will provide a few tax dollars, but will also provide a few jobs. It's just bizarre to watch...
Thread: This was a flyer from my first city council race. Although I did not win election: glyphosates were banned in public spaces, the skate park war repaired and a new section added, and because of my advocacy left turn lanes were added to American Canyon Road between....
the highway and Flosden Rd, making that stretch of road safer for the residents on that section as a number of people had told me was their priority when I canvassed it for the race. I also happen to know I have the ear of a few city council members regarding bringing back the...
farmer's market.
Am I saying all this to blow my own horn? No. Even though I did not win election, I was able to make positive things happen around me, and I want to encourage YOU to run for office, too. A lot of important dates, regarding filing for 2022 elections, will be...