For those asking, no this is not me. Good to order direct from mom and pops when you can. They can’t afford big ad campaigns
Additional idea if you need to quarantine, see if someone needs some extra money to pick up your food directly for you. Lots of people could use it and you cut out UBER/DoorDash. Do the best you can. I understand everyone’s situation is different. Understand how lucky I am
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What they did to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is completely and utterly disgusting. Her strength is seemly endless. Incredible to see a heroine rise to a moment like that.
*Seemingly*
Hey everyone, you should watch her Instagram live. Everyone should watch it. Will be civics 101 - no exceptions
For those questioning what I am saying, watch this video with an open mind. Then check out her other videos. Don't watch her on MSNBC or FoxNews. Just watch the damn videos and make up your own mind. instagram.com/tv/CJ-OkgNAO1N…
There is no connection between the stock market and reality.
A thread:
1. Airlines spent 96% of free cash flow on stock buybacks for a decade, then cut 90,000 jobs as soon as trouble hits. Then they got a $50 billion bailout bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
2. GE promised its CEO a huge bonus if stock hit $19. It didn't
So GE re-did contract so the bonus kicks in at $10/share
The CEO cut 20% of aviation staff to increase profits and raise the stock to $10
3. JCPenney
April: furloughed 85,000 employees
May 10: Gave CEO $4.5 million bonus on top of $17 million/year in pay
May 15: went bankrupt
Oct: laid off 15,000 people
Dec: closed 150 stores
Now: CEO left with $4.5M bonus after stock fell 88% in her 2 years cnn.com/2020/12/30/inv…
The revenue from a wealth tax on Washington's billionaires would singlehandedly make up our state's $3.3 billion budget shortfall while leaving taxes the same for 99.999% of residents.
It makes no sense to gut education and critical services further to protect the rich.
Washington is one of the few states with no income tax. We have the most upside-down tax system in America: low-income residents pay 18% of their income on taxes. The rich pay 3%.
Compared to white people:
*Black-owned homes devalued 23%
*Black-owned property taxes 13% higher
*Bank fees 2x higher for black customers
*Black-owned biz closed at twice the rate in pandemic
*Black people w/ NO criminal record earn $10k less than white people w/ criminal record
*Black college grads have 50% less wealth than white high school dropouts
*Top 10 most-audited counties are 79% people of color
*Black-white homeowner gap is bigger now than 120 years ago
*Electoral college gives white people 16% more voting power than Black people
There are a lot of easy and popular public policy wins we could go after right now
But we are all too hung up on hating the other side and the horse race to force our elected officials to do anything about it
Want examples? A small UBI, mental health care access, educational access including early childhood and before and after school care, shoring up social security, medicare, and medicaid, expansion of medicare to cover everyone who wants it,
immigration reform with guest worker programs and a path to citizenship, adoption reform to make adoption way easier and without sacrificing safety, ending mass incarceration, beefing up gun safety protections, police reform,