NEW: We reviewed the 7 most far-reaching Republican voter suppression laws enacted this year.
Passing the #ForThePeopleAct would invalidate roughly 2/3 of their attacks on voting access.
The only way to save democracy is for Democrats to act. This is what's at stake:
Georgia’s infamous SB 202 remakes almost every element of the state’s election laws to make it harder for people of color to vote.
The For The People Act would end its onerous voter ID requirements, restore ballot drop boxes, and block partisan poll watchers, among other fixes.
In Florida, the #ForThePeopleAct would overturn much of Gov. Ron DeSantis and the GOP's assault on voters.
It would prevent the destruction of the state's mail-in voting list, stop extreme voter ID requirements, and end the criminalization of ballot delivery.
Iowa was the first state to pass an extreme voter suppression law this year.
The For The People Act would overturn Iowa’s new limitations on drop boxes, ban on ballot delivery, and harsh limits on sending absentee ballots.
Arizona — home of the conspiracy theorist-run “audit” — has also passed a number of voter suppression laws.
Republicans voted to end the state’s ultra-popular permanent vote-by-mail list and to make it harder to correct a ballot.
Both these laws would be overturned.
It got even more difficult to vote in Arkansas this year due to stringent new voter ID requirements, absentee ballot limitations, and a signature matching program.
In Montana, after a clean Republican sweep, the GOP legislature decided to further restrict ballot access.
The state ended same-day voter registration and now requires *two* forms of ID to vote in many cases. Both would be blocked by S 1.
In Kansas, a Republican supermajority overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto to enact a slew of new voter limitations and make a major legislative power grab.
The For The People Act would stop this election rigging in its tracks.
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A rapidly growing coalition is launching a general strike this Friday in Minnesota, aimed at pushing out ICE.
The coalition includes:
- The Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005
- SEIU Local 26
- UNITE HERE Local 17
- CWA Local 7250
- The Saint Paul Federation of Educators
- The Minneapolis Federation of Educators
- The Minnesota AFL-CIO
- The Sunrise Movement
- Faith leaders
And more. Thread.
Minnesota’s coalition is demanding:
1: ICE must leave Minnesota now.
2: Renee Good’s killer, Jonathan Ross, must be held legally accountable.
3: No additional federal funding for ICE in the upcoming budget.
“These are moral common sense for a state that values truth, freedom, and life.”
Since December, ICE agents allegedly trapped construction workers on a roof during frigid conditions, sprayed chemical irritants at civilians, and detained workers on the job and injured them, resulting in hospitalizations.
Scotland is considering reshaping their economy to make it more democratic, locally orientated, and sustainable.
The proposed legislation would foster worker owned co-ops, livable wages, land use for the common good, and more.
It's a model the US should take a good look at. 🧵
Scotland’s Community Wealth Building (CWB) law, proposed last March, is headed to its Stage 1 debate in November.
The bill harnesses momentum in local economic activity, spearheaded by anchor institutions—places with a strong community presence. parliament.scot/-/media/files/…
California’s 214 billionaires are panicking over a ballot proposal that hasn’t passed yet.
This November, California will vote on a one-time 5% tax on billionaire wealth.
Billionaires are up in arms, as is Gavin Newsom—who says he’ll “do what I have to do to protect the state.”
The Billionaire Tax Act responds to Trump’s OBBB, which strains California’s critical infrastructure by cutting around $100B in federal funds.
The goal? To keep California’s health care and education systems from collapsing amid skyrocketing costs and employee burnout.
The proposal vows to protect access to quality, equitable health care while supporting K-14 public education and food assistance programs through a one-time, 5% wealth tax.
A billionaire tax could “stop the health care collapse,” currently facing California’s working class.
THREAD: A small handful of companies are propping up the U.S. economy.
GDP growth is overly reliant on one sector: AI.
And the numbers are going up in no small part because these companies keep investing in each other.
On Tuesday, Nvidia and Microsoft announced that AI startup Anthropic will buy $30 billion of cloud computing capacity from Microsoft, “powered by Nvidia.”
As part of the deal, Nvidia agreed to invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic, and Microsoft will invest up to $5 billion.